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Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.94The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry... -
Enforced Rustication: In the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jianqing Zheng 9781680031768
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41During China's Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called zhiqing, were sent to the countryside to receive reeducation from peasants. They dug the earth daily,... -
The Late Poems of Meng Chiao by Meng Chiao
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With... -
Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan 9780811240284
Booksplease Price: £12.27The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy... -
As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 by Stephen Corey 9781945680533
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems. Stephen Corey's work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and... -
Garden Time W. S. Merwin 9781780373157
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern... -
The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the Author and James Brasfield by Oleh Lysheha 9780916458904
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.46Oleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has... -
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising... -
Imbibing for Introverts: A Guide to Social Drinking for the Anti-Social by Jeff Cioletti
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93With at least 60 recipes, this wide-ranging drinks book is ideal for anyone building their bar library-tongue-in-cheek with humorous anecdotes and thoughtful illustrations, it will also appeal to...