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Staying Alive by Neil Astley 9781852245887 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
Clever Backbone John Agard 9781852248222
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables. In "Clever Backbone", the Guyanese-born word magician plays havoc with... -
Terrific Melancholy Roddy Lumsden 9781852249083
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy is a book of changes, physical and emotional. It begins with a diverse sequence on that most dubious and folkloric of changes, rebirth into a new life, exploring... -
Pure Hustle Kate Potts 9781852249038
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Pure Hustle is concerned with imagination - as a means of escape and of illumination, as destructive and redemptive. Its finely honed urban landscapes are shot through with myth, storytelling and the... -
Wolf Tongue Barry MacSweeney 9781852246662
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Barry MacSweeney's last book, The Book of Demons, recorded his fierce fight against alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life - though only for three more years. When he... -
Another Country by Jane Griffiths
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A... -
What it is: Selected Poems Esther Jansma 9781852247805
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Esther Jansma is a leading Dutch poet as well as an influential archaeologist. Interweaving a dazzling variety of strands, her poetry explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay... -
Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand Helen Farish 9781852249410
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76'Today, I shall have a few guests, Madame Sand amongst them.' It's December 1836, Paris. Chopin is living on the fashionable rue de la Chaussee d'Antin and the novelist George Sand on the rue Lafitte... -
Poems: (2015) third edition J. H. Prynne 9781780371542
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.98J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a... -
Centres of Cataclysm: celebrating 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation Sasha Dugdale 9781780372648
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world's most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel... -
Considering the Women Choman Hardi 9781780372785
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the... -
Two Countries Katrina Porteous 9781852248307
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Two Countries is a book of poems about place: about landscape, community, and the shifting, provisional relations between them. Born in Scotland, Katrina Porteous grew up in North-East England. These... -
Collected Poems David J. Constantine 9781852246679
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love,... -
Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems Chase Twichell 9781852248673
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Chase Twichell's poetry is marked by a strong identification with the natural world, one that exceeds any with other human beings. There's a dissociation born of a rough childhood, which only the... -
Everything Begins Elsewhere Tishani Doshi 9781852249366
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more... -
Chan Hannah Lowe 9781780372839
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the... -
In Person: World Poets Neil Astley 9781852249854
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world's first DVD-anthology, In Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in publishing: readings by 30 poets published by Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with... -
The Honey Gatherers: a book of love poems Maura Dooley 9781852243593
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38The Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the... -
Picasso, I Want My Face Back Grace Nichols 9781852248505
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse... -
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses George Szirtes 9781852248802
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
Not in This World Tracey Herd 9781852248949
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Tracey Herd's long awaited new collection was inspired by the late actress Elizabeth Hartman's lifelong struggle with mental illness and by her own experience of living with clinical depression. The... -
World Record Neil Astley 9781852249380
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia... -
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: a book of strange & comic poems by Neil Astley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has... -
The Crumb Road Maitreyabandhu 9781852249748
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Maitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey... -
Selected Poems Thomas Lux 9781780371153
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects... -
Santiago by Cheryl Follon
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38A number of years back, our author went to seek out a book by some ancient Greek thinker - the name starting with an L, or perhaps a C - called On Delight of the Nature of Things, or maybe In Delight... -
Midnight Lantern Tess Gallagher 9781852249342
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.94Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In Midnight Lantern she collects her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but... -
Cicada: Selected Poetry and Prose Tatiana Voltskaia 9781852247041
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Tatiana Voltskaia is one of Russia's leading poets, as well as a distinguished journalist and essayist. She belongs to the generation who began to write poetry seriously during the last decade of the... -
Poems of Love and Hate Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781852246457
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young... -
Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems by Eva Salzman
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Eva Salzman is a thoroughly modern, urban poet who writes with equal wit and precision about the natural - and unnatural world. In her sceptical, restless poems, irreverent muses and relentless twins... -
What Long Miles by Kona MacPhee
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Kona Macphee's What Long Miles is a characteristically eclectic collection from an ever-inventive writer, the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her previous collection, Perfect Blue... -
Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry... -
Home Front by Bryony Doran
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Even in peacetime, many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas. As mothers or wives they live in a state of separation, from... -
I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty by Tua Forsstrom
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her breakthrough came when she was still only 30 with her sixth collection, "Snow... -
Selected Poems Kerry Hardie 9781852248901
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Kerry Hardie is one of Ireland's leading poets. Her Selected Poems covers work written over two decades and draws on five collections. Her poetry questions, celebrates and challenges all aspects of... -
The Day Hospital Sally Read 9781852249489
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs - and above all seek to... -
So Many Moving Parts by Tiffany Atkinson
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the... -
Wild Creature Joan Margarit 9781780375922
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.50Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but over the past four decades became known for his mastery of...