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A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album by Anthony Rudolf 9781848612921
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50A 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82“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: $26.50A 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: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The 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,... -
Flying School by Robert Saxton 9781848616424
Booksplease Price: $26.50Flying School is a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes -... -
Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 by David Lloyd 9781848612112
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50"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: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Apologies 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82"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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50"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... -
House at Out by Mark Goodwin 9781848614185
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50"In House At Out, Mark Goodwin steps beyond the physical landscapes of Back of A Vast, into a new topography: a world that is a "wild's inf i nite b its" approached through the gaps and hollows in... -
Lyrical Diagrams by David Greenslade 9781848612198
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50"Diagrams are meant to be clear and precise, serious and informative. David Greenslade shows them to be none of those. In his eyes they become murky and ambiguous, playful and misleading, harbouring... -
Origin Myths by Duncan Wu 9781848619401
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57In 2011 Duncan Wu moved into the forests of northern Virginia in a place largely unchanged since the Civil War. Here, he learnt, indigenous people had once lived in considerable numbers but at some... -
The Life of the Fields: Las cosas del campo Jose Antonio Munoz Rojas 9781848619500
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Las cosas del campo is one of three books of Spanish prose poems that are often cited as the most accomplished in this form in the last century. Las cosas del campo is about the people and the... -
The Ms of M y Kin by Janet Holmes 9781848610354
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin - the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of... -
Chamber Music Ted Pearson 9781848619265
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"Let us posit that the fate of poetry is the fate of the world, such that when the poet contemplates his mortality this actuality is conjoined to an unknown future of world that is yet not a mere... -
Handmade Equations: Poems 2000-2004 by Peter Dent 9780907562658
Booksplease Price: $26.50A collection of short lyrics by this Devon-based poet, imbued with his trademark compression of language.About the AuthorPeter Dent was born in Forest Gate, London in 1938. he amrrie and began taking... -
Selected Poems 1965-2018 by Jeremy Hooker 9781848617070
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales, and an English poet with a decided admiration for... -
The Knotting Poems by Martin Booth 9781848615953
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50In 1977 and 1981, Martin Booth-then a poet and small-press publisher, but today better-known as a novelist-published two collections of work about Knotting, the Bedfordshire village where he then... -
Nistanimera by Peter J. E. Hughes 9781905700288
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Nistanimera is a site of potent mergers: day and night, Greece and Italy, head and heart, liver and lights, dream and reality, within and without. Ideally it should be imagined as a cantata sung by a... -
Those 50 Lost Days and Nights by David Jaffin 9781848618794
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.25On Light Sources and Landing Rights: "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical." -The Chicago Review "I was moved, deeply moved by David Jaffin's... -
Hangman's Acre by Janet Sutherland 9781848610743
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The poems in "Hangman's Acre" are lyrical, weaving images of loss and of love, of grief and light, of language and nature. Where there is beauty it is beauty with an edge.Book InformationISBN... -
No Back Door by Mervyn Taylor 9781848611412
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57There are those inhabitants of islands who say they "'fraid sea", meaning they have an abiding respect for the restless ocean and for whatever lies unseen past the horizon. Sea have 'no back door' is... -
Antibodies by Alexandra Sashe 9781848612839
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The title of the collection-a term borrowed from anatomy and transposed onto the area of human relations (one's relationship with oneself as well as with others)-should be read in the ambivalence... -
That Nostalgia by John Mateer 9781848619081
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Focusing on experiences of dislocation and on the importance of image and translation, That Nostalgia records John Mateer's travels and his witnessing of the inequities and pleasures of life in many... -
Holiday by Jennifer Firestone 9781905700530
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57While ostensibly documenting a European vacation, Holiday interrogates historical narratives and artistic representations, examining patriarchal and nepotistic political and religious connections... -
For the Future: Poems & Essays in Honour of J.H. Prynne on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday by Ian Brinton 9781848614901
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11In June 2016, J.H. Prynne celebrates his 80th birthday. A major figure in contemporary British poetry, he and his work are here celebrated by friends and admirers, with new poems and essays on his... -
Siphon, Harbor by Brooklyn Copeland 9781848612020
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The poems in Siphon, Harbor are what happen when the element of freshwater is allowed to wash freely over the poet's intense and unabashed observations of new romance and the capricious nature of the... -
Collected Poems, Vol. 2 by Peter Riley 9781848616110
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $46.37A major event, the publication of Peter Riley's collected poems in two volumes covers his work from the 1960s to today. Volume 2 covers the period from the late 1990s to 2015, covering books such as... -
Ramanujan by Amit Chaudhuri 9781848617384
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82In these poems, written after the death of his parents, Amit Chaudhuri gives us both a record of loss and an account of tasting life afresh. Here, past and future are often conjoined, as are moments,... -
The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry by Harriet Tarlo 9781848610811
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that "landscape writing" need not... -
The Isthmus of Samuel Greenberg by Jeremy Reed 9781848615908
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Isthmus was Jeremy Reed's first collection, produced in a finely-printed edition by Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press in 1980. Overwrought, perhaps even over-written, it shows the author struggling with... -
The Orchard Keeper by Susan Connolly 9781848615601
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37Francis Ledwidge was a frequent visitor to the McGoona household at Donaghmore, near Navan, Co. Meath. Matty McGoona, an amateur naturalist and musician, became his close friend. A chance encounter... -
Dear Mary by Rupert M. Loydell 9781848615199
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.82In Dear Mary poet and painter Rupert Loydell writes about art and life and how they intersect. Fascinated by both renaissance and contemporary painting, he re-invents moments of annunciation in... -
Bare George by Claire Crowther 9781848614932
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37The design of a coin is an act of succinct aggrandisement. Bare George explores the coinage of power through a far more famous numismatic image: created in 1817 for King George III and his son, the... -
I-Formation: Bk. 1 by Anne Gorrick 9781848611184
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical ways of... -
The Long 1950s: Morality and Fantasy as Stakes in the Poetic Game by Andrew Duncan 9781848611375
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $34.00Where poetry is dominated by amateurs, its key ideas are the ones that nobody owns. Underneath the glittering cavalcade of conscious and innovative art is another world of poetry without technique,... -
Poetry & Covid-19 by Anthony Caleshu 9781848617599
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82The publication of this anthology comes a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. In the summer of 2020, we invited nineteen UK poets to partner with poets from around the world, to work collaboratively on... -
No Names Have Been Changed by Siriol Troup 9781848615441
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"No Names Have Been Changed, Siriol Troup's third collection, offers strong, strange visions. Her poems, assured and varied in technique, are equally at home in ancient cities or on today's derelict... -
Tottel's Miscellany by Richard Tottel 9781848611030
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.731557 saw the publication of this ground-breaking volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundation of two recently-deceased aristocratic poets,... -
Small-Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith 9781848618473
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The poems in James Sutherland-Smith's eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of "a down-at-heel Hapsburg town" and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past...