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Head On Clare Shaw 9781852249519
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39From the direct trajectory of her first collection, Straight Ahead, Clare Shaw's second collection Head On turns an unflinching gaze into startling new territories. Structured by interweaving themes... -
The Island in the Sound Niall Campbell 9781780377216
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The Island in the Sound, the third collection by South Uist poet Niall Campbell, creates an archipelago of memories, lyrics, observations and folktales that place the small islands of his birthplace... -
Dear World and Everyone In It by Nathan Hamilton 9781852249496
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $24.43Dear World & Everyone In It is a ground-breaking new poetry anthology presenting the work of over 60 of the most talented and interesting young poets currently writing in the UK. Chosen by one of the... -
Selected Writings by Mirjam Tuominen 9781852242183
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32Mirjam Tuominen was a major poet and short story writer, as well as a distinguished essayist, translator and artist. Her work progressed through traditional prose, modernist poetry and abstract... -
The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems by Agnes Nemes Nagy 9781852246419
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45Hungary's Agnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe's major modern poets. Her poems are clear and packed at once, monumental yet crystalline in their thought and organisation. The vast pressures of... -
Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley 9781852244354
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.63Edna Longley's latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic's central concern. She considers how poets are read and received... -
Stranger to Nothing by Philip Levine 9781852247379
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Philip Levine was the authentic voice of America's urban poor. Born in 1928, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he spent his early years doing a succession of heavy labouring jobs. Trying to write... -
Collected Poems: 1: Poems 1970-1984 by Peter Reading 9781852243210
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Peter Reading was one of the most original and controversial British poets of the post-war period: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was... -
Scenes from a Long Sleep: New and Collected Poems by Peter Didsbury 9781852246082
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32All Peter Didsbury's books have had wildly enthusiastic reviews. The Classical Farm won him a Cholmondeley Award, and his last two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Despite... -
Application for Release from the Dream by Tony Hoagland 9781780372983
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony... -
Tugs in the Fog by Anna Crowe 9781852247515
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades became known for his mastery of the... -
Stray Amanda Dalton 9781852248925
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.18"Stray" is a book about strays - human and animal - and about straying. It's about the lost and being lost, searching for home, and it's about the extraordinary places we sometimes discover when... -
When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam 9781780371160
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity,... -
Off Duty by Katie Donovan
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems... -
Somewhere Else Entirely Ruth Fainlight 9781780374383
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her... -
A Story I Am In: Selected Poems James Berry 9781852249175
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $15.60"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave... -
Conquest Zoe Brigley 9781852249304
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.18Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Moving from the violent to the erotic, "Conquest" describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the... -
Ovid's Heroines Clare Pollard 9781852249762
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and... -
Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781852245887
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.64Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems Ruth Stone 9781852248413
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.06Ruth Stone once said, 'I decided very early on not to write like other people.' What Love Comes To shows the fruits of this resolve in the lifetime's work of a true American original. The winner of... -
Collected Poems: 3: Poems 1997-2003 Peter Reading 9781852246259
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Peter Reading was one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was disconcerting. Over four decades... -
Life for Us Choman Hardi 9781852246440
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan just before her family fled to Iran. She returned home at the age of five, but when she was 14 the Kurds were attacked with chemical weapons, and her family... -
Pretty Ahren Warner 9781852249779
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutece, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that flits between past and present and offers both adoration and horror in... -
The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems Stewart Conn 9781852249984
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of... -
Out of Range Nick Drake 9781780374284
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Nick Drake's fourth collection, Out of Range, explores the strange interconnections and confronting emergencies - the signs, wonders and alarms - of the early 21st century. Here are elegies for the... -
The Quick Lawrence Sail 9781780372556
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Lawrence Sail's new collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. He reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosm, looking for example at flowers, birds, the sea,... -
Dear Crane Susan Wicks 9781780375281
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its beam swinging freely, its red 'eye' seeming to overlook the lives on the other side of the glass. In her eighth collection of... -
Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $11.97"Third Wish Wasted" is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns celebratory, humorous and beguiling, and there are... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to... -
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 by Philip Gross
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39From its opening page - a refugee's first sight of England - Changes of Address presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'. With its humour and deep honesty, its vivid... -
Each Happiness Ringed by Lions Jane Hirshfield 9781852246938
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Jane 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... -
From the Word Go Nick Drake 9781852247140
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $11.97Nick Drake's "From the Word Go" explores the different meanings and implications which are tightly packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through... -
Passionfood: 100 Love Poems Neil Astley 9781852248697
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Passionfood is a feast of classic and contemporary love poems. There are a hundred flavours in this four-course celebration of love, passion and desire. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley,... -
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass Harry Clifton 9781852249359
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's... -
Selected Poems Muriel Rukeyser 9781852249908
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological... -
New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 Robyn Bolam 9781852247782
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.18The poems in "New Wings" focus on many different kinds of beginnings. Drawn both from new poems as well as from two earlier collections, the book gives a fresh airing to the poetry of a talented... -
One Evening in October I Rowed out on the Lake Tua Forsstroem 9781780371146
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking... -
The Mystical Rose Adelia Prado 9781780372402
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his... -
I'm Ok, I'm Pig! Kim Hyesoon 9781780371023
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature... -
The Junction: Selected Poems Tomas Venclova 9781852248109
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Lithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the...