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Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year: Volume 8 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330416
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year is an anthology of classic and contemporary poems, all about the weather.This latest anthology from Jane McMorland Hunter... -
The African American Sonnet: A Literary History by Timo Muller 9781496828217
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize... -
Black Stories Matter: Amazing Artists J.P. Miller 9781526313768
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £6.06A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black people through history who made a differenceAmazing Artists explores the contribution of black artists to world culture, from... -
Black Stories Matter: Amazing Artists J.P. Miller 9781526313775
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.54A celebration of the lives and achievements of inspirational black people through history who made a differenceAmazing Artists explores the contribution of black artists to world culture, from... -
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda by Jesse J. Holland
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel's beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, penned by an all-star cast of authors such as Sheree Renee Thomas and Nikki Giovanni. T'Challa faces... -
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda by Jesse J. Holland 9781789095678
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.35T'Challa faces the gods of his parents. Vampires stalk Shuri and a Dora Milaje in voodoo-laced New Orleans. Erik Killmonger grapples with racism, Russian spies, and his own origins. Eighteen... -
Phases: Poems by Tramaine Suubi 9780063344914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063344914Author Tramaine SuubiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled... -
Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic by Robert Marovich
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 In September of 1963, Reverend Lawrence Roberts and the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed with rising gospel star... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford 9780252041006
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973
Booksplease Price: £13.87A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing... -
Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South by Ronni Lundy 9780807856567
Booksplease Price: £27.10Focusses on the connections through food in Appalachia and beyond. The stories, poems, and essays gathered in ""Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South"" were born along the winding roads of... -
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell 9780691130200
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was... -
Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons by Anonymous 9781668062555
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668062555Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y... -
Stages: Poems by Tramaine Suubi 9780063344952
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063344952Author Tramaine SuubiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Cuirt 21 by Alan Hayes 9781903631829
Booksplease Price: £11.98The Curt International Festival of Literature is Ireland's leading literary festival and is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. Cuirt 2l: The Cuirt Annual 2006 presents some highlights from this... -
Harlem Stomp! (New Edition): A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1934) is one of the most fascinating periods of American cultural history. When it was first released in 2004, Harlem Stomp! was the first trade book to bring this... -
Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition) by Margaret Walker
Booksplease Price: £12.27Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and... -
Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball by Ira Berkow 9780803262294
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.41Best-selling New York Times writer Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America's premier sport-and its fans-through interviews with a remarkable cross section of widely known and extraordinarily... -
Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature by Lee Clark Mitchell 9781501360732
Booksplease Price: £75.81Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the... -
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology by Amber McBride 9780063225282
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.41"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally... -
Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere by Anastacia-Renee 9780063221673
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063221673Author Anastacia-ReneeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £21.58While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
Poemhood: Our Black Revival Amber McBride 9780063225299
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally... -
Poetry People: A Practical Guide to Children's Poets by Sylvia M. Vardell 9781591584438
Booksplease Price: £56.67Dr. Sylvia Vardell's new children's poetry reference book provides a comprehensive introduction to more than 60 contemporary young people's poets. Focusing primarily on those who are still actively... -
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television by Gayle Wald
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri... -
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T Dungy 9781597090001
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine or hide with you in the dusk. "Cleaning" best sums up What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, an amazing poetry... -
Cheryl Johnson-Odim & Rashid Johnson: Heart-Turned-Inside-Out Poems by Rashid Johnson 9783906915814
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.34An intimate collaboration between mother and son, bringing together poems by Cheryl Johnson-Odim and drawings by her son, the acclaimed American artist Rashid Johnson.Poems by Cheryl Johnson-Odim,... -
Commissions y Corridos: Poems by Hakim Bellamy 9780826363176
Booksplease Price: £14.09Hakim Bellamy's latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New... -
A Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews by Patrick Toomay 9780826505736
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.68For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most... -
Love and Strange Horses by Nathalie Handal
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.10"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful,... -
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown 9780063278189
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063278189Author Jericho BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy 9780472035687
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki... -
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy 9780472117338
Booksplease Price: £47.25The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki... -
After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke 9780813534060
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.58The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of... -
100 Poems to Help You Sleep: Volume 2 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849949477
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A dreamy collection of poems to read before you turn off the light, or to guide you gently back to sleep when you wake in the small hours.This soothing anthology contains 100 night-time poems... -
Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works by Mary Loving Blanchard 9780313328848
Booksplease Price: £56.43Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
Style: A Queer Cosmology by Taylor Black 9781479825004
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental nature of style While “style” is equated with fashion or convention in common parlance, Style: A Queer...