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Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.62In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs... -
Flood 9781916760004
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99In Flood, Jessica Mookherjee inhabits several identities in her 'bone-framed coat'. With overarching themes of migration, otherness, sexual awakening, and maternal mental illness, we encounter the... -
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson 9780224097291
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry PrizeLike Neil Rollinson's earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses: lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the... -
A Chorus of Ears: On 'the voice of the poem' by Denise Riley 9781035095964
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' - The Sunday TimesA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living... -
Lately by Stephen Yeo 9781914151767
Booksplease Price: $19.36Lately is Stephen Yeo's first collection of poems. Alongside his poems, Stephen Yeo has published widely in the fields of co-operative, religious, voluntary, labour and socialist association. ... -
DARKNESS BETWEEN STARS by John F. Deane 9781838201852
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.93In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with... -
Psalms for the City: Original poetry inspired by the city by John-Paul Flintoff
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.75The whole of life can be found in the psalms. It can also be found in our cities. Psalms for the City is a beautifully illustrated book of poetry that offers comfort, inspiration and... -
What is the Grass by Mark Doty
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a... -
Lee Valley Poems by Yang Lian 9781852248345
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world... -
The Mermaid's Purse Fleur Adcock 9781780375700
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign... -
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking... -
The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Feinstein 9781784103200
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a... -
Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside 9781529909258
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70A remarkable collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR'A master of... -
Learning to Sleep by John Burnside
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $13.59Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep,... -
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024. Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize... -
Splash Like Jesus Selima Hill 9781780373492
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Splash like Jesus brings together three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers;... -
Someone Else's Life by Kapka Kassabova 9781852246174
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else's life, her first poetry collection to be published in the UK, she explores the... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 Peter Parker 9780241683705
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.05'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John... -
All Souls: Poems Saskia Hamilton 9781472158741
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia... -
The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield 9781780376790
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they... -
Still Life with Feeding Snake by John Burnside
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand,... -
Byobu by Ida Vitale
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Byobu reveals a rich inner world, one driven by its meticulous attention to our rich outer one."a story's existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage,... -
Broken Ghost by Niall Griffiths 9780099583776
Booksplease Price: $17.63**WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine WelshA Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a... -
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman 9781783784516
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover... -
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70Winner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.'I've long admired... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson 9781529051117
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you will love this book.' Val McDermidThe new book from the author of The... -
Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtroemer Tomas Transtromer 9781852249953
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.46One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young... -
Selected Poems Jaan Kaplinski 9781852248895
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament... -
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.74A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless... -
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019 Andrew Miller 9781444784664
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel 'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday TimesWinner of the Highland Book Prize, shortlisted... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $24.88When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the...