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Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59This 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... -
Clavics by Geoffrey Hill 9781907587726
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'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... -
The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill 9780618001835
Booksplease Price: £12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618001835Author Geoffrey HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint -
New & Collected Poems 1952-1992 by Geoffrey Hill 9780618001880
Booksplease Price: £14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618001880Author HILLFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Strangeness and Power: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Andrew Michael Roberts 9781848616004
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Food and I: The Relationship by Geoffrey Phillips 9780989324243
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An Unexpected Light: Theology and Witness in the Poetry and Thought of Charles Williams, Micheal O'Siadhail, and Geoffrey Hill by David C Mahan 9781556355073
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A 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: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam 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: £13.04An 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Edmund 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Ibsen'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Dazzling 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... -
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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,... -
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Winner 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... -
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48** 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... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Stevie 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... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A 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... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50When 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A 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... -
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Tom Shields Too by Tom Shields 9781851585045 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.86This is the second collection of "The Herald" Diary's compendium of jokes, anecdotes and arcane observations of life as it is lived in the 1990s, which make up the author's search for the... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tony 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95We 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Eliot'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... -
Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model by Davide Castiglione 9783319970004
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is 'difficult' - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a... -
The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78POETRY 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... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23To 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... -
Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War by Raphael Ingelbien 9789042011236
Booksplease Price: £72.07In Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphael Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish... -
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Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87To 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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09'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... -
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Professor Brian Cummings
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.25'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,... -
Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Jon Glover 9781857549676
Booksplease Price: £14.15The 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... -
Collected Poems of Robert Southwell by Robert Southwell
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.76This 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: £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... -
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot 9780571238705
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.69Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award,... -
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by C.S. Lewis
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64Though Easter (like Christmas) is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there... -
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems by T. S. Eliot 9780571349128
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.21Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award,... -
Lapwing by Hannah Copley 9781802074758
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Second 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...