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Fulfilling the Silent Rules: Inside and Outside in Modern British Poetry, 1960-1997 by Andrew Duncan 9781848616097
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $34.00Why "silent rules"? Poetry is made of sound, in the form of speech, but is governed by rules which are not stated explicitly. As a help to readers, we try to tease out and make plain these... -
An Unofficial Roy Fisher by Peter Robinson 9781848611207
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.50Published to coincide with the poet's eightieth birthday, An Unofficial Roy Fisher is a showcase for the work of this extraordinary contemporary British poet. It begins with graphic work by Ronald... -
Reassembling Still: Collected Poems by David M. Miller 9781848613317
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73Comprising work from the early 1970s onwards, Reassembling Still is by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of David Miller's poetry, and includes all of his poetry that he wishes to... -
The Companion to Richard Berengarten by Norman Jope 9781848614475
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $43.53This book, which accompanies the volumes published in the author's Selected Writings series, guides readers through the many-faceted poetic output of Richard Berengarten (formerly Burns). Berengarten... -
Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend by Kenny Knight 9781848618145
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57'When I write I take things from everywhere / like a magpie and twist them.' The lyrical verve, wit and tenderness of Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend are signature qualities of Kenny Knight's... -
A Pair of Three by Claire Crowther 9781848618213
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Claire Crowther's fifth collection, A Pair of Three, is her most personal yet, a story of marriage to a widower. It explores a trio, wife, husband and first wife, in a love story that is moving,... -
Ten Contemporary Spanish Women Poets by Terence Dooley 9781848617223
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.25"‘Down from the mountain they forbade us swarm frantic men, brandishing their manuals of transcendental reason.’ The mountain is of course Mount Olympus, and the frantic men Spain’s all-male poetry... -
The Wire & Other Poems by Michael Zand 9781848612495
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37One of five chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, The Wire is a collection of new work by the author of Lion (2010), consisting of the long title sequence and a some shorter poems... -
Less Like a Dove by Agi Mishol 9781848614765
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"Agi Mishol, one of the most popular poets of Israel, captures the imagination and the heart of Israeli readers by observing common daily realities through a contemplative, sometimes meditative,... -
Bone Monkey by Janet Sutherland 9781848613478
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57This new collection from Janet Sutherland explores the deeply mischievous, but darkly malevolent figure of Bone Monkey. A trickster who has always existed, he's one of the old gods who sprang to life... -
Encroach to Resume by Peter Larkin 9781848617568
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50These poems entwine round such matters as how roots move as they grow or how feet plant themselves, why a forest admits lanes and lines but obstructs them into shelter, how a tree might relate to all... -
Two Interviews by Edward Dorn 9781848612785
Booksplease Price: $26.50As its title announces, this book collects two interviews with the American poet Edward Dorn (1929-99). 'The Peak Interview' (1971) was published in a Vancouver student newspaper and contains... -
Birds in November by Daragh Breen 9781848618589
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57From the Purgatorial state of the epigraph and an opening sequence that riffs on the epic Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot, through November's titular birds flitting in and out of existence, to the... -
The Man Who Spoke to Owls by David H. W. Grubb 9781848610477
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50This new collection brings together three central elements in the poetry and prose of David Grubb. There is the world of surreal identities, of wonders, disturbances, angels, fire sermons and... -
Species of Spaces by Ken Bolton 9781848615762
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"beautiful and sharp, critical and concise observations... gestures towards a neglected conversation between poetry and cultural studies in Australia." -Tim Wright, Cordite "... one of... -
Collected Poems by Karin Lessing 9781848611313
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Karin Lessing - born in Germany, raised in the USA, resident for decades in France - is one of those poets who exist outisde the tides of literary fashion, and indeed beyond the ken of most readers,... -
The Seventh Gesture by Tsvetanka Elenkova 9781848610842
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The most striking image of extreme eros and extreme pain is that of Christ on the Cross. This book of 77 poems by the Bulgarian author Tsvetanka Elenkova navigates between these two extremes. The... -
Affordable Angst: Selected Poems by Mercedes Cebrian 9781848618244
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Mercedes Cebrian is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food, decor, travel, taxes, relationships, celebrity-watching, the... -
Talk About Poetry: Conversations on the Art by Peter Robinson 9781905700042
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.57Talk about Poetry is made up of twelve interviews, conducted over the last decade or so for hard-to-find print and internet journals, in which Peter Robinson discusses such subjects as poetry and... -
a book of sounds by Billy Mills 9781848619289
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82In the Postface to his 114 Songs of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: "Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, and if they could, perhaps might prefer, if they had... -
Music's Duel - New and Selected Poems by Gavin Selerie 9781848610033
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73"Music's Duel" gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed... -
Hotel Shadow by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848611429
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82Hotel 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.50Tony 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: $23.00Booksplease Price: $20.16From 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82This 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: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"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,... -
Singletary by Geraldine Clarkson 9781848619975
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37"The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat..." (Book of Revelation). Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive... Bookish ruts, mystic... -
Shearsman 73 and 74 by Tony Frazer 9781905700349
Booksplease Price: $19.78The 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: $20.90Booksplease Price: $19.78This 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Tien 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50This 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50The 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82This 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82'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: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Burning 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82Peter 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82The 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82Aurora 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82"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... -
Cont. by Amy Evans 9781848614543
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614543Author Amy EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman...