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The Gleaming of the Blade by Christian J Collier 9781949344301
£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949344301Author Christian J CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Bull City PressPublisher Bull City Press -
Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones 9781938235269
£11.13Magic City Gospel is a love song to Birmingham, the Magic City of the South. In traditional forms and free verse poems, 2015 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award-winner Ashley M. Jones takes readers on an historical, geographical, cultural, and personal journey... -
Marrow: Poems by Darlene Anita Scott 9780813183626
RRP: £18.00£15.92"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain Of it say moms everywhere & Even if kids choose it last; They choose it, as loyal To its sugar as any." When authorities converged on the Peoples Temple Agricultural... -
Marrow: Poems by Darlene Anita Scott 9780813183619
RRP: £27.00£23.06"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain Of it say moms everywhere & Even if kids choose it last; They choose it, as loyal To its sugar as any." When authorities converged on the Peoples Temple Agricultural... -
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu 9780691239026
RRP: £50.00£39.12The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an... -
The Absurd Man: Poems by Major Jackson 9780393867411
RRP: £12.99£11.46Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as... -
Can I Kick It? by Idris Goodwin 9781642590272
RRP: £14.99£4.94"Can I kick it?" "Yes you can!" -A Tribe Called Quest Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin's work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the... -
Discordant by Richard Hamilton 9781637680735
RRP: £14.00£12.26Lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices—from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism. Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a searing examination of injustice both within the United... -
Bottle of Life by Truth Thomas 9780981858425
£6.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981858425Author Truth ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedPublisher Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 210g -
Dated Emcees by Chinaka Hodge 9780872867024
RRP: £9.99£6.75Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop--and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators,... -
City of the Future by Sesshu Foster 9781885030559
RRP: £16.99£11.67Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster's childhood, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on... -
Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy 9781597094689
£18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597094689Author Camille DungyFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen PressWeight(grams) 159g -
the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt 9780872869257
RRP: £12.99£8.63the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens. "mimi tempestt writes like a third testament in which God (or our understanding) finally... -
The Beloved Community by Patricia Spears Jones 9781556596667
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596667Author Patricia Spears JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston 9781642594034
RRP: £38.00£25.63Dopplegangbanger, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.Book InformationISBN... -
Kneeling: Poems and Verses Transcending the Turbulent ‘60s by M. Ernest McMillan 9781646052080
RRP: £19.00£12.95From Civil Rights activist and full-time organizer in the Deep South Ernest McMillan: a collection of poems and short stories that seeks to explore the dynamics of love. Ernest McMillan began writing essays and short stories in earnest while imprisoned... -
Magnolia Leaves by Mary Weston Fordham 9781513134659
RRP: £7.99£5.50Magnolia Leaves (1897) is a collection of poems by Mary Weston Fordham. Published toward the end of her life, Fordham’s only collection appeared in print with an introduction by Booker T. Washington, who saw in its author an undeniable gift which could... -
Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae 9781642599121
RRP: £14.99£9.88In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival."I've decided I can't trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for... -
The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood by Kamau Daáood 9780872864412
RRP: £13.99£9.26A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word movement, these poems soar and sway with the syncopation and melodies of jazz. Portraits, chronicles, incantations and invocations, drawn from a lifetime of prolific activity. From his early... -
A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval 9781642591033
RRP: £42.00£28.22Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly contested cities in the world. Chicago is the city of... -
It's not over once you figure it out by Isaac Pickell 9781939568632
RRP: £12.99£8.63A linguistically experimental and socially engaged collection of poems that examines questions of colorism within an economically driven world.In a collection of poems that collapses the spectrum between the theoretical and the personal, that is at once... -
Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae 9781642599497
RRP: £52.00£34.69In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival. “I’ve decided I can’t trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for... -
ballast by Quenton Baker 9781642599480
RRP: £52.00£34.69A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the... -
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud by Dustin Kyle Pearson 9781950774593
RRP: £12.99£8.63In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship. The poems in Dustin Pearson's A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two... -
Echo's Errand by Keith Jones 9781939568519
RRP: £11.99£8.00Lyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity's dark history. These poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already "known" world. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, the... -
henceforce – A Travel Poetic by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard 9781632430687
RRP: £11.00£9.38In henceforce, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard’s poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard’s poems explore air travel, transcontinental... -
Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel 9780300268003
RRP: £30.00£29.25The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds "Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and... -
Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel 9780300267990
RRP: £14.99£14.85The 117th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, in which Mary-Alice Daniel confronts tricontinental culture shock and her curious placement within many worlds "Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and... -
Duende: Poems, 1966-Now by Quincy Troupe 9781644210451
RRP: £35.00£22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781644210451Author Quincy TroupeFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S... -
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin by Michael Warr 9780393352733
RRP: £16.99£16.63This extraordinary volume collects the poems of forty-four of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize- winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other... -
Speak from Here to There by Kwame Dawes 9781845233198
RRP: £9.99£6.99During 2015 and 2016, two poets from opposite sides of the world, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, exchanged poems in two cycles, Echoes and Refrains and Illuminations, that were in constant dialogue even as they remained defined and shaped by the details... -
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker 9781941040539
RRP: £16.95£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040539Author Morgan ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 127mm... -
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route by . Anderson Iii 9781632430670
RRP: £14.00£12.26Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in Devonte Travels the Sorry Route, has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history and... -
Running to Stand Still by Kimberly Reyes 9781632430724
RRP: £14.00£12.26Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down... -
Oracle: Poems by Cate Marvin 9780393353136
RRP: £12.99£10.19The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York's Staten Island, where they move through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts-of a dead lover, of a friend lost to suicide, of a dog with glistening eyes. Marvin's... -
Copper Sun by Countee Cullen 9780486852027
RRP: £4.99£3.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486852027Author Countee CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Ntozake Shange 9781501169946
RRP: £12.99£11.35NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes "a... -
Brutal Imagination: Poems by Cornelius Eady
RRP: £14.00£8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780399147203Author Cornelius EadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
{#289-128}: Poems by Randall Horton
RRP: £18.00£12.40"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this... -
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman 9780593465080
RRP: £17.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593465080Author Amanda GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 276g