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Writing Poetry by W. N. Herbert
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It... -
The Laurelude W. N. Herbert 9781852244644
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76For nearly three hundred years Scotland and England were the Laurel and Hardy of nations. For nearly two hundred years The Prelude was a poem by Wordsworth. Something had to give. As Britain begins... -
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
Jade Ladder W. N. Herbert 9781852248956
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to... -
New Boots and Pantisocracies W. N. Herbert 9780993454752
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454752Author W. N. HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher... -
Omnesia (alternative text) W. N. Herbert 9781852249625
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
The Big Bumper Book of Troy W. N. Herbert 9781852246037
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05The northern word for hometown, 'toon', flickers in meaning between 'tune' and 'cartoon'. In Bill Herbert's big bumper book, the title toon is Troy: the first lost home. Exiled to a lighthouse on the... -
A Balkan Exchange W.N. Herbert 9781904614401
Booksplease Price: £13.26Love StoryThey played games with each other -he with her head,she with his legs.Then he gave back her head,a little worn out,and she - I'm not surewhat she did with his legs,this is as much as I know... -
Scotia Extremis by Brian Johnstone 9781912147564
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Scotia Extremis brings together a gallimaufry of poets to take a sideways look at what makes - and makes up - Scotland by examining the country's 'icons'. Featuring specially commissioned works by... -
Why I Write Poetry: Essays on Becoming a Poet, Keeping Going and Advice for the Writing Life by Ian Humphreys 9781913437299
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing?... -
Deep Lane by Mark Doty 9780224099837
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks... -
Whispers and Breath of the Meadows by Razmik Davoyan 9781904614470
Booksplease Price: £13.32Armenia's most significant contemporary poet, Razmik Davoyan is one of a handful of names in Armenian literature which define not only an era, but go much further to embody an entire history...