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Three Plays by John Webster 9780140430813
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. 'The White Devil' depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of... -
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'It was with aweThat I beheldFresh leaves, green leaves,Bright in the sun'When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism,... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's... -
Hack Wit: Roni Horn Roni Horn 9783869309828
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $57.84Hack Wit is a playful and complex body of work developed between 2013 and 2015, using cliches or proverbs and watercolor. For each work, the artist made two watercolors of a different proverb, cut... -
The Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Balladz by Sharon Olds 9781787334229
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER... -
A Mother's Trust by Dilly Court 9780099562542
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32A Classic Family Saga from Sunday Times Bestseller Dilly Court Phoebe Giamatti lives with her Italian family in the heart of London's East End. With her father killed by a notorious gang years... -
Petrarch in English by Thomas Roche
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology... -
Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best... -
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Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford 9780224059015 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.60Booksplease Price: $5.46SPIRIT MACHINES, Robert Crawford's fourth collection, attends imaginatively to the fusion of spiritual experience and the insistently material world. In several of the poems, emotional and religious... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a... -
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho 9780241382615
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of... -
Eternity: Selected Poems by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith... -
Essays by Lydia Davis 9780241985458
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'Among my most... -
Someone Shot My Book by Julie Carr
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Someone Shot My Book asks important ethical questions about the role of poetry-and of art in general-in a violent culture... -
Essays Two by Lydia Davis 9781405992657
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.32Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
The Fame Lunches by Daphne Merkin 9781250074768
Booksplease Price: $36.78Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $76.50A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell 9780691221250
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many... -
Ardor by Karen Lee 9781932195699
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $20.85Ardor is a book-length poem comprised of lucid dreams, letters, and prayers with the sensual feminine awareness of C.D. Wright, the radiant spirituality of Fanny Howe, the playful erudition of Anne... -
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece by Robin Osborne 9780691177670
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $79.42How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in... -
The Gender of Sound 9781739371791
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.23History is filled with unacceptable noises: high pitch, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of... -
The Next American Essay by John D'Agata 9781555973759
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.71These surprisingly un-academic essays are all truely distinctive and full of entertainment. From the living Monopoly game (in an essay by John McPhee) to a set of unattended ghostly footnotes, from... -
Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.79I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book... -
Roni Horn: Water Water On the Wall, You’re the Fairest of Them All Nora Burnett Abrams 9780847875580
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $87.63This book is a captivating exploration of Horn s decades-long fascination with water, both as a material and a metaphor. Known for her provocative approach to perception, identity, and the mutability... -
Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity Lesley Graydon 9780367502249
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women... -
Elektra Sophokles 9781839044465
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing.' Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is tormented by grief; a fierce instinct for survival; and a thirst for... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.03An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history,... -
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry by Mark Irwin 9781433134050
RRP: $166.24Booksplease Price: $147.07Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor... -
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory by Natasha Saje 9780472035991
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.40Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit... -
The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No by Aaron Hillyer 9781501306808
Booksplease Price: $79.54In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage... -
Translation as Creative–Critical Practice by Delphine Grass 9781009462556
Booksplease Price: $109.45In Translation as Creative-Critical Practice, Delphine Grass questions the separation between practice and theory in translation studies through her analysis of creative-critical translation... -
Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives by Heike Hartung 9781350237483
Booksplease Price: $61.46Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this open access book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer’s disease... -
TOP DOLL: ‘If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll’ Malika Booker Karen McCarthy Woolf 9780349703473
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.77'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.'... -
TOP DOLL: ‘If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll’ Malika Booker by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9780349703459
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $22.00'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.'... -
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic by Susan Branson
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to...