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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 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... -
The Big Bumper Book of Troy W. N. Herbert 9781852246037
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.91The northern word for hometown, 'toon', flickers in meaning between 'tune' and 'cartoon'. In Bill Herbert's big bumper book, the title toon is Troy: the first lost home. Exiled to a lighthouse on the... -
The Annotated Collected Poems Edward Thomas 9781852247461
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.68Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914, at the age of 36. In April 1917 he was killed at... -
Bear Chrissy Williams 9781780373324
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The lively 'bears' in this playful and poignant collection will surprise you on every page. They are poems of love and death, life, loss and grief. The ephemera of popular culture is used to confront... -
A Bright Acoustic Philip Gross 9781780373683
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50In these restlessly exploratory poems and sequences, the space between things is never empty, but alive with messages. Utterly physical even when it is at its most enquiring, Philip Gross's latest... -
Cromwell Brendan Kennelly 9781852240264
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Buffun is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This... -
The Dog in the Sky Helen Ivory 9781852247171
RRP: $16.70Booksplease Price: $12.89"The Dog in the Sky" offers a view of the world that is skewed, vibrant and larger than life. Here, words turn into tiger-moths or laughing birds, the Minotaur finds his Ariadne and Pinochio's sister... -
Collected Poems in English Arun Kolatkar 9781852248536
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically, in both Marathi and English, publishing in magazines and anthologies from 1955, but did not bring out a book... -
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods Tishani Doshi 9781780371979
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is an unflinching collection of poems that weave between topics from violence against women to time and memory. Tishani Doshi's third full collection in English... -
Silent in Finisterre by Jane Griffiths
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a child for... -
I Won't Let You Go: Selected Poems Rabindranath Tagore 9781852248987
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland,... -
The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2010 Roy Fisher 9781852249595
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13This new expanded edition of "The Long and the Short of It" covers 55 years of Roy Fisher's poetry. Playing the language, pleasuring the imagination and teasing the senses, Fisher's witty, inventive... -
City Psalms by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.49City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah's first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some of his best-known poems, including 'Dis Poetry', 'Money' and 'Us and Dem'. Best known for his... -
Archipelago Antonella Anedda 9781780371085
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has published in Italy. Her poetry has a searing, disruptive quality, an... -
Tender Spot: Selected Poems Naomi Shihab Nye 9781780372808
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Naomi Shihab Nye is a wandering poet. For nearly 40 years she has travelled America and the world to read and teach. Born in Missouri to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she grew up in St... -
Hello. Your promise has been extracted Ahren Warner 9781780373782
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Hello. Your promise has been extracted is Ahren Warner's third collection of poems, a book in which the lyric runs in parallel with a series of photographs made by the author across Europe. From... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems Brendan Kennelly 9781852249045
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Brendan Kennelly was one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over five decades he wrote thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of... -
Paradise: Selected Poems Elena Shvarts 9781852242497
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. 'Paradise' presents a dual language selection of her earlier poetry, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. ... -
My Life as a Painter by Matthew Sweeney 9781780374147
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Matthew Sweeney's palette in My Life as a Painter - his twelfth collection - features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls. One dog... -
Jutland Selima Hill 9781780371498
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.93Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Jutland brings together two contrasting poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Advice on Wearing Animal Prints, winner of... -
Too Black, Too Strong by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.26Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like 'Chant of a... -
Flood Clare Shaw 9781780374208
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the... -
New Selected Poems Denise Levertov 9781852246532
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.05This new, comprehensive selection of one of America's foremost modern poets draws on two dozen collections published over six decades. Edited by Paul A. Lacey, it replaces her earlier Bloodaxe... -
Chick Hannah Lowe 9781852249601
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his... -
Alarum by Wayne Holloway-Smith
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The mischievous and often dark world of Wayne Holloway-Smith's first collection Alarum exists in the space between the peculiar thought and its dismissal. It is a place in which commonsense is... -
Alive Alive O Greta Stoddart 9781780371511
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50People we love die. And at the heart of the grief there's a sense of wonder: we can't believe it, where have they gone, what are they now, what does that make us? We end up wondering at life too... -
Selected Poetry: including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Friedrich Hoelderlin 9781780374017
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Friedrich Hoelderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new... -
Will you walk a little faster? Penelope Shuttle 9781780373539
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Penelope Shuttle's collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory. These are poems drawn from the flipside of... -
Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown 9781852243517
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $17.22Maiden Speech was the debut collection by Eleanor Brown, a witty poet who writes powerfully of love, and hilariously of love's pitfalls, most notably in her much anthologised "girlfriend's revenge"... -
The Sea Cabinet by Caitriona O'Reilly 9781852247058
Booksplease Price: $16.84Caitriona O'Reilly's poetry is remarkable for its precise observation of the natural world. Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet, broadens that clear-sighted vision in poems also haunted by...