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Paradise Takeaway by Alistair Noon 9781915048097
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Paradise Takeaway is a long poem with Luton Airport in it. Part memoir, part invention, it takes us along the bus and train routes of the London metropolitan area, not stopping at the eponymous fast... -
The Weather on the Moon by Robin Thomas 9781909747975
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67Turning Manet on his head, entering the thoughts of a post prandial lion, viewing and buying a 'snorting' Hot Rod, imagining life on a modern-day Titanic, wondering what happens to the story after a... -
Some Other Where by Steven Matthews
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews’s poems, which have been described by Bernard... -
Transitional Spaces by Kate Behrens 9781909747944
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.48Transitional Spaces, Kate Behrens's fourth collection, is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the... -
Against Gravity Robert Saxton 9781915048325
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Against Gravity: the title alludes to our struggle with mortality as we age and, by contrast, the pleasures of play, imagination, creativity. Robert Saxton's latest poetry book is dedicated to a... -
Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment by Martin Andrews 9781901677980
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.86The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846. In 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to... -
Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life by Edith Morley 9781909747166
Booksplease Price: $27.44Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the nineteenth century', Edith Morley's 1944 memoir,... -
Where Shadow Falls by Ruth O'Callaghan 9781915048080
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15The language and structure of the poems allows readers to create their own interpretations of events and relationships. Never didactic and often leavened with wit, the poems occupy the liminal space... -
Tideway Jane Draycott 9781915048011
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84A long-awaited re-issue, beautifully redesigned, of Jane Draycott's 'Tideway', a mesmeric sequence of poems about London's working river in a time of transition, with paintings by Peter Hay... -
Discoveries Tim Dooley 9781909747982
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67The poems in Discoveries, written over the last four years, respond to the uncertainties of our time with an unpredictability of their own. Tim Dooley makes use of varied, sometimes arbitrary,... -
Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart 9781901677744
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.47Cat Jeoffry is a self-contained passage from Christopher Smart's eccentric 18th century masterpiece Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) and the most famous piece of poetry ever written about a cat... -
Rural Reading by Adrian Lawson 9781909747500
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75There's more to Reading than traffic, concrete and busy people. Wildlife flourishes amidst the urban hustle and with a couple of hundred open spaces, some ancient woodlands and two great rivers,... -
Charles Baudelaire Paris Scenes: A bilingual edition by Charles Baudelaire 9781909747869
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The 'Tableaux Parisiens' (Paris Scenes) section of Les Fleurs du Mal contains eighteen poems which record a twenty-four-hour tour of the city: a type of Joycean journey from the point of view of a... -
This Thing of Blood & Love by Lesley Saunders 9781909747968
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84This Thing of Blood & Love, Lesley Saunders' fifth collection with Two Rivers Press, is an intense examination of human culpability, the secrets we half-keep from ourselves, the contradictory selves... -
The Star in the Branches by James Peake 9781909747951
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the... -
Bricks and Brickwork in Reading: Patterns and polychromy by Adam Sowan
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93The geology of the Thames Valley provides little good building stone, so the towns are made very largely of local brick. Reading is particularly rewarding for the brick-fancier, thanks to the variety... -
Goldhawk Road by Kate Noakes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42In Goldhawk Road, her eighth collection, Kate Noakes raises questions of identity – the who and where we are, the where and who we want to be. She returns to London after six years spent shuttling... -
Bonjour Mr Inshaw: Poems by Peter Robinson, Paintings by David Inshaw by Peter Robinson 9781909747562
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist's years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College,... -
Precarious Lives by Jean Watkins 9781909747418
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.48Precarious Lives, Jean Watkins' second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human experience. Events and lives are described in sensuous detail. Throughout, the poet... -
Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about the art and lives of Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline Spencer Graham Burchell 9781909747593
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece, engaging readers with the... -
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Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: 11 Stories by Peter Robinson 9781901677935 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.42The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a... -
The Veiled Veil: Strange Tales from the Vale of the White Horse by Mike White 9781909747173
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.47What historical tragedy could possibly make a young Wallingford girl daub a wall with her own tears?What really happened to the family who encountered a UFO in Stanford-in-the-Vale?What made a... -
Reading's Influential Women by Terry Dixon 9781909747623
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84A wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of influential women, all with a connection to the Reading area. Some are well known international names, others deserve to be. They are pioneers, familiar... -
The Greenwood trees: History, folklore and virtues of Britain's trees by Christina Hart-Davis 9781909747401
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us... -
The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, & Others: 2015 by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781909747128
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his... -
Allen W. Seaby: Art and Nature by Robert Gillmor 9781909747050
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as "a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement." But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. A. W. Seaby was a pioneering, innovative and... -
Sicilian Elephants David Cooke 9781909747913
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and ambitious collection to date, David Cooke imagines the short-lived paradise achieved by those miniature elephants whose bones have... -
The Third City James Peake 9781915048240
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75In The Third City, his most remarkable collection to date, James Peake once more offers us his unique combination of dream-like fluency and intellectual rigour. New and returning readers will... -
Threads Ruth O'Callaghan 9781915048349
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76The poems in Threads, Ruth O'Callaghan's seventeenth collection of poetry, address both the personal and political. They are sometimes ironical and at others metaphorical, but they consistently... -
Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems by Katherine Meehan 9781915048110
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15In the title poem of Katherine Meehan's debut collection, Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems, the poet presents an examination of losses, failures, and griefs, all of them... -
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15Passionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they... -
Retrieved Attachments by Peter Robinson
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45The Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson's new collection are to people and places, friends and loved ones, mentor poets and artists. Deploying the full range of his gifts, these poems are... -
With Signs Following by David Ricks 9781915048196
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45With Signs Following, David Ricks's first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades.'Exceptional mastery of verse, and the perspective from which he... -
The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting 9781915048158
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45The Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that... -
The Adjustments by Claire Dyer 9781915048165
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75In The Adjustments, Claire Dyer's fourth collection with Two Rivers Press, the poet explores the vagaries of time and experience. As a narrative in reverse, her book scrutinises the fine tunings of... -
The Blue Armchair by John Froy 9781915048172
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75In The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various. But which mother? The inspiring painter he hardly saw, a... -
English Nettles: and other poems Peter Robinson 9781915048028
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67The first edition of English Nettles brought together poems Peter Robinson began writing on his return to England after many years living in Japan. The twenty-three works, evocatively illustrated by... -
The Sound Ladder by David Attwooll 9781909747098
Booksplease Price: $24.55`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,... -
The Examined Life by James Harpur 9781909747876
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45James Harpur entered a boy's boarding school in the 1970s and survived to tell the tale. His sequence of poems is a searingly honest and compelling account of his five-year journey, from leaving home... -
Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes 9781915048318
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07In Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes turns her attention to the breath. For the first time, she explores her lifelong asthma and explains the impact of this chronic and disabling condition. The breath and...