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Leaf Weather by Shira Dentz 9781848612273
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32"Veering - often within a single poem, often within a single line - from self-lacerating anger to desperation, from mordant satire of the confessional mode to stunned (and stunning) autobiography,... -
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross 9781848613997
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the... -
Selected Poems 1975 - 2010 by Ken Bolton 9781848612099
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34A gay, light-hearted type, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew,... -
I Heard it Through the Grapevine: ASA Benveniste and Trigram Press by Jeremy Reed 9781848614635
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, was not only a self-taught, one-off maverick genius as... -
Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light by Maria Baranda 9781848615434
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Maria Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation, born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efrain Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well... -
Cantes Flamencos (Flamenco Songs): The Deep Songs of Spain by Michael Smith 9781848612105
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women... -
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone 9781848614727
RRP: £10.75Booksplease Price: £10.27A new collection from award-winning poet Will Stone, whose poems have been described as haunting, beautiful, savage, lyric and visionary, inventive, searing yet poignant, mesmerising and original... -
The Release by Jeremy Hooker 9781848617995
Booksplease Price: £12.62Since Welsh Journal (2001), I have periodically adopted a form of writing that juxtaposes prose and poetry. The Release is a work of this kind, in which diary entries and poems are combined and... -
The Guide to Being Bear Aware by S. J. Fowler 9781848615380
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Incorporating a breathtaking sweep of international literary and philosophical influences and drawing deeply from the great European poets of the 20th century, The Guide to Being Bear Aware is a... -
Ascension Notes by Sarah Law 9781848610781
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Ascension Notes" makes a place for space and light. Language ascends and reflects back on itself in short lyrical poems and longer fragmented sequences. A woman, at a table, writing; Woolf's phrase... -
Interior by Linda Black 9781848619197
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Indelible and deeply resonant, Linda Black's 'Interior' demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. This collection constitutes a wondrous neo-Cartesian studio evoking an ars poetica that... -
Concert at a Railway Station: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam 9781848616011
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.62An extensive sampling of the whole of Mandelstam's career from his first collection up to the late poems that were memorised by his wife, when it was too dangerous to have them written down. One of... -
To an Unknown Shore by Theodore Enslin 9781848615557
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Theodore Enslin (1925-2011) is widely regarded as one of the most musical of American avant-garde poets. He was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His father was a biblical scholar and his mother a Latin... -
Pine to Sound by Nancy Kuhl 9781848614123
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"If an echo is a 'pining into sound,' Kuhl rewrites it in a way that gives pining uncommon agency - this is not a 'pining away' but a pining toward, a pining into. It's vigorous; it's vivid, but... -
Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics by Michael Heller 9781848612181
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.97This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and... -
Selected Poems by Mary Coleridge 9781848611399
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Clearly suggesting the influence of poets such as Robert Browning, Emily Bronte and Christina Rossetti, and paralleling the techniques of more modern poets such as Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew and D.H... -
Several Dances by Maurice Scully 9781848613362
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"(Scully's) innovations...take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any redisual mythos, & use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody...&... -
Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffe 9781848613720
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848613720Author Mercedes RoffeFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Pact by Jennifer Militello 9781848617810
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum... -
Simply Living Life by David Jaffin 9781848618565
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £16.53On' Light Sources' and 'Landing Rights': "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical." — Chicago Review "Jaffin's 'Through Lost Silences' offers a rare... -
Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill 9781848616080
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a `masterpiece'; Grass... -
Humming by Maurice Scully 9781848610590
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Humming" is Maurice Scully's first full-length book of new work since his "Things That Happen" project (1981-2006). Dedicated to the poet's late brother, it places human life in the larger frame of... -
Footnotes by Avik Chanda 9781905700677
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27A first collection of lyric poems in English by Calcutta resident, Avik Chanda, who already has one volume to his name in Bengali.About the AuthorAvik Chanda lives in Calcutta and is the author of... -
No Man's Land by Tupa Snyder 9781905700608
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Tupa Snyder's early life and education was in India. She grew up a child of the remnants of the Raj - the British Empire in India - in the isolated compound of a power plant in Calcutta, thirty years... -
Jubilate Messi by Steve Ely 9781848616134
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32I've played, watched and loved football all my life. Along with birds and birding it is my most enduring passion. So I thought I'd write about it. My original intention was to write a poetic history... -
Florilegium by Molly Vogel 9781848617025
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Molly Vogel's first collection of poems, Florilegium is an exploration of life written in 'the language of flowers'. The poems regard flowers as both symbols and means of communication; in a broader... -
Shape of Faith by John Phillips 9781848615328
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own accordant recognition as fact. So that to write is to read ourselves into being alive in forms we have... -
A Wind-Up Collider by Peter Dent 9781848616660
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616660Author Peter DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint -
Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar 9781848613928
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image, a... -
Back of a Vast by Mark Goodwin 9781848611191
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath. This... -
Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed by Amish Trivedi 9781848616332
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed is an exploration through a wandering mind in the middle of external chaos. The poems trace private and public histories, from Lincoln mythos to serial... -
The Underground Cabaret by Ian Seed 9781848617230
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39The prose poems in The Underground Cabaret form the final volume of a quartet, following on from New York Hotel, Identity Papers and Makers of Empty Dreams. "In The Underground Cabaret, Ian Seed is... -
A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne by Ian Brinton 9781848610422
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.12"A Manner of Utterance" offers a collection of responses to J.H. Prynne's poetry by his readers: not merely academics, but poets, composers, teachers and a painter (Ian Friend, one of whose works is... -
Voices Carry by Mervyn Taylor 9781848614970
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Strands of Trinidad, Mervyn Taylor's birthplace, are woven throughout this beautiful collection of poems that turn to memory and desire, an unsentimental saudade that contains what has been lost and... -
Reports after the Fire: Selected Poems by Pietro De Marchi 9781848617988
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Pietro De Marchi was born in Seregno, Milan, in 1958, and has lived and worked for much of his life in Zurich where he is a professor of Italian at the university. A widely published critic and... -
The Fabled Third by Liam Guilar 9781848619647
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50"The Fabled Third is the final instalment in the sequence that began with A Presentment of Englishry. It continues to follow Laȝamon's 12th century version of the legendary history of Britain up to... -
Selected Poems (1990-2020) by Gezim Hajdari 9781848619616
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34"Gëzim Hajdari's generous literary, scholarly, and editorial work extends across different countries and languages. Resistance, commitment, social justice, freedom, courage, and solidarity are at the... -
The Book, Behind the Dune by Andres Sanchez Robayna 9781848615229
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The Book, Behind the Dune is a long unitary poem about the birth of a poetic consciousness and its development in a world marked by the discovery of beauty, eroticism and the reality of evil... -
Seahorses by Hazel Frew 9781905700615
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Scottish poet Hazel Frew's first collection of poems offers tales of families, of growing up, and of the world around us, seen with uncommonly fresh eyes. "I like my poems to get to the point, be... -
Kinetic by Michael Ayres 9781905700431
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Kinetic is Michael Ayres' third collection. It displays a distinct evolution from the poetry of its predecessor, the epic and turbulent a.m. Embodied largely in short, lyrical poems, language in...