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Elegies by Harry Guest 9781848615960
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848615960Author Harry GuestFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Shearsman 143 and 144 Tony Frazer 9781848619784
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The first double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2025 features poetry by Martin Anderson, Claire Crowther, Keri Finlayson, Jane Frank, Amlanjyoti Goswami, David Hadbawnik, Matt Haw, Norman Jope,... -
The Lewknor Turn by Anthony Mellors 9781848613089
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Anthony Mellors was born in the fen country, where he had a troubled childhood and failed to attend various schools. He worked as a lithographic artist for printing firms in Skegness and Great... -
The Kindly Interrogator by Alireza Abiz 9781848617704
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning Iranian poet, literary scholar, and translator. Born in South Khorasan, Iran in 1968, Abiz studied English Literature in Mashhad and Tehran universities and... -
Equatorial & Other Poems by Vicente Huidobro 9781848618190
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This volume includes the 4 chapbooks published in 1917-18 and presents, at first glance, an odd mixture. Chronologically, we have The Mirror of Water, written in 1914-16, ostensibly first published... -
The Manager: v. 2: Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten 9781848611764
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34The action of this book-length poem unfurls in the public and private worlds of corporate man. The Manager is a poet's response to challenges thrown down by T.S. Eliot more than eighty years ago in... -
Little White Bull - British Fiction in the 50s and 60s by John Muckle 9781848613058
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.97Little White Bull takes a fresh look at the times before the day before yesterday, not the end times but the new beginnings, and tries to show how British fiction grappled with subjects as thorny and... -
Collected Shorter Poems: v. 2 by John Matthias 9781848611801
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The first volume to be released in an ongoing project collecting all the poems of John Mattthias. Two volumes of shorter poems and one of longer poems will form the complete package and, with this... -
Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House by Kent Johnson 9781848616998
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The provocative position of Kent Johnson in American poetry over the past two decades-as both its foremost gadfly and its anti-institutional conscience-is unequalled. Admired and abhorred in like... -
Sordello by Browning, Robert 9781848612525
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34A book-length poem that caused great consternation when it first appeared in 1840, Sordello became a byword for poetic difficulty, both because of its unfamiliar subject-matter (as now, few people... -
Collected Poems by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 9781848617964
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Gathering the work of a lifetime, this Collected Poems - first published in India by Penguin, and, with additional poems, in Australia by Giramondo -is a comprehensive collection of his work from... -
Gender City by Lisa Samuels 9781848611696
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Gender City is in our skins, in the law, in our names (like Trudi and Terra), in places like the Barbie Doll Museum, in events like falling on the sidewalk, being in prison in a city with buildings... -
A Book with No Name by Ken Edwards 9781848615007
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27It is not a book of poems.It is not a long poem.It is not a novel.Nor a volume of short stories.It is not a work of philosophy.It is not an object - like a stone.Yet it drops into the well of... -
Dramatic Romances by Browning, Robert 9781848612518
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34In Browning's bicentenary year, Shearsman publishes several volumes devoted to his work, starting with a collection of his shorter "long" poems, organised as the poet himself wished. 'The... -
A Suite of Dances by Mark Weiss 9781848617476
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50"Pound once observed 'that music begins to atrophy when it gets too far from the dance, that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.' In A Suite of Dances, Mark Weiss brings... -
New Selected Poems 1947-2008 by Ilhan Berk 9781848614611
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Ilhan Berk was born in 1918 in the Aegean city of Manisa. He once said "If a poem is written and goes out into the world, something in the world has changed." Berk's poems have been... -
Birds, Beasts and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence 9781848611573
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile-in Italy, France, Germany and the... -
Ada Unseen by Frances Presley 9781848616639
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62`Mathematical Science is the language of the unseen relations between things', wrote Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer visionary. She had a home on Exmoor and this landscape is reimagined... -
HMS Little Fox by Lee Harwood 9781848615939
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This was Lee Harwood's first major collection after his remarkable sequence of Fulcrum volumes (The White Room, Landscapes and The Sinking Colony) had established him as one of the most interesting... -
Shearsman 123 and 124 by Tony Frazer 9781848617193
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2020 contains poetry by Martin Anderson, Sarah Barnsley, James Bell, Katherine Collins, Jennifer K. Dick, Mark Dickinson, Carrie Etter, Amlanjyoti... -
11781 W. Sunset Boulevard by Simon Smith 9781848613225
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'The Waste Land may have been smoothed to automatic for the iPad, but Simon Smith's Gravesend makes the South-East coast of Dickens and Conrad a place worth missing connections again. All the digital... -
Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections by Lian Yang 9781905700912
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Riding Pisces brings together a number of hard-to-find and uncollected texts from almost the full extent of Yang Lian's career: from Masks and Crocodiles (Sydney, 1990-although the translations here... -
Selected Poems by Fernando de Herrera 9781848613348
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Perhaps the greatest of Spain's Renaissance poets, Fernando de Herrera (1534-97), a native of Seville, was the writer who took on board the experiments with Italian forms carried out by his... -
Couldn't You? by John A. Hall 9781905700516
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Couldn't You? brings together most of John Hall's poems for the page written since the publication of Else Here in 1999 - and writing for the page here assumes black ink on white rectangular paper,... -
Strange Country by Jon Thompson 9781848614826
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of 'the traffic of fear', and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a... -
The Poison That Fascinates by Jennifer Clement 9781848619555
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Having been deserted by her mother as a baby, Emily now lives with her father in Mexico City, and works in the local orphanage. When a mysterious cousin, Santi, appears on their doorstep, he brings... -
The Victor Poems by Anthony Caleshu 9781848614314
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Anthony Caleshu's Victor is a wild ride, an arctic adventure, a spirited quest narrative, a mad love poem to the imagination in all its unstrung wild joys. The exuberance of address in this... -
The Language Creatures by Isobel Thrilling 9781905700219
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Isobel Thrilling was born in Suffolk, and brought up in a mining village in the north-east of England; she read English at Hull University and spent many years as Head of Service for teaching English... -
Darklight by Toby Olson 9781905700233
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Author of ten novels (among others The Life of Jesus, Seaview and Utah) and over 20 collections of poetry (including We Are the Fire - Selected Poems, and Human Nature, both from New Directions),... -
Endtimes by Alan Wall 9781848612754
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27We always live in the last moment of history. No one has ever come any further in time. All ages shape their own apocalyptic vision, a way of understanding the perils and revelations that perennially... -
Berlin Bursts by Robert Sheppard 9781848611351
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and... -
Raven by Alan Wall 9781848612464
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32One of five chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, Alan Wall's Raven is a single long poem-sequence.Book InformationISBN 9781848612464Author Alan WallFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Maelstrom Origami by Steve Spence 9781848613546
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Steve Spence's new collection of poetry - his second from Shearsman Books - is a continuation of the mapping of contemporary cultural and political topics through the medium of montage, intervention... -
Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky 9781848616066
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Klange (Sounds) was Kandinsky's only poetry publication-a collection of prose poems, accompanied by 56 of his own inimitable woodcuts, 12 of them in colour. It appeared in late 1912, or early 1913... -
Jerzyk: Diaries, Texts and Testimonies of the Urman Family by Anthony Rudolf 9781848613690
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50On 13 November 1943, Jerzy Feliks Urman (known as Jerzyk) killed himself, thinking the Gestapo had arrived. He was eleven and a half. He and his family were in hiding in Drohobycz, during the German... -
Language Being Time by John Phillips 9781848619463
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Some poets live deep back, quietly, in far places, still. I love the poetry of my friend, John Phillips. He is a master of the compressed, cut lyric." —Kent Johnson."John Phillips writes with a... -
Landscape with Light by Jon Thompson 9781848613492
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Otherworldly, uncanny, melancholy, there like the past, like the present, the place (not the people) remains: a glimpse, a flicker, a trick of light that excavates the dark, the endless accretion of... -
Burn by Andre Bagoo 9781848614154
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Burn is a kaleidoscopic, surreal and stunning collection. Bagoo forges carnivalesque, enigmatic, experimental, vivid, wild and wonder-inspiring poems full of verve and utterly fresh language... -
Kobe House P.O.W. No. 13 by A. J. Locke 9781848612280
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.341st Sergeant Arthur "Bud" Locke was based at Clark Field in the Philippines, as part of the USAAF's Far East Air Service Command, in 1941. He was taken prisoner with many others in the... -
Selected Poems by Peter Hughes 9781848612716
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Peter Hughes, born in 1956, has been writing for 30 years, and this volume sums up his career to date. Already the author of two-and-a-half Shearsman collections, and editor of a Shearsman anthology...