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New Selected Poems by Christina Rossetti
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Since C.H. Sisson's ground-breaking Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1984), Christina Rossetti's readership has burgeoned. Almost a century ago Ford Madox Ford claimed her as 'the most valuable poet that... -
Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs 9781784106478
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs `a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability' - a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with... -
The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang 9781800173378
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41A Poetry Book Society Spring Special Commendation 2024. In the archives of the Houghton Library at Harvard blazes the incandescent work of V.R. 'Bunny' Lang (1924-56), the American poet and... -
Beowulf by Chris McCully 9781784106225
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams 9781800173613
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.84William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was... -
Sea-Fever: Selected Poems by John Masefield 9781800173743
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.40'Sea-Fever' remains one of the most popular poems of the last century, and John Masefield one of the most popular poets, a superb spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships, exotic seas, of the... -
In the Same Light: Poems For Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty by Wong May 9781800172128
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.83Winner of the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 2023. Shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry 2023 by the American Literary Translators Association. The Poetry Book Society... -
Conjurors: Poems Julian Orde 9781800174559
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80In Conjurors, a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917–74) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid-century,... -
Fower Pessoas Fernando Pessoa 9781800174641
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45A bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation, prize-winning Scottish poet.About the AuthorFernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was... -
Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 9781784106713
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a... -
Angular Desire: Selected Poems and Prose by Srinivas Rayaprol
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41Poetry Book Society Spring 2020 Special Commendation. A handful of writers defines the canon of postcolonial anglophone poetry in India. Srinivas Rayaprol has generally been omitted from the list,... -
Poems, Stories and Writings by Margaret Tait 9781800173798
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. 'In a documentary', she wrote, real things 'lose their reality... and there's no poetry in that. In... -
Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden 9781784106874
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden... -
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman 9781784108946
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80The young journalist and reformer Horace Traubel visited Whitman nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big issues, spiritual, political - all... -
100 Poems by Umberto Saba 9781800171930
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Umberto Saba (1883-1957) is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century, as closely associated with his native city Trieste as Joyce is with Dublin. He received a sparse education but was... -
New Selected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received... -
Selected Poems by Donald Davie
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended... -
Complete Poems by George Seferis 9781784106676
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86George Seferis's Complete Poems reissued as a Carcanet Classic. George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his... -
Poems and Satires by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9781800171671
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America... -
The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80This dual language edition is reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love... -
A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson 9781784106553
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.96Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a... -
Pearl by Jane Draycott 9781784106591
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on... -
Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry by Nelly Sachs 9781784105983
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.55The Jewish poet Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) writes in direct response to the Holocaust. She is uniquely a 'prophetic' poet, one of the greatest of that species in the twentieth century. Her first book... -
Parallel Movement of the Hands: six unfinished longer works by John Ashbery by John Ashbery 9781800170933
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library. ... -
Bride of Ice: Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century. With Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she retained her humanity and integrity through Russia's... -
Collected Poems: Volume II 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams 9781784108441
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.22William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume II reissued as a Carcanet Classic. After 1939, William Carlos Williams had embarked on the great original experiment that led to his magnificent,... -
Switch: The Complete Catullus by Isobel Williams 9781800173392
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari... -
Dictator by Philip Terry 9781784106188
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerriere. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the... -
Swimming Chenango Lake: Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: `He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words... -
Prose by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.91Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a... -
Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis 9781784106140
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.09Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women... -
Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader by Graham Greene 9781784109998
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.22Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives, as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
Booksplease Price: €17.55The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of... -
Collected Prose Paul Celan 9781800175402
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Paul Celan's Collected Prose reissued as a Carcanet Classic.About the AuthorPaul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Bukovina, a German enclave in Romania which was ... -
Centenary Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the... -
Selected Poems and Essays Alice Meynell 9781800175013
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41'A nightingale and loneliest of fire-fliesPalpitate in the darkness light and strain,Tho' thine own stars be stifled in soft skies,And thine own music mute, for any pain.'Alice Meynell was a major... -
Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Growing up on the Isle of Lewis, Iain Crichton Smith spoke only Gaelic until he was five. But at school in Bayble and then Stornoway, everything had to be in English. Like many islanders before and... -
The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems & Prose by C.P. Cavafy
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.83A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly... -
Dante's Inferno Lorna Goodison 9781800174665
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41This new Jamaican Dante is as much a transformation as it is translation, by one of the most celebrated Caribbean writers of our time and former Poet Laureate of Jamaica.About the AuthorLorna... -
Collected Poems by Anthony Burgess
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917-93) was an industrious writer. He published over fifty books, thousands of essays and numerous drafts and fragments survive. He predicted many of the struggles and...