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New & Collected Poems by Ruth Fainlight 9781852248857
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966. Her poems... -
Somewhere Else Entirely Ruth Fainlight 9781780374383
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her... -
Selected Poems Chosen by Ruth Fainlight by Alan Sillitoe 9780993331145
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an award-winning poet and one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote more than fifty books, establishing an enduring critical and popular... -
Selected Poems by Victor Manuel Mendiola 9781905700899
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This is the first collection in the UK for Mexican poet Victor Manuel Mendiola, although his work has been appearing in small-press editions, in others' collections and in journals for some time. His... -
The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles 9780801891342
Booksplease Price: £23.17Sophocles' Theban Plays- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone-lie at the core of the Western literary canon. They are extensively translated, universally taught, and frequently... -
Women Versed in Myth: Essays on Modern Poets Colleen S. Harris 9780786471928
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.83Throughout history, men have prayed to gods and poets have interpreted ancient myths for new audiences. But what about women? With sections on teaching and modern writing, this collection of new... -
Life Writing: Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature by Richard Bradford 9780230202528
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
Haphazard by Starlight: A Poem a Day from Advent to Epiphany by Janet Morley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet the coming of the light, we need to engage with some themes that... -
Women's Poetry by Jo Gill 9780748623068
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily... -
Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing by Fiona Cox 9780199582969
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.32The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all... -
A Smell Of Fish by Matthew Sweeney 9780224060677
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.16The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea... -
Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman 9780814332382
Booksplease Price: £28.57Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of... -
After Sylvia by Ian Humphreys 9781913437565
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth... -
Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart by Janet Morley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness... -
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...