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Complete Poems by George Seferis 9781784106676
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.82George 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, Stories and Writings by Margaret Tait 9781800173798
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Margaret 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... -
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman 9781784108946
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62The 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... -
A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson 9781784106553
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Rebecca 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Jane 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... -
Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis 9781784106140
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Jenny 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... -
Beowulf by Chris McCully 9781784106225
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Any 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... -
Parallel Movement of the Hands: six unfinished longer works by John Ashbery by John Ashbery 9781800170933
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25Parallel 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. ... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
Booksplease Price: $29.15The 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... -
Selected Poems by Austin Clarke 9781800175570
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62A new selection of work by Austin Clarke, one of the most significant poets of twentieth century Ireland, edited by the Irish poet John McAuliffe.Book InformationISBN 9781800175570Author Austin... -
New Selected Poems by Christina Rossetti
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Since 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... -
In the Same Light: Poems For Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty by Wong May 9781800172128
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.21Winner 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62In 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,... -
Bride of Ice: Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Marina 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... -
Dictator by Philip Terry 9781784106188
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Dictator 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... -
Poems and Satires by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9781800171671
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Edna 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... -
Selected Poems by Donald Davie
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76This 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... -
Switch: The Complete Catullus by Isobel Williams 9781800173392
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25During 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... -
Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden 9781784106874
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25To 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... -
100 Poems by Umberto Saba 9781800171930
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Umberto 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... -
Swimming Chenango Lake: Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62William 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... -
The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang 9781800173378
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25A 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... -
Fower Pessoas Fernando Pessoa 9781800174641
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76A 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... -
The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62This 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... -
Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs 9781784106478
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84C.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... -
Sea-Fever: Selected Poems by John Masefield 9781800173743
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'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... -
Selected Poems and Essays Alice Meynell 9781800175013
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25'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... -
Collected Prose Paul Celan 9781800175402
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Paul 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 ... -
Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Growing 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... -
Dante's Inferno Lorna Goodison 9781800174665
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25This 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... -
The Owner of the Sea: Three Inuit Sequences Retold by Richard Price 9781800171176
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76A The Scotsman Book of the Year 2021. In re-telling the Inuit stories included here, Richard Price opens out remarkable northern vistas and unfamiliar narratives, strange gods and unforgettable... -
Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry by Chris Beckett 9781784109479
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.89Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful... -
A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems Lynette Roberts 9781800175051
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.23'Between now and then, I will offer youA fist full of rock cress fresh from the bankThe valley tips of garlic red with dewCooler than shallots, a breath you can swankIn the village when you come. At... -
Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel 9781800172203
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76'Borel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no... -
Shadow and Refrain by Alex Wong
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Alex Wong's first collection, Poems Without Irony (2016), was a book that took nothing for granted, that broke through to the particularity of things and experiences, distrusting and defying...