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The Country Between Us Carolyn Forche 9781780373744
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war. Documenting killings and other... -
The Oval Window: A new annotated edition by J. H. Prynne 9781780371269
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14This volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial... -
Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca 9781852243555
RRP: $14.60Booksplease Price: $11.59Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are... -
Nine Fathom Deep by David J. Constantine 9781852248215
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. In the title-poem of his latest collection - which... -
Murmur by Menna Elfyn 9781852249441
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Menna Elfyn's collection Murmur is full of murmurings - in English and Welsh - such as the need 'to walk the earth as if there's a baby sleeping next door'. Murmur is a poetry of meditation, from the... -
Life Under Water by Maura Dooley 9781852248178
Booksplease Price: $18.80Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in "Poetry... -
Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects, disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing. Preoccupied... -
Hyem Robyn Bolam 9781780373942
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Robyn Bolam's new collection, Hyem, explores what and who makes us feel at home. Both people, and creatures - from whales off Kaikoura in New Zealand, New Forest cicadas, fish in the Thames, wrens,... -
The Wound Register Esther Morgan 9781780374109
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The Wound Register, or Casualty Book - which gives this book its title - is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment... -
Reading George Szirtes John Sears 9781852248147
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary, the country of his birth. His poems explore - in a wide variety of complex, skilfully handled forms - his origins,... -
Throw in the Vowels: New and Selected Poems Rita Ann Higgins 9781852247003
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $24.68Throw in the Vowels is a retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish... -
Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 R. S. Thomas 9781852246488
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $25.20R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of our time, as well as one of the finest religious poets in the English language and Wales's greatest poet. This substantial gathering of his late... -
Nigh-No-Place Jen Hadfield 9781852247935
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular... -
Essential Haiku by Robert Hass
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the... -
When Then is Now: Three Greek Tragedies: The Trojan Women, Medea, Antigone Brendan Kennelly 9781852247430
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless... -
So Glad I'm Me Roddy Lumsden 9781780373706
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50So Glad I'm Me was Roddy Lumsden's tenth collection, and sadly turned out to be the last book he published. In these haunting poems he returned to familiar themes in his work: the trials of oneness... -
Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of... -
After by Jane Hirshfield 9781852247416
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language... -
All fours Nia Davies 9781780373645
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Bodies. Rhythms. Motion. Sounds. All Fours is a debut collection of poetry from Nia Davies, a book of rituals in language that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant. These poems... -
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets Jeet Thayil 9781852248017
Booksplease Price: $25.20Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who... -
Zoom! by Simon Armitage
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. The e-book... -
Ten: poets of the new generation Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781780373829
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Ten: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national... -
The Lost Music Katrina Porteous 9781852243807
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Katrina Porteous has been living and working alongside the fishermen of the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the... -
wake Gillian Allnutt 9781780374062
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50When Gillian Allnutt was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Carol Ann Duffy wrote that her work `has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life'. Her latest... -
Strong In the Rain Kenji Miyazawa 9781852247812
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved... -
Mama Amazonica Pascale Petit 9781780372945
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the... -
Guff Brendan Kennelly 9781852249830
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words... -
All the Prayers in the House Miriam Nash 9781780373621
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first... -
Sweet, like Rinky-Dink Mark Waldron 9781780374598
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, sometimes challenging, often hilarious, Mark Waldron's poems take you by the arm and usher you in to a dark/light, funny/sad, silly/serious... -
How the Bicycle Shone: New and Selected Poems by Gillian Allnutt 9781852247591
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Denise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit... -
Electric Shadow by Heidi Williamson 9781852249021
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Heidi Williamson's first collection is peopled with vibrant and disturbing shadows. The Northern Lights reach down beneath the London skyline, James Dean learns the craft of distance, Darwin staggers... -
The Poetry Cure Julia Darling 9781852246907
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'This book of poems is for all of us who go through illness, deal with doctors, hospitals, and experiences such as bereavement and ageing, and who struggle to find language to describe the suffering... -
The Darkness of Snow Frank Ormsby 9781780373669
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby's most varied and versatile collection to date. It includes three substantial sets of poems whose themes are refreshingly and sometimes painfully new. One is a... -
The Adoption Papers Jackie Kay 9781852241568
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward... -
Uncollected Poems by R. S. Thomas
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.05R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is a major writer of our time, one of the finest religious poets in the English language and one of Wales's greatest poets. His output was prolific: over six decades he... -
Poems & Fragments by Sappho
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne... -
Garden Time W. S. Merwin 9781780373157
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern... -
Beyond the Drift: New & Selected Poems David Scott 9781780371047
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'David Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert... For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of... -
Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah's second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996, it includes some of his classic poems, such as 'I Have a Scheme', 'The Death of Joy Gardner',... -
Third World Girl: Selected Poems Jean Binta Breeze 9781852249106
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she was called a 'one-woman festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and...