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Selected Poems by John Glenday
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Selected Poems collects the work of one of our foremost lyric poets, John Glenday. The elemental themes long associated with Glenday's name are strongly represented here: the sea, the sky; light and... -
The Golden Mean by John Glenday
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02After the success of Grain (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, poetry's most prestigious international award) John Glenday returns with The Golden Mean.Glenday's poetry - once something of a... -
Grain by John Glenday 9780330461344
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret. His third collection, Grain, makes his singular... -
My Heart's In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems by John Glenday
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.97My Heart's In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday.Part of the... -
Anamnesis by Iona Lee 9781846976322
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining... -
Otherwise: Five Myths of Transformation Told in Verse Through the Voices of Women by Nicoletta Arbia
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.84In this original and compelling collection, Nicoletta Arbia summons the voices of five classical women to recount their intimate stories, charting each woman's journey of renewal and personal growth... -
Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems by Ghareeb Iskander 9780815610717
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from... -
Matronymics by Kate Ashton 9781848618916
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In her second collection Kate Ashton examines woman's estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at adolescence to... -
Life's Stink and Honey by Lynn Valentine 9781788641258
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Lynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. With hints of fairytale and gothic, she writes precise and poignant poems embracing what is often overlooked or peripheral - a father who... -
A Newer Wilderness by Nicola Healey 9781915968043
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Prize.A Newer Wilderness gives voice to human powerlessness and existential conflict. Amid loss and oppression, attentiveness to animals and nature's immediate... -
Later That Day by Andrew Greig 9781846975189
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.23Later That Day contains new works of gratitude and elegy. At once lyrical and direct, these poems take place in Glasgow, Auckland, the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, and above all amid the clear... -
Arrivals of Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson 9781848617186
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and, in the decades since, he has built... -
Lotus Gatherers Amali Rodrigo 9781780372877
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Amali Gunasekera's first collection was published under her former name of Amali Rodrigo. This is a book marked by a sense of being on a threshold between worlds. In South and East Asian religious... -
Kitchen Music by Lesley Harrison 9781800173668
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2023. In her first Carcanet collection, Lesley Harrison looks north to the sea, the heat of the land at her back. In inventive arrangements of sound and... -
Firebird by Em Strang 9781848619395
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, both literal and spiritual. Each poem invites the reader to consider 'the necessity of mystery', where grief and joy, death and rebirth,... -
The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi 9781780376394
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Marjorie Lotfi's award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our... -
Ancient Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson 9781848618701
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and in the decades since he has built a... -
Scotia Extremis by Brian Johnstone 9781912147564
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Scotia Extremis brings together a gallimaufry of poets to take a sideways look at what makes - and makes up - Scotland by examining the country's 'icons'. Featuring specially commissioned works by... -
Return by Minor Road Heidi Williamson 9781780375229
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her... -
Chan Hannah Lowe 9781780372839
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe's Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the... -
Moontide Niall Campbell 9781780371184
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of... -
Chick Hannah Lowe 9781852249601
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his... -
The Golden Thread Amali Gunasekera 9781780375984
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekera's second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. She takes up... -
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets by Roseanne Watt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the... -
Division Street by Helen Mort
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.12*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...' ... -
Kitchen Music by Lesley Harrison 9780811235037
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.09In her first book-length collection of poems to appear in the US, Lesley Harrison looks North to the sea, with the heat of the land at her back, to bring us meditations on whale hunts and lost...