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Like: Poems by A. E. Stallings
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.65Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in... -
Olives: Poems by A. E. Stallings 9780810152267
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81A. E. Stallings has established herself as one of the best American poets of her generation. In addition to a lively dialogue with both the contemporary and ancient culture of her adopted homeland,... -
Hapax: Poems by A. E. Stallings 9780810151703
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Hapax is ancient Greek for ""once, once only, once and for all,"" and ""onceness"" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of... -
Archaic Smile: Poems by A E Stallings
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.47In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the... -
This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.26A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator. This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's... -
This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A E Stallings
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.79Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and... -
Hapax: Poems by A. E. Stallings 9780810151710
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Hapax is ancient Greek for ""once, once only, once and for all,"" and ""onceness"" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of... -
The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic by A E Stallings 9781589881426
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881426Author A E StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint -
Frieze Frame 9781589882003
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589882003Author A. E. StallingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARDA new verse... -
The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse by Sunil Iyengar 9798893721195
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Narrative verse, or poems that tell a story, has existed for millennia, yet the mode of writing has been neglected by literary publishers, editors, and critics in our own time. This anthology... -
Atmospheric Embroidery: Poems by Meena Alexander 9780810137608
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Poetic cycles that speak to journey and meditation are at the heart of Meena Alexander's latest collection, Atmospheric Embroidery. Metaphors of crossing borders, oceans, and war zones-the power... -
Poetry Book Society Winter 2022 Bulletin by Alice Kate Mullen
Booksplease Price: £11.07The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our... -
Why Would Anyone Wear That? Fascinating Fashion Facts by Celia Stall-Meadows 9781841507279
Booksplease Price: £13.89Bustles. Tight-laced Corsets. Caged crinolines that encased the hapless wearer in hoops of steel. Why would anyone want to wear such things? Yet, you can be certain that no lady of the Victorian... -
Plough Quarterly No. 44 - Why Be Healthy? by Peter Mommsen 9780874861259
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In an age of health care and wellness industries and near-religious pursuit of fitness and self-optimization, what does "health" mean for the chronically ill? For people with disabilities or mental... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in... -
The Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780141396903
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical... -
The Best American Poetry 2025 David Lehman 9781668080597
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Guest edited by Terence Winch-NEA Fellow and editor of the "pick of the week" on the Best American Poetry blog-the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating... -
Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals Yui Kajita 9781836244981
Booksplease Price: £31.16This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of literary history. Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals... -
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: £49.95Groundbreaking 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... -
Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall 9780300275582
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18An urgent study of Homer's Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history "Exhilarating."-Emma Greensmith, Times Literary... -
Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me Edith Hall 9780300281927
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and... -
The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State by Amy Paeth
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S... -
The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State by Amy Paeth 9780231194389
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S... -
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity by Johanna Hanink
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Ever since the International Monetary Fund's first bailout of Greece's sinking economy in 2010, the phrase "Greek debt" has meant one thing to the country's creditors. But for millions who claim to... -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun,... -
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva...