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Illennium by John Goodby 9781848610941
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Set in 'South-Wets Wales' Illennium is a cut-up sonnet sequence which draws on recent theories about the social role of shame, as it kaleidoscopically traces the trajectory of a romantic attachment... -
Trigons by John Matthias 9781848611252
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Trigons derives its title from an obscure Roman ball game mentioned by Petronius in Satyricon. The word also has meanings in the fields of music, astrology, gemology, architecture, poetics, and comic... -
Shape-Shifter: a tribute to Gavin Selerie by David Annwn 9781848618732
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Gavin Selerie (poet, and Shearsman author) is currently one of the most skilful and imaginative exponents of the long, book-length poem in English. His friends and colleagues gather together here in... -
Sea Table by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848614215
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02In Sea Table Kelvin Corcoran brings it all back home. Not that it was ever very far away, but for twenty years or more he has been writing a lot of poetry concerning Greece and may have gained a... -
Greek Passages by Peter Riley 9781848610514
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"Greek Passages" is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power. The structure is entirely diurnal,... -
There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens 9781848617209
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €10.63Aidan Semmens's fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves... -
Small History by Seren Adams 9781848612457
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71Seren Adams was born in Taunton in 1989. Her family moved to Radstock, near Bath, when she was four years old. She graduated from University College Falmouth with First Class Honours in English with... -
The Explosion of Binary Stars by Debby Jo Blank 9781848611979
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22The Explosion of Binary Stars explores themes of loss in the author's own life and in the lives of her patients. The themes are universal: divorce, breast cancer, war, addiction, PTSD, aging,... -
Buried Music by Peter Robinson 9781848613898
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Hearing Rilke quoted at the Co-op, an experience evoked in the title poem to Peter Robinson's latest collection, Buried Music, the poet continues his work of discovering poetry in everyday, anywhere... -
Visiting Exile by John Welch 9781848610767
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Visiting Exile" is John Welch's first new collection since his "Collected Poems" and the analysis memoir, "Dreaming Arrival", published by Shearsman in 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781848610767Author... -
Collected Later Poems by Toby Olson 9781848619234
RRP: €27.31Booksplease Price: €26.28Toby Olson began writing poetry while in high school and he continued writing it while in the U.S. Navy, and later as a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He received a Master's Degree at... -
A Dynamic Exchange Between Us by Anthony Caleshu 9781848616318
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22“Caleshu’s new collection is magnificent. There’s something uniquely pleasurable and painful about the blinding insights in every prose poem. It’s like someone looking you in the eye and, unusually,... -
I'm working here: Collected Poems by Anna Mendelssohn 9781848617148
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.17Born near Manchester in 1948, Anna Mendelssohn authored poetry, fiction, drama, and life writing; she was also a visual artist, musician, and translator. From 1971 to 1977 she served time at Holloway... -
Condition of Fire by J.L. Williams 9781848611450
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Ovid wrote his famous stories of change just before being banished from the Roman home that he loved, and after travelling throughout Italy, observing its many diverse and vibrant landscapes,... -
Nothing is Lost: Selected Poems by Jordi Doce 9781848615304
Booksplease Price: €15.02This volume brings together poems from six collections originally published between 1990 and 2011. I have divided the selection into five sections that correspond, broadly, to the separate stages in... -
Municipal Love Poems by Simon Smith 9781848618220
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02'Municipal Love Poems' is Simon Smith's third collection from Shearsman Books, and is a companion volume to 'Last Morning' (Parlor Press) which appeared in early 2022. "Simon Smith's Municipal Love... -
Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat? by Omar Perez 9781848611320
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02This book takes up the experiment of connecting Buddhist practices to an American landscape. In a 2008 interview Perez states, "If Buddhism is to have a role in Cuban life it must be in harmony with... -
A Deafening Silence by Magda Carneci 9781848615564
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22A Deafening Silence is the first UK publication by one of Romania's leading contemporary poets. Selecting from over twenty years' output, this bilingual volume offers an ideal introduction to her... -
When Blue Light Falls by Carol Watts 9781848615267
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"As `blue comes on' in these elegies, a unique genre emerges, a lyrical epic that speculates on a world imagined through the physics of blue light, `cyanometrics', the blue waves of the spectrum,... -
Shearsman Magazine: Issue 107 / 108 by Tony Frazer 9781848614789
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614789Author Tony FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint -
Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems by W.D. Jackson 9781848610682
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02In 2002 and 2005, Menard Press published "Then and Now - Words in the Dark" and "From Now to Then", as the first two books of a three-part work-in-progress. "Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems" is... -
Scarcely Carry All Vast Woods by Peter Larkin 9781848619739
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02These poems explore further and future ways of plants and trees, and won't duck from being permeated at the same time by irradiating horizons or tensile symbols which perform a vital role in any... -
Field by Harriet Tarlo 9781848615113
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Field is a collection of poems based on the close observation of a single field, glimpsed from a railway line near Penistone (South Yorkshire), which has been edited down to 60 short lyrical poems... -
How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body?: The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli by M. T. C. Cronin 9781848610163
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Subtitled 'The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli' - a neglected 20th century poet much influenced by Celan and Vallejo - this collection represents the merging of two fine Australian poets... -
Paradiso by Gillian Rose 9781848614345
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Shortly before her death, philosopher Gillian Rose began work on a new book-her Paradiso-thus fulfilling her promise at the end of Love's Work to 'stay in the fray, in the revel of ideas and risk'... -
Grass Hut Work by Barry Hill 9781848614758
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"In the ancient tradition of poet-as-traveler-and-seer, Barry Hill's Grass Hut Work is, like Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior, both a travelogue of Japan and a journey inward, into what we'll call... -
Collected Sonnets by Gavin Selerie 9781848616899
RRP: €21.36Booksplease Price: €17.50Collected Sonnets gathers nine main sequences, along with extracts and fugitive pieces, from a 50-year span. It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously... -
Collected Poems by Claudio Rodriguez 9781848610095
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €22.55The first substantial collection of Claudio Rodriguez's work in English offers the complete poems, in a bilingual edition. Translated by Michael Smith (also responsible for the Shearsman editions of... -
Tokaido Road: A Journey After Hiroshige by Nancy Gaffield 9781848613782
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71This is the Libretto to Nicola LeFanu's opera, Tokaido Road. In 1832 the young Hiroshige sets out on Japan's great Eastern Sea Road, the Tokaido, linking Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The paintings he... -
The Lovemakers by Alan Wearne 9781905700967
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.92Centered on Australian suburbia in the 60s, 70s and 80s The Lovemakers explores the inner and outer tensions of families, friendships and society whilst charting the sleaze, mayhem and humanity that... -
Islander by Lynn Davidson 9781848616325
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"The title poem of Islander is an essential definition: not rooted in landlocked blood and soil but connected by sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland, the archipelagos of New Zealand... -
Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique 9781848617728
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the poet's death, it is a dignified elegy that speaks... -
Nettles by Luisa Futoransky 9781848614642
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Luisa Futoransky is a poet of lived experience above all, though not hers alone; other voices inhabit the work, whether of friends, lovers, fellow travellers (people she met or figures from history... -
What the Wolf Heard by Daragh Breen 9781848614963
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In the opening Lighthouses section of this volume the west coast of Ireland is recast as a kind of Burroughsian Land of the Dead, with the ghost-lights from defunct lighthouses mixing with those of... -
Poems 2004-2014 by Harriet Tarlo 9781848613591
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88A follow-up to Harriet Tarlo's 2004 collection, Poems 1994-2003, this volume is a major survey of the author's more recent work."Harriet Tarlo is at the forefront of a group of poets who take writing... -
Departures - Selected Poems by David Wevill 9781848612976
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02This 150-page collection covers the entire poetic career of David Wevill, who has faded from view as a poet in the UK since his departure for the United States in the early 1970s. His first four... -
Book of Rahim by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 9781848618800
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new book of poems, Book of Rahim, is his first collection of new poetry in twenty-five years. It contains extraordinary records of the everyday, as well as a frequent... -
At the Western Gates by Nathaniel Tarn 9781848615878
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02At the Western Gates was first published by a small press in New Mexico in 1985, and consisted of five powerful long poems that exemplify the best of Nathaniel Tarn's work in the late 1970s and early... -
After Russia: The Second Notebook by Marina Tsvetaeva 9781848615519
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Boris Pasternak is both the presiding spirit and the addressee of specific poems in After Russia, Marina Tsvetaeva's last collection, published in Paris 13 years before she died. The two poets... -
Vagabond Sun: Selected Poems by Judita Vaiciunaite 9781848616202
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.22In the post-war period, when most poets in Lithuania were writing about politics, or when they were focusing their lyricism on the pastoral, Judita Vaiciunaite (1937-2001), without ignoring either...