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The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most... -
Diffractions: New and Collected Poems by Peter Dale
Booksplease Price: £17.60Peter Dale combines intimacy of address and a personal colloquial idiom with remarkable skill in formal verse. He is interested in bringing his subjects - love, relationships, memory, all kinds of... -
Reality Check Dennis O'Driscoll 9780856464027
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Dennis O'Driscoll lends his transformative vision to everyday 'bread and butter' routines and the insidious forces that imperil them. From the entertaining mixture of shorter poems which opens his... -
New and Selected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780856463730
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is... -
Can Dentists Be Trusted? by Martina Evans 9780856463761
Booksplease Price: £10.12Martina Evans' third collection of poems begins and ends in the dentist's chair. In between come stories ranging from an Irish childhood to present-day London, featuring voices from the poet's own to... -
Silvae: A Selection by Publius Papinius Statius 9780856463877
Booksplease Price: £10.21In this delightful homage to the now unfashionable Neapolitan poet, two contemporary poets who share a fascination with his work present their selection of fresh versions from his best-known... -
Maltese Dreambook by Gabriel Levin 9780856464096
Booksplease Price: £12.41With Jerusalem as its epicentre, "The Maltese Dreambook" extends Gabriel Levin's quarter-century-long ramble through the Levant, his adopted homeland. On a Greek island, in the desert wastes of... -
To These Dark Steps by Gabriel Levin 9780856464447
Booksplease Price: £11.97Gabriel Levin's fourth collection moves from the Mediterranean world that has engaged his imagination for the last thirty years, to the sombre title sequence written in the shadow of Israel's... -
Viriditas by Peter Levi 9780856463310
Booksplease Price: £8.54Peter Levi's final collection contains the moving lyrics he composed, often while walking round the green in the Gloucestershire village where he lived, as well as other poems written since 'Reed... -
Things Unsaid: New and Selected Poems 1960-2005 by Tony Connor 9780856463853
Booksplease Price: £18.89"Things Unsaid" is the author's own choice of poems from a writing career that spans nearly half a century. It draws on seven published collections and includes many uncollected and new poems. Tony... -
Local Habitation: A Sequence of Poems by Peter Dale 9780856464188
Booksplease Price: £12.51This sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories... -
Golden Apple: A Round of Stories, Songs, Spells, Proverbs and Riddles by Vasko Popa 9780856464195
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91This is an enchanting selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. The vitality of Popa's chosen material is wonderfully conveyed in this adaptation by Andrew Harvey and Anne... -
Advance Payment: Selected Poems Translated by David Colmer by Nachoem M. Wijnberg 9780856464508
Booksplease Price: £12.62Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values... -
Beyond the Walls: Selected Poems by Nazim Hikmet 9780856463297
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.14Nazim Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet; his immense and continuing... -
About the Size of it by Thomas M. Disch 9780856463914
Booksplease Price: £12.77Tom Disch's first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious,... -
Night Watch by Peter Scupham 9780856463198
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.24Peter Scupham's eleventh collection brings his customary elegance and skill to bear on themes as diverse as the "Battle of Arras", "Kilvert's Diary", and an unexpected encounter with his parents on... -
Empty Air: New Poems 2006-2012 by Tony Connor 9780856464539
Booksplease Price: £12.66Tony Connor's tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from... -
Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart 9780856464119
Booksplease Price: £11.83At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in... -
Looking Out, Looking in: New and Selected Poems by E. A. Markham 9780856464140
Booksplease Price: £16.09Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as 'a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment', E.A. Markham was a... -
Eventualities by John Birtwhistle 9780856464515
Booksplease Price: £12.55This is John Birtwhistle's first collection of poems since 'Our Worst Suspicions' (1985), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In the meantime much of his writing has gone into libretti, including... -
Ogre's Wife by Anthony Howell
Booksplease Price: £11.77Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the... -
Flower and Song: Poems of the Aztec Peoples by Edward Kissam 9780856464232
Booksplease Price: £13.94The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed... -
Mr. Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems Thomas McCarthy 9780856463204
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Memory, love, history and ideas: Thomas McCarthy has a uniquely direct and engaged approach both to the private and the public, which are inseparable in his poetry. His special blend of wit and... -
Spaces of Hope: Poetry for Our Times and Places by Peter Jay 9780856463013
Booksplease Price: £10.36For thirty years Anvil has championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit of poet and reader alike. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the... -
Circling the Square: Poems 2004-2006 by Michael Hamburger 9780856463921
Booksplease Price: £10.19Michael Hamburger's fifth collection since the publication of "Collected Poems 1941-1994" gathers his poems written during 2004-2006, a productive period in which he has set aside translation work to... -
Swift by 9780856464430
Booksplease Price: £11.88In Jennie Feldman's second collection, the earth-shy bird of the title flies high above the territorial rivalries of its region. From the Middle East, "Swift" ranges across Europe to Scotland, always... -
Sappho Through English Poetry by Sappho 9780856462733
Booksplease Price: £9.34The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. Today, as in antiquity, she... -
Letters to Ted by Daniel Weissbort 9780856463419
Booksplease Price: £9.79"Letters to Ted" is a remarkable collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, with whom Daniel Weissbort struck up a friendship, both literary and personal, during their... -
Selected Poems 1940-1979: Odysseus Elytis by Odysseus Elytis 9780856463556
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods... -
Last Geraldine Officer by Thomas McCarthy 9780856464218
Booksplease Price: £14.02The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a... -
Selected Poems Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire 9780856463594
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is... -
The Lost Hare by Nina Bogin 9780856464454
Booksplease Price: £11.87The spare and subtle poems of Nina Bogin's third collection map personal territory - places of memory and love as much as of language and geography. An American writing in her adopted France, in the... -
Ostraca by Gabriel Levin 9780856463174
Booksplease Price: £8.50Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert... -
Selected Poems: Aldo Vianello by Aldo Vianello 9780856464133
Booksplease Price: £13.78This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems... -
The Winter Orchards by Nina Bogin
Booksplease Price: £8.47Nina Bogin writes of her second collection that she has 'drawn together poems that deal with the personal - family, friendship, love and loss; poems about landscape and place; and, poems that try to... -
Autumn-born in Autumn: Selected Poems by Matthew Mead 9780856464003
Booksplease Price: £14.36Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s. By then he had, as Peter Riley noted, 'located a sense of poetry for which he drew widely from Anglo-American writing, avoiding any programmes... -
Merchant Prince by Thomas Mccarthy 9780856463754
Booksplease Price: £14.10In 'Merchant Prince' Thomas McCarthy presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. They tell the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his... -
Dancers in Daylight: Poems 1995-2002 by Anthony Howell 9780856463648
Booksplease Price: £10.52In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of... -
How Things Are On Thursday by Ros Barber 9780856463747
Booksplease Price: £10.12A striking performer of her own poems, Ros Barber has the gift of recreating her voice - and the voices of others - on the page. The poems in this debut collection demonstrate her wide range in form... -
Nabi by Josep Carner 9780856463303
Booksplease Price: £9.79Josep Carner's "Nabi" is a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem, though it is scathing about the effects of...