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Belongings David J. Constantine 9781780375205
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings,... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Basil Bunting was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger... -
Glimpses by Brendan Kennelly
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a... -
The Zebra Stood in the Night Kerry Hardie 9781780371115
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Human life and the passage and rhythms of time and the seasons come together in The Zebra Stood in the Night, the seventh collection by one of Ireland's leading poets. Grounded in the natural world,... -
New & Selected Potatoes John Hegley 9781852249786
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent). Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated... -
Apparently Matthew Caley 9781852248635
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently" begins - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'. In conversation this word usually precedes a scurrilous piece of gossip or hearsay, allowing the... -
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock 9781852249731
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £5.97Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods,... -
Rake Matthew Caley 9781780372815
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Throughout Rake, Matthew Caley's fifth collection, it can appear as if we are glimpsing into the oblique diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, one who is seeking his 'one true beloved' through... -
Slakki by Roy Fisher
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is... -
The Blue Den Stephanie Norgate 9781852249373
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76"The Blue Den" is a book of lyrical, sensuous poems which builds on the achievement of Stephanie Norgate's debut collection "Hidden River", which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection... -
The Second Child Deborah Garrison 9781852247980
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence,... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Ireland Is Changing Mother Rita Ann Higgins 9781852249052
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the... -
Omnesia (alternative text) W. N. Herbert 9781852249625
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Being Human Neil Astley 9781852248093
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is... -
The Hat by Selima Hill
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Selima Hill's "The Hat" is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and... -
La Jeune Parque Paul Valery 9781852243876
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery. He... -
A Two-Part Invention Elizabeth Garrett 9781852244620
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.52The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an... -
The Laurelude W. N. Herbert 9781852244644
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76For nearly three hundred years Scotland and England were the Laurel and Hardy of nations. For nearly two hundred years The Prelude was a poem by Wordsworth. Something had to give. As Britain begins... -
I Speak for the Devil Imtiaz Dharker 9781852245696
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile,... -
Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994 Kathleen Jamie 9781852245863
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's leading poets. Her work is intelligent and subtle, her language inventive and refreshing. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead is a selection from her early collections,... -
Strangely Happy Joan Margarit 9781852248932
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades became known for his mastery of the... -
Moon Before Morning by W. S. Merwin
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern... -
Waking Dreams: New and Selected Poems Lawrence Sail 9781852248833
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four... -
Too Brave to Dream R. S. Thomas 9781780373072
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key... -
Beyond Sarah Wardle 9781780370972
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38The poems of Beyond take the reader back to the optimism Sarah Wardle found as a youth when she left home and became involved in the world. They show her venturing forth again, embracing life to find... -
Not All Honey Roddy Lumsden 9781780371122
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Two words, hope and doubt, dominate Not All Honey, the seventh full collection by Roddy Lumsden. These awkward cousins appear repeatedly as the poet 'fathoms the ingredient for happy' despite a... -
The Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the... -
Moontide Niall Campbell 9781780371184
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of... -
Almanacs by Jen Hadfield
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot,... -
Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems by Harry Martinson
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and... -
alphabet Inger Christensen 9781852243104
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was one of Denmark's best-known poets. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet it has enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight W. S. Merwin 9781852246341
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation - by one of the world's leading poets - has already been acclaimed in... -
Translation of the Route: Traducción de la ruta Laura Wittner 9781780376998
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Translation of the Route is the eleventh collection by the award-winning Argentine poet and translator Laura Wittner. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the... -
Earth House Matthew Hollis 9781780376226
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.38In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life... -
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forche 9781852243074
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Angel of History bears witness to the moral disasters of our times: war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb. The book is a meditation on memory - how memory survives the unimaginable. The... -
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose by Jean Tardieu 9781852240998
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Jean Tardieu's poetry has an almost child-like simplicity, and in France his work is studied both in universities and in primary schools. Yet while he is a household name in France and has been... -
The Objectivists by Andrew McAllister 9781852243418
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Objectivists were a group of left-wing, mainly Jewish American poets who formed a brief though important alliance in the 1930s, when they felt poetry needed a new identity. The guiding principles... -
The Apple Trees at Olema: New & Selected Poems by Robert Hass 9781852248970
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Robert Hass is an American poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. 'The Apple Trees at Olema' includes work from five... -
Straight Ahead by Clare Shaw 9781852247508
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.20"Straight Ahead" is Clare Shaw's first collection. Firmly located in the social and physical landscape of northern England, the poems capture intimacy, loss, fragmentation and delight - being alive...