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Nobody by Alice Oswald
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48**WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2019**'Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in...this electrifying new work' Observer ... -
Memorial by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to... -
Dart by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she... -
Woods etc. by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of... -
Dart by Alice Oswald 9780571259335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she... -
Nobody by Alice Oswald 9781901785180
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785180Author Alice OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Archipelago Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.05Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance... -
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Winner 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... -
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'This is not a play. This is a poem in several registers, set at night on the Severn Estuary. Its subject is moonrise, which happens five times in five different forms: new moon, half moon, full... -
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald 9780393355970
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.12A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald's signature sensitivity to nature,... -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book... -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary... -
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.91In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that... -
Falling Awake: Poems by Alice Oswald 9780393355451
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.91Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality" (Dan Chiasson, The... -
Rhapsody: An Interview with Homer by Alice Oswald 9781787332218
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787332218Author Alice OswaldFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
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Falling Awake by Alice Oswald 9781910702437 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £2.99Winner 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... -
The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet by Alice Oswald 9780571218578
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Taking for her subject our human planet, or what Robert Lowell called 'this sweet volcanic cone', Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds... -
Spacecraftt Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems by Alice Oswald 9781555974824
Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974824Author Alice OswaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint < -
An Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing the Nonhuman in Modernist and Contemporary Poetry Sarah Bouttier 9781350528369
Booksplease Price: £92.62Focusing on a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency to nonhuman beings and texts themselves, Sarah Bouttier puts form, often neglected within ecocriticism,... -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching... -
We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose by Ruth Padel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and... -
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a... -
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Assurances by J. O. Morgan 9781787330856 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.10**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a... -
By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose Simon Morley 9780861540525
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.14A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. 'Fascinating... I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way... -
The Martian's Regress by J. O. Morgan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs,... -
playtime by Andrew McMillan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.48**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019**'Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so' Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson 9780140424430
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by... -
Poems: Edna St Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9781841597850
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and... -
joinedupwriting Roger McGough 9780241374214
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy'McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' The Times_______________For fifty years, Roger McGough has... -
Dog Years by Mark Doty
Booksplease Price: £13.16Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever,... -
Teeth in the Back of my Neck by Monika Radojevic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.88'This is a courageous, arresting debut from a poet to watch.' Independent'A vital contribution to literature' HUCKChosen as one of Bustle's Best Debut Books of 2021Chosen as one of Glamour's 'best... -
A Life in Letters by Anton Chekhov 9780140449228
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.12From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher... -
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.12Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume... -
Slip by Amelia Loulli 9781787334670
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and steadfastly... -
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This... -
Selected Poems by John Dryden 9780140439144
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of...