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Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In... -
Chine by Mimi Khalvati 9781857545470
Booksplease Price: £14.09The eponymous chine is a memorable feature of the landscape of the Isle of Wight, where Mimi Khalvati grew up, and the first section of her book is a series of poems rooted in the landscapes and... -
The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati 9781857548686
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Inspired by Shakespeare's songs, the short poems of Emily Dickinson, and Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, this collection of songlike poetry is based on the ubiquitous spread of weeds - like the shallow... -
Weather Wheel by Mimi Khalvati 9781847772589
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59In these new poems, each of them written in couplets and contained within the space of sixteen lines, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on... -
Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati 9781800173330
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.31King's Gold Medal for PoetryMimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family... -
Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011 by Mimi Khalvati 9781847770943
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60"Child: New and Selected Poems" 1991-2011 combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work... -
On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration Dr. Hannah Crawforth 9781350531505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41'These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that... -
Anvil New Poets: No. 3 by Roddy Lumsden 9780856462832
Booksplease Price: £10.52"The Anvil New Poets" series has built up a reputation for introducing ground-breaking work from the best new poets. The names included in previous volumes are testament to the quality of the series:... -
My Voice by Sarah Maguire
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.94As 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... -
Critical Muslim 02: The Idea of Islam by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849042215
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88In the issue of Critical Muslim: Ziauddin Sardar argues why Islamic reform is necessary, Bruce Lawrence sees Muslim cosmopolitanism as the future, Parvez Manzoor declares jihad on the idea of 'the... -
The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King Carolyn Forche 9781780373928
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said:... -
Nature Matters: Vital Poems from Global Majority Writers Mona Arshi 9780571370283
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Revitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices is both urgent and inspirational.There has been a welcome surge... -
Monet's Broom Helen Farish 9781780378022
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42When Claude Monet died in 1926 he left behind over three thousand works of art, and in his last decade he was exploring as rigorously as in his early years what a painting could be. Helen Farish's... -
The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major 9780888645029
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek...