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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry by Cecilia Piantanida 9781350191686
Booksplease Price: €39.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho's Fragments to Viral Hashtags by Leila Easa
Booksplease Price: €113.63Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. Rooted in a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and... -
The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems by Jim Powell 9780190937379
Booksplease Price: €102.16"The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully... -
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Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814711903 [USED COPY]
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €16.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles: Queer Symbols Throughout History by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 9781805010418
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.11In the past, being different has often been dangerous, and people couldn't always be open about how they wanted to dress, what gender they wanted to be, and who they loved...Within these pages,... -
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The Lesbian Lyre: Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century by Jeffrey M. Duban 9781905570799 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €12.67Hailed by Plato as the "Tenth Muse" of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity's greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.63The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest... -
The Butterfly Effect Hawthorne Susan 9781876756567
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €11.95The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause... -
With My Own Hand: The secret life of Marie Maitland, Scotland’s sixteenth-century Sappho by Ashley Douglas 9781035430604
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45'A really thrilling discovery . . . This is a real extension of our knowledge of women of the period, engagingly told' - Philippa Gregory'It held me captive from the first page to the last. Utterly... -
Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis 9780226020082
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.61In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of... -
Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices Dr Emily Hauser 9781350445086
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.00Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a... -
All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths by Jean Menzies 9781912489992
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €8.07Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and gender- fluid identity-but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world? Tales as old as antiquity - whether the love... -
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. ... -
Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose... -
Notes on Thought and Vision by H. D. 9780872861411
Booksplease Price: €10.28Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and... -
Antigonick by Anne Carson 9780811222921
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.34Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is... -
Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.19A 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 Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.08'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have... -
Ancient Love Stories by Sander Berg 9781800783225
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.66We don't have to look to works of fiction to find tales of true love. The pages of history are crammed with stories about love that are, quite literally, true. And many of them are among the... -
The Stepmother's Diary Fay Weldon 9781847247858
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.54'I read my daughter's diaries the other day. Let me share with you. You may think you know pretty much what's going on in your own family. Believe me, you do not'. Sappho was so happy when she... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €16.89From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting... -
A Garden of Greek Verse: Poems of Ancient Greece by J Getty 9780892366095
RRP: €26.12Booksplease Price: €17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366095Author J GettyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World Chris McCabe 9781529338522
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Silver 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... -
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin 9780008687083
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? ... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: €17.71"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... -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World Chris McCabe 9781529338539
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Silver 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... -
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.47No, 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... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.28Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
Fear of Dying Erica Jong 9781782117476
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis 9781665926867
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.09This 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... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' Lgbtqia+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O Davis 9781665926874
Booksplease Price: €17.29This 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... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780099518860
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34INTRODUCTION 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... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.26Here 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 Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: €48.48What 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... -
Word Witchery: Walking the Path of the Poetry Priestess Katie Ness 9781803417066
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.70Ancient 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02An 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.49LGBTQ 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... -
Ancient Greeks by Jane Lacey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02DISCOVER 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... -
Discover and Do: Ancient Greeks Jane Lacey 9781445177434
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07DISCOVER 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: €17.85Booksplease Price: €6.75'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...