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Within the Inscribed: selected prose and conversations by Michael Heller 9781848617513
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50The title, and to some extent, the thematics of this book, is based on the volume's epigraph, a sentence of Geoffrey Hartman's: "The sacred has so inscribed itself in language that while it must be... -
The Book of Things by Ilhan Berk 9781848614628
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Unparalleled in the English language, The Book of Things, Ilhan Berk's uniquely compelling lyric trilogy, is an uncommon meditation on the inner life of common things. Mud, bras, slugs and... -
A Ticket toTrilce by M.T.C. Cronin 9781848617506
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Cronin's remaking, re-envisaging, re-creation of Cesar Vallejo's astonishing masterpiece Trilce enables a re-imagining of many of Vallejo's lifelong obsessions: childhood, the family unit, poverty,... -
Melancholy occurrence by 9781848615816
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50John Seed has pioneered a form of documentary poem using found texts - developing the model of Charles Reznikoff, and likewise concentrating on historical events. Previous volumes for Shearsman Books... -
Drawing in Ash by Will Stone 9781848614598
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Drawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone's second collection. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the Roman ruins of... -
Radio Mast Horizon by Andrew Taylor 9781848612624
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27This collection, the author's first full-length book, gathers poems written over the past decade. The poems, some gathered from previous pamphlets, are concerned with place, love, identity and... -
In the Empire of Chimeras by Martin Anderson 9781848616165
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and non-native... -
More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry: Selected Poems 1989-2012 by Simon Smith 9781848615106
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the... -
Undocumentaries by Rosa Alcala 9781848610729
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'Rosa Alcala, originally from Paterson, N.J. is a true daughter of W.C. Williams with a distinct, gutsy, and penetrating identity twining a public poeisis with her own luminous particulars. I know of... -
Locust and Marlin by J. L. Williams 9781848613287
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Locust and Marlin considers how, in lives bright and brief as a candle's burn, we tell our stories and locate the places where we live and love. Where is the origin, our point in space from which we... -
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Damian Furniss 9781848614444
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39101 poems about power and its consequences, one for each year from the beginning of the Great War to the present day, together making a history of the past century. All is for the best in the best of... -
Shearsman 117 & 118 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848616035
Booksplease Price: £9.42The second issue of Shearsman for 2018 contains poetry by Martin Anderson, James Bell, Guy Birchard, Susie Campbell, Martin Corless-Smith, Cathy Dreyer, Carrie Etter, Khaled Hakim, Ralph Hawkins,... -
Forked Tongues: Galician, Basque and Catalan Womens's Poetry by Manuela Palacios 9781848612419
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Galicia, the Basque country and Catalonia have often found in Ireland an "Inspiring Other" whether for political, social or cultural reasons. This anthology engages in an intercultural dialogue which... -
Journey Around My Flat by Anthony Rudolf 9781848617698
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Journey Around My Flat is the fourth in a series of five memoirs. Previous volumes are The Arithmetic of Memory (on growing up in Hampstead Garden Suburb), Silent Conversations (where the author... -
House at Out by Mark Goodwin 9781848614185
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"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: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In 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: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Las 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34If 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"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: £12.62A 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34This 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: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62In 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Nistanimera 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50On 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27There 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Focusing 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27While 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34In 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The 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: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.08A 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: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39In 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: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Recent 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Isthmus 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: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Francis 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.39In 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: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32The 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: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"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...