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William Blake by James Fenton
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton 9780374528485
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $29.35Poet and critic Fenton delivered 12 lectures on poetry at Oxford from 1995 to 1999. These are presented here in the order they were delivered.Sharp-eyed critiques and appreciations of the essential... -
Riccio's Oil Lamp by James Fenton
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $26.79The form of this extraordinary bronze lamp, the most elaborate of several produced by Riccio (Andrea Briosco), is based on a Roman sandal, and its surface is covered with intricate reliefs modelled... -
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H... -
Selected Poems by Professor James Fenton 9780374260651
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374260651Author Professor James FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208 -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that... -
The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present... -
Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 by Professor James Fenton
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $20.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524067Author Professor James FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120 -
A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed by Professor James Fenton 9780374528775
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528775Author Professor James FentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 125 -
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The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton 9780571218158 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.70James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present... -
A History of Tasmania: From its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time by James Fenton 9781108039192
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Granta 15: The Fall Of Saigon by William Boyd 9780140075816
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $32.51Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he... -
Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Various
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.66No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at... -
Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse by John Whitworth
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis,... -
W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry,... -
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $5.03This anthology of 250 war poems was first published in 1988 to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918. They range from Homer and the Bible to John Betjeman, Randell Jarrell,... -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals... -
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780192804464
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $25.94Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Beautiful, poignant, and intriguing, they describe the poet's passionate friendship with a young man, his... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.45WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public... -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780571209811
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Selected Poems D. H. Lawrence 9780140424584
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.50From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and... -
Strings of Pearls: A Collection of Poems Janie Hextall 9780956826510
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.09While having fun with Washing Lines: A collection of poems, Barbara and Janie discovered they have many other things in common, including an interest in all things precious, semi-precious and sparkly... -
Now and for a Time by John Fuller 9780701173517
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in... -
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49**WINNER OF THE 2022 FELTRINELLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ** 'One of the most perfect poets alive. There is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $21.35This 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 New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.97Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR...