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Strata by Ewa Chrusciel 9781632430564
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In Ewa Chrusciel's first book in English, Strata, an exile's memories are . . . at once a rapture of possession (of being possessed) and defeatingly untotalizable. Strata is . . . a tumultuous... -
Penury by Myung Mi Kim 9781890650377
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.70In Penury, Myung Mi Kim probes sanctioned norms of cognition by breaking communication into its most discrete components. With these irruptions and suspensions, she writes into extremes of forced... -
100 Words by Damon Potter
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94Written as a conversation, 100 Words is an exchange of ideas, dialogues, burdens, and ideals between someone White and someone Brown. Two poets, Damon Potter and Truong Tran, write to each other... -
Running to Stand Still by Kimberly Reyes 9781632430724
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the... -
Tribunal by Lyn Hejinian 9781632430663
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The three works of poetry that constitute Tribunal were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and-especially in... -
Variations on Dawn and Dusk Dan Beachy-quick 9781632430700
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £10.06Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in Variations on Dawn and Dusk follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of... -
Tropical Lung: Exi(s)T(s) by Roberto Harrison 9781632430892
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is... -
Borderland Apocrypha by Cody Cody 9781632430762
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.15The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican-American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of... -
Each Thing Unblurred is Broken by Andrea Baker 9781632430083
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12This is a book about deciding not to die - about the obstinacy of being. And it's a book of craft, in which steadiness of presence generates the illumination that flickers through states darkened by... -
The Drunkards by LM Rivera 9781632430540
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12When Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare was shattered/damaged/transformed upon being relocated to the Brooklyn Museum, through this violent act, this accidental fracture, a new manifestation of the medium... -
Anon by Steven Seidenberg
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.21Lyrical, aphoristic poems that move between forms and consider tropes of narrative. The narrator of Anon opens the sluice gates of embittered confession and philosophical reproach to release a... -
Luminaries Kristin Keane 9781632430939
Booksplease Price: £6.04Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn't understand her, and lately, she's begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick... -
t/here it is by T.j. Anderson Iii
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.70A poetry collection in nine sections that each take on an aspect of memory. The poems in t/here it is take multiple forms as each section reflects on variations of experience, engaging with the... -
Black Box Syndrome by Jose-Luis Moctezuma 9781632431226
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.70Poems that follow systems of chance and divination to counter corrosive financial systems. Jose-Luis Moctezuma’s Black Box Syndrome is a series of poems—or “black boxes”—based on black hexagrams in... -
La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living by Jennifer S. Hasegawa 9781632430786
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to... -
This Red Metropolis What Remains by Leia Penina Wilson 9781632430854
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.37Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial... -
Raft of Flame Desiree Alvarez 9781632430816
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep... -
Adam Cannot Be Adam by Kelli Anne Noftle 9781632430335
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Adam Cannot Be Adam is a text of constantly refracting mirrors providing us with insights beyond mere duality. These deft, inquisitive poems portray two Adams as external characters in an... -
The Color of Dusk by Robin Caton 9781890650087
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.50In The Color of Dusk, Robin Caton bridges traditions of secular, religious, modernist, and post modernist writing to encounter word at its most unsettling, provocative, and urgent. At times... -
Thigh's Hollow by Dan Rosenberg 9781632430137
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.46Thigh's Hollow locates the wound Jacob suffers from wrestling with a divine stranger, but in a voice more Esau than Jacob: a "box this telling comes through not of." These transgressions... -
Love, Like Pronouns by Rosmarie Waldrop 9781890650148
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.23With the title of her latest collection, Love, Like Pronouns, Waldrop demonstrates with deft humor the relational aspects of any discourse. And, she implicitly suggests the similar slipperiness in... -
Middle Time by Angela Hume 9781632430168
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £11.91A meditation on the body amidst a crisis of environment, Middle Time imagines the contours and limits (or non-limits) of bodies at a time when our attachments and our ecologies are increasingly... -
Storage Unit for the Spirit House by Maw Shein Win
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the... -
On Certainty by Karla Kelsey 9781632431202
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.48Lyrical poems that tell the story of a nameless woman navigating a technological dystopia. In the poems of On Certainty, an unnamed woman in a strangely familiar dystopia narrates a story of power... -
henceforce – A Travel Poetic by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard 9781632430687
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.96In henceforce, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though... -
Locus by Jason Bayani 9781632430632
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In Locus, Jason Bayani's poetry explores the... -
Since Sunday by Brittany Tomaselli 9781632430731
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £4.27What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In Since Sunday, we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse... -
Silences Martha Ronk 9781632430755
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of... -
The Breathing Place by Cal Bedient 9781632430823
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.99The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient’s fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before... -
The Orchard Green and Every Color by Zach Savich 9781632430182
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12In Zach Savich's new collection, intent seeing makes the present more present. Here clarity is a quality not of logic, but of perception-not of description, but of the landscape itself. The mysteries... -
ParaSpheres by Ken E. Keegan 9781890650186
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890650186Author Ken E. KeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Omnidawn PublishingPublisher... -
The Madeleine Poems by Paul Legault 9781890650483
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.21Ann Lauterbach, the highly esteemed poet who selected Paul Legault's manuscript for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, explains that in these poems, "History is here, in uneasy tangents; landscape is here,... -
The Unfollowing by Lyn Hejinian 9781632430151
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets... -
Sham City by Evan S. Harrison 9781890650636
Booksplease Price: £9.58Banishing poets from the well-ordered city did not prevent the creation of fictions: SHAM CITY is the capitol of fictitious capital, a no place of evaporating value where things sue for "damages... -
Aerial by Bin Ramke 9781890650605
Booksplease Price: £14.88Aerial is concerned with the sky-its cloud-laden aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second. And as poetry is always about attention to language, the words... -
The Real Subject - Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon with Sample Poems by Keith Waldrop 9781890650155
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Not exactly a novel and not really a poem, though it contains some verses and is not without characters, this work describes a man late in life who has been around and who's thought about what he has... -
In the archives by Christopher Arigo 9781890650315
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Against the alienation of an increasingly mechanised world, these haunting poems reach back to find where humans hold ideas and emotions: in the archives of their hearts and minds.Book... -
Desolation: Souvenir Paul Hoover 9781890650582
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.19Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoover's desolation : souvenir began as a "filling in" of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Auster's translation of Mallarme's grief-stricken notes... -
The Uncertainty Principle by Bill Mayer 9781890650063
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.46Many of these poems take as subject the encounters of the poet during an extended stay on the island of Paros in Greece. They demonstrate how language that intentionally draws little attention to... -
Tendril by Bin Ramke 9781890650261
Booksplease Price: £13.00By drawing the small instances of living to the forefront of meaning, this collection of elegant and lyrical poems reveals the value of simple events in our lives. Allowing the reader to follow the...