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A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoe Skoulding 9781848616905
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This year-long sequence of five-line poems takes as its point of departure the French Republican Calendar, devised by the poet Fabre d'Eglantine with the aim of breaking the power of the Church and... -
The Complete Poems by Cesar Vallejo 9781848612266
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.88This large volume brings together under one set of covers the three volumes published by Shearsman in 2005 and 2007: The Black Heralds and Other Early Poems, Trilce and The Complete Later Poems. Some... -
Selected Essays by Eduardo Milan 9781848614741
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614741Author Eduardo MilanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
A Nest This Size by Aidan Fine 9781848617360
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Aidan Fine's A Nest This Size is a journey embarked on via contradictory terms that occur when one attempts to explore the limitations of human (vs?) sentient abidance. Postmodern problems with... -
She Lives There Still by Mary Leader 9781848615847
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27She Lives There Still is Mary Leader's second collection with Shearsman Books. In some senses, it is an extension of her previous Shearsman volume, Beyond the Fire, in that it reinforces what John... -
Essays on the Poetry of Trevor Joyce by Niamh O'Mahony 9781848613393
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.97This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Republic of Ireland's most innovative poets of the past 50 years. Contributions from: Lucy Collins, Eric... -
Strata by Helena Eriksson 9781848612747
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The poetry of Helena Eriksson can be positioned within the Swedish literary avant-garde associated with the poetry magazine and publishing house, OEI. It is her strong, unique voice, however, which... -
Islands of Voices: Selected Poems by Douglas Oliver 9781848617179
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Douglas Oliver (1937-2000) was a poet with a substantial reputation in the late 1980s and 1990s, finding a larger audience for his socially-committed poetry in a way that no other of his poetic... -
Salt on the Eye: Selected Poems by Hanne Bramness 9781905700417
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This is the first collection of Hanne Bramness' work to be published in English for many years, and it surveys an increasingly impressive body of work, which won her the prestigious Scandinavian... -
Nuper Verba by Kent Johnson 9781848618572
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"If, as it has been claimed, the satirist is a left-handed writer, the analogy seems made for Kent Johnson's inimitable, fearless and much needed contribution - the one-in-ten, or more like... -
Gestation by Patricia Debney 9781848613669
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Exploring fragmentation, delusion and parental ageing, the long poem Gestation forms part of Patricia Debney's next collection, Baby.Book InformationISBN 9781848613669Author Patricia DebneyPage Count... -
Seated Woman by Guillaume Apollinaire 9781848618381
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was at the forefront of the aesthetic revolution that is the European Avant-Garde of the early twentieth century. In the accompanying memoir to his English... -
Walk Song by David Herd 9781848618428
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Written between 2015 and 2020, the poems of Walk Song build through a series of sequences which look to animate solidarities and the languages of rights. Taking their bearings from the Refugee Tales... -
Shearsman 129 / 130 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848617735
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021 contains poetry by Tomi Adegbayibi, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowski , Daragh Breen, Belinda Cooke , Stuart Cooke , Gareth Culshaw , Carrie Etter ,... -
Desire Lines: Unselected Poems 1966-2000 by Barry MacSweeney 9781848615793
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.92Desire Lines: Unselected Poems, 1966-2000 presents work drawn from across MacSweeney's writing life. Beginning with The Boy From the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother, which brought the 20-year-old... -
In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova 9781848619685
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her pen-name from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in... -
Optic Verve by Catherine Walsh 9781848610798
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Optic Verve" is the latest long poem by Catherine Walsh, perhaps Ireland's most radical experimental woman poet.Book InformationISBN 9781848610798Author Catherine WalshFormat PaperbackPage -
Collected Shorter Poems: Vol. 1 by John Matthias 9781848612792
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Chronologically the first, Collected Shorter Poems, Vol. 1 is editorially the third of John Matthias's three-volume Shearsman Collected Poems. It includes the poems that first made Matthias's... -
The Told World by Angela Gardner 9781848613713
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"With this fine collection Gardner's work achieves what one poem describes as 'beauty itself / taut against the half-life rendering.' Human experience is the shadow cast by these poems, and not the... -
News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries by Richard Parker 9781848613645
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34"This is a book that travels that road, on the lookout for the signs that speak most strongly to the now. Merciless war against mediocrity, sharpest eye and ear for syntax, awareness of culture in... -
Threads of Iron by Andrew Duncan 9781848612891
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Threads of Iron is Duncan's lost debut volume: not because it was never published, but because it never appeared as intended. Instead, the original was split into two and was published in two parts... -
The Purloined Letter by Fani Papageorgiou 9781848615649
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"The Purloined Letter has a dolorous stately piercing almost martial music, like an Elizabethan court dance or Miles Davis in his electric period." -Edwin Frank "...as Papageorgiou's curious,... -
Two Poems: Malvinas and Points of Collapse by Mario Sampaolesi 9781848612679
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The tensions present within the works of Mario Sampaolesi stem from the conflicted relationship with reality that powers poetry itself, an electrical charge created by a constant flitting between... -
An Experiment in Navigation by Rupert M. Loydell 9781905700943
Booksplease Price: £14.34Rupert Loydell's second Shearsman collection is another large compendium of his many-faceted experimental writing. "More than ever, Rupert Loydell's new book An Experiment in Navigation reminds me... -
Ananios of Kleitor by George D. Economou 9781848610330
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet largely unknown and hitherto unread outside of a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's... -
A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album by Anthony Rudolf 9781848612921
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album is a postscript to Anthony Rudolf's memoir of childhood, The Arithmetic of Memory (1999) and accompanies the newly published Silent Conversations: A Reader's Life... -
Magnification Forty by Tsvetanka Elenkova 9781848619005
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39“These miraculous poems of everyday matter magnified by forty reveal our world in all its pristine glory – reminiscent of Pablo Neruda’s household odes, but stranger. Her sketches of waterfalls are... -
Bindings with Discords by Pete Smith 9781848614116
Booksplease Price: £12.62A first full-length collection in the UK for Pete Smith, a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with... -
The Kangaroo Farm by Martin Harrison 9781848617018
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The Kangaroo Farm first appeared in Australia in 1997 and confirmed Martin Harrison's (1949-2014) reputation as one of Australia's finest poets. His poems of landscape and nature (and above all,... -
Shearsman by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848615137
Booksplease Price: £9.42The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2017. Poetry by Dennis Barone, James Bell, Marianne Burton, Makyla Curtis, Mark Dickinson, Khaled Hakim, Caroline Hawkridge, Julie Irigaray, Sarah James,... -
Flying School by Robert Saxton 9781848616424
Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616424Author Robert SaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint -
Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 by David Lloyd 9781848612112
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Intellectual, sensuous and knowing, David Lloyd's poetry shimmers across a lyric 'I' that disappears/reappears, where conventions are toyed with, suggested, then drowned in alternative possibilities... -
I am Not from Here by Maria do Cebreiro 9781848611115
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848611115Author Maria do CebreiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint < -
Are We Not Drawn ... by Peter Philpott 9781848610248
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Are We Not Drawn..." takes off from a palindrome quoted in Anne Michael's novel, "Fugitive Pieces": 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?' Drawn onward; but trapped in... -
Buying the Farm Eliza O'Toole 9781848619821
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Eliza O’Toole’s landmark work is much more than a ‘word-hoard’ of and around the farmland of East Anglia, the territory of Constable and Gainsborough. This is an angular book of linguistic... -
Shearsman 65 & 66 by Tony Frazer 9780907562764
Booksplease Price: £9.42This is the second double-issue in Shearsman's new format and contains the usual wide range of original work and translations. Among those featured in this edition are: Louis Armand, Maurice Scully,... -
Shearsman 77 and 78 by Tony Frazer 9781905700868
Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2008. Contents to be announced in July 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781905700868Author Tony FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprin -
Shearsman 95 & 96 by Tony Frazer 9781848612860
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2013. Contents will be announced in January 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781848612860Author Tony FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint < -
Shearsman: No. 79 and 80 by Tony Frazer 9781848610231
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The first double-issue of "Shearsman" magazine for 2009 includes poetry by Michael Ayres, K.C. Clapham, Kelvin Corcoran, Sarah-Anne Cox, Jen Crawford, Catherine Hales, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Norman Jope,... -
Shearsman 63 & 64 by Tony Frazer 9780907562481
Booksplease Price: £9.42Shearsman magazine has been running in a pamphlet-sized format for 15 years, and this double-issue marks a move into perfect-bound paperback format. Frequency moves from quarterly to half-yearly at...