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Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections-"Braid," "Fray," and... -
Blue Fasa by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial... -
Nod House by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811219464
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30With Nathaniel Mackey's fifth collection of poems, Nod House, we witness a confluence of music and meaning unprecedented in American poetry. Mackey's art continues to push the envelope of what is... -
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America by Abram Foley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?"... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing Anthony Reed (Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University) 9781421421209
Booksplease Price: £23.17Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era... -
The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word by Meta DuEwa Jones 9780252036217
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets... -
Stet: Poems by Dora Malech
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and... -
Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip James Goodwin 9781838069896
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"This major new work is thought, spirit and sense (in every sense) 'fleshed out' in 'all the corners' by being unmade - as poetry, as music, as (black and white) images, and as attention to the... -
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph... -
My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John... -
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis 9780822359289
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and... -
Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics by James Byrne 9781911469193
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight... -
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham 9780691230689
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.23An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more-from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the... -
Liontaming in America Elizabeth Willis 9780811238632
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth... -
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of... -
The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha 9781802067071
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026' (c) Codex' SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEMLONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2026'Profound,... -
Negro Mountain by C. S. Giscombe 9780226829715
Booksplease Price: £16.03A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory. In the final section of Negro Mountain,...