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Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024. Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize... -
The Magic of What's There by David Morley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to... -
On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.28This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at... -
Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo
Booksplease Price: £20.99Shortlisted for The Premio Valle Inclan Award for Spanish Translation 2020. In his poems Dario Jaramillo relentlessly interrogates time, ecstatically celebrates life lived, and mourns its... -
The Threadbare Coat: Selected Poems by Thomas A. Clark
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland's most distinctive... -
In Darkest Capital: Collected Poems by Drew Milne
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.29In Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milne's poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, `Blueprints & Ziggurats' and `Lichens for Marxists'. A Scottish poet working out of the... -
No Tear is Commonplace by Stanley Moss
Booksplease Price: £11.79The poems collected in No Tear is Commonplace stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death. Stanley Moss's range is... -
Point No Point: Selected Poems by Sujata Bhatt
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning Brunizem, appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to... -
Five Fields by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time... -
Adulterer's Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation by Bobi Jones
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57The Adulterer's Tongue casts a brilliant light on the world of Welsh-language poetry. Poetry has been written in Welsh for over fifteen hundred years: an ancient literature, it is also a vibrant part... -
Playing with Fire by Grevel Lindop
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Eavan Boland has praised Grevel Lindop's 'lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes - as few poets do - the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with... -
Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Louise Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortals. To read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's... -
Averno by Louise Gluck 9781857548372
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection,... -
Palace of Oblivion by Peter Davidson 9781857549263
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.71Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the... -
New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology by Kei Miller 9781857549416
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60There is a greeting used in urban America, 'What's good?', which seems to go beyond a mere 'How are you?' or 'What's happening?' to demand an optimistic response. Perhaps, writes the young Jamaican... -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky,... -
Selected Poems: Andrew Young by Andrew Young 9781857543926
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62First selection of Andrew Young's best-known short poems and the long mystical poem Into Hades. The volume is illustrated by Joan Hassalal's powerful wood-engravings.Book InformationISBN... -
Rough Music by Fiona Sampson 9781847770455
Booksplease Price: £12.33'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore... -
Latch by Rebecca Goss 9781800173217
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year. Rebecca Goss' fourth and most ambitious collection, Latch, is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and... -
From From by Monica Youn 9781800173644
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2023. Monica Youn's first UK collection is her fourth and most ambitious book. It... -
Play of Gilgamesh by Edwin Morgan 9781857548419
Booksplease Price: £13.13Edwin Morgan's verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense... -
Breezeway by John Ashbery 9781784101152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The poems in Breezeway move lightly between the everyday world, with its pleasures and absurdities, and the worlds of literature and art, with theirs. John Ashbery's poems are haunting, surprising,... -
All Under One Roof: Poems by Evelyn Schlag 9781784102241
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Summer 2018. The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose 2004 Selected Poems received the coveted Schlegel Tieck Prize, returns with... -
Heroines from Abroad by Christine Marendon 9781784106300
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shortlisted for The 2019 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Heroines from Abroad introduces a vibrant new voice to the English language. Christine Marendon's enigmatic, meditative poems,... -
The Best of Poetry London: Poetry and Prose 1988-2013 by Tim Dooley 9781847772497
Booksplease Price: £17.76From modest beginnings in 1988, Poetry London has developed into one of the UK's leading poetry magazines, including the latest work from across the UK and Ireland, but also from Europe, America and... -
1829 by Alison Brackenbury 9781857541229
Booksplease Price: £10.65A collection of poems set in three continents - Asia, Africa and Europe - evoking the peopled landscapes. Music is a central feature in the poems, which travel in time and space. The poems are also... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca 9781857544510
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76The "Canzoniere" is among Europe's most influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are... -
Wordsworth's Poets by Duncan Wu 9781857546392
Booksplease Price: £14.01A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows... -
Emeritus by Brian Cox 9781857545449
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.57The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed... -
Selected Poems: Evelyn Schlag Evelyn Schlag 9781857546521
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57The prize-winning Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag has one of the most distinctive and subtle voices in contemporary German-language writing. Among her most recent poems are the Summer... -
Star City: Including the Coalville Divan and Excellent Men by John Gallas 9781857547436
Booksplease Price: £14.23John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives... -
Anti-basilisk by Christopher Middleton 9781857547894
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60In The Anti-Basilisk Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write The Masque of Anarchy, reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she... -
King Driftwood by Robert Minhinnick 9781857549652
Booksplease Price: £14.30The poems in Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick's latest collection were written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the current situation in the Middle East. King Driftwood draws upon the... -
Third Day: New and Selected Poems by Grey Gowrie 9781857549669
Booksplease Price: £13.13"Third Day" is a selection from the poems Grey Gowrie has written between 1958 and the present day. At the centre of the book is the sequence "The Domino Hymn: Poems from Harefield", first published... -
Selected Poems by Kenneth Koch 9780856359163
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856359163Author Kenneth KochFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher... -
In Mortal Memory by Andrew McNeillie 9781847770844
Booksplease Price: £12.38"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is 'all becoming' McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss... -
Runaway by Jorie Graham 9781784109950
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Book Prize for Ecological Writing 2021. A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her... -
Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders 9781800173255
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before... -
Selected Poems: Chris McCully by Chris McCully 9781847770189
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Chris McCully's Selected Poems includes work from 1993 to 2009, a representative selection which reveals his engagement with the precise crafts of language and poetic form. The book opens with the...