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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... -
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59French-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... -
Continued by Piotr Sommer 9781852247027
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84Piotr Sommer is one of Poland's leading poets. Continued extends and enlarges the achievement of his earlier Bloodaxe selection, Things to Translate, and spans his whole career to date. The... -
Remnants of Another Age Nikola Madzirov 9781852249892
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Macedonia's Nikola Madzirov is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan War refugees in Strumica in 1973, he grew up in the Soviet era in the former... -
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence by 9781780373058
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital. The only time she feels safe is when swimming; the only place, the sea,... -
Tugs in the Fog by Anna Crowe 9781852247515
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... -
Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Carol Rumens 9781852247607
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
The White Fire of Time by Ellen Hinsey 9781852246129
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67In this exquisite book-length sequence, Ellen Hinsey explores the boundary between poetry and metaphysics, and the intimate bonds between morality and mortality. A modern examination of the... -
De-iced by Susan Wicks
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67Susan Wicks' poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. These new poems are a departure for her, exploring the cracks in our experience - between... -
Collected Poems: 3: Poems 1997-2003 Peter Reading 9781852246259
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Peter 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... -
The Wreck of the Fathership W.N. Herbert 9781780375243
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.52Being appointed Dundee Makar (or City Laureate) implied that Bill Herbert might settle into middle age. He rented a ?at overlooking Broughty Ferry harbour to write about his home town in both its... -
Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry by Menna Elfyn
RRP: $36.01Booksplease Price: $26.79Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of... -
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses George Szirtes 9781852248802
RRP: $15.11Booksplease Price: $11.67In 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... -
Selected Poems Jaan Kaplinski 9781852248895
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament... -
The Junction: Selected Poems Tomas Venclova 9781852248109
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Lithuania'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: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Ann 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... -
Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems by Eva Salzman
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84Eva Salzman is a thoroughly modern, urban poet who writes with equal wit and precision about the natural - and unnatural world. In her sceptical, restless poems, irreverent muses and relentless twins... -
Home Front by Bryony Doran
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42Even in peacetime, many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas. As mothers or wives they live in a state of separation, from... -
Selected Poems Kerry Hardie 9781852248901
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Kerry Hardie is one of Ireland's leading poets. Her Selected Poems covers work written over two decades and draws on five collections. Her poetry questions, celebrates and challenges all aspects of... -
To Do Wid Me: Benjamin Zephaniah Filmed Live & Direct by Pamela Robertson-Pearce Benjamin Zephaniah 9781852249434
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $13.30Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid Me is both a Selected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce drawing on both live performances and informal... -
v. Tony Harrison 9780906427972
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.57Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he... -
I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems by Miguel Hernandez
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a... -
Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems Pia Tafdrup 9781852248376
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, the winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in...