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My Life as a Painter by Matthew Sweeney 9781780374147
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Matthew 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.72Shortlisted 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.24Too 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: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39The 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: $29.25Booksplease Price: $20.48This 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Hannah 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: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39The 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: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39People 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Friedrich 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: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Penelope 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: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.99Maiden 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: $15.64Caitriona 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... -
Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems by Roddy Lumsden 9781852246723
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Roddy Lumsden was one of Britain's liveliest and most inventive poets of recent times. From the formal, frenetic debut Yeah Yeah Yeah, through the playful wit and cynicism of The Book of Love, to the... -
The Fifth Figure: A Poet's Tale by Jean Binta Breeze 9781852247324
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances were so powerful she has been called a 'one-woman festival'. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing... -
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds by Neil Astley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this... -
The Little Book of Judas Brendan Kennelly 9781852245849
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly's 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged... -
Selected Poems Attilio Bertolucci 9781852242428
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Attilio Bertolucci was one of Italy's greatest modern poets. This book is the first English edition of his poetry. His translator Charles Tomlinson was known internationally as one of the most... -
A Quarter of an Hour Leanne O'Sullivan 9781780372228
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39In 2013, Leanne O'Sullivan's husband Andrew suffered a severe infection in his brain. He spent just over three weeks in a coma, during which time his temperature soared to 42 degrees. When he finally... -
The Anatomical Venus Helen Ivory 9781780374697
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64An Anatomical Venus - which gives this book its title - was an eighteenth-century anatomical wax sculpture of an idealised woman, a heady mix of eroticism, death and biological verisimilitude. Venus... -
Isn't Forever Amy Key 9781780371719
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Amy Key's Isn't Forever is a spell book for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy, elusive and unrequited. The poems in this book are obsessive in their desire to construct and... -
Luck is the Hook Imtiaz Dharker 9781780372181
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions:... -
Negative Space Luljeta Lleshanaku 9781780374123
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Albania's Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha's autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was... -
French Love Poems Alistair Elliot 9781852241698
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and af?ict us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a... -
Assembly Lines Jane Commane 9781780374086
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a... -
The Autistic Alice by Joanne Limburg
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85There are two acts of recovery in this book - one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence... -
The Barbarians' Return Mircea Dinescu 9781780372044
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85For the past 50 years, Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets. After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in... -
The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf 9781780373980
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition... -
Selected Poems Anna Andreevna Akhmatova 9781852240639
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem... -
Blackbird, Bye Bye Moniza Alvi 9781780374222
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds. Her creations 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48What are the contours of a life? For Andrew Greig: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures,... -
States of Happiness Suzanne Batty 9781780374260
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39States of Happiness, Suzanne Batty's second full-length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her... -
Beginner's Luck U.A. Fanthorpe 9781780374741
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39When she died, in 2009, Anthony Thwaite described U.A. Fanthorpe as a 'smiling subversive with a voice like bird-song'. An encouraging example to all late developers, this particular bird's voice... -
Kiddar's Luck Jack Common 9781852241278
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39'He was indeed the nearest anybody ever got to Charlie Chaplin in print...the sentences skid and dance and hop on one leg or take a custard pie right on the chin or duck and weave and leave you... -
Beloved: 81 poems from Hafez by Hafez
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Hafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential in the West... -
Negative of a Group Photograph: Azita Ghahreman 9781780374369
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Negative of a Group Photograph brings together three decades of poems by the leading Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. Born in Mashhad in 1962 and based in Sweden since 2006, Ghahreman is the author of... -
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Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland by Edna Longley 9781852245146 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $5.11This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 Helen Dunmore 9781780374451
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.06Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding storyteller in her poetry and in her prose. Her haunting narratives draw us into... -
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems & Selected Prose Rosemary Tonks 9781780373614
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After... -
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $16.85Brian Turner's first book of poems, Here, Bullet, was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In Phantom Noise he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the...