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Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 9780571352357
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her... -
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 9780571254712
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.65Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her... -
Emergency Kit by Jo Shapcott
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Emergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to the poets who wrote them. It is truly international, bringing together... -
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 9780571254712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her... -
Bedford Square: No.9 by Jo Shapcott 9781908742537
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908742537Author Jo ShapcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint -
Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 by Jo Shapcott
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.23Poems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and... -
My Voice by Sarah Maguire
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.98As this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you... -
Journeys to the Interior: Ideas of England in contemporary poetry: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Sean O'Brien 9781852249328
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each... -
Because a Fire Was in My Head by Michael Morpurgo 9780571303113
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination.We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many... -
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... -
Hidden River by Stephanie Norgate 9781852247966
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06Stephanie Norgate's compelling poems celebrate our sensuous contact with each other and with nature. With subjects ranging from a child's first enjoyment of speech to a lover's lost dialect, they... -
Pure Hustle Kate Potts 9781852249038
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06Pure Hustle is concerned with imagination - as a means of escape and of illumination, as destructive and redemptive. Its finely honed urban landscapes are shot through with myth, storytelling and the... -
Night And Day by Virginia Woolf 9780099982708
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY ANGELICA GARNETT AND JO SHAPCOTTIn Night and Day, Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished... -
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney 9780224080927
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding... -
A Smell Of Fish by Matthew Sweeney 9780224060677
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.28The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea... -
Stray Amanda Dalton 9781852248925
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06"Stray" is a book about strays - human and animal - and about straying. It's about the lost and being lost, searching for home, and it's about the extraordinary places we sometimes discover when... -
Lifesaving Poems Anthony Wilson 9781780371573
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he... -
De-iced by Susan Wicks
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Susan Wicks' poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. These new poems are a departure for her, exploring the cracks in our experience - between... -
The Months Susan Wicks 9781780372907
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89The Months is a book of poems about time - not only the attritions of time, its ageings, conflicts and illnesses, but also, and more importantly, the kind of time the French philosopher Bergson... -
After Cezanne by Maitreyabandhu 9781780374826
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58After Cezanne is a sequence of fifty-six poems exploring the life and work of the post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. Reimagining his friendships with Zola and Pissarro, his impact on Matisse... -
The Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89A 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... -
The Mermaid's Purse Fleur Adcock 9781780375700
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Fleur 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... -
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... -
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock 9781852249731
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Fleur 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,... -
Horse Music Matthew Sweeney 9781852249670
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he hits in "Horse Music" are lyrical and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting... -
Inquisition Lane Matthew Sweeney 9781780371481
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Matthew Sweeney's eleventh collection of poems is haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition. The poems are imaginative...