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Champion of the Poor: Political Poetry and Prose by John Clare 9781857544237
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.03A Champion for the Poor brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, The Parish - in a new and corrected text - and his forceful satires 'The Hue & Cry' and 'The Summons'. Some... -
Poems - Alain Fournier by Anthony Costello 9781784103125
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Alain-Fournier's poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth-century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous... -
Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire 9781857549393
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of... -
A C. H. Sisson Reader by Charlie Louth 9781847772657
Booksplease Price: $51.58The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and... -
Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes 9781857547078
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains... -
Collected Poems of Robert Southwell by Robert Southwell
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $20.16This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which were... -
John Clare by Himself by John Clare 9781857542882
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $30.26This text gathers together all of John Clare's autobiographical writing. The book extends, corrects and replaces the "Autobiographical Writings of John Clare", edited by Eric Robinson (Oxford, 1983)... -
Homeric Hymns by Peter McDonald 9781784101763
Booksplease Price: $37.70The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry... -
Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons 9781847771254
Booksplease Price: $37.49First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest... -
Fall In, Ghosts by Edmund Blunden 9781847772114
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $24.30Edmund Blunden (1896 - 1974) moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme. His classic prose memoir, Undertones of War, and... -
Vladimir Mayakovsky: And Other Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky 9781784102920
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36Longlisted for the 2018 Read Russia Prize. 'Vladimir Mayakovsky' & Other Poems is the only single-volume selection in English to fully represent the work of one of Modernism's vital literary forces... -
Posthumous Cantos by Ezra Pound
Booksplease Price: $34.92Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian... -
W.H. Davies, The True Traveller by Rory Waterman
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36W. H. Davies (1871 - 1940) was popularly though reductively known as the 'tramp-poet' due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and the United States, to considerable literary success... -
Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists by J.A. Fyfield
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64This book, first published in 1982, is an in-depth study of the process of 're-education' undergone by those who had opposed the Communist revolution in China. Told at first hand by several men who... -
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Matthew George Walter
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.30Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind and their comrades who would never return, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, previously published as In Flanders... -
The Job by Douglas Kennedy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Readers say:'Classic Kennedy. Brilliant plot, wonderful dialogue and characters. You are bowled over by the pace.''Excellent five star read from the first to the last page''If you haven't read any of...