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Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and artistic world, befriended by Yeats and a supporter... -
PN Review 261 by Michael Schmidt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The September-October 2021 issue; PN Review has a 'soft relaunch' with a new cover design, new internal design and layout; Dutch supplement: outstanding new writing from Holland; Major essays:; Colm... -
Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry by Gregory Woods 9780300047523
Booksplease Price: £30.79Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing-not a distinct and differentiated category within it-Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the... -
Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark by James Campbell 9780520252370
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the... -
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share
Booksplease Price: £15.82To celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine's vast archives to create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one... -
Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.46In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Poem for the Day: One Nicholas Albery 9781856194990
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.93This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets... -
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens 9780571228744
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all... -
An Anthology of Poems by Members of Trinity College Cambridge by Angela Leighton 9781784103569
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.95An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College,... -
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Poem For The Day One by Nicholas Albery 9781856194990 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets... -
Garden Poems by John Hollander
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined... -
On Empson by Michael Wood 9780691163765
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration of one of the twentieth century's most important literary critics Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood... -
Philip Larkin and English Poetry by Terry Whalen 9780333398166
Booksplease Price: £91.78Philip Larkin and English Poetry is a practical criticism of Larkin's poetry which discusses the poet's views on poetry as they are made visible in his prose writings and his interviews, Larkin's... -
Philip Larkin and English Poetry by Terry Whalen 9780333522820
Booksplease Price: £90.34Philip Larkin and English Poetry is a practical criticism of Larkin's poetry which discusses the poet's views on poetry as they are made visible in his prose writings and his interviews, Larkin's... -
Religious Culture in Modernist Verse: Form, Belief, and Twentieth-Century Poetics Annarose F. Steinke 9781666961904
Booksplease Price: £75.81Annarose F. Steinke offers a look into the nuanced treatments of religion in modernism and modernist poetry by pairing T.S. Eliot with Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Basil Bunting, and Thom Gunn. Steinke... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.73In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
Some Animal by Ely Shipley 9781937658793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Aligned with queer theories of temporality, fragments of memoir rub against the language of psychiatric and medical regimes at the site of a body that does not conform to a gender binary. Some Animal... -
A Vertical Art: On Poetry by Simon Armitage 9780691233109
Booksplease Price: £22.03From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly... -
Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy 9781857543261
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Posthumously launched as the "electric-age Blake", Mina Loy's futurist techniques were unlike anything British critics had seen before; her subjects - sex, parturitiion, prostitution, suicide,... -
Too Much Flesh and Jabez by Coleman Dowell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.33Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a... -
Immediate Song: Poems by Don Bogen 9781571314819
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.93From one of our finest poets comes a collection about time-about memory, remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world. Called "the poet of things" by Richard Howard, Don Bogen... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.14A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry Merle E. Brown 9781041069195
Booksplease Price: £73.99Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets - Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson - and on the emergence in postwar British... -
Annotations by John Keene 9780811213042
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on... -
Between the Chains by Turner Cassity 9780226096162
Booksplease Price: £80.73"With my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward," J. D. McClatchy has said of Turner Cassity's poems. Cassity's new collection turns an icy... -
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human... -
Poets' First and Last Books in Dialogue by Thomas Simmons 9781433114892
RRP: £63.10Booksplease Price: £56.34A poet's uvre is typically studied as an arc from the first work to the last work, including everything in between as a manifestation of some advance or reversal. What if the primary relationship in... -
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 9781529087451
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . ... -
Veii and other poems Robert Wells 9781800171244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the... -
The Best American Poetry 1998 by John Hollander 9780684814506
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected 75 poems from publication in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY and this years volume will again dazzle and delight, instruct and inspire. Under the guiding... -
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein
Booksplease Price: £20.70Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never... -
Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets by Christopher Hennessy 9780472068739
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63This is the first book to collect the voices of our foremost and emerging gay poets. ""Outside the Lines"" gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in contemporary American poetry... -
Best New Poets 2020: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers by Brian Teare 9780997562347
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.16Entering its fifteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual... -
It Was Fever That Made the World by Jim Powell
Booksplease Price: £21.99This sophisticated first collection by Jim Powell synthesizes personal and world history to produce a compelling vision of the past, through verse letters to friends and relatives, translations of... -
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 by August Kleinzahler 9780374537678
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.37"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection,... -
Love in Another Language: Collected Poems and Selected Translations by Dick Davis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our... -
Collected Poems by Ruth Pitter 9781870612142
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.39This new volume gathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems, which in Kathleen Raine's judgement 'will survive as long as the English language, with whose expressiveness in image and idea she... -
Physical by Andrew McMillan
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We... -
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry by Jim Elledge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"Every lovesick summer has its song, And this one I pretended to despise. But if I were alone when it came on, I turned it up full-blast to sing along- A primal scream in croaky baritone, The notes...