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The Guide to Being Bear Aware by S. J. Fowler 9781848615380
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Incorporating 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.25"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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"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... -
Thin Ice by Alice Kavounas 9781848613157
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of... -
Concert at a Railway Station: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam 9781848616011
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.28An 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: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Theodore 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: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"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: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02This 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Clearly 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"(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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848613720Author Mercedes RoffeFormat PaperbackImprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
The Pact by Jennifer Militello 9781848617810
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In 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: $22.58Booksplease Price: $21.32On' 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: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Barry 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40"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... -
Footnotes by Avik Chanda 9781905700677
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A first collection of lyric poems in English by Calcutta resident, Avik Chanda, who already has one volume to his name in Bengali.Book InformationISBN 9781905700677Author Avik ChandaFormat... -
No Man's Land by Tupa Snyder 9781905700608
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Tupa 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: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44I'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... -
From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781848616028
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.28Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921-1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following... -
Florilegium by Molly Vogel 9781848617025
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Molly 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: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"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... -
A Wind-Up Collider by Peter Dent 9781848616660
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616660Author Peter DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar 9781848613928
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Partly 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: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"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... -
Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed by Amish Trivedi 9781848616332
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Your 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The 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... -
A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne by Ian Brinton 9781848610422
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.11"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... -
Voices Carry by Mervyn Taylor 9781848614970
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Strands 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: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Pietro 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: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13"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: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The 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: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Scottish 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,... -
Kinetic by Michael Ayres 9781905700431
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Kinetic 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... -
Swimming Pool by Agnes Lehoczky 9781848615427
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Here the text or the poem is a swimming pool, a pool in which language or thought-as-body glide through cultural and or phenomenological spaces; fluid places for being, thinking or even swimming in... -
Collected Earlier Poems by Toby Olson 9781848619227
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $28.48Toby 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... -
Beckmann Variations and Other Poems by Michael Heller 9781848610873
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max... -
Track by Norman Finkelstein 9781848612068
Booksplease Price: $20.72Track is a book-length poem, originally released in the USA by Spuyten Divil in three volumes. "Norman Finkelstein's Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress. An excursis through... -
Give Some Word by Cralan Kelder 9781848611443
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in... -
Shearsman 101 & 102 by Tony Frazer 9781848613836
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.58The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2014 contains new poetry by Isobel Armstrong, Paula Bohince, Peter Boyle, M.T.C. Cronin, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Ray DiPalma, Tim Dooley, Michael Farrell,...