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Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and... -
The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
Booksplease Price: $17.54This second collection of Gunn's poetry was first published in 1957.About the AuthorThom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled... -
Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann
Booksplease Price: $28.27Randall Mann's "Breakfast with Thom Gunn" is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century,... -
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range... -
The Man with Night Sweats: Poems by Thom Gunn 9780374618476
RRP: $36.10Booksplease Price: $20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374618476Author Thom GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $7.81First published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work.These Selected Poems of... -
From the Book of Giants by Joshua Weiner
Booksplease Price: $31.83Song for Thom GunnThere is no east or westin the wood you fear and seek,stumbling past a gate of mossand what you would not take.And what you thought you had(the Here that is... -
Interview With A Ghost: Essays by Tom Sleigh 9781555974404
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.68In a collection of passionate and elegantly written essays, celebrated poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from the vantage point of his conviction that while life and art are separable, they aren't... -
Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and artistic world, befriended by Yeats and a supporter... -
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share
Booksplease Price: $30.06To celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine's vast archives to create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one... -
Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: $7.58Booksplease Price: $6.57In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens 9780571228744
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.32This collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets was first published in America in 1954. The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all... -
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Poem For The Day One by Nicholas Albery 9781856194990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $4.56This book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets... -
An Anthology of Poems by Members of Trinity College Cambridge by Angela Leighton 9781784103569
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $28.37An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College,... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.67A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.29In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
Too Much Flesh and Jabez by Coleman Dowell
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.60Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.60A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
Mystery of Things by Clive Wilmer 9781857548242
RRP: $34.11Booksplease Price: $22.40Clive Wilmer's last collection "The Falls", wrote "Jem Poster in PN Review", 'offers beguiling glimpses of a world in which the earthly and the heavenly manifest their independence'. This is equally... -
New and Selected Poems by Henri Coulette 9781800175525
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.04This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry's best-kept... -
Veii and other poems Robert Wells 9781800171244
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.73The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the... -
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 9781529087451
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.46When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . ... -
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 by August Kleinzahler 9780374537678
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $31.75"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection,... -
Collected Poems by Ruth Pitter 9781870612142
RRP: $20.81Booksplease Price: $15.94This new volume gathers together the finest of Ruth Pitter's poems, which in Kathleen Raine's judgement 'will survive as long as the English language, with whose expressiveness in image and idea she... -
Love in Another Language: Collected Poems and Selected Translations by Dick Davis
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.48In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our... -
Physical by Andrew McMillan
RRP: $24.70Booksplease Price: $18.01*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We... -
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry by Jim Elledge
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76"Every lovesick summer has its song, And this one I pretended to despise. But if I were alone when it came on, I turned it up full-blast to sing along- A primal scream in croaky baritone, The notes... -
The Faber Book of Beasts by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn't know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure... -
Collected Poems by Hugo Williams
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a... -
Sons of Thunder: Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology by Neil Bradford
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97'A fool couldn't ride the Vincent Black Shadow more than once, but a fool can ride a Ducati 900 many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has... -
Counternarratives by John Keene 9780811225526
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.74Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to... -
Conversation of the Three Wayfarers Peter Weiss 9780811231633
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.58Conversation of the Three Wayfarers is a tale overheard, rather than told directly. Abel, Babel, and Cabel, the wayfarers, carry on a three-sided monologue, each reporting curious incidents-the... -
Lifesaving Poems Anthony Wilson 9781780371573
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.42Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he... -
Crush by Richard Siken 9780300246308
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.54Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate,... -
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Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary by Paul Giles 9780822329541 [USED COPY]
RRP: $178.60Booksplease Price: $12.08Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of... -
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The Honey Gatherers: a book of love poems by Maura Dooley 9781852243593 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $3.74The Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the... -
Tilt / Beautiful People by Denise Duhamel 9781957946221
Booksplease Price: $22.67Tilt / Beautiful People brings to life two innovative poetry books integrated into one. In Tilt, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton (1947-2023) write through climate change, Maureen's illness, and... -
Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill 9780811232340
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.44For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $20.81This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Briggflatts by Basil Bunting
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Basil Bunting was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger...