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Collected Poems by Hugo Williams
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a... -
Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life.About the... -
Fast Music by Hugo Williams 9780571382613
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee, GuardianFast Music refers as much to the fast... -
Lines Off by Hugo Williams 9780571349760
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Lines off' is a term used for lines spoken from the wings of a theatre, or off-camera in a film. It was while Hugo Williams was out of circulation following transplant surgery that he wrote the... -
I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams 9780571308897
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (The... -
West End Final by Hugo Williams 9780571245932
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the... -
Pearl by Siân Hughes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented... -
The Therapeutic Imagination: Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138789494
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while... -
100 Poems To See You Through by Daisy Goodwin 9781529104691
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42When times are tough - whether because of illness, bereavement or receiving bad news - it can be hard to find the right words. Help comes in the form of this beautifully packaged gift book,... -
Granta 76: Music by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.59Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr... -
Glaciation by Will Stone 9781848614581
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Will Stone was named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice was unjustly neglected until this volume first appeared. Stone's poems have... -
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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,... -
I Have Found a Song by Patience Agbabi 9781904634867
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.05"I Have Found a Song" is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council... -
Ventriloquism for Monkeys by Niall O'Sullivan 9781905233083
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBorn of Irish parents in England, Niall O'Sullivan grew up in Slough, studied Art in Bath and has been... -
John Betjeman by Sir John Betjeman 9780571247028
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment... -
Lines of Resistance: Essays on British Poetry from Thomas Hardy to Linton Kwesi Johnson by Adrian Grafe 9780786462834
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.09Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how... -
Afterburn by Blake Morrison 9781784746032
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age’ Fiona BensonHere you are, on the balcony,the sea serenading you,the sun with its armful of light.In... -
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan 9781408864791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan 'Wonderfully lyrical and bittersweet' OBSERVER 'This is a wonderful, beguiling collection... -
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson 9780571315789
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. Auden Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and... -
Tunth-sk by Emma Hammond 9781905233311
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.57Bold and experimental both in style and content, the poems of 'tunth-sk' have a life of their own - the images feel like they've been glimpsed through a gap in a fence line, the language like an... -
Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer 9781903039854
Booksplease Price: £12.55"Yellow Studio", Stephen Romer's fourth book of poems, is furnished with the poems of that middle of the life where amorous bewilderment, rueful satire and the bitter-sweet memory conduct their... -
New Selected Poems: 1983-2008 by John Fuller 9780701184322
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.08This rich selection of John Fuller's poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work.'Everything goes back to earth,' writes... -
Dandy Bogan: Selected Poems by Nick Ascroft 9781911052036
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.01Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees 9780803278097
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.60The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).About the AuthorDonald... -
Joie de vivre by Paul Bailey 9781909585454
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Inheritance, Paul Bailey's first book of poems after a lifetime of writing fiction, was acclaimed by Carol Rumens in the Guardian as 'a collection to engage everyone who appreciates elegant craft,... -
The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall the way from the fifth circle,'Why the hell do you... -
Europa by Moniza Alvi 9781852248031
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Many of the poems in Moniza Alvi's "Europa" relate to ancient and modern traumas, including enforced exile, alienation, rape and 'honour killing'. Its centre-piece is a re-imagining of the story of... -
At the Time of Partition Moniza Alvi 9781852249847
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split between... -
Split World: Poems 1990-2005 by Moniza Alvi
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious... -
Immortal Wreckage by Will Stone 9781848619425
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'Will Stone is the sharp-eyed beachcomber on the shores of our self-destruction, read him before the tide comes in...' wrote the poet Hugo Williams of Glaciation, which won the international Glen... -
Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku Christopher Herold 9781911052012
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.23Off the Beaten Track presents new work by twelve writers taking part in a unique collaborative project: each of them was invited to compose one haiku per day for a month, thus contributing towards...