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Crossing the Carpathians Carmen Bugan 9781903039687
Booksplease Price: $29.00Crossing the Carpathians is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as... -
Bugs by Anthony Dunn 9781903039953
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt... -
Fathom by Jenny Lewis 9781903039816
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis' first collection take soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures... -
New Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson 9781903039946
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.03Charles Tomlinson's "New Collected Poems" gathers a lifetime's work, from the 1950s to 2006. A poet deeply responsive to English landscape, grounded in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge,... -
Red House by Sasha Dugdale
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94In "Red House", her third collection, Sasha Dugdale evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. She finds them at the edge of towns where superstores and allotments... -
Tigers at Awhitu by Sarah Broom 9781903039991
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Sarah Broom's poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native New Zealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender and indifferent, it is the context within which other terrains are... -
Map of the Territory by Nigel Forde 9781903039694
Booksplease Price: $29.15Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years,... -
Vineyard Above the Sea Charles Tomlinson 9781903039014
RRP: $14.60Booksplease Price: $11.70The title poem of this volume describes the vineyards of an area of Italy which has been the subject of many of Tomlinson's poems since his earliest work. In the Cinque Terre, vines are cultivated... -
Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer 9781903039854
Booksplease Price: $26.04"Yellow Studio", Stephen Romer's fourth book of poems, is furnished with the poems of that middle of the life where amorous bewilderment, rueful satire and the bitter-sweet memory conduct their... -
Manganese by Robert Saxton 9781903039717
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $26.40Manganese starts with a murder in China in the age of Confucius and ends with a sestina about a difficult family Christmas in front of the television. Plain-spoken narrative is juxtaposed with an... -
Flying Fish by Antony Dunn 9781903039564
Booksplease Price: $16.42Antony Dunn's second collection of poems glimpses "the other life" of things caught out of their own element. The poems in "Flying Fish" wrestle with our fascination with the sea, our helplessness in... -
Over by Jane Draycott 9781903039922
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces,... -
The Estate by Sasha Dugdale 9781903039809
Booksplease Price: $26.73Sasha Dugdale's poems explore the mysterious solitudes of individual lives with tender, unsparing lucidity. The book opens with a sequence written at the Pushkin family estate. The great Russian... -
Choir Outing by Nigel Forde 9781903039977
Booksplease Price: $25.77Nigel Forde's poems explore those feelings, memories and landscapes, glimpsed and momentary, that haunt us with an insistent need to be questioned or commemorated. In monologues and elegies,... -
The Ship of Birth by Greg Delanty 9781903039632
Booksplease Price: $22.03The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the days immediately before and after a child is born. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a Ship of Death, so this Ship of Birth... -
Night Tree by Jane Draycott 9781903039724
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80This collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers... -
Oxford Poets Anthology: 2004 by Bernard O'Donoghue 9781903039663
Booksplease Price: $29.32This anthology follows the OxfordPoets anthologies of 2000, 2001 and 2002. It introduces a number of new poets who are beginning to make their way. The collection celebrates the diversity of the... -
New and Selected Poems: Chris Wallace-Crabbe by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 9781906188078
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $24.30This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above... -
Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781906188146
Booksplease Price: $27.78An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the... -
Ethiopia Boy by Chris Beckett
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions ...old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'... -
Taking Mesopotamia by Jenny Lewis 9781906188115
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through... -
To the War Poets Johen Greening 9781906188085
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of... -
Occupant by Jane Draycott
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a... -
The Sound Ladder by David Attwooll 9781909747098
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $14.51`The excitement of reading David Attwooll's poems lies in the poet's intense relationship to language and the verbal and textual musicianship with which he treats his subject matter. From the Goths,... -
In Mortal Memory by Andrew McNeillie 9781847770844
Booksplease Price: $25.70"In Mortal Memory" is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is 'all becoming' McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss... -
Slower by Andrew McNeillie 9781857548280
Booksplease Price: $29.38"Slower", Andrew McNeillie's third collection, meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. It treats too of personal bereavement, and of... -
Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters by Robyn Marsack 9781784108786
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's... -
Moscow Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199559893
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $22.43Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively...