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The Air Year by Caroline Bird
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Shortlisted 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... -
Red Ellen by Caroline Bird 9781839040665
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'A working-class woman inside the walls of Westminster? If that is not espionage, I do not know what is.' Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen... -
Watering Can Caroline Bird 9781847770882
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - 'a bit of a Howl for a new generation', wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can"... -
In These Days of Prohibition Caroline Bird 9781784104788
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark... -
Looking Through Letterboxes Caroline Bird 9781857545906
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Caroline Bird at first appears to be a traditional story-teller. But the stories she tells are suspended, charged with metaphor, and built upon foundations strangely familiar: fairy tale, fantasy and... -
Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird 9781800171862
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of... -
Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird 9781800174122
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Following "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... -
Hat-Stand Union by Caroline Bird 9781847771643
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Playful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets,... -
The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse Caroline Bird 9781839044915
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19'And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.' A wickedly funny new play that explores the enigma of Mary Whitehouse: pearl-clutching prude or 'the most dangerous woman in... -
Compact Guide to South Carolina Birds by Curtis Smalling 9789768200266
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768200266Author Curtis SmallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Attracting Birds in the Carolinas: Creating Bird-Friendly Habitats from the Mountains to the Coast by James F. Parnell 9781469662251
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $11.01Covering the Carolinas from up-country to the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, this book is an in-depth yet accessible primer on the many ways that Carolinians can attract birds--from large wildlife... -
Poems of the Decade 2011-2020: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011-2020 by Various Poets
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform,... -
Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon 9781784632854
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57Emma Simon's wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems - mysterious, mythic, magical - remain... -
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard 9781908058812
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains... -
Breakfast with the Scavengers Ben Rhys Palmer 9781917140560
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37A Welsh poet based in Mexico, his poems about Mexico capture the magic and vibrancy of a country Andre Breton once described as 'the mostsurrealist in the world.' Other poems pay homage to Welsh cult... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $11.86The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
Proud by Juno Dawson 9781788957021
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Celebrate the fifth anniversary of PROUD in this dazzling new edition of the anthology, featuring a brand-new story and artwork. A stirring, bold and... -
Oi You Lot by Kareem Parkins-Brown 9781913268640
RRP: $10.05Booksplease Price: $8.47'The sky belongs to everybody and everybody belongs to the sky. When the genie comes out, wish for late buses and missed trains, and beers on benches, because when someone is gone, they are... -
Absence by Ali Lewis 9781739440503
RRP: $14.74Booksplease Price: $10.75Absence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat-death of the universe to the ... -
The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century. by Rishi Dastidar 9781911027850
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54The Craft is an indispensable guide to both the 'how' and 'why' of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques... -
Nocturne Jodie Hollander 9781802078138
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.38Longlisted for Laurel Prize 2023. Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander's compelling second collection charts the emotional journey of... -
Girl by Rebecca Goss 9781784107239
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Shortlisted 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... -
New Poetries V: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt 9781847771315
Booksplease Price: $21.36For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird,... -
This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland 9781916760189
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99How do we maintain connection in challenging times? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland encounters the wild and untamed, the creatures of night - and the beasts that lurk within us. Here, the poems... -
After Sylvia by Ian Humphreys 9781913437565
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth... -
Proud by Various 9781788950602 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.39VISIONARY HONOURS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of... -
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus 9781908058522
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize *... -
The Book of Jonah by Luke Kennard 9781035069262
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Kennard's distinctive voice - surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating - has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets' - Tristram Fane... -
Later Life Letter: A Story of Family, Adoption and Love by Luke Wright 9780349725215
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Utterly direct . . . The poems are passionate yet controlled, simple in form and sparing of imagery' FINANCIAL TIMES'Luke wright and this time it's personal. But seriously, a highly original idea,...