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The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen 9780811222051
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Inspired 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Following 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52'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: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Journey 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... -
The Windows of Graceland by Martina Evans
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Windows of Graceland gathers the cream of the crop from Martina Evans's five previous collections of poetry, brought up to date by a selection of new and unpublished work. The earliest poems date... -
Unearthly Toys: Poems and Masks by Ned Denny 9781784105389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Winner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags... -
études by Friederike Mayröcker 9781803091839
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.64A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria's best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a... -
ISDAL by Susannah Dickey 9781035015054
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Guardian and Irish Times Book of 2023The much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.ISDAL is a timely... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011211
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011204
Booksplease Price: £50.09Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
Still City: A Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk 9781800174023
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.69Still City, Oksana Maksymchuk's debut in English, reflects life in the wake of extreme and unpredictable violence. Inevitably, there are dramatic shifts in perspective: this diary of an invasion... -
Several Deer by Adam Crothers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Winner of the Shine/Strong Poetry Award 2017. Several Deer is the debut collection of a young Northern Irish poet. As much... -
Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'Raw, tender and urgent' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater'Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten' Helen Mort, author of Division StreetThis is... -
Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall 9780199276769
Booksplease Price: £117.42Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's... -
Symbolism, Decadence And The Fin De Siecle: French and European Perspectives by Patrick McGuinness 9780859896467
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.65This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914. Part One centres on France, and... -
The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan 9781852247119
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.20The Silence Living in Houses unlocks the doors to houses of secrets and dreams where ghosts of the past are more real than the living. In unsettling poems rich with intrigue, Esther Morgan traces the... -
Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall 9780199562022
Booksplease Price: £45.03Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's... -
BOWIELAND: Walking In The Footsteps Of David Peter Carpenter 9781800961548
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration... -
Workbook for Rosdahl's Textbook of Basic Nursing by Caroline Rosdahl 9781975172916
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £52.65Ensure a mastery of the concepts, skills, and procedures in Rodahl's Textbook of Basic Nursing, 12th Edition, with this engaging Workbook. Updated to reflect the latest practices and approaches... -
Mercy Roisin Kelly 9781780375007
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ireland. Night. A grotto to the Virgin Mary illuminates a deserted road. Overhead, the soundless roar of the Milky Way's glittering traffic reminds us of a past that runs parallel to our own... -
More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. A The Irish Times Book of the Year. More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe... -
BOWIELAND: Walking In The Footsteps Of David by Peter Carpenter 9781800961555
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.68BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration... -
The Green Parcel John Challis 9781780377698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The rural terrain of John Challis's second collection provides a new lens for exploring history, class and work, our relationship to the natural world, and cycles of growth and decay. Much of his... -
The Quick Lawrence Sail 9781780372556
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Lawrence Sail's new collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. He reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosm, looking for example at flowers, birds, the sea,... -
The Sun is Open by Gail McConnell 9781908058928
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials... -
Collected Poems Wendy Cope 9780571383269
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT PRIZE'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit,... -
Living in the Delta: New and Collected Poems by Landeg White 9781910409886
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.62Living in the Delta, Landeg White's Collected and New Poems, brings together work from nine previous collections. Welsh by birth, White is a citizen of the world, having lived and written and taught... -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9781399426305
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'An exemplary biography' -- Sunday Times'Commanding' - Observer'Diligent and insightful' - The TimesThis revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War... -
Collected Poems Wendy Cope 9780571383252
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit, acuity and seriousness of purpose... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as... -
This Thing We Call Literature by Arthur Krystal 9780190272371
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £26.91In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply... -
The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor 9781800171992
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends - pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary... -
Ballad of a Happy Immigrant by Leonardo Boix
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.13'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open'... -
R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography Daniel Westover 9780708324134
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.47In R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography, Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually... -
Beyond the Drift: New & Selected Poems David Scott 9781780371047
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'David Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert... For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of... -
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... -
Burning Season Yvonne Reddick 9781780376455
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature's defiance. Yvonne Reddick's understanding of climate change is uniquely personal: her father was a petroleum engineer, and... -
Strange Beach Oluwaseun Olayiwola 9781804271551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Strange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous... -
Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters by Claudia Moreno Pisano 9780826366344
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureFrom the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (1929-1999), two... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £21.50This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's...