Caribbean & Latin American

"A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." -Miguel...

With the verbal urgency of Ginsberg's Howl, and a visionary imagination in the company of Blake, Fault Lines confirms Kendel Hippolyte's reputation as one of the Caribbean's most important poets.These poems are dreaded, urgent prophecies of 'a black sky...

She Who Sleeps With Bones was named a 2009 Jamaican bestseller in Jamaica Gleaner 'Local books did it big in 09'.In Tanya Shirley's She Who Sleeps With Bones, the hauntings of memory and the spiritual lead us to eloquently shaped epiphanies that turn...

Mexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry-something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares about contemporary poetry in Spanish, or indeed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946433862Author Rocio Agreda PierolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 150g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845236007Author John Robert LeeFormat PaperbackImprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press LtdWeight(grams) 89g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845235901Author Earl LovelaceFormat PaperbackImprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

'We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.'In Poetics of Relation, his most celebrated philosophical work, Edouard Glissant turns the Caribbean reality of his life into a complex, energetic vision of a world in...

In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015).Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and...

A breathtakingly beautiful new collection from Ian McDonald - one of the Caribbean's leading poets, and now in his nineties.Book InformationISBN 9781845235864Author Ian McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606488Author Nancy Anne MillerFormat HardbackImprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

A collection of 29 ecopoetic vignettes that explore the complexities of politics and progress in the Global South.Known colloquially as "the odd month" for its unusual number of days, February in the rural Argentine imaginary has historically represented...

This dual Spanish-English collection of poems by a Venezuelan poet focuses on the island nature of his country’s Caribbean coast. Its rich observation of physical island-scapes is realised in imagery that strikes both with its freshness and rightness,...

Translation of the Route is the eleventh collection by the award-winning Argentine poet and translator Laura Wittner. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of parental and familial love, life after...