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Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This... -
So Many Rooms by Laura Scott 9781784108496
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Winner 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... -
Shadow and Refrain by Alex Wong
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.20Alex Wong's first collection, Poems Without Irony (2016), was a book that took nothing for granted, that broke through to the particularity of things and experiences, distrusting and defying... -
Every Wrong Direction by Dan Burt
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.46Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class... -
Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayroecker
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $16.02A lyrical requiem for Mayroecker's late partner, the writer Ernst Jandl. Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayroecker-and bringing to... -
Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows 9781784103408
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Miles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused - as lovers tend to be - by the inconstant nature of 'the other'. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A... -
Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box: Selected Poems of Natalia Chan by Natalia Chan 9781938890185
Booksplease Price: $25.64Like her mentor, the late celebrated Hong Kong author PK Leung, Natalia completed her PhD studies at the University of California, San Diego, which has given her a leg up in terms of visibility and... -
Virgil in the Renaissance by David Scott Wilson-Okamura 9780521198127
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in... -
All Just by David Herd 9781847771636
Booksplease Price: $26.06"All Just', David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces... -
No Messages by Robert Hahn 9780268036539
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.13No Messages, the 2001 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize, is Robert Hahn's second major collection of poetry. In commenting on Hahn's collection All Clear, Richard Howard called attention to Hahn's... -
The Trojan Women by Euripides 9781849435048
Booksplease Price: $29.90A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody 9780198704362
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $62.33This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody's biography have been acclaimed as... -
Take us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems by Miles Burrows 9781800171398
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. The poetry of Miles Burrows was discovered in 1966 when Tom Maschler, already an editor at Cape, heard him give a public reading in London. Cape... -
The Masnavi, Book One by Jalal al-Din Rumi
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11'The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate - Love's nature only love can demonstrate.' Rumi's Masnavi is... -
Raking Light by Eric Langley 9781784103323
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection 2017. Raking Light is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's... -
Tenderfoot by Chris Beckett 9781784109714
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80A Tenderfoot is a novice, someone unaccustomed to hardship. Here, he is a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness. Later he hears... -
Collected Poems 1975-2020 by Ken Edwards 9781848617605
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $39.80Ken Edwards edited Reality Studios magazine, 1977-88, and founded Reality Street Editions with Wendy Mulford in 1993. He ran the press until it ceased publishing new books in 2016. He currently runs... -
Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry by Chris Beckett 9781784109479
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.03Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful... -
Then by Linda Black 9781848617452
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82"Linda Black's sparkling poems charm and beguile - and then, quite often, twist a small knife. Under a rubric of 'little involuntary musings', she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose... -
Collected Poems by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848618923
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $55.63A major event, this volume presents some 40 years of work. "Corcoran has as wide a range and as rich a vocabulary as any poet now writing. He possesses a flawless ear, a fresh eye for image and... -
New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781640140417
Booksplease Price: $74.89A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English allows. Rainer Maria Rilke, the... -
The Road to Zarauz by Sam Adams 9781912681853
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81The Perseids brought it all out of the past, with a force like a blow that leaves you winded. The night lurched and seemed to swoop suddenly down. The boy still lay on his back, but when I sat up, ... -
Gravitation: Selected Poems: Poems Milan Děžinský 9780822967699
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.14Translated by Nathan FieldsThe selected poetry of Milan Dezinsky, translated by Nathan Fields, including many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.The Selected... -
Push by Sapphire
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by... -
In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets by Peter Robinson 9780198112488
Booksplease Price: $123.23In the Circumstances is a study of the way people other than their authors contribute to poems. Discussing work by Wordsworth, Browning, Hardy, Pound, Eliot, Montale, Auden, Lowell, and Hill, the... -
New Selected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.20Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received... -
Push by Sapphire 9781784877361
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73* READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS *This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author. This is the story of Precious Jones, a... -
Foundations of Mental Health Care by Michelle Morrison-Valfre 9780323810296
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $108.49Gain the knowledge and skills you need to care for clients with mental health disorders! Foundations of Mental Health Care, 8th Edition uses an easy-to-read, multidisciplinary approach to describe... -
English Nettles: and other poems Peter Robinson 9781915048028
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72The first edition of English Nettles brought together poems Peter Robinson began writing on his return to England after many years living in Japan. The twenty-three works, evocatively illustrated by... -
The Resurrectionists John Challis 9781780375519
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on... -
The God of This World to His Prophet: Poems by Bill Coyle 9781566637107
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.97The sixth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Bill Coyle's The God of This World to His Prophet. Mr. Coyle's first collection of poems spans the divide between the minutely considered... -
Sounding Ground by Vladimir Lucien 9781845232399
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts. His poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. You can see a young man building his house of poetry, just as his... -
Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera by Carolyn Burke 9780747581192
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64_______________________ THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER LEE MILLER _______________________ 'Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life in this... -
Field Requiem by Sheri Benning 9781800171510
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. ... -
Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems, 1975-2015 by Robyn Sarah 9781771961806
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Has had 12 poems broadcast on The Writers' Almanac with Garrison Keillor since 2005, several with multiple airings Robyn Sarah has published widely in the US, increasingly widely in the UK, and in... -
Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022. Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. ... -
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen 9780811222051
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.95Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean "Tom o'Bedlam" ("By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the... -
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan 9780571378906
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity,... -
Fanny Burney: A biography by Claire Harman 9780006550365
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29'Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.' Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday ... -
Journey Around My Flat by Anthony Rudolf 9781848617698
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73Journey Around My Flat is the fourth in a series of five memoirs. Previous volumes are The Arithmetic of Memory (on growing up in Hampstead Garden Suburb), Silent Conversations (where the author...