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Stray Amanda Dalton 9781852248925
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76"Stray" is a book about strays - human and animal - and about straying. It's about the lost and being lost, searching for home, and it's about the extraordinary places we sometimes discover when... -
When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam 9781780371160
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity,... -
Off Duty by Katie Donovan
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems... -
Somewhere Else Entirely Ruth Fainlight 9781780374383
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her... -
A Story I Am In: Selected Poems James Berry 9781852249175
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00"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... -
Conquest Zoe Brigley 9781852249304
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Moving from the violent to the erotic, "Conquest" describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the... -
Ovid's Heroines Clare Pollard 9781852249762
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and... -
Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781852245887
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems Ruth Stone 9781852248413
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Ruth Stone once said, 'I decided very early on not to write like other people.' What Love Comes To shows the fruits of this resolve in the lifetime's work of a true American original. The winner of... -
Collected Poems: 3: Poems 1997-2003 Peter Reading 9781852246259
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Peter Reading was one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was disconcerting. Over four decades... -
Life for Us Choman Hardi 9781852246440
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan just before her family fled to Iran. She returned home at the age of five, but when she was 14 the Kurds were attacked with chemical weapons, and her family... -
Pretty Ahren Warner 9781852249779
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutece, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that flits between past and present and offers both adoration and horror in... -
The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems Stewart Conn 9781852249984
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of... -
Out of Range Nick Drake 9781780374284
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Nick Drake's fourth collection, Out of Range, explores the strange interconnections and confronting emergencies - the signs, wonders and alarms - of the early 21st century. Here are elegies for the... -
The Quick Lawrence Sail 9781780372556
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Lawrence Sail's new collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. He reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosm, looking for example at flowers, birds, the sea,... -
Dear Crane Susan Wicks 9781780375281
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its beam swinging freely, its red 'eye' seeming to overlook the lives on the other side of the glass. In her eighth collection of... -
Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14"Third Wish Wasted" is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns celebratory, humorous and beguiling, and there are... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to... -
Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998 by Philip Gross
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38From its opening page - a refugee's first sight of England - Changes of Address presents a journey through our times, a search for the meaning of 'home'. With its humour and deep honesty, its vivid... -
Each Happiness Ringed by Lions Jane Hirshfield 9781852246938
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language... -
From the Word Go Nick Drake 9781852247140
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Nick 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... -
Passionfood: 100 Love Poems Neil Astley 9781852248697
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Passionfood is a feast of classic and contemporary love poems. There are a hundred flavours in this four-course celebration of love, passion and desire. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley,... -
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass Harry Clifton 9781852249359
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's... -
Selected Poems Muriel Rukeyser 9781852249908
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The 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... -
New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 Robyn Bolam 9781852247782
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76The poems in "New Wings" focus on many different kinds of beginnings. Drawn both from new poems as well as from two earlier collections, the book gives a fresh airing to the poetry of a talented... -
One Evening in October I Rowed out on the Lake Tua Forsstroem 9781780371146
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking... -
The Mystical Rose Adelia Prado 9781780372402
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his... -
I'm Ok, I'm Pig! Kim Hyesoon 9781780371023
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature... -
The Junction: Selected Poems Tomas Venclova 9781852248109
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Lithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the... -
In Praise of Men and Other People Ann Sansom 9781852246334
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ann Sansom's poetry overturns the reader's expectations. Her poems often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions - what Stanley... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Being 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... -
Days of Grace: Selected Poems Doris Kareva 9781780371597
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Doris 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... -
Feral Kate Potts 9781780374161
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between 'animal' and 'human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training... -
Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems C. D. Wright 9781852247621
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her... -
Love is a Place by Joan Margarit
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but over the past four decades became known for his mastery of... -
Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery Jo Shapcott 9781852245566
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. When she died in 1979, she had only published four collections, yet had won virtually every major American literary award, including... -
The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New & Selected Poems Jack Mapanje 9781852246655
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The themes of his poetry range from the search for a... -
Split World: Poems 1990-2005 by Moniza Alvi
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious... -
Haywire: New & Selected Poems Luljeta Lleshanaku 9781852249137
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through... -
Deep Field Philip Gross 9781852249199
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76In his nineties Philip Gross's father, a wartime refugee, began to lose his several languages, first to deafness, then profound aphasia. Deeply thought as well as deeply felt, these poems reach into...