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Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and... -
Cathures by Edwin Morgan 9781857546170
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other... -
Play of Gilgamesh by Edwin Morgan 9781857548419
Booksplease Price: £13.13Edwin Morgan's verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense... -
The Poetry of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigal
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841157Author James McGonigalFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
Collected Poems Edwin Morgan 9781857541885
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67To catch "in full sight" is Edwin Morgan's ambition. That fullness he achieves in lyric epiphanies, in the cumulative focuses and refocuses of sequences, in the reification of words in concrete... -
Three Scottish Poets Edwin Morgan 9780862414009
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
The International Companion to Edwin Morgan by Alan Riach
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980144Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus by Edwin Morgan
Booksplease Price: £19.85Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time. A declaration of love from his closest... -
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan 9781857545883
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.91This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty,... -
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Three Scottish Poets by Edwin Morgan 9780862414009 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £2.68MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan's Writing by Monika Kocot 9783631671405
RRP: £55.55Booksplease Price: £49.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry Edwin Morgan 9781836391968
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland's foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless... -
Edwin Morgan's Cyrano de Bergerac: (Scotnotes Study Guides) John Corbett 9781906841447
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.73Edwin Morgan's brilliant Glasgow-based Scots translation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the most successful productions in modern Scottish theatre. Fresh, clever and dynamic,... -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers... -
Anamnesis by Iona Lee 9781846976322
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining... -
Fetch by Colin Bramwell 9781916751699
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £11.60In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder's fate. Your fetch 'fetches' you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise. Bramwell's... -
Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades... -
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781857540284
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The Communicado Theatre's production of this verse rendering won the Edinburgh Fringe First award at the 1992 Festival, and has gone on to tour Scotland and England in 1992-3. Edwin Morgan provides... -
All the Prayers in the House Miriam Nash 9781780373621
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid, West Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevenson's family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first... -
The Wallace Muse: Poems and Artworks Inspired by the Life and Legend of William Wallace by Lesley Duncan 9781905222292
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06The Wallace Muse is an anthology of poem and song inspired by William Wallace - one of Scotland's greatest heroes - composed by some of Scotland's greatest writers. Robert Burns, William Wordsworth,... -
Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me... -
In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search... -
Greengown: New and Selected Poems by David Kinloch 9781800172791
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared,... -
The Wilderness Party A.B. Jackson 9781780372600
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38With its flighty parables and skewed morality tales, The Wilderness Party is an unforgettable record of turbulent times. These are poems of finely-wrought musicality, bristling energy and playful... -
Fower Pessoas Fernando Pessoa 9781800174641
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation, prize-winning Scottish poet.About the AuthorFernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was... -
Remedy is None by William McIlvanney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment... -
This changes things by Claire Askew
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women... -
But N Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew Fitt 9781912147502
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67With strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger. The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The... -
The Stone Age Jen Hadfield 9781529037340
Booksplease Price: £20.01Winner of the 2021 Highland Book PrizeJen Hadfield's new collection is an astonished beholding of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, a tale of hard-won speech, and the balm of the silence it... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £8.84The 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... -
Bevel by William Letford 9781847771926
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95"Bevel" is William Letford's first book, but his poems have already earned him a large following thanks to his brilliant performances and through Carcanet's "New Poetries V" anthology. Letford makes... -
Me and Ma Gal by Des Dillon
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45A story of boyhood friendship and irrepressible vitality told with the speed of trains and the understanding of the awkwardness, significance and fragility of that time. This is a day in the life of... -
Wi the Haill Voice by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Booksplease Price: £12.02Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan's versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five... -
Byssus by Jen Hadfield 9781447241102
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced 'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which... -
City Of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32In this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation... -
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology by Dennis Wilson Wise 9781683933298
Booksplease Price: £54.58If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781906817527
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
In My Father's House David Kinloch 9781857547665
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59A quick-tempered grandmother is singing; The Mikado is performed in an African village: David Kinloch explores his relationship with his father in unexpected and affectionate terms. An extended... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781910021446
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
Rome the Sorceress: La Sorcière de Rome by Andre Frenaud 9781852243180
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76First known for his war-time poems written from a German labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the Magi - Andre Frenaud (1907-1993) is one of the most searching of French poets...