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Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Longley by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice 9780571233816
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively... -
Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 9780571234387
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the... -
Spring Journal: after Louis MacNeice by Jonathan Gibbs 9781909585379
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585379Author Jonathan GibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint -
Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $39.96Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets, 1939-45 by Brian Gardner 9780413150103
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.77THE 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... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial... -
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Fathers An Anthology by L Guiness 9780701163501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $1.68Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, imagined fathers, puffed-up with pride fathers, noble fathers, and humanly flawed fathers, loving fathers, exasperated fathers. Literature is full of these but nobody,... -
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland by Alexander Poots
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS'... -
Poems (1930) by W. H. Auden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and... -
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Tell Me the Truth About Love by W. H. Auden 9780571202607 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.50Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.Tell Me the Truth About Love gathers... -
Selected Poems of Stephen Spender by Stephen Spender
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.04Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice,... -
Dylan Thomas John Goodby 9781789149326
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This concise biography of Dylan Thomas incorporates the most recent research, challenging the legend of the dissolute bard to reveal a diligent, professional writer, author of some of the century's... -
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This highly enjoyable anthology has been chosen by Edward Mendelson, whose knowledge of Auden's writings is unrivalled. As he says in his introduction, these 'lighter verses' (some of them previously... -
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As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden 9780571178988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64This highly enjoyable anthology has been chosen by Edward Mendelson, whose knowledge of Auden's writings is unrivalled. As he says in his introduction, these 'lighter verses' (some of them previously... -
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... -
Collected Poems: Peter McDonald Peter Mcdonald 9781847770981
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $19.14In the five volumes of poetry he has published since 1989, Peter McDonald explores an intimately known territory that becomes strange: pulled out of shape by history, made unfamiliar by distance,... -
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... -
Collected Longer Poems by W. H. Auden
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27First published in 1968, this companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poetic works, originally published between 1930 and 1947... -
War Poet by Jon Stallworthy 9781847772442
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the... -
Pastorals by Peter McDonald 9781857547528
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $19.56Pastorals, Peter McDonald's third collection, is his first full-length book of poems in eight years. At its heart are poems that approach places, times, and states of mind 'part history and part... -
Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 by Stephen Regan 9780199549825
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of... -
The House of Clay by Peter McDonald 9781857548716
Booksplease Price: $19.01"The House of Clay" is Peter McDonald's fourth book of poems, containing lyrics which combine intense resonance of narrative and imagery with powerful formal concentration. Autobiographical material,... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an... -
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology,... -
London in Poetry and Prose by Anna Adams 9781900564038
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $10.53This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive,... -
Being Human Neil Astley 9781852248093
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is... -
Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.77Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.10A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. ... -
Collected Poems: Collected Poems by Henry Reed 9781857549430
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86Perhaps best known for his much anthologized World War II poem, "Naming of Parts", and a number of radio plays and translations from the Italian, Henry Reed published only one volume of verse during... -
Herne the Hunter by Peter McDonald 9781784101725
Booksplease Price: $15.99Herne the Hunter is the sixth collection from one of Ireland's most accomplished lyric poets. In this new body of work, Peter McDonald deepens his interest in myth and storytelling through the legend... -
W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80W. 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,... -
Oxford Poets: An Anthology: 2013 by Iain Galbraith 9781906188108
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $19.78This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can... -
Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times by Caleb Richardson
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to... -
Capital by Maureen Duffy 9781860468308
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A lone Londoner maps the city, hearing beneath its surface the urgent whispers of the past. As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future.Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet... -
One Little Room Peter McDonald 9781800174498
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99The poems in One Little Room enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to... -
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason 9780099547075
Booksplease Price: $17.63After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time...