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Afterburner by Peter Porter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the... -
Chorale at the Crossing by Peter Porter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40When Peter Porter died in 2010 his reputation as one of the greatest Australian poets had long been settled. Chorale at the Crossing gathers together the work Porter completed after the publication... -
Max is Missing by Peter Porter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Few poets now writing share Porter's sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through... -
Better Than God by Peter Porter 9781447248231
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973),... -
Peter Porter Bags A Banker by Robert Cox 9781999728274
Booksplease Price: £10.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999728274Author Robert CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten
Booksplease Price: £31.16This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten 9781781381632
Booksplease Price: £44.80This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
George Herbert by T. S. Eliot 9780746307465
Booksplease Price: £22.41T.S. Eliot considered George Herbert one of the liveliest and most profound of English poets with whose work he felt an instinctive accord. Describing The Temple as ... 'not simply a collection of... -
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave 9780192542021 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Palgrave's Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language is a national institution and probably the most famous poetry anthology ever compiled. This new edition,... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep... -
Katerina Brac by Christopher Reid 9780571210138
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The poems in this collection are presented as translations from the work of the eponymous Katerina Brac, who lives in a country, and writes in a language, that are never identified.'Reid's... -
Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck by Georg Buchner
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73George Duchner died in 1837 at a tragically early age, and his three works for the stage remained virtually unknown for half a century. Today all three, especially Danton's Death, his great play... -
Mr. Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems Thomas McCarthy 9780856463204
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Memory, love, history and ideas: Thomas McCarthy has a uniquely direct and engaged approach both to the private and the public, which are inseparable in his poetry. His special blend of wit and... -
John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History by Ryan Roberts
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press was an important independently run press that published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In... -
Marriage by David Harsent 9780571212514
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Marriage consists of two sequences of poems. The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model, who was also his wife. It is a rich pattern for the study of... -
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it... -
Selected Poems 1933-1993 by Gavin Ewart 9780571241958
Booksplease Price: £19.72'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart' wrote Philip Larkin. Larkin was... -
Glass And God by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.37Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780199928088
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £29.65A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's... -
Birds With A Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe 9780224079440
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal... -
Nine Lessons From The Dark by Adam Thorpe 9780224063852
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces... -
The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were... -
Now and for a Time by John Fuller 9780701173517
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves... -
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Gallipoli by L. A. Carlyon 9780553815061 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have... -
Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Part John Greening (Royalty Account) 9781783270156
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary... -
Nebulous Vertigo Belle Ling 9781961209183
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Formally daring poems that ask a compelling question: if fate can never be changed, how can we embrace its weaving? The realm that belongs to Nebulous Vertigo is both visceral and vibrant, and it is... -
Can the Dandelions be Trusted? Katherine Gallagher 9781911469568
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Katherine Gallagher has a loyal readership both in the UK and in her native Australia and her latest book from Arc will not disappoint. Ranging in time and place from her childhood in the Australian... -
The Virgin and the Nightingale: Mediaeval Latin Poems by Fleur Adcock 9780906427569
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Fleur Adcock's lively translation of this selection of medieval Latin lyrics was first published in 1983, revealing many poetic treasures hidden in for centuries in scholarly obscurity. The poems are... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What are the contours of a life? For Andrew Greig: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures,... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray 9781857540055
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.71Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those... -
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Collecting poetry written in the years 2011-2014, Sentenced to Life sees Clive James look back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty.After falling dangerously... -
Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems by Eva Salzman
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Eva Salzman is a thoroughly modern, urban poet who writes with equal wit and precision about the natural - and unnatural world. In her sceptical, restless poems, irreverent muses and relentless twins... -
The River in the Sky by Clive James
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A single book-length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly-worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work:...