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So Many Rooms by Laura Scott 9781784108496
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month August 2019. So Many Rooms, the debut... -
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication by Joe Brainard 9781598532784
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $32.58Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a "recognizable American phenomenon" and "oddball classicist"-with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John... -
Selected Poems: with parallel French text by Guillaume Apollinaire
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.63'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous... -
The Revisionist and The Astropastorals by Douglas Crase 9781784108694
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Chosen as a TLS Book of the Year 2019. This vital collection restores to print and prominence the work of Douglas Crase, a poet of revisionist invocations of the American landscape and... -
Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan 9780571371273
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible? For my money it's the best first volume in decades, I would say since Tom Paulin's A State of Justice (1977): no... -
Instant-flex 718 Heather Phillipson 9781852249700
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Heather Phillipson is an internationally exhibiting artist and award-winning poet. Instant-flex 718 is her much anticipated first book-length collection. She is already a widely published and... -
John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras by Oli Hazzard 9780198822011
Booksplease Price: $185.06In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English... -
Forgetfulness Ian Seed 9781837380114
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, and finally to a series of splintered memories... -
Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites by O. Richard Norton 9781848001565
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $63.26It is said that astronomy is one of the few remaining fields in which amateurs can make a real contribution to science, and nowhere is this more true than in the field of meteors and meteorites. ... -
Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 by Mary de Rachewiltz 9780199584390
Booksplease Price: $159.02The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint;... -
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them Dai George 9781399408318
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - can teach us to... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.68One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $167.06The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book... -
The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest by W. H. Auden 9780691123844
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $32.86Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's... -
Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780811224321
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.14With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $34.11Booksplease Price: $29.33This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization... -
Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire
Booksplease Price: $27.14The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's... -
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49Winner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New... -
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $52.03The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $33.72"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland by John McCourt 9780198806394
Booksplease Price: $83.05Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home... -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous... -
Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland by John McCourt 9780198729600
Booksplease Price: $233.90Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his second home...