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For the Scribe by David Wojahn
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.64For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of... -
Falling Hour, The by David Wojahn
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.44The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series... -
World Tree by David Wojahn
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.44World Tree is in many respects, David Wojahn's most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Ochre," which is accompanied by a haunting series of... -
Late Empire by David Wojahn
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.10This is Wojahn's fourth and most wide-ranging collection of poetry. In these poems, centred around two elegies for his parents, private and public history merge. They also treat an array of subjects... -
Icehouse Lights by David Wojahn 9780300028171
Booksplease Price: £16.96Winner of the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. "David Wojahn's poems concern themselves with emotive basics: leaving home, watching those we love age and die, the inescapable drone... -
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry by David Wojahn
Booksplease Price: £83.24David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the... -
Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 by David Wojahn 9780822959175
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.27Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn's six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work... -
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry by David Wojahn 9780472052509
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the... -
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees 9780803278097
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).About the AuthorDonald... -
The SALT HOUR: POEMS by J. P. White 9780252069567
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.31With this dazzling collection, J. P. White embarks on a windswept journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and... -
American Poetry Now by Ed Ochester
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £26.69American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary... -
Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History In Contemporary American Poetry by Kevin Stein 9780821411636
Booksplease Price: £42.17At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets... -
The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems by Stephen Dunn 9781324074663
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our... -
Poetic Acts & New Media by Tom O'Connor 9780761836308
Booksplease Price: £41.36Poetic Acts & New Media advances the fields of literary and new media studies by clarifying boundaries between competing genres and media through the creation of a new artistic genre, "media... -
Collected Poems Ellen Bryant Voigt 9781324076247
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.25In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence and meticulous observation of nature,... -
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 by Yusef Komunyakaa
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.32These songs run along dirt roads & highways, crisscross lonely seas & scale mountains, traverse skies & underworlds of neon honkytonk, Wherever blues dare to travel. Everyday Mojo Songs of... -
Natural Causes: Poems by Mark Cox 9780822958390
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.84Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts-both real and... -
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry by Jim Elledge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"Every lovesick summer has its song, And this one I pretended to despise. But if I were alone when it came on, I turned it up full-blast to sing along- A primal scream in croaky baritone, The notes... -
The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374536572
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95If I am not Ulysses, l am / his dear, ruthless half-brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks. And Ulysses (or his half-brother) is but one... -
Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.15In this meditative and incisive collection, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but... -
Slight Exaggeration: An Essay by Adam Zagajewski 9780374537517
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.02For Adam Zagajewski-one of Poland's great poets-the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical... -
The Best American Poetry 1995 by David Lehman 9780684801513
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise,... -
The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems by Stephen Dunn 9780393882254
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.66Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful... -
World Over Water: Poems by Robert Gibb by Robert Gibb 9781557288363
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In 1999, Robert Gibb published ""The Origins of Evening"", selected by Eavan Boland for W. W. Norton as that year's ""National Poetry Series"" selection. Nearly five years later, he published ""The... -
Tongue & Groove by Stephen Cramer 9780252074738
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.92Inspired and informed by the music and urban landscape of New York City, Tongue & Groove employs jazzy and descriptive language in a sweep of city-life experiences and memories. A passionate... -
Against Sunset: Poems by Stanley Plumly 9780393253948
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.55Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate... -
Pagan Virtues: Poems by Stephen Dunn 9781324002314
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In this meditative and incisive collection, Stephen Dunn draws on themes of morality and mortality to explore the innermost machinations of human nature. Shifting in tone but never wavering in their... -
The Floating Bridge: Prose Poems by David Shumate
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.00The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves... -
Breakfast with the Scavengers Ben Rhys Palmer 9781917140560
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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... -
Muse: Poems by Susan Aizenberg by Susan Aizenberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and ""ordinary"" people, in an... -
All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays by Robert Vivian 9781496220332
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.62All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took... -
Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age by 9780472050994
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.27"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and 'lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary... -
Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science by Joshua Poteat 9780820334141
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.08In this book-length series, poems with titles such as "Illustrating the theory of interference" and "Illustrating the construction of railroads" are paired with nineteenth-century engravings... -
Central Air: Poems by Mike Puican 9780810142077
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Set in the urban Chicago landscape, Central Air explores the human challenge of living with strong desires, limited knowledge, and no saving direction. The voices in this mix of elegies and soft... -
Falling Through the Music by Mark Halperin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In Falling Through the Music, his fifth major book of poetry, Mark Halperin gives us consolation, guidance, and companionship while delivering an accomplished meditation on the first real glimpses of... -
Selected Poems Thomas Lux 9781780371153
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects... -
A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke by William Barillas 9780804012317
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century. This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded... -
Nomenclatures of Invisibility by Mahtem Shiferraw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Through a personal, historical, and political lens, Mahtem Shiferraw attends to the collective experiences inherited through deeply-rooted ancestry, tracing patterns of movement and migration, sorrow... -
Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen 9781960145000
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied. Divided into four... -
Ice: Poems David Keplinger 9781639550166
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger's Ice indexes the findings from memory's slow melt-stories and faces we've forgotten, bones hidden in frost."I am asking...