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Pharmacopoeia and Early Selected Works by Elisabeth Bletsoe 9781848610828
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61In 2008 Shearsman published Elisabeth Bletsoe's most recent collection, Landscape from a Dream. We now offer a companion volume containing all-or almost all-of her previously published work, which... -
Twelve Poems by Tin Ujevic 9781848613164
RRP: $14.63Booksplease Price: $14.27The Croatian poet Augustin (Tin) Ujevic (1891-1955) is one of the finest Southern Slav lyric poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. While Tin Ujevic's... -
The Scale By Which You Measure Me: Poems 1913-1917 by Marina Tsvetaeva 9781848619333
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61From 1912 to 1920 Marina Tsvetaeva wrote copiously but published no books. Later she would claim that at least three major collections had fallen by the wayside in those years. The poems translated... -
Root by Linda Black 9781848611702
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of it'. In a series of unsettling prose poems Black offers pieces of a fractured past. The effect is... -
Homage to the Last Avant-Garde by Kent Johnson 9781905700950
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Homage contains a wide variety of work representing all strands of Johnson's work: versions from the Greek, traduced to an extraordinary degree; anti-war poems, overflowing with rage; stink-bombs... -
Putting On My Species by Sasja Janssen 9781848617056
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $17.41Putting On My Species is about identity and selfhood, the desire for the very beginning, the sardonic pleasure of making and destroying in order to start over again, the love of poetry. How should I... -
Late Poems by Gavin Selerie 9781848619517
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03“Finis coronat opus. Gavin Selerie’s Late Poems mark a fitting end to his poetic career. The opening section, ‘Pandemic Poems’, approach that apocalyptic period of anxiety, separation and death, of... -
Shearsman 125 / 126 by Tony Frazer 9781848617377
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.37The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2020 includes poetry by Kate Ashton, Richard Berengarten, Guy Birchard, Daragh Breen, Susie Campbell, Makyla Curtis, Jodie Dalgliesh, Giles Goodland,... -
At Maimonides Table by Philip Kuhn 9781848610200
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61"At Maimonides Table" is constructed out of a complex series of unstable texts woven through four inter-locking books. Although there is no easily defined path through this work there is perhaps a... -
Ianthe Poems by Peter Philpott 9781848614178
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03"Haunted by a phrase of Keston Sutherland's, 'The pressure to think and sing', Peter Philpott's lyrics on his granddaughter Ianthe read like the meditations of a slightly deranged but liberated... -
Imagems 2 by Richard Berengarten 9781848616851
RRP: $14.63Booksplease Price: $14.27Imagems 2 contains six statements by a poet who continues to challenge modernism and post-modernism alike. This chapbook complements and elaborates Richard Berengarten's Imagems 1 (2013). In this... -
Lion: The Iran Poems by Michael Zand 9781848611153
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26'Lion' is a narrative of sorts, but it is necessarily disruptive and disjunctive: ideas and literary structures are questioned, even the fixed boundaries of language itself are challenged. 'Lion' is... -
Snow - Selected Poems 1981 - 2011 by Martin Anderson 9781848612129
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Martin Anderson was born and grew up in England. Shearsman Books first published his work in the 1980s. Anderson has lived a large part of his life as an expatriate and many of his poetry collections... -
For the Greek Spring by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848612761
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61For the Greek Spring is a selection of Kelvin Corcoran's poetry about Greece, combining new work with poems from his previous collections. The poet's sustained engagement with Greece is evident at... -
Glaciation by Will Stone 9781848614581
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Will Stone was named a 'European-leaning maverick' by Hugo Williams in the TLS, which may explain why his remarkable voice was unjustly neglected until this volume first appeared. Stone's poems have... -
The World by Evening by Menno Wigman 9781848616615
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Menno Wigman (1966-2018) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Netherlands, with many awards to his name, and his early death sent shock-waves through the Dutch literary world. His work has been... -
Suspend by Nancy Kuhl 9781848610866
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03'Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, "Suspend" is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling. In this collection of... -
Selected Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt 9781848611023
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Sir Thomas Wyatt is remembered today as one of the most important poets in the English language, and as the man who brought the sonnet into English, with spectacular imitations and re-creations of... -
Diorama with Fleeing Figures by Merle Lyn Bachman 9781848610125
Booksplease Price: $20.03The poems in 'Diorama with Fleeing Figures' delicately point to devastating historical events. Instead of mounting judgments, the poems accrue power gently, even stealthily. Evoking a language at... -
Art of Seeing: Essays on Poetry, Landscape Painting, and Photography by Jeremy Hooker 9781848617087
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $27.24‘Art of seeing’, as Jeremy Hooker exercises it in these essays written over some thirty years, consists of acts of attention to a range of poets and visual artists. Aiming above all to be ‘a careful,... -
Something in the Air by Tom Clark 9781848611085
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61A poet of original vision and gentle, careful word-shaping, Clark allows his images to merge and converge toward a resolution in which flow is not arrested but pauses to take thought; the images take... -
Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry by Veronica Forrest-Thomson 9781848614451
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $31.32First published posthumously in 1978 by Manchester University Press, this volume turned sharply against critics of the previous generation, notably William Empson, and against emergent strains of... -
Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems by Martin Harrison 9781848610088
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $27.96Subtle and sharply lyrical, these poems shimmer on the eye while being deeply held at the back of the mind. Martin Harrison has been described as a writer whose poetry is a meeting place between the... -
So Here We are by David Caddy 9781848610910
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61In April 2007, when Didi Menendez, publishing director of MiPO publications and miPOradio, invited me to present a monthly series of literary talks, my remit was to be personal, direct and... -
V.I.P.: Very Important Plant by Sumana Roy 9781848618251
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Even as she was searching for people who had wanted to live like a tree, a quest recorded in her book How I Became a Tree, Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing poems to imagine the opposite: How... -
The Year of the Crab: El año del cangrejo by Mariano Peyrou 9781848616387
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03The Year of the Crab tells the story of an endless seaside summer, or perhaps a series of summers spent in the same place. It is a musical interplay of emotions and ideas, with recurring motifs and... -
Selected Poems by William Strode 9781848610057
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03William Strode, born in Plympton, Devon, in the early years of the 17th century, is a little-known poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, but he was a fine lyric poet and little deserves his... -
Layers of Un by Mark Goodwin 9781848612488
RRP: $14.63Booksplease Price: $14.27One of five chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, Layers of Un marks another stage in the development of Mark Goodwin's radical landscape poetry.Book InformationISBN... -
When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry: Episodes in the History of the Poetics of Innovation by Robert Sheppard 9781848611368
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $24.38This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon its central figures and provisional institutions. In... -
Noctilucent by Melissa Buckheit 9781848612150
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03The poems in Noctilucent begin where light exists or is created in darkness, a paradox. But this is not a 'dark / light' of metaphor, but of the real and of relationship, where algae illumines the... -
'The Writing Occurs as Song': a Kelvin Corcoran Reader by Andy Brown 9781848613201
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $31.32This book offers a critical overview of the work of the British poet Kelvin Corcoran who, over nearly 30 years, has established a reputation as one of the most significant innovative British lyric... -
The Book of Yona by Sarah Cave 9781848619166
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61'Across an already diverse and courageously experimental body of work Cave has proved herself a poet and artist always worth anticipating with excitement. The Book of Yona is possibly her most... -
Hoard by Jaime Robles 9781848612822
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Jaime Robles' newest collection, Hoard, invites the reader to investigate the permeability of boundaries, those that connect and divide lovers, as well as the ones that contain buried treasures. The... -
At Large: Memoirs, Essays, Interviews by John Matthias 9781848615175
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $31.32At Large takes its title from John Matthias' "Editor at Large" column published during the last decade in Notre Dame Review. The book is in some ways a sequel to his previous volume of essays and... -
Poem of the End: 6 Narrative Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9781848617780
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Marina Tsvetaeva is acknowledged today as one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, a masterful innovator who produced a remarkable body of work before her untimely death in 1941. This bilingual... -
Only More So by Tony Lopez 9781848611887
Booksplease Price: $27.96In this twenty-first century poem, Tony Lopez samples and seamlessly combines writings from many fields of science and culture, composing by means of intuitive and discreet intervention something... -
Collected Earlier Poems by David Wevill 9781848618152
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $36.37The first volume of David Wevill's Collected covers all of his work originally published in the UK - although the books also appeared in the US and Canada. Four full collections are represented:... -
The Waving Gallery by Mervyn Taylor 9781848613300
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848613300Author Mervyn TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint -
Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman 9781848614772
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03"Hagit Grossman's poetry hovers through the city streets like a floating camera, observing the outcasts and scanning them in wavelengths that are usually beyond the range of our perception. But in... -
Bird-Woman by Em Strang 9781848614949
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03"Em Strang's poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideological concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan knowledge...