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I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets by Chard deNiord 9780822965343
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £19.35I Would Lie To You If I Could contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martin Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester,... -
The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal by James Crews 9781635866445
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating... -
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty 9780393079012
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul-the... -
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by James Crews
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote... -
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words by Tony Leuzzi 9781934414958
Booksplease Price: £15.60Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such... -
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent: Poems by Gregory Mahrer
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior... -
Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9780393350722
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.21In his seventeenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn confronts the lines we fight against and the ones we draw for ourselves. Lines of Defense poignantly captures the... -
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry by Deborah Ager 9781441188793
Booksplease Price: £34.42With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes.This anthology... -
Songs of Mirabai by Mirabai 9781945680786
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Erotic passion, rebellion, spiritual thirst, and a strong hint of early feminism, -these are what make Mirabai's songs irrepressible five centuries after she sang them.Mirabai (16th century India) is... -
On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems by Paul Rouzer
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £30.59In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and... -
Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest by Nathaniel Brodie 9780295743660
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.18Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists... -
On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems by Paul Rouzer 9780295994994
Booksplease Price: £44.57In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.25This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the... -
Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy by Simmons Buntin 9781595349125
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.47America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Dorothea von Moltke
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £11.43An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham 9780691230689
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.95An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Blackbird Song by Randy Lundy 9780889775572
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by... -
Blessing the Animals: Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate Gods Creatures Wild and Tame Lynn Caruso 9781594731457
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Celebrate the Mystery, Compassion, Wonder and Beauty of Animals Take a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations about the creatures, wild and tame,... -
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds by Neil Astley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"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... -
Soul Feast: nourishing poems of hope & light: a companion anthology to Soul Food by Neil Astley 9781780377063
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Soul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. This... -
Saved By A Poem: The Transformative Power Of Words by Kim Rosen 9781401921460
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.65In these times of global and personal uncertainty, why turn to poetry? In Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen reveals how a poem can be a companion through difficulty-acting as a guide when we are lost; a... -
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader by James Shea 9781032272658
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an... -
Work & Days by Tess Taylor
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. In 2010,... -
Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life by Patrice Vecchione 9781582705002
Booksplease Price: £13.26The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us... -
The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory by Joni Tevis 9781571313164
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.93Using such models as Joseph Cornell's box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays, Joni Tevis places fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories,... -
An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz by Cynthia L. Haven
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been.... -
An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz by Cynthia L. Haven 9780804011327
Booksplease Price: £58.64Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw...