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Europa by Moniza Alvi 9781852248031
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Many of the poems in Moniza Alvi's "Europa" relate to ancient and modern traumas, including enforced exile, alienation, rape and 'honour killing'. Its centre-piece is a re-imagining of the story of... -
Fairoz Moniza Alvi 9781780376004
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale... -
At the Time of Partition Moniza Alvi 9781852249847
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split between... -
Blackbird, Bye Bye Moniza Alvi 9781780374222
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds. Her creations 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many... -
Split World: Poems 1990-2005 by Moniza Alvi
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious... -
Write About Poetry: Getting to the Heart of a Poem by Steven Jackson
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99How do we read poetry, compare poems, or generate observations into a thoughtful response? Write About Poetry is an invaluable reference book and skills guide for students of poetry. Featuring model... -
Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1995 by Anthony Thwaite 9780582215115
RRP: £90.99Booksplease Price: £87.60This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first... -
Homesick for the Earth Jules Supervielle 9781852249205
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.88Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay,... -
Poems from a Green and Blue Planet by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with... -
Modern Fog by Chris Emery 9781911469544
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Emery brings an unusually wide-ranging poetic vocabulary to the encounters in Modern Fog, depicting wildlife on the Norfolk Broads or a multi-storey car park with equal fluency. These are elegiac,... -
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted... -
The Wolf Road by Richard Lambert 9781911427162
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33'Compelling debut. Introduces a significant new voice--has something of the shock effect of Piers Torday's There May Be a Castle and the raw force of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls.' SUNDAY TIMES... -
Line to Curve by Anna Reckin 9781848615809
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Line and curve evolve and collide in varied forms in Anna Reckin's second collection. Paintings slip into landscapes, rooms slide into pattern, a Chinese jade cup is pool, blossom and branch; an... -
Inside the Wave Helen Dunmore 9781780373584
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human... -
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Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore 9781780373584 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £1.99To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human... -
Bird Sisters by Julia Webb 9781911027058
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61'Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.' - Moniza Alvi'All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple... -
Notes From a Swing State: Writing from Wales and America by Zoe Brigley 9781912681297
Booksplease Price: £11.83These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and... -
afterlove by Mario Petrucci
Booksplease Price: £14.66When it comes to those we love, even our most yearned-for states of union are subject to change. afterlove endures the swarming devastations of loss as consummately as it enters love's raptures, ever... -
The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century. by Rishi Dastidar 9781911027850
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The Craft is an indispensable guide to both the 'how' and 'why' of poetic craft in the 21st century, and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages. The book covers practical techniques... -
the clarity of distant things by Jane Duran 9781800171596
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Jane Duran's new book of two striking sequences takes readers into other worlds - 'gridlines', in which the life and paintings of Agnes Martin are interwoven, and 'miniatures of al-Andalus' inspired... -
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Passionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they... -
Making the Wedding Dress Jackie Wills 9781784633844
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks... -
So Many Rooms by Laura Scott 9781784108496
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month August 2019. So Many Rooms, the debut... -
This Line is Not for Turning - An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry by Jane Monson 9781907090516
Booksplease Price: £16.65Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well... -
Love Songs of Carbon Philip Gross 9781780372587
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Love Songs of Carbon is Philip Gross's 18th book of poetry, and is a coming of age - inhabiting the ageing body with a confident, inventive curiosity. At the same time searching, tender,... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland,... -
Lumen Tiffany Atkinson 9781780375304
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech... -
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... -
After Sylvia by Ian Humphreys 9781913437565
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth... -
Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones 9781852243920
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00In this pioneering critical study, Deryn Rees-Jones discusses the work of some of the major women poets of the last hundred years, showing how they have explored what it has meant to be a woman poet... -
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... -
Hand & Skull Zoe Brigley 9781780374727
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Zoe Brigley's third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her... -
Later Philip Gross 9781852249793
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee... -
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Later by Philip Gross 9781852249793 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £3.96Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee... -
The Thirteenth Angel Philip Gross 9781780376356
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64With each new collection, Philip Gross' poems extend their conversation between the metaphysical and the acutely physical. His sequences in The Thirteenth Angel scan from moment to moment like... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow... -
Strangely Happy Joan Margarit 9781852248932
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades became known for his mastery of the... -
In Person: World Poets Neil Astley 9781852249854
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world's first DVD-anthology, In Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in publishing: readings by 30 poets published by Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with...