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Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry... -
Hoard Fleur Adcock 9781780373966
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include... -
Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock 9781780376837
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of... -
Fleur Adcock by Janet Wilson 9780746310403
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £14.24This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic... -
The Mermaid's Purse Fleur Adcock 9781780375700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign... -
Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of... -
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock 9781852249731
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods,... -
The Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the... -
Collected Poems Fleur Adcock 9781780376844
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of... -
Hugh Primas and the Archpoet by Fleur Adcock 9780521395830
Booksplease Price: £45.31Renowned poet Fleur Adcock here provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, Hugh Primas of Orleans and the so-called Archpoet,... -
Hugh Primas and the Archpoet by Fleur Adcock 9780521395465
Booksplease Price: £92.54Renowned poet Fleur Adcock here provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, Hugh Primas of Orleans and the so-called Archpoet,... -
The Virgin and the Nightingale: Mediaeval Latin Poems by Fleur Adcock 9780906427569
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Fleur Adcock's lively translation of this selection of medieval Latin lyrics was first published in 1983, revealing many poetic treasures hidden in for centuries in scholarly obscurity. The poems are... -
Poetry Book Society Winter 2017 Bulletin by Poetry Book Society 9781999858902
Booksplease Price: £10.55Featuring Sasha Dugdale Tim Dooley Paul Deaton Fleur Adcock Ahren Warner & more. The PBS Winter 2017 Bulletin marks the launch of a brand new, full-colour redesign, with extended reviews, more... -
Four Women Poets: Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Fleur Adcock by Judith Baxter 9780521485456
Booksplease Price: £13.76A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.A collection of literature anthologies and... -
Poems For Gardeners Germaine Greer 9780349018720
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Marianne Moore said that the poet's job was to depict 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them'. In truth, gardens are always imaginary because they are always the garden that you are aiming for... -
Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry by Alan Robinson 9780333464977
Booksplease Price: £46.74The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann,... -
Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry by Alan Robinson 9780333467695
Booksplease Price: £46.74The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann,... -
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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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Palgrave'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,... -
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing by Jane Eldridge Miller 9780415159814
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in... -
Poems of London by Various
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today.The pantheon of classic... -
Basil Bunting by Julian Stannard 9780746310069
Booksplease Price: £21.27Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was an extraordinary if sometimes neglected poet. His late-flowering masterpiece Briggflatts (1965) jettisoned him into the pantheon of twentieth century greats and reminded... -
She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women by Ana Sampson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A stunning gift book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. From suffragettes to school girls, from spoken word... -
The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities by Johanna Emeney
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.95In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspective of doctors, patients, and carers in light of the... -
An Unofficial Roy Fisher by Peter Robinson 9781848611207
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Published to coincide with the poet's eightieth birthday, An Unofficial Roy Fisher is a showcase for the work of this extraordinary contemporary British poet. It begins with graphic work by Ronald... -
London in Poetry and Prose by Anna Adams 9781900564038
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.86This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive,... -
PN Review 266 Michael Schmidt 9781800172852
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The July-August 2022 issue. Major autobiographical essay by Alberto Manguel. Fleur Adcock writes an elegy for her long-time editor. James Campbell takes us on a tour of the TLS and his... -
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.38There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled... -
Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story by Gerri Kimber
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £19.60The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always... -
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.95This 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... -
Storms Will Tell Janet Frame 9781852247898
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An... -
The Oxford Book of Garden Verse by John Dixon Hunt 9780192141965
Booksplease Price: £99.23There have been poems about gardens for as long as there have been gardens. Gardens have been all things to all men and women: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, of safety and danger, art and... -
Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Neil Astley 9781780373768
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings... -
The Edge of the Alphabet Janet Frame 9781804271186
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat,... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
London: A History in Verse by Mark Ford 9780674088047
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £27.18Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about...