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Earth Shattering: Ecopoems by Neil Astley
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction... -
World Record Neil Astley 9781852249380
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40"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... -
Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781852245887
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Staying 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... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Being 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... -
Being Human Neil Astley 9781852248093
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Being 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... -
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... -
In Person: 30 Poets Neil Astley 9781852248000
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes -... -
Do Not Go Gentle Neil Astley 9781852246358
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This 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... -
Passionfood: 100 Love Poems Neil Astley 9781852248697
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Passionfood is a feast of classic and contemporary love poems. There are a hundred flavours in this four-course celebration of love, passion and desire. Compiled by Staying Alive editor Neil Astley,... -
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Staying 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. ... -
Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds by Neil Astley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"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... -
Ten Poems About Sheep: Volume One by Neil Astley 9781907598111
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems Neil Astley 9781780371009
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56War 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... -
Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781780373904
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Staying 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... -
Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Neil Astley 9781780373768
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Land 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: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.88'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This 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... -
Soul Feast: nourishing poems of hope & light: a companion anthology to Soul Food by Neil Astley 9781780377063
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Soul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. This... -
Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems & Selected Prose Rosemary Tonks 9781780373614
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The "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: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Martial 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... -
Cromwell Brendan Kennelly 9781852240264
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Buffun is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This... -
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me: 100 classic poems with commentary Brendan Kennelly 9781852244408
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with and illuminate each... -
Rootling: New and Selected Poems by Katie Donovan 9781852248819
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Katie Donovan writes about the hungers which haunt our flesh and our fantasies, the conjunction of myth and the physical world of body and earth. Her visceral poems render new sensations, landscapes... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems Brendan Kennelly 9781852249045
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Brendan 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... -
May Swim by Katie Donovan 9781780376868
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore. Themes of... -
Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 Brendan Kennelly 9781852246631
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces... -
v. Tony Harrison 9780906427972
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.72Tony 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: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.00Benjamin 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...