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Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.84This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in... -
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott 9780374537579
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537579Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.51A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal... -
Omeros by Derek Walcott 9780374523503
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523503Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint -
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia,... -
The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520991Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint -
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott 9780571209125
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.77A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his... -
White Egrets: Poems by Derek Walcott 9780374532703
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532703Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Saint Lucian Writers and Writing: An Author Index: Published Works of Poetry, Prose, Drama by John Robert Lee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.01This "magnificent act of scholarship" is a comprehensive author index of poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction) and drama from the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It also includes... -
Beating A Restless Drum: The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott by June D. Bobb 9780865436008
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436008Author June D BobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENTIt... -
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English by Paula Burnett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At... -
Venice Hetty Meyric Hughes 9780907871682
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50An extraordinarily ecclectic selection of poetry evoked by 'La Serenissima', including poetry from Longfellow, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Pushkin, Rilke,... -
Savage Tales by Tara Bergin 9781800172319
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.44Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023. Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023. Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory,... -
The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900 by Michael Schmidt 9781529434156
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major... -
Bite In - 2 by X Grey 9780175663873
Booksplease Price: $18.01This graded course for teaching students to understand and enjoy poetry introduces students to the pleasures of reading and discussing poetry, through a varied anthology. The many poets of the... -
New Selected Poems by Les Murray 9781847771674
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.50New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les... -
Mother Muse by Lorna Goodison 9781800171060
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. 'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary... -
Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Sue Sinclair
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.09Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Third Prize (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for PoetrySue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical... -
Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems by Lorna Goodison 9781857548488
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Lorna Goodison's "Goldengrove" is a rich and varied selection of poems from "Travelling Mercies" (2001) and "Controlling the Silver" (2004), together with twenty new, previously unpublished, poems... -
Renewal by Irvin Desir 9781919165004
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.40Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir is published here for the first time. Often visionary, these poems contain such images as "fireflies heave... -
Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022. Awarded the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. ... -
Field Requiem by Sheri Benning 9781800171510
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. ... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Crow Gulch Douglas Walbourne-Gough 9781773101019
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ AwardFrom the author: I cannot let the story of... -
Border Lines: Poems of Migration by Mihaela Moscaliuc
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration.Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic by Catherine Bates
Booksplease Price: $40.01Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form... -
Selected Poems by Lorna Goodison 9780472064939
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23A selection of poems by Lorna Goodison, who in 2017 was named Poet Laureate of Jamaica.About the AuthorLorna Goodison was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She currently teaches at the University of... -
To a Fault by Nick Laird
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted... -
Selected Poems: 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book ReviewSelf-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century... -
Collected Poems by Lorna Goodison 9781784106386
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.82The Collected Poems (Second Impression) of Jamaica's Poet Laureate (2017-2020) and winner of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and... -
The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the Author and James Brasfield by Oleh Lysheha 9780916458904
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $14.02Oleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has... -
This is Yarrow by Tara Bergin 9781847772367
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17The poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray 9781857540055
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those... -
Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick 9781800173835
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024. 'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir') The lives depicted by... -
The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun 9781496234032
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.922024 Nebraska Book Award Winner 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry 2024 Midwest Book Award Finalist in Poetry 2023 Julie Suk Award Winner Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry... -
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by Les Murray 9781800171749
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99Australia's greatest and best-loved poet, Les Murray (1938-2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T.S. Eliot Award among many other... -
I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems by Miguel Hernandez
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a... -
On Purpose by Nick Laird
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first...