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101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy 9781447220268 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.51Carol Ann Duffy, appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning... -
St Kilda: The Silent Islands by Alex Boyd 9781913025229
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.30Using a 'battered medium format camera' once belonging to Fay Godwin, Alex Boyd captures the archipelago of St Kilda in a new light, from a 21st century perspective. From the crumbling Cold War... -
The Observances by Kate Miller
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Winner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. In the... -
Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781904634188
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80A delightful anthology of poems sent by many contemporary writers as Christmas cards. From Advent to the New Year, these poems encompass the nativity, the natural world, weather and time's passing,... -
Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotand by Alexander Moffat 9781906817183
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.27Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda... -
Woman : Plant : Language Agata Maslowska 9781913268763
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.64I will not diefor any monolithic country playing its anthem to the deadTime is my country,it counts my inhalations,a merciless teacher untying my hair Part lullaby, part insurrection, Agata... -
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles 9781035025213
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.65Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of... -
Almanacs by Jen Hadfield
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot,... -
Nigh-No-Place Jen Hadfield 9781852247935
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Winner 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... -
Fugitive Colours by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.20This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether... -
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the YearAstrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit,... -
Dirt by William Letford
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20There are all types of bodies.If you're lucky you'll find someone whose skinis a canvas for the story of your life.Write well. Take care of the heartbeat behind it. Billy Letford's Dirt revels in the... -
A Memo for Spring: 50th Anniversary Edition by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81This is an exclusive limited edition with a preface by Liz Lochhead and a new introduction by Ali Smith. Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07What 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,... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.67This 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... -
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $2.53Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Omnesia (alternative text) W. N. Herbert 9781852249625
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
The Wreck of the Fathership W.N. Herbert 9781780375243
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.24Being appointed Dundee Makar (or City Laureate) implied that Bill Herbert might settle into middle age. He rented a ?at overlooking Broughty Ferry harbour to write about his home town in both its... -
The Voyage of St Brendan A.B. Jackson 9781780375663
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.99In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the... -
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets by Roseanne Watt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the... -
Reading Barry MacSweeney Paul Batchelor 9781852249885
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Barry MacSweeney was described as 'a contrary, lone wolf...[whose] ear for a soaring lyric melody was unmatched' (Nicholas Johnson, Independent). MacSweeney found fame with his first book, The Boy... -
Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart by Janet Morley
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness... -
Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.54Incredibly insightful, funny and poignant' Helen Sedgwick'A warm and ferociously witty story. Truth rings from every page of this assured, engrossing debut' Zoe StrachanWhen Rhona's story comes to an... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
There She Goes: New travel writing by women Esa Aldegheri 9781916812093
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.84There she goes brings together seventeen women writers - of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - in an anthology of travel tales to inspire, encourage and empower women adventuring through the world in... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas 9781857544770
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16Keith Douglas (1920-44) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the...