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Otherwise Unchanged by Owen Lowery 9781847772008
Booksplease Price: £12.48The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating... -
Singing in the Dark by Alison Brackenbury 9781857549140
Booksplease Price: £12.95Alison Brackenbury's ballads for the modern world sing with a truth and directness that reach back through Edward Thomas and John Clare to the English folk-tradition itself. There are poems about... -
Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays by Mark Ford 9783034302470
RRP: £68.40Booksplease Price: £60.90This volume brings together sixteen essays on British, Irish and American poets from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It offers a series of entertaining and compelling readings of the... -
Inclusive Education Is a Right, Right? by Matthew Thomas 9789004420632
Booksplease Price: £46.88Overarching principles of human rights which shore up a nearly 30-year history of international efforts to develop educational systems that are responsive to the needs of all. Arguably the most... -
The Problem of Consciousness in Modern Poetry by Hugh Underhill 9780521066518
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Modernist aesthetics have been identified with a sense of cultural crisis, defined by its distance from an ideal of unified consciousness. This original study of the problem of consciousness in... -
Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley 9781852244354
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Edna Longley's latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic's central concern. She considers how poets are read and received... -
Poetry Prescription: Calm by Deborah Alma 9781035061594
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these... -
The Problem of Consciousness in Modern Poetry by Hugh Underhill 9780521410335
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.73Modernist aesthetics have been identified with a sense of cultural crisis, defined by its distance from an ideal of unified consciousness. This original study of the problem of consciousness in... -
What Possessed Me by John Freeman 9781905208364
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Evoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour, poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of England,... -
Addiction: A Love Story by Jeremy Hooker 9781848619456
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34'Addiction' is the story of a double struggle. It is about the effort of Jeremy Hooker and his wife, Mieke, to combat the alcoholism that eventually contributed to her death. Based largely on the... -
KS2 Comprehension Book 2 by Celia Warren 9780721711553
RRP: £4.95Booksplease Price: £4.70Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys and girls, together with questions that both build and stretch comprehension skills and... -
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by J. Silkin 9780333653982
Booksplease Price: £46.58The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding... -
Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing by David Gervais 9780521443388
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44In our time 'Englishness' has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma: twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambiguous concept, a cue for nostalgia or for a sense of exile... -
Thoroughly Mischievous Person PB: The Other Arthur Ransome by Alan Kennedy
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £22.60First published in 1930, Swallows and Amazons secured Arthur Ransome's reputation as one of the most influential children's authors of all time, yet prior to writing fiction he had had a turbulent... -
British Poetry in the Age of Modernism by Peter Howarth 9780521115759
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98If Modernist poetry dominated the early twentieth century, what did it mean for British poets like Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen not to be Modernist? This is the first critical account... -
Poetry in the Wars by Edna Longley 9780906427996
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53In the two world wars – and throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland – poets insisted on not serving any political or nationalist case. As the war poets were attacked for failing to write their... -
British Poetry in the Age of Modernism by Peter Howarth 9780521853934
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14If Modernist poetry dominated the early twentieth century, what did it mean for British poets like Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen not to be Modernist? This is the first critical account... -
Studies in the Age of Gower - A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager by Susannah Mary Chewning 9781843845461
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets. The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much... -
God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny by Conrad Cherry 9780807847541
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a special destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both a stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American... -
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot... -
Railway Rhymes Peter Ashley 9781841597782
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun... -
Saints and Lodgers: Poems of W. H. Davies by Jonathan Edwards 9781914595684
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Introduction by Jonathan Edwards. William Henry Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. He was also a traveller and adventurer, often living on his wits as a tramp and itinerant labourer... -
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... -
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by J. Silkin 9780333653999
Booksplease Price: £46.28The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding... -
Selected Poems by Robert Frost 9781513270890
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World... -
Murder at St Anne's by J. R. Ellis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Winter, snow, murder-and a centuries-dead suspect. In the chilly depths of a Yorkshire winter, a well-liked rector is found bludgeoned to death in her own church. With no sign of a murder weapon,... -
Word and Stone by Jeremy Hooker 9781848616721
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Word and Stone is questioning poetry, which explores the ground between language that seeks meaning, and the obduracy of matter, and between life and what seems dead. Its concern is with a sense of... -
The Whitby Murders by J. R. Ellis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.54A murder with three witnesses. But one of them doesn't believe what she saw... Halloween, Whitby. DCI Jim Oldroyd's daughter Louise is in town with friends for a goth festival. But their visit to... -
Poems from the First World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums by Gaby Morgan
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.63Poems from the First World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWI from different standpoints. It... -
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson 9780571315789
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. Auden Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and... -
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Poems from the First World War: Published in Association with Imperial War Museums by Gaby Morgan 9781447248644 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Poems from the First World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWI from different standpoints. It... -
Passion David Morley 9781800174818
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Drawing on Romany language, storytelling and the speech of birds, award-winning poet David Morley offers a provocative and passionate invitation to reflect afresh on the ways in which the lives,... -
Perspectives on World War I Poetry by Robert C. Evans 9781472510211
Booksplease Price: £102.21Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of... -
Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849946223
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day. Now more than ever we're all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from... -
Collected Poems Ellen Bryant Voigt 9781324076247
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence and meticulous observation of nature,... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.22** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A... -
Murder in York J. R. Ellis 9781662515934
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72In the ancient city of York, winter brings Christmas markets, cold weather...and murder.Snow dusts the cobbled streets of York as tourists flock to its famous Christmas markets. But for DCI Oldroyd,... -
The Quartet Murders by J. R. Ellis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.54A priceless violin. And a dark secret someone is prepared to kill for. Revised edition: This edition of The Quartet Murders includes editorial revisions. DCI Oldroyd has seen his fair share of... -
A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330461
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07A classic Batsford poetry collection, now reissued with a stunning new cover.This calming anthology of nature poems, with one for every day of the year, is the perfect bedside companion to help you... -
The Body in the Dales by J. R. Ellis 9781503903111
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.54An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose. Revised edition: Previously published as The Body in Jingling Pot, this edition of The Body in the Dales includes editorial...