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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... -
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51This first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the... -
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his... -
Nine Lessons From The Dark by Adam Thorpe 9780224063852
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.17Adam 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... -
The Complete English Works by George Herbert 9781857152043
Booksplease Price: $17.47An entirely new edition of Herbert's collected poems with nots, chronology and introduction by the distinguised scholar Anne Pasternak Slater, this volume is designed to complement the editions of... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
The Master Builder and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen 9780141194592
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken -... -
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen... -
Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesWalking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's... -
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70Winner of the 2017 Griffin PrizeWinner of the 2016 Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot AwardShortlisted for the 2016 Forward PrizeA Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of... -
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020****SHORTLISTED... -
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent,... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a... -
Soft Keys by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780224090018
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05When Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making... -
Selected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241964842
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Tony 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... -
Here on Earth by Jeffrey Wainwright 9781800172753
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99We are still here on earth. With a troubled sense of wonder, Jeffrey Wainwright's new book witnesses to that earth's ordinariness, profusion and mystery. The collection begins with his beginning, a... -
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks 9780571170357
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out... -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book... -
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Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.51To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry Lucy Newlyn 9781904634355
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.20'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' - Michael Longley. When Edward Thomas... -
Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Jon Glover 9781857549676
Booksplease Price: $18.97The poet went to hospital for a scan. By Magnetic Resonance Imaging it was possible for doctors to look through his skull and spine, into his brain and spinal cord. What might be written in those... -
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Professor Brian Cummings
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.74'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people,... -
Collected Poems of Robert Southwell by Robert Southwell
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which were... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.67This 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... -
Lapwing by Hannah Copley 9781802074758
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.38Second Prize Winner of the Laurel Prize 2024Shortlisted for the 2024 T. S. Eliot PrizePoetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024Featuring the poem 'Is that all?' (Highly Commended in The Forward... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas 9781857544770
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.16Keith Douglas (1920-44) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the... -
Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees by Hope Mirrlees 9781847770752
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.76Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia...