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The Insomnia Poems by Grace Nichols
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38In The Insomnia Poems Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind... -
A Knowable World Sarah Wardle 9781852248192
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14"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... -
Countdown Carole Satyamurti 9781852249120
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76The central theme of Carole Satyamurti's new collection is the shifting relationship between loss and gain. It explores the varied ways in which that relationship is played out in day-to-day... -
Inside the Wave Helen Dunmore 9781780373584
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human... -
Bedtime Clare Pollard 9781852245931
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.52Clare Pollard wrote her first book The Heavy-Petting Zoo while still at school. Its sequel is Bedtime: a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy... -
Ground Water Matthew Hollis 9781852246570
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In this sparkling debut, Matthew Hollis immerses us in the undercurrents of our lives. Love and loss are buoyed by a house full of milk, an orchard underwater, the laws of walking on water... -
We Have Come Through: 100 Poems Celebrating Courage in Overcoming Depression and Trauma by Peter Forbes
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Poetry has always been bound up with ideas of endurance, redemption, consolation, and survival, and it is one of the best antidotes to depression. We Have Come Through brings together 100 poems... -
Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women's relationship to their bodies Raving Beauties 9781780371559
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Raving Beauties women's theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and... -
The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism Selima Hill 9781780371030
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism brings together three seemingly unrelated poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The poems in each spark off unexpected... -
Incarnation by Clare Pollard
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38The poems in Clare Pollard's fifth collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around pregnancy, describing the pain of... -
Then Come Back: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 9781780373607
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and... -
Censored Poems by Marin Sorescu
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Romania's comic genius Marin Sorescu was so popular during the worst of the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums, and his books sold hundreds of thousands of copies... -
Track by Annemarie Austin
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Annemarie 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... -
The Living Option: Selected Poems by Karen Solie
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Karen Solie won the Canadian Griffin Prize with only her third collection, Pigeon, in 2010, and has quickly established herself as one of the most distinctive and unsettling voices in Canadian... -
People Who Like Meatballs Selima Hill 9781852249458
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38"People Who Like Meatballs" brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The title-sequence, "People Who Like... -
Horse Music Matthew Sweeney 9781852249670
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he hits in "Horse Music" are lyrical and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting... -
Perfect Blemish Menna Elfyn 9781852247799
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of... -
Prague with Fingers of Rain: Selected Poems Vitezslav Nezval 9781852248161
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. "Prague with Fingers of Rain" is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life -... -
Collected Poems Frances Horovitz 9781852249250
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Frances Horovitz's poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating... -
The Sun of Hereafter * Ebb of the Senses Ana Blandiana 9781780373843
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Ana 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... -
Collected Poems: with translations of Jacques Prevert by A. S. J. Tessimond
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £6.85A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) was one of the most individual, versatile and approachable voices in 20th century poetry. Influenced at first by the Imagists, his poetry is remarkable for its lucidity... -
Homesick for the Earth Jules Supervielle 9781852249205
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.71Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay,... -
Waiting for Bluebeard by Helen Ivory
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Waiting 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... -
Storms Will Tell Janet Frame 9781852247898
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An... -
Dirty Looks Cheryl Follon 9781852248659
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14In "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... -
Eliza's Babes: Four Centuries of Women Poets by Robyn Bolam
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £6.93This comprehensive anthology celebrates four centuries of women's poetry, covering over 100 poets from a wide range of social backgrounds across the English-speaking world. Familiar names - Anne... -
The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue Louis de Paor 9781780371092
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. At that time he didn't want his poetry to be... -
Pleased to See Me: 69 Very Sexy Poems Neil Astley 9781852246143
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.88'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?' Mae West's racy wisecrack could have been aimed at this book, which is packed with 69 high-calibre, sharp-shooting poems. Pleased to... -
Jinx Abigail Parry 9781780372341
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jinx: A ruinous charm, a quickdraw curse, a knight's move. Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues... -
Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems John Agard 9781852248239
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. "Alternative Anthem" is a live album of... -
Silent Letters of the Alphabet: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Ruth Padel
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38In 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... -
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.95French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures... -
The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems Attila Jozsef 9781852245030
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Attila Jozsef is Hungary's greatest modern poet. His extraordinary poetry is exhilarating in its power, transcending the scars of a difficult life. Born into poverty in 1905, deserted by his father... -
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. ... -
Complete Poems Karin Boye 9781852241094
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Karin Boye is Sweden's greatest woman poet. Born in 1900, she was a poet of ideas, and wrote a powerful prophetic novel, Kallocain. Her involvement in the radical literary and artistic movement... -
One Crimson Thread by Micheal O'Siadhail
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Brid, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These love poems chronicle the last two years of her life, her death and his grief. In Love Life, now... -
Leabhar na hAthghabhala: Poems of Repossession by Louis de Paor
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire... -
What Narcissism Means to Me Tony Hoagland 9781852246891
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He was American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming... -
Carnac by Eugene Guillevic 9781852243937
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64One of France's most important modern poets, Eugene Guillevic (1907-97) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his...