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Obscurity by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate them. After several years abroad, a young man returns to his... -
Obscurity Philippe Jaccottet 9780857423078
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the young man into a disciple before sending him out... -
Selected Poems by Philippe Jaccottet 9780916390310
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390310Author Philippe JaccottetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University... -
In Winter Light by Philippe Jaccottet 9781909747999
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96'A la lumiere d'hiver' (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). Written in middle age, it forms a bridge between the poet's intricate early... -
A Calm Fire: And Other Travel Writings by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.81In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be... -
Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954–79 by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803093598
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.49The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters.Seedtime-Jaccottet's notebooks-is an especially good introduction to this leading... -
The Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980–94 by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803093604
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.98The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe’s finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is a writer of exacting attention... -
The Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980 94 by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one... -
The Pilgrim`s Bowl - (Giorgio Morandi) by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803090542
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A meditation on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment. In The Pilgrim's Bowl, Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet examines Giorgio... -
Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow: Safeguarded Notes, 1952–2005 by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of Seedtime, his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections,... -
"La Clarte Notre-Dame" and "The Last Book of the Madrigals" by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11The last works of the last great classic European poet now available in English. In his 96th and final year, and with the help of the poet Jose-Flore Tappy, celebrated Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet... -
The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s by Michael Hamburger 9781032198880
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.68First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times? Michael Hamburger's answer to this question ranges... -
A Little Tour Through European Poetry by John Taylor 9781138507234
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09This book is both a sequel to author John Taylor's earlier volume Into the Heart of European Poetry and something different. It is a sequel because this volume expands upon the base of the previous... -
A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: Modern European Poet-Translators by Jacob S. D. Blakesley 9780367732707
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume provides an in-depth comparative study of translation practices and the role of the poet-translator across different countries and in so doing, demonstrates the need for poetry... -
Shearsman 113 & 114 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848615410
Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2017 contains poetry by Martin Anderson, Daragh Breen, Carmen Bugan, Susie Campbell, Chloe Carnezi, Rachael Clyne, Cathy Dreyer, Steve Ely, Liam... -
Paths to Contemporary French Literature: Volume 1 by John Taylor
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of... -
Seedtime III: Notebooks, 1995-1998 by Phlippe Jaccottet
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.47Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of... -
Shearsman 105 & 106 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848614468
Booksplease Price: £9.42The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015, this includes new poetry by Juana Adcock, Astrid Alben, Carmen Bugan, Claire Crowther, Ian Davidson, Mark Dickinson, Clayton Eshleman, Gerrie Fellows,... -
Under Clouded Skies / Beauregard: Pensees sous les nuages / Beauregard by Mark Treharne 9781852242596
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.70Philippe Jaccottet's poetry is meditative, immediate and sensuous. It is rooted in the Drome region of south-east France, which gives it a rich sense of place. This book brings together his... -
Provisionality and the Poem: Transitions in the Work of du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel by Emma Wagstaff 9789042019393
Booksplease Price: £70.50Much poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off... -
Some Heads by Max Neumann 9781803092201
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.87A beautifully produced volume featuring the work of a major German artist. While a face may be considered a head, a head does not necessarily carry a face. Between 2015 and 2017, German artist Max... -
A Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology David J. Constantine 9781780377223
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Greek Anthology, marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, is a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by about 300 authors, a colossal... -
Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla 9780691245102
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language... -
Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla 9780691245096
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language... -
Poems: Volume I by Yves Bonnefoy 9781784100759
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98France's greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as celebrated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will... -
Archipelago Antonella Anedda 9781780371085
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has published in Italy. Her poetry has a searing, disruptive quality, an... -
Collected Poems David J. Constantine 9781852246679
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by... -
Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28When Valerie Rouzeau's first poem sequence was published in France a decade ago under the title "Pas Revoir", it met with immediate critical acclaim. These poems are an urgent, stammered lament for... -
A Living Language: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by David J. Constantine 9781852246884
Booksplease Price: £9.70In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
Elder David J. Constantine 9781780370989
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from... -
Nine Fathom Deep by David J. Constantine 9781852248215
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. In the title-poem of his latest collection - which... -
Centres of Cataclysm: celebrating 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation Sasha Dugdale 9781780372648
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world's most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel... -
Belongings David J. Constantine 9781780375205
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings,... -
Kruso by Lutz Seiler 9781911344414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Winner of the German Book Prize, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Buchner Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, a notorious...