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Vital Stream by Lucy Newlyn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. Vital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017... -
Art of Escape by Mina Gorji
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This... -
Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement... -
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February... -
Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and... -
Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote... -
Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for... -
Light Song of Light by Kei Miller
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as 'Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years...An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace'... -
Book of Disquietude by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98First published in 1982, this is the factless autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or heteronyms with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The... -
Odes: In Latin and English by Len Horace
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57Horace (65-8 BC) is the most beguiling of the great Latin poets. He has left an ineradicable mark on Western literature: Dante placed him alongside Homer and Virgil, and his works have been... -
One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"One Eye'd Leigh" is a book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words. They find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day... -
Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay "An Explanation of America" (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes... -
Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't... -
The Clinic, Memory: New and Selected Poems by Elaine Feinstein 9781784103200
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a... -
Apocalypse: An Anthology by James Keery 9781784108182
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan... -
Painting Rain by Paula Meehan 9781847770011
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"Painting Rain" explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey... -
Collected Poems: Adam Johnson by Adam Johnson 9781857546378
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm, and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he... -
Spirit Brides by Togara Muzanenhamo 9781857548525
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Togara Muzanenhamo's first collection of poems evokes a number of worlds, familiar and unfamiliar. He takes us from his vivid, vanished childhood in Zimbabwe to Europe, where he lived for some years,... -
Windmills in Flames: Old and New Poems by Tom Raworth 9781847770820
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Tom Raworth's Collected Poems (2003) was acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a milestone: thirty years' work by a major poet of English modernism gathered for the first time. Raworth moves... -
New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland by Eavan Boland 9781847772411
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work... -
Grimspound and Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham 9781784105907
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural... -
Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery 9781857542240
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60After John Ashberry's "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), this work provides an A-Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in... -
So Many Rooms by Laura Scott 9781784108496
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month August 2019. So Many Rooms, the debut... -
The House of the Interpreter by Lisa Kelly 9781800173125
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2023 BBC Poetry Extra's Book of the Month August 2023 This, Lisa Kelly's second collection, responds to the repression of British Sign Language (BSL)... -
Ventriloquise by Ned Denny 9781800173316
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62And deeper still than this, my eyes penetrate far into the earth as if it was an agate: foundations, dungeons, subterranean cities where thwarted joyance wages its atrocities... (from 'Dusk: An... -
Selected and New Poems by John F. Deane 9781800173590
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95John F. Deane opted for a Selected and New rather than the tombstone of a Collected to mark his eightieth year before heaven. He is still a living force, in physical and spiritual space: a Selected... -
Selected Poems by Dawson Jackson 9781857546156
Booksplease Price: £14.65This is a comprehensive selection of poetry written over seven decades. Dawson Jackson's style emphasises belief in a unity between inner and outer worlds, between subjective and objective, between... -
Rough Breathing: Selected Poems by Harry Gilonis 9781784103729
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95For over three decades Harry Gilonis's poetry has milled cheerfully in the literary avant-garde: Rough Breathing is the first substantial gathering of his poems. Most previously appeared in... -
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power 9781784105341
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors ... -
Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo 9781784105549
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea,... -
At the Brasserie Lipp by Michael Edwards 9781784107031
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences 'this in- / fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely present, spots of... -
In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller 9781784108458
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020. Longlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller... -
In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail 9781784108533
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card Selection At the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle' - a... -
Deceiving Wild Creatures by Jeremy Over 9781847770042
Booksplease Price: £14.01The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity of the... -
Human Pattern by Judith Wright 9781847770516
Booksplease Price: £17.12Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. As John Kinsella... -
An Ordinary Dog by Gregory Woods 9781847770783
Booksplease Price: £14.34An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision to bear sceptical witness to - what? As much to the touching ordinariness of human... -
Selected Poems: Elaine Feinstein by Elaine Feinstein 9781857540970
Booksplease Price: £17.22Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss,... -
Some Speculations on Literature, History and Religion by Robert Graves 9781857542820
Booksplease Price: £41.63This is a collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, on areas of culture which engaged him. They are organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and... -
Second Best Moments in Chinese History by Frank Kuppner 9781857543100
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"The 501 quatrains of Second Best Moments in Chinese History" make it seem at first like a repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung...