Filter By
Books (82)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems from Sung Dynasty China by Yang Wan-Li by Yang Wan-Li
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for... -
Women: Recados Gabriela Mistral 9781893996090
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Most of these essays on women were originally published in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in English for the first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary women... -
Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems by Tatiana Orono
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Orono is the first English-language collection of Orono's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s... -
Bruno Folner's Last Tango by Mempo Giardinelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It’s a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there’s a price to pay. In this... -
Necessities Christopher Merrill 9781935210467
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin ... -
Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry by Robert Bly 9781945680267
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on... -
Even So: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Gary Young 9781935210337
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in... -
The Garden Entrusted to Me: Essays on Poetry & the Writing Life by Robert Bly 9781945680854
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00The Garden Entrusted to Me collects Robert Bly’s essential writings on his life and practice of poetry, revealing his approach to technique and the experiences that formed him as a poet.Robert Bly’s... -
Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Roberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume. ... -
The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems by Ester Naomi Perquin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her... -
Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Dont Exist Agnieszka Kuciak 9781935210450
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Mystical, mischievous, and musical, Kuciak enchants me with the scope of her imagination, her whimsical flirtations with identity, theology, and the very nature of human existence. I am delighted by... -
Lessons: Selected Poems by Joel Oppenheimer 9781945680007
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson at the original Black Mountain College, a fixture in New York's West Village, and a lover of the NY Mets. His work embraces the taunt line of W. C ... -
Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China by Michael Farman 9781935210498
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all... -
Interrogation Room by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 9781945680151
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.69An innovative tour-de-force book of poetry exploring the dual conflict between North and South Korea as well as that of an Adoptee in search of and finding her birth mother.Book InformationISBN... -
Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai 9781935210184
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Adamantine bristles with taut, startling language that continues to yield surprises even after readers realize that they are at serious play within the fields of the human heart, a realm in which... -
Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda 9781893996076
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that... -
Hourglass Museum by Kelli Russell Agodon 9781935210511
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Lyrical, intelligent, magical, and honest, the poems are both of this world and out of this world. Her uniquely true and mystical voice is like a glass of pure water: refreshing, healing, and... -
Inquest by Michael McGriff 9781945680830
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"A blend of the low-rent sociology of Raymond Carver with the quirky imagination of Richard Brautigan."–Billy CollinsMichael McGriff’s book-length poem Inquest is an oblique ode to Pablo Neruda’s... -
300 Tang Poems by Geoffrey Waters
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel... -
They'll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry by Gabor Gyukics
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm,... -
Aflame by Gary McDowell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Via both associative lyrics and disjunctive narratives, Aflame looks to the intersection of T/time and experience, sex and fatherhood, husbandry and the cosmos, and whether the experiences Aflame... -
A Tree Becomes a Room by J. P. White 9781945680656
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Poems that travel with a sense of urgency, bearing witness to precarious beauty, fleeting joy and the unfinished work required to survive. The poems in this collection are located in many places... -
Still Life by Alex Long 9781935210290
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"There is nothing 'still' in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these... -
Flares by Christopher Merrill 9781945680465
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.70The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world. Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what... -
Haiku Master Buson by Yuki Sawa
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68This is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognised as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In... -
Hatchet / Hamartia Carmen Boullosa 9781945680397
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved... -
The Uncommon Speech of Paradise: Poems on the Art of Poetry by Robert Hedin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Uncommon Speech of Paradise showcases the work of 120 modern and contemporary poets from seventeen countries-Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, and Anna Akhmatova-as well as works by... -
The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945680472Author Yun WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint White Pine PressPublisher White Pine... -
As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 by Stephen Corey 9781945680533
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems. Stephen Corey's work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and... -
Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska 9781945680687
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.75Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of... -
Notes from the Sea by Marjorie Agosin 9781945680731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation, a creative force of energy, spirituality, and... -
Alfonsina Storni: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni 9780934834162
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a... -
Gabriela Mistral: A Reader by Isabel Allende 9781877727184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Gabriela Mistral's name evokes a constellation of contradictory images: a rural schoolteacher and first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize, a poet who sang to children but never had any of... -
Still Some Light in the House by Klaus Merz 9781945680861
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Still Some Light in the House is the most recent poetry collection by Switzerland’s 2024 “Grand Prix Literatur” prize winner, Klaus Merz. Klaus Merz, a consummate master of the short form, captures... -
A Zen Forest: Zen Sayings by Soiko Shigematsu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid,... -
The Pearl Diver of Irunmani by Marc Vincenz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Marc Vincenz seeks nothing less than to track and sing “the forms life takes / as it vanishes and reappears / then as it dissolves.” Marc Vincenz’s The Pearl Diver of Irunmani charts the paths of... -
Multiverse: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Tzveta Sofronieva
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Multiverse brings together four decades of work by the multi-lingual poet of whom Joseph Brodsky said “Listen carefully, she has something to say”. Sofronieva’s poetry covers a wide range from short... -
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry by Eleanor Goodman 9781945680038
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file... -
Beyond the Edge of Suffering: Prose Poems by Peter Conners 9781945680519
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Prose poems and flash fictions revealing the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of living through Covid, political chaos, and personal upheaval. Peter Conners' unique blend of prose... -
KB: The Suspect by Marcelijus Martinaitis 9781893996281
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"To the pantheon of East European poets-Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub -- we must now add Martinaitis. 'K.B.,' the poet's common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the...