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The Silvering Maura Dooley 9781780370941
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry... -
A Story I Am In: Selected Poems James Berry 9781852249175
RRP: $20.81Booksplease Price: $15.20"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave... -
Another Country by Jane Griffiths
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Jane 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... -
Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand Helen Farish 9781852249410
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84'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... -
Centres of Cataclysm: celebrating 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation Sasha Dugdale 9781780372648
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $20.52Centres 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... -
Concentric Circles Yang Lian 9781852247034
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world... -
From the Word Go Nick Drake 9781852247140
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67Nick Drake's "From the Word Go" explores the different meanings and implications which are tightly packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.95Pablo 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,... -
Everything Begins Elsewhere Tishani Doshi 9781852249366
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24In 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... -
Selected Poems Muriel Rukeyser 9781852249908
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42The poetry of Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological... -
Chan Hannah Lowe 9781780372839
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Chan 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: $28.50Booksplease Price: $20.52In 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... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.16Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the... -
What Long Miles by Kona MacPhee
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84Kona 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... -
Days of Grace: Selected Poems Doris Kareva 9781780371597
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42Doris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado. Her achievement, according to Estonian Literature, is in... -
Insistence Ailbhe Darcy 9781780370781
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is... -
Collected Poems C. K. Williams 9781852247539
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.60C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life... -
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Later by Philip Gross 9781852249793 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $7.52Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee... -
How to Disappear by Amanda Dalton 9781852245009
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $15.58How to Disappear shines a torch into the dark corners and finds a world inhabited by the missing and the dead, by monsters and wounded beasts, discarded dreams and the memories of strangers - a trawl... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater 9781852244897
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this... -
Meanwhile, Trees by Mark Waldron 9781780372969
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02These poems may sometimes pretend they're joking but they never really are. And what is it they're not joking about? Death for one thing, and the fact that we don't actually know who we are, and the... -
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The Book of Cats by George MacBeth 9781852241636 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $3.34With work by 150 writers and artists, The Book of Cats is the most comprehensive cat anthology published. It is extravagantly illustrated with over a hundred pictures, 16 in full colour. The Book... -
My Native Land A4: Patria Mia A4 Ana Blandiana 9781780371054
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before for the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the... -
Art of Scratching Shazea Quraishi 9781780372488
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator's notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi's poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi... -
A Knowable World Sarah Wardle 9781852248192
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67"A Knowable World" follows Sarah Wardle's detainment in a Central London psychiatric hospital for over a year for manic episodes of bipolar disorder. The poems chart the stresses of thirty-something... -
Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair: Poems on Ageing John Halliday 9781852249878
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Gathering poems from Shakespeare to the present, Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair addresses ageing through the several ages of poetry. Now more than ever, as more of us live for longer, the idea of... -
Score! Sarah Wardle 9781852247065
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67Sarah Wardle was poet-in-residence with Tottenham Hotspur FC when many of these poems were written. Her Score! is a winning commentary on contemporary culture, shooting at the heart of consciousness,... -
Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $20.52Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Basil Bunting was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger... -
Heavy Petting Zoo Clare Pollard 9781852244811
RRP: $13.21Booksplease Price: $10.49Clare Pollard wrote most of these poems while still at school in Bolton. Too young, perhaps, to expect anyone to take her seriously, but young enough to question that assumption and much else besides... -
Track by Annemarie Austin
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Track... -
Apparently Matthew Caley 9781852248635
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84Every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently" begins - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'. In conversation this word usually precedes a scurrilous piece of gossip or hearsay, allowing the... -
Stitching the Dark: New and Selected Poems Carole Satyamurti 9781852246921
RRP: $20.81Booksplease Price: $15.20Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on complex... -
The Dog of Memory by Helen Farish
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. 'What if everyone who ever lived here had left one thing behind?' she asks in one poem. The dog of memory, an animal more... -
The Sun of Hereafter * Ebb of the Senses Ana Blandiana 9781780373843
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the... -
The Hat by Selima Hill
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67Selima Hill's "The Hat" is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and... -
Strangely Happy Joan Margarit 9781852248932
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades became known for his mastery of the... -
Waiting for Bluebeard by Helen Ivory
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Waiting for Bluebeard tries to understand how a girl could grow up to be the woman living in Bluebeard's house. The story begins with a part-remembered, part-imagined childhood, where seances are... -
Dirty Looks Cheryl Follon 9781852248659
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67In "Dirty Looks", Cheryl Follon serves up a fiery gumbo of playful poems drawing on the shadowy side of love. The book presents a wild Rabelaisian carnival of poetry, stories and boisterous... -
The Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the...