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Careful What You Wish for by Peter Sansom
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival - Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano... -
The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65A The Telegraph Book of the Year. Laura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and... -
The Historians by Eavan Boland
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020. An Irish Times Book of the... -
Gaudent Angeli by Mary O'Malley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world... -
Notes from the Dream House: Selected Film Reviews 1963-2013 by Philip French
Booksplease Price: €34.25Notes from the Dream House is a `best of' selection of reviews by the celebrated Observer film critic Philip French. Spanning half the history of cinema, his reviews cover a great variety of films,... -
Dear Pilgrims by John F. Deane
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06With `Crocus: a brief history', John F. Deane sets his Dear Pilgrims in motion, a series of brief histories of time, a time that is rich in incident and in redemption. In a decisively secular age,... -
Last Poems by Thomas Kinsella
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Last Poems brings together the poems from Thomas Kinsella's five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a selection of new poems, fragments and revised... -
In the Quaker Hotel by Helen Tookey
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room. The room is a holding zone, a temporary stopping-place between memory and possibility. In the Quaker Hotel is full of... -
Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In... -
Invisible Gift by David Morley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Over the past twenty-five years, the award-winning writer David Morley has become known as one of Britain's most original poets. Renowned for his energy and linguistic inventiveness, Morley is a... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Blackburn by Thomas Blackburn
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Thomas Blackburn was a haunted and difficult man. His childhood was tormented by an obsessive father (an Anglican priest of Mauritian descent) who scoured his face with peroxide to lighten his skin... -
Collected Poems: Anne Ridler by Anne Ridler
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80'The Observer' described Anne Ridler as 'one of the best poets of her generation.' Her first book, 'Poems', was published in 1939, and her work developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the... -
Selected Poems: Grevel Lindop by Grevel Lindop
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45'Transparently accomplished,' as John Kerrigan has written, 'his work displays the kind of internal "itinerary" which (in Mandelstam's language) is the mark of achieved poetry'. This book selects the... -
State of the Prisons by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices... -
Letters of Introduction: An A-z of Cultural Heroes and Legends Kevin Jackson 9781857546552
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €10.97In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay. Always inventive, scholarly and sometimes zany, Jackson approaches ten writers and two 'themes', building an alphabet... -
Through the Square Window by Sinead Morrissey 9781847770578
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead,... -
Parade's End: Pt. 1: Some Do Not ... a Novel by Ford Madox Ford 9781847770127
Booksplease Price: €25.28For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford's First World War masterpiece Parade's End are published in fully annotated editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each edition... -
The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems 1997-2008 Jorie Graham 9781847771940
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €13.77Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the full range of her five most recent books,... -
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck 9781847774798
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.48Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection 'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it, perhaps in it, / or it carried me as a river carries / a boat'. In Louise Gluck's new... -
A Village Life by Louise Gluck 9781847770592
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the... -
Winter Migrants: A Bird's Journey Over the Fells and a Coastal Meditation on Winter by Tom Pickard 9781784102647
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet's Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping... -
The The Anatolikon: Anatolikon AND To the City by John Ash 9781857545609
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03This book is two in one: "The Anatolikon", published in Great Britain for the first time, and a collection of new poems entitled "To the City". John Ash remains a savage wit, an elegist, a poet of... -
Parallax by Sinead Morrissey 9781847772046
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection In Parallax Sinead Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and... -
Discipline by Jane Yeh 9781784107079
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Recommendation. In Discipline, her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens... -
Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard 9781800172999
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45Oli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore / from boredom', as memory-personal,... -
Girl by Rebecca Goss 9781784107239
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Shortlisted for the 2019 East Anglian Book (Poetry) Award. In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and... -
Blotter by Oli Hazzard 9781784105303
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Oli Hazzard's Blotter consists of five sequences, each constructed using a different process. In `Graig Syfyrddin' notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches - the poet's former home - alternate with... -
The Catalan Poems by Pere Gimferrer 9781784107673
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020. Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His... -
Emporium by Ian Pindar 9781847770653
Booksplease Price: €16.65Emporium, Ian Pindar's first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on... -
Arguing with Malarchy by Carola Luther 9781847770936
Booksplease Price: €16.52Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices: tender, sinister or angry, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola... -
Between Two Windows by Oli Hazzard 9781847771391
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03In "Between Two Windows", his first book of poems, Oli Hazzard takes language out to stretch and flex and bend itself into new shapes. Into the formal straits of sestinas, sonnets and... -
Hotels Like Houses Sophie Hannah 9781857542523
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03This collection provides a range of romantic ironies. Sophie Hannah's poems move beyond satire to the heart of modern matter: loves, lusts, losses, and the foibles of contemporary life.Book... -
Selected Poems: Robert Minhinnick by Robert Minhinnick 9781857543834
Booksplease Price: €16.18This text draws on six previous collections published between 1978 and 1994. The earlier poems are diverse, ranging from descriptions of work in heavy industry to observations of wildlife around the... -
Point of Sale by Peter Sansom 9781857544848
Booksplease Price: €12.61Peter Sansom was the Marks and Spencer Poet in Residence during 1999. This collection includes his poetic "diary" of that year, alongside a range of poems which cover the spectrum of family... -
Thumb's Width by John Redmond 9781857545098
Booksplease Price: €11.27The title of "Thumb's Width", from the German "Daumenbreite" (roughly equivalent to an inch), indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two... -
Eyes to See Otherwise by Homero Aridjis 9781857545432
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.39"Eyes To See Otherwise" is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest... -
Nameless Earth by Robert Gray 9781857548389
Booksplease Price: €16.61Believing, as Ezra Pound did, that real emotion is all that endures, Robert Gray has avoided 'magic realism', whismy, irony and mannered tone in his poetry. Instead, his style is classically direct,... -
Talking to the Dead by Elaine Feinstein 9781857549027
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €9.03Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much loved husband - sometimes... -
The Illustrious House of Ramires Eca de Queiros 9780856359682
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €26.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856359682Author Eca de QueirosFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Carcanet Press LtdPublisher... -
Metamorphoses: Essays by Charles Tomlinson 9781857545869
Booksplease Price: €19.75Emerging from the practice, art, and magic of translation, this essay collection concerns itself with the way certain fables of metamorphosis have captured the poetic imagination and how...