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Stanza Stones by Simon Armitage 9781907587306
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial... -
A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch 9781904634065
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDenton Welch was born on 29 March 1915 in Shanghai, the youngest of three brothers. Welch was sent back to... -
The Breaking Hour by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781910392096
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his... -
Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless by Sean Street 9781900564397
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $10.53In 1927, a writer in the "Radio Times" declared it unsurprising that poets should write about radio, 'for the new magic, which pours the music of the concert room into the stillness of the cottage... -
Family Values by Maureen Duffy 9781904634607
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $10.53These are tough poems, full of love and harm, good and damage, rage and compassion. They show us dealing well and also very badly with our kind and with the rest of the living planet. They are made... -
Selected Poems by U. A. Fanthorpe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36U. A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village... -
The Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood 9781907587535
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage... -
The Scenic Railway by Edward Upward 9781900564656
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.56The rediscovery of Edward Upward's work excited enthusiastic comment among reviewers and readers when in 1994 Enitharmon published "The Mortmere Stories", "An Unmentionable Man" and a revised version... -
Plan B by Paul Muldoon 9781904634829
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.82An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and... -
Graceline by Jane Duran 9781904634997
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56As a young girl, Jane Duran moved to Chile with her family, travelling from New York to Valparaiso on the Santa Barbara, one of the Grace Line fleet. This long journey, passing through the Panama... -
Environmental Studies by Maureen Duffy 9781907587283
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56Maureen Duffy's new collection centres on environments - human, insect and animal - some experienced personally, some observed, some imagined. Though strictly contemporary in her concerns, she... -
The Ancient Mariner David Jones 9781904634140
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904634140Author David JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Supreme Being Martha Kapos 9781904634621
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.41Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a... -
This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies by Jeremy Reed 9781904634430
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $11.52"This Is How You Disappear" is Jeremy Reed's most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life... -
Selected Poems by Frances Cornford 9781870612876
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870612876Author Frances CornfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint
Selected Poems by C. Day Lewis
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80In this welcome centenary edition of C. Day Lewis' poems, Jill Balcon has substantially extended her husband's own Penguin selections of 1951 and 1969, including not only his last collection "The...
Letters Against the Firmament by Sean Bonney
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910392157Author Sean BonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Rilke 9781907587221
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology,...
Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781904634188
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80A delightful anthology of poems sent by many contemporary writers as Christmas cards. From Advent to the New Year, these poems encompass the nativity, the natural world, weather and time's passing,...
Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage 9781904634584
Booksplease Price: $12.53The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World...
Pictures from an Exhibition by Maureen Duffy 9781910392249
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56"There were no pictures on the walls of the rented rooms my mother and I lived in when I was a child. But there were pictures on the school walls, details of exhibitions and the lives of great...
The Likeness by Martha Kapos 9781907587399
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36These new poems by Martha Kapos represent an act of reclamation or capture: an attempt to retrieve someone whose loss has been experienced through illness and finally death. Taking as an epigraph a...
Poetical Works 1999-2015 Keston Sutherland 9781907587900
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82Over the last 15 years Keston Sutherland has gained the reputation of being at the forefront of the experimental movement in contemporary British poetry. This book collects all of his work into a...
Pearl by Victor Watts 9781904634201
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55"Pearl" is one of the greatest English Medieval poems, a dream vision that is both a profoundly personal elegy for the dreamer's lost daughter and a subtle theological debate about the most difficult...
Daodejing by Lao zi 9781910392263
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56"so both thrive both discovering bliss-real power is female it rises from beneath" These 81 brief poems from the 5th century BCE make up a foundational text in world culture. In elegant, simple yet...
Selected Verse Translations by David Gascoyne 9781870612333
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $12.53This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his...
Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca 9781911253471
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.42Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet. Gypsy Ballads is therefore the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano...
Earth's Almanac Lucy Newlyn 9781910392102
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The poems in Earth's Almanac emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet's sister. Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of...
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.01David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not...
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac 9781904634003
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.33Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.' Jack Kerouac. Renowned for his...
Talking About Aldo by Jim Dine 9781904634690
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $22.39Jim Dine's vivid, candid and detailed reminiscences about his friendship and working relationship with Aldo Crommelynck, the printer of Matisse and Picasso, over a period now of more than 30 years...
A Move in the Weather by Anthony Thwaite 9781900564588
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $9.54Anthony Thwaite's new collection is both moving and funny, elegiac and playful. The personal poems span a life-time as Thwaite relives moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying...
Disko Bay Nancy Campbell 9781910392188
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The poems in Nancy Campbell's first collection transport the reader to the frozen shores of Greenland. The Arctic has long been a place of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and...
The Exeter Book Riddles by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781904634461
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.33The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century "Exeter Book" are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal...
Collected Poems by Ruth Pitter 9781870612142
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $11.24This new volume gathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems, which in Kathleen Raine's judgement 'will survive as long as the English language, with whose expressiveness in image and idea she...
Scattered Light by Jeremy Hooker 9781910392089
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56Here scattered light falls across landscapes and memories. These new poems are among Jeremy Hooker's finest, extending his thinking about powerful crosscurrents that constitute the 'sacred', and...
Selected Poems and Letters by Isaac Rosenberg 9781900564892
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $13.56'Death could drop from the dark as easily as song - But song only dropped, Like a blind man's dreams on the sand, By dangerous tides, Like a girl's dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there, Or her...
Voodoo Excess by Jeremy Reed 9781907587504
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56In "Voodoo Excess," Jeremy Reed charts in poetry and prose the astonishing career of the Rolling Stones from the band s early days in 1962 to the 50th anniversary tour in 2012 and its extension in...
Clavics by Geoffrey Hill 9781907587726
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56'Over 32 poems Geoffrey Hill traces an elegiac sequence for William Lawes and his music, intermingling the historical events around his death with flashes of the everyday. The result is a collection...