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My Native Land A4: Patria Mia A4 Ana Blandiana 9781780371054
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Ana 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... -
Collected Poems Ken Smith 9781780374321
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.58Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry... -
My Voice by Sarah Maguire
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.53As this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you... -
Score! Sarah Wardle 9781852247065
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92Sarah 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,... -
Tails by Kona MacPhee
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92From cosmology to infidelity, gentle truth to the fiercest of fairytales, this first collection from Kona Macphee tells an outsider's story in a voice that sings with the music of language. As a coin... -
Jade Ladder W. N. Herbert 9781852248956
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15This anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the... -
New Selected Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9781780372501
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.93As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range... -
Tongulish Rita Ann Higgins 9781780373034
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Tongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical. And tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection. These are... -
Over the Moon by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions:... -
The Coming of the Little Green Man John Agard 9781780374185
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In The Coming of the Little Green Man,... -
Belongings David J. Constantine 9781780375205
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings,... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Basil 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... -
Glimpses by Brendan Kennelly
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a... -
The Zebra Stood in the Night Kerry Hardie 9781780371115
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Human life and the passage and rhythms of time and the seasons come together in The Zebra Stood in the Night, the seventh collection by one of Ireland's leading poets. Grounded in the natural world,... -
New & Selected Potatoes John Hegley 9781852249786
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent). Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated... -
Apparently Matthew Caley 9781852248635
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.72Every 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... -
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock 9781852249731
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $7.70Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods,... -
Rake Matthew Caley 9781780372815
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Throughout Rake, Matthew Caley's fifth collection, it can appear as if we are glimpsing into the oblique diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, one who is seeking his 'one true beloved' through... -
Slakki by Roy Fisher
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is... -
The Blue Den Stephanie Norgate 9781852249373
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.72"The Blue Den" is a book of lyrical, sensuous poems which builds on the achievement of Stephanie Norgate's debut collection "Hidden River", which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection... -
The Second Child Deborah Garrison 9781852247980
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92Deborah Garrison's "The Second Child" is a book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and more frightening than ever before. It explores many facets of motherhood - ambivalence,... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Ireland Is Changing Mother Rita Ann Higgins 9781852249052
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the... -
Omnesia (alternative text) W. N. Herbert 9781852249625
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Being Human Neil Astley 9781852248093
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.33Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is... -
The Hat by Selima Hill
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92Selima 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... -
La Jeune Parque Paul Valery 9781852243876
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery. He... -
A Two-Part Invention Elizabeth Garrett 9781852244620
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.12The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an... -
The Laurelude W. N. Herbert 9781852244644
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.72For nearly three hundred years Scotland and England were the Laurel and Hardy of nations. For nearly two hundred years The Prelude was a poem by Wordsworth. Something had to give. As Britain begins... -
I Speak for the Devil Imtiaz Dharker 9781852245696
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile,... -
Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994 Kathleen Jamie 9781852245863
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Kathleen Jamie is one of Britain's leading poets. Her work is intelligent and subtle, her language inventive and refreshing. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead is a selection from her early collections,... -
Strangely Happy Joan Margarit 9781852248932
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Joan 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... -
Moon Before Morning by W. S. Merwin
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern... -
Waking Dreams: New and Selected Poems Lawrence Sail 9781852248833
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four... -
Too Brave to Dream R. S. Thomas 9781780373072
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15When R.S. Thomas died in 2000, two seminal studies of modern art were found on his bookshelves - Herbert Read's Art Now (1933) and Surrealism (1936), edited by Read and containing essays by key... -
Beyond Sarah Wardle 9781780370972
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52The poems of Beyond take the reader back to the optimism Sarah Wardle found as a youth when she left home and became involved in the world. They show her venturing forth again, embracing life to find... -
Not All Honey Roddy Lumsden 9781780371122
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Two words, hope and doubt, dominate Not All Honey, the seventh full collection by Roddy Lumsden. These awkward cousins appear repeatedly as the poet 'fathoms the ingredient for happy' despite a... -
The Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52A 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... -
Moontide Niall Campbell 9781780371184
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of... -
Almanacs by Jen Hadfield
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot,...