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Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.60A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: $54.59What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
A Garden of Greek Verse: Poems of Ancient Greece by J Getty 9780892366095
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366095Author J GettyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis 9781665926867
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99This young readers adaptation of The Queens' English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language.This playful, richly illustrated... -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World Chris McCabe 9781529338539
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780099518860
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.27INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREERShakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the... -
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.54No, they weren't 'just friends'! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68Here 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... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' Lgbtqia+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O Davis 9781665926874
Booksplease Price: $19.47This young readers adaptation of The Queens' English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language.This playful, richly illustrated... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: $19.94"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the... -
Word Witchery: Walking the Path of the Poetry Priestess Katie Ness 9781803417066
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.67Ancient priestesses of antiquity wrote and performed poetic incantations to the gods. Discover the forgotten magic of women s voices, of their poetry, and their word witchery! Poetry priestesses have... -
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack Richard Ovenden 9781529378771
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.48An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Discover and Do: Ancient Greeks Jane Lacey 9781445177434
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
Ancient Greeks by Jane Lacey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
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Forgotten Women: The Writers by Zing Tsjeng 9781788400183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $7.60'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and... -
Solitude by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597676
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and... -
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) by Longinus 9780872200807
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to... -
Greek Anthology Poems by Kenneth Rexroth 9780472086085
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23"The first translation from the Greek that I ever did was the apple orchard of Sappho in my fifteenth year. It left me so excited with accomplishment that I couldn't sleep well for nights. Since that... -
Classical Women Poets Josephine Balmer 9781852243425
Booksplease Price: $12.41Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... -
movingparts by Edward Carson 9780228016663
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers allIn Edward Carson's provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what's true and... -
The LGBTQ + History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+... -
A Leap of Faith: a heart-warming novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley 9781784160869
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh! With the thought... -
Berkshire Ghosts: Legends and Lore E. Ashley Rooney 9780764327971
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.35History melts into the present in the lovely Berkshire Hills OF western Massachusetts, but it is an uncomfortable present. Could it be the whispers of nearly 200 men who died in the Hoosic Tunnel or... -
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A Leap of Faith by Trisha Ashley 9781784160869 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.67Sappho Jones stopped counting birthdays when she reached thirty but, even with her hazy grip on mathematics, she realises that she's on the slippery slope to the big four-oh! With the thought... -
Torchlight by Peter McDonald 9781847770912
Booksplease Price: $18.83Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from... -
Orphics by 9780873387583
Booksplease Price: $6.74A collection of sonnets written in a playful manner.About the AuthorLeonard Kress is assistant professor of communications at Owens Community College. His previous publications include Sappho's... -
100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell 9780446676816
Booksplease Price: $14.32Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to... -
A True Account by David Grundy 9781739393953
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." - Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK... -
When the World Lived Inside Us: Poems by Steph Catudal 9780063414556
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84From the New York Times bestselling author Everything All at Once comes a beautiful poetry collection exploring motherhood, grief, the unending road to healing, and the redeeming power of love.The... -
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The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin 9780141010977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.12Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $17.82Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the... -
You Are My Sun, My Moon and Stars: Beautiful Words and Romantic Quotes for the One You Love Summersdale Publishers 9781800074187
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A beautiful, heartfelt collection of romantic words and powerful affirmations of love - the perfect gift, whatever the occasion, for the one who has captured your heart You are my everything ... -
We Are a Song by Lorian Tu
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.94A sweet, empowering picture book by debut author-illustrator Lorian Tu about two siblings who learn in their own ways how all the different parts of their family make them special.Like the colors of... -
Heiress by Elisabeth Murawski 9781680031683
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Murawski is a master of consummate poetic craft, as comfortable in handling the rigors of formal poetry as she is the subtle demands of distinguished free verse. The poems of this remarkable... -
Heroides by Ovid
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers... -
Mirror to Mirror by Rajani LaRocca 9780063047518
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Rajani LaRocca, recipient of a Newbery Honor and Walter Award for Red, White, and Whole, is back with an evocative novel in verse about identical twin sisters who do everything together-until...