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Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas 9781857544770
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Keith Douglas (1920-44) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the... -
Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems by Keith Douglas 9780571276714
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned him the reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of... -
Keith Douglas, 1920-1944: A Biography by Dr Desmond Graham 9780571254156
Booksplease Price: £19.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed by Robert Sellers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.' Richard Burton'I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties.' Richard... -
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets, 1939-45 by Brian Gardner 9780413150103
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.04THE TERRIBLE RAIN, a companion volume to Brian Gardner's anthology of the poetry of the First World War, UP THE LINE TO DEATH (978 0 413 59570 6), has established itself as a classic collection of... -
Otherwise Unchanged by Owen Lowery 9781847772008
Booksplease Price: £12.48The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating... -
Long Shadows: Poems 1938-2002 by J.C. Hall 9780571272655
Booksplease Price: £13.27'Wake up, Hall! There'll be plenty of timeAfter this lesson for your poetry stuff.'Sniggerings from the back. An urgent rhymeJumps on my mind and drives old Euclid off.Those are the opening lines... -
Resistance by Owen Sheers 9780571326129
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.95This 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... -
Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for...