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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... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the... -
Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781852245887
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.47Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
World Record Neil Astley 9781852249380
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.92"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia... -
In Person: World Poets Neil Astley 9781852249854
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.47In 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... -
Do Not Go Gentle Neil Astley 9781852246358
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are... -
Staying Alive by Neil Astley 9781852245887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds by Neil Astley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this... -
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by Neil Astley
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. ... -
Ten Poems About Sheep: Volume One by Neil Astley 9781907598111
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $8.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781780373904
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81Staying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This fourth Bloodaxe world poetry anthology offers... -
The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems Neil Astley 9781780371009
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81War never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and... -
Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Neil Astley 9781780373768
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings... -
Pleased to See Me: 69 Very Sexy Poems Neil Astley 9781852246143
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $9.22'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?' Mae West's racy wisecrack could have been aimed at this book, which is packed with 69 high-calibre, sharp-shooting poems. Pleased to... -
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: a book of strange & comic poems by Neil Astley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has... -
Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems & Selected Prose Rosemary Tonks 9781780373614
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries - the subject of a BBC feature in 2009 called The Poet Who Vanished.After... -
Martial Art by Brendan Kennelly 9781852246211
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Martial is alive and kicking in Brendan Kennelly's latter-day Dublin versions of the Spanish Roman poet. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candour and... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems Brendan Kennelly 9781852249045
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Brendan Kennelly was one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over five decades he wrote thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of... -
v. Tony Harrison 9780906427972
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.68Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he... -
To Do Wid Me: Benjamin Zephaniah Filmed Live & Direct by Pamela Robertson-Pearce Benjamin Zephaniah 9781852249434
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $9.38Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid Me is both a Selected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce drawing on both live performances and informal...