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Selected Poems David Harsent by David Harsent
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from A Violent County in 1969, to Legion, winner of the Forward Prize in 2005. This selection, made by the author... -
Night by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion, is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It sets the tone... -
Legion by David Harsent
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked... -
Loss by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The city never sleeps silence would weaken itwhen all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum ofmachinery dark undertone.It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come.A man sits at a window... -
Marriage by David Harsent 9780571212514
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model, who was also his wife. It is a rich pattern for the study of... -
Fire Songs by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Winner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry'A writer we should treasure.' Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph'With every book [Harsent's] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable... -
Skin by David Harsent 9780571382569
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Skin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull... -
Salt by David Harsent 9780571337866
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Salt is a distinctive assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent. Resting somewhere between fragment and exposition, these intense and primal pieces stretch out across the measure of... -
The Wound by David Harsent 9781915968111
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66‘Versions of a great poet’s work by another great poet provide fascinating examples of exchange, cross-over, transposition, modulation, sensitive homage and daring challenge. In Harsent’s Cavafy,... -
A Bird's Idea of Flight by David Harsent
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Bird's Idea of Flight describes a circular journey in a sequence of 25 poems. Twelve poems chart the outward journey, the thirteenth is pivotal, and twelve poems bring the traveler back. The... -
Of Certain Angels by David Harsent 9780993331176
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66A new sequence of startling, haunting poems by award-winning poet David Harsent. These are no guardian angels. They are dangerous, feral. They arrive uninvited, unrefusable and each visceral... -
A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos David Harsent 9781780376493
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least,... -
On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration Dr. Hannah Crawforth 9781350531505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41'These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that... -
Poems and Readings for Funerals by Julia Watson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Words of sadness and loss, comfort and consolationSummoning the words to express our feelings of loss for a loved one in the days following a death can feel almost impossible. And often the choice of... -
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Poems and Readings for Funerals by Julia Watson 9780141014968 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.10Words of sadness and loss, comfort and consolationSummoning the words to express our feelings of loss for a loved one in the days following a death can feel almost impossible. And often the choice of... -
Poems and Readings for Weddings by Julia Watson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Words of joy, love, devotion and celebrationDeciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or your loved one's life can be overwhelming.Poems and Readings for... -
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780198704478
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war,... -
The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life by Andre Naffis-Sahely 9780141984933
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . ... -
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war,... -
The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan 9781800173149
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023. A The Irish Times Book of the Year. In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud... -
Tiger Facing the Mist Pauline Stainer 9781852249540
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking - her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life... -
The Lady & the Hare: New & Selected Poems Pauline Stainer 9781852246327
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking... her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life... -
Fool by Greta Stoddart
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When knowledge is ours at the tap of a key, what is it we're accumulating, and is it at the expense of another, more intuitive, kind of knowing? The word 'fool' derives from the Latin follis, one... -
Hello. Your promise has been extracted Ahren Warner 9781780373782
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Hello. Your promise has been extracted is Ahren Warner's third collection of poems, a book in which the lyric runs in parallel with a series of photographs made by the author across Europe. From... -
Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham 9780571386987
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32One of the Financial Times' 'Best Summer Books of 2024''Probably the most delightful and evocative book ever produced on the English pub.' Slightly Foxed'Wonderful . . . a detailed study of life in... -
High Desert Andre Naffis-Sahely 9781780376202
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire... -
Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece Julian Hoffman 9781783968664
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32* WINNER OF THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026 Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 'Quite magical... A book that will refresh your soul.' Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm ...