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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry by Mark Irwin 9781433134050
RRP: £85.25Booksplease Price: £75.42Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor... -
Climbing Back by Dionisio D. Martinez 9780393322620
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.35"Heartbreaking, overstuffed, seeping with history, lonelier than imaginable and truly in-the-face of American culture, Climbing Back's debris-field of prose poems tries with all its heart to outrun... -
Descartes' Loneliness by Allen Grossman 9780811217118
Booksplease Price: £12.99Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while... -
PN Review 276 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
PN Review 280 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174238
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The November-December 2024 issue.Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 279 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174221
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The September-October 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
Poems of Rome Karl Kirchwey 9781841598116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city -... -
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler 9780674821477
Booksplease Price: £27.97Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the... -
A Poetry Criticism Reader by Jerry Harp 9780877459958
Booksplease Price: £21.10A timely and informative collection, ""A Poetry Criticism Reader"" brings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the best and most illuminating poetry criticism from the past... -
The Lyric Now by James Longenbach 9780226715995
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound’s make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever... -
American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry by Dr. David St. John 9780393333756
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in... -
Forms of Late Modernist Lyric by Edward Allen
Booksplease Price: £119.01What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were in 1920 or 1820 or 1620? The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to... -
PN Review 273 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173729
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The September-October 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry,... -
Davide Rondoni: Art in the Movement of Creation by Gregory M. Pell 9781611478778
Booksplease Price: £76.51In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy's most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies... -
Forms of Late Modernist Lyric Edward Allen 9781835538029
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.29What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were in 1920 or 1820 or 1620? The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to... -
The Best American Poetry 1997 by James Tate 9780684814520
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Best American Poetry is the one indispensable volume for readers eager to follow what's new in poetry today. Sales continue to grow and plaudits keep coming... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of... -
Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire by Hugh Foley 9780192857095
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35What is the difference between the 'I' of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work... -
All the Rage by William Logan 9780472066315
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £17.46William Logan has been called the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. All the Rage collects his early critical works, including reviews and verse chronicles, a long essay on Auden's... -
All the Rage by William Logan 9780472096312
Booksplease Price: £69.77William Logan has been called the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. All the Rage collects his early critical works, including reviews and verse chronicles, a long essay on Auden's... -
Motherhood by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597652
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna... -
The Seventy Prepositions: Poems by Carol Snow 9780520240810
Booksplease Price: £22.32Carol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated as 'work of difficult beauty' (Robert Hass), 'ever restless, ever re-framing the frame of reference' ("Boston Review"), teaching us... -
Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry by Ann Keniston 9781609383534
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £37.48From Sylvia Plath's depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering "bits" to AIDS elegies' assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe's insistence that the... -
How Poets See the World by Willard Spiegelman 9780195174915
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.07Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472072910
Booksplease Price: £79.84Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472052912
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.89Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
The Lyric Now by James Longenbach
Booksplease Price: £18.63For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever... -
Dance and Disappear by Laura Kasischke
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the... -
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham Helen Vendler 9780674081215
Booksplease Price: £30.25Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form?... -
Enola Gay by Mark Levine 9780520222601
Booksplease Price: £22.32Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in "Enola Gay", his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche's The... -
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxinsHere, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.80The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book... -
All Souls: Poems Saskia Hamilton 9781472158741
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia... -
A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson by Thomas Gardner 9780195174939
Booksplease Price: £42.01Critics have said that Emily Dickinson has no heirs, that her poetry represents the zenith of the experimental method she developed in the mid-nineteenth century. Thomas Gardner disagrees. In this... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by Nikki Skillman 9780674545120
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £31.21Exploration of our inner life-perception, thought, memory, feeling-once seemed a privileged domain of lyric poetry. Scientific discoveries, however, have recently supplied physiological explanations... -
PN Review 281 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174719
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The January-February 2025 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 275 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174184
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
PN Review 278 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174214
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The July-August 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics by Dr Isabel Galleymore 9781350243279
Booksplease Price: £33.84Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of 'new nature writing', environmental writing includes works of poetry...