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Hotel Shadow by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848611429
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Hotel Shadow continues Kelvin Corcoran's remarkable poetic venture begun with Melanie's Book in 1996; here, with characteristically rich lyricism, Corcoran explores Greece ancient and modern... -
London Brakes by John Muckle 9781848611016
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Tony Guest is welcome wherever he goes - a motorcycle courier on a big bike, picking up and dropping all manner of urgent parcels, letters, and duly getting his dockets signed. In July he rides in a... -
Elsewhere or Thereabouts by Alasdair Paterson 9781848613270
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.38From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting... -
Fernando Pessoa: Voices of a Nomadic Soul by Zbigniew Kotowicz 9781905700318
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This a revised edition of Zbigniew Kotowicz's pioneering essay on the work of Pessoa, who is finally being recognised as one of the great European writers, and one of the great modernist poets of the... -
The Apple and the Mountain by David Kennedy 9781848614260
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"In as much as you can read poetry and look at paintings you will find serious delight in David Kennedy's poems about Cezanne. The sort of concentration required here however is not an endorsed,... -
Shearsman 73 and 74 by Tony Frazer 9781905700349
Booksplease Price: $12.15The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2007, featuring poetry from: Susana Araujo, Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Andy Brown, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Patricia Farrell, Fergal Gaynor,... -
Shearsman 87 & 88 by Tony Frazer 9781848611542
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.15This 30th anniversary issue of Shearsman contains poetry by Lisa Armstrong, Sean Burn, Susan Connolly, Ray DiPalma, Gareth Durasow, Amy Evans, Anne Gorrick, Penny Harter, philip kuhn, John Mateer,... -
Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai Daniel Samoilovich 9781848619364
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Daniel Samoilovich’s book-length sequence, Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily eking out a hotel life in 1930s Switzerland. ‘Here/ where... -
A Cranic of Ordinaries Eliza O'Toole 9781848619272
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28This cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well-known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk-Essex border with her dog Fin, nose-down tail-up, urging her... -
A Conference of Voices by Rupert M. Loydell 9780907562566
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The largest collection of original writing yet by this talented British poet, painter, editor and publisher. "Loydell is a poet who, in painting a Steinian portrait of himself, tells us he is... -
Firewriting and Other Poems by John Muckle 9780907562641
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand... -
Tig by Maurice Scully 9780907562962
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40'Tig' is the last part of a vast poetic undertaking by Irish poet Maurice Scully that bears the overall title "Things That Happen". (Earlier parts are the trilogy 'Five Freedoms of Movement',... -
Burning the Heartwood by Janet Sutherland 9780907562887
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Burning the Heartwood is a first collection of lyric and pastoral poems. Janet Sutherland was born in Salisbury in 1957. After a childhood on a small dairy farm followed by studies at Cardiff and... -
Leaves of Field by Peter Larkin 9780907562979
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Peter Larkin might best be described as an eco-poet. His work stretches the fabric of form and language in an attempt to come to grips with the despoliation of our forests, woods and countryside. The... -
Chrysalis in the Desert by Wendy Saloman 9781848610361
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The central poem in Wendy Saloman's new collection, and from which it takes its title, is the narrative of a woman's journey through various crises in Jewish history, from biblical times to modern... -
Aurora by Pura Lopez-Colome 9781905700387
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Aurora was first published in Mexico City in 1994 by Ediciones Equilibrista, and was the author's third full-length collection. Composed of five extended sequences, Aurora contemplates the pacts we... -
What Use Is Poetry, The Poet Is Asking by Rachel Tzvia Back 9781848616400
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40"Rachel Tzvia Back transmutes the hard and sharp facts of the world into green and gold in these poems that bristle with desperate hope. She's always biblical to me, not just because the Galilean... -
Cont. by Amy Evans 9781848614543
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614543Author Amy EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint -
Poetry's Geographies by Zoe Skoulding 9781848618510
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Poets from Mexico, Korea, Galicia (Spain), Palestine, Russia, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, India and France, translated by anglophone poets from the USA, the UK, Canada and India. Kareem James Abu-Zeid,... -
By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry by Aidan Semmens 9781848612853
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collection takes its title, was not the first or last... -
Bird Book by Laura Walker 9781848611535
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'bird book' is written in collaboration with a field guide to North American birds. Each page both borrows and departs from language found in an individual bird entry. The resulting text is an... -
A Democracy of Posions by Tim Allen 9781848617889
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The texts in this volume run parallel with the years of Austerity leading to Brexit and its fallout, issues internalised here before resurfacing within new narrative contexts and scenarios in which... -
March by Andrew Taylor 9781848615052
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Building on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman Books, 2013) Andrew Taylor takes the reader on a journey through landscapes and places such as the Welsh hills, the West Coast Mainline... -
Shadow Box by Gerrie Fellows 9781848618480
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Shadow Box originated with a single piece, 'The Curiosities of Dr Hunter', a poem which gathered together many objects from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in an investigation into the nature of... -
As a Said Place by John Hall 9781848615038
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"blink / and the outline is lost" As a said place gathers together poems written since Keepsache (2011). The book is shaped around 'I'm on the Train', a sequence prompted by and on a repeated train... -
Richard Berengarten - A Portrait in Interviews by Richard Berengarten 9781848615120
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13Spanning a period of fifteen years, these five 'Inter-views' with Richard Berengarten explore the many facets of his writings. Hospitably and expansively, they yield insights into the work of a poet... -
Shearsman 103 & 104 by Tony Frazer 9781848614222
Booksplease Price: $12.15The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015 includes original work by Tim Allen, sean burn, James Byrne, Michelle Cahill, Geraldine Clarkson, Martin Crucefix, Laura Elliott, Michael Farrell, Keri... -
Aperture by Anna Leahy 9781848615168
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Anna Leahy's generous poetic imagination encompasses women from Marie Curie to Esther Williams to Elizabeth Siddal, poet Felicia Hemans to the mothers of the characters in The Wizard of Oz, a... -
On the Governing of Empires by Alasdair Paterson 9781848611160
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from "A Michelin Guide", procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names... -
The Bunny Poems by David Caddy 9781848611955
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The Bunny Poems give us a 'localised sensation' of twentieth-century rural existence. They re-connect us with the land as a deep, mirroring presence; the double-edged properties of plants;... -
The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins 9781848618633
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In her debut collection The Lost Book of Barkynge, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine,... -
This to That and Thus: Poems 1983-1998 Joseph Donahue 9781848619838
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50This to That and Thus contains four separate complete collections, the author's first four books, thus demonstrating the wellsprings of a remarkable career."For a poetry that yields such immediate... -
The Glamour Poet Versus Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls by Jeremy Reed 9781848613232
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, a major long poem written in the shop, while... -
Selected Poems by Lee Harwood 9781905700936
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In 2004, Shearsman published Lee Harwood's Collected Poems, which proved what many of us had known for many years: that Harwood is one of our living masters. Four years on, and we now offer a smaller... -
Sleepwalking with Orpheus by Craig Watson 9781848611382
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he... -
Arrivals of Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson 9781848617186
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and, in the decades since, he has built... -
Notes Relating to an Idea of Blue by David H. W. Grubb 9781848611825
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40David Grubb has published novels, poetry and short stories. Much of his writing has been founded on an understanding of rural life and values and more recently by his experience of extreme poverty... -
Birds of the Sherborne Missal by Elisabeth Bletsoe 9781848617483
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28A missal contains the text and often the music to conduct the Christian Mass throughout the year and the one at Sherborne was created c. 1400 for the monks of the Benedictine Abbey there. It is... -
Some Perfect Year by Cameron Gearen 9781848614840
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Cameron Gearen's first full-length collection of poetry, Some Perfect Year, opens with a poem entitled 'Invitation,' and it's one we should heed. "Come with stones and a selectively green car. / I've... -
Be My Reader by Alec Finlay 9781848611078
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance, football, travel and technology. Affectionate, celebratory and...