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The Donkey's Ears by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60A wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey's Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of... -
Elegies by Douglas Dunn 9780571134694
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March 1981.About the AuthorDouglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire... -
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.21During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English... -
The Bagpiping People: Selected Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780993591310
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1985 and Somerset Maugham Award 1969.Book InformationISBN... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $16.09From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas... -
Old World by Robert Crawford 9781787334564
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $12.23Traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot'For intellectual range, emotional... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.66A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave 9780192542021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.82Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language is a national institution and probably the most famous poetry anthology ever compiled. This new edition,... -
The Action by Roger Garfitt 9781784107710
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Elegy turns into affirmation, `binding the pulse / back into the body', in this new collection by Eric Gregory Award-winning poet Roger Garfitt. Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to... -
New Collected Poems by W. S. Graham
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' Harold Pinter. From his first... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780571207695
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
The Poems of Norman MacCaig by Norman MacCaig 9781846971365
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.10This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his... -
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.29Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Nine Lessons From The Dark by Adam Thorpe 9780224063852
RRP: $11.61Booksplease Price: $8.82Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces... -
Collected Poems by Peter Redgrove 9780224090278
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.70Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this Collected Poems reveals, one of the finest. A friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many... -
All Under One Roof: Poems by Evelyn Schlag 9781784102241
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Summer 2018. The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose 2004 Selected Poems received the coveted Schlegel Tieck Prize, returns with... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown 9781846974809
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to... -
A Smell Of Fish by Matthew Sweeney 9780224060677
RRP: $10.32Booksplease Price: $7.97The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea... -
Continued by Piotr Sommer 9781852247027
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.72Piotr Sommer is one of Poland's leading poets. Continued extends and enlarges the achievement of his earlier Bloodaxe selection, Things to Translate, and spans his whole career to date. The... -
The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems Stewart Conn 9781852249984
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of... -
Not on the Side of the Gods by Anna Crowe 9781911469919
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.55"Crowe knows just how much to give and how much to hold back, offering fleeting glances and sometimes strange images... These are sinewy, questing poems, alive with memory and attentive to the... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $14.13This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $7.92Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
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Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $2.44Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
Bad Machine by George Szirtes 9781852249571
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52The body is the 'bad machine' of George Szirtes' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly father and of his younger friend, the poet Michael Murphy, remind him how machines - sources of... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness... -
Mapping the Delta by George Szirtes
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.15The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to... -
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Strong Words by W. N. Herbert 9781852245153 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.48Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to...