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Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 9780571254712
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.12Jo 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 9780571352357
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.37Jo 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Emergency 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.14Jo 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies 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: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.73Poems 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: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.77As 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: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.20In 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson 9780521197854
Booksplease Price: $136.12This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $3.93To 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... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38To 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... -
Pure Hustle Kate Potts 9781852249038
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.20Pure 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... -
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney 9780224080927
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52Negotiating 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... -
Night And Day by Virginia Woolf 9780099982708
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WITH 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... -
Hidden River by Stephanie Norgate 9781852247966
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.20Stephanie 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... -
A Smell Of Fish by Matthew Sweeney 9780224060677
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $12.98The 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: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.20"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: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Inspired 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: $16.70Booksplease Price: $12.89Susan 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: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The 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: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14After 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 Mermaid's Purse Fleur Adcock 9781780375700
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Fleur 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: $42.00Booksplease Price: $23.00This 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 Land Ballot Fleur Adcock 9781780371474
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50A 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... -
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock 9781852249731
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Fleur 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: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Matthew 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: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50Matthew 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... -
Poems 1960-2000 by Fleur Adcock
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of...