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That Person Himself by Gerry Loose 9781848610385
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28A fox hears voices. A dogfox of indeterminate gender careers round desert USA, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in stolen cars & on foot. A barkingdog talks out loud & sings. A demotic fox listens... -
Avebury by Richard Berengarten 9781848615892
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44"I'm not a prophet, but I believe you have written a great poem..." --Octavio Paz (from a personal letter) "The note on the back cover of the first edition of Avebury describes the... -
Seeing and Touching: Ver y palpar by Vicente Huidobro 9781848617742
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50The Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) is one of the most important figures in 20th-century Hispanic poetry and, with César Vallejo, one of the pioneering avant-gardists in Spanish. Originally... -
Flightless Bird by Rosemarie Corlett 9781848618305
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Flightless Bird is a book of poems that explores the plight and place of flightless birds in our imaginations and in the world. Ostriches, emus, great auks and dodos fill the pages, sharing their... -
Lisbon -- What the Tourist Should See by Fernando Pessoa 9781905700752
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In 1925, Fernando Pessoa wrote a guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors, and wrote it in English. The typescript was only discovered amongst his papers long after his death, but has not... -
Wild Dialectics by Lisa Samuels 9781848612570
Booksplease Price: $13.25This poetry unhinges the sensible cultural body - any given order of relations among meanings and encounters - and activates other oscillations of the sensible, which might chime with acts of love... -
Bridge of the Ford: Visual Poetry from Drogheda by Susan Connolly 9781848614659
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"This is a love letter to the poet's home territory: the Boyne Valley, its fabled and blooded river, the port of Drogheda and the mouth of the Boyne at Mornington and Baltray. Susan Connolly is a... -
A Poetry Boom 1990-2010 by Andrew Duncan 9781848614239
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $20.89The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled again by 2000, then staying at this level. In the... -
Ballads of the Alone by Rupert M. Loydell 9781848613102
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25These five sequences of linguistically-driven word patterns, draw on the visual and written work of named photographers to explore ideas of seeing, language and being. Each line sits on an another... -
Collected Later Poems by David Wevill 9781848618169
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $24.45The second volume of David Wevill's Collected Poems covers work originally published in the author's native Canada - Other Names for the Heart (1985), Figure of Eight (1987), Child Eating Snow... -
The Last Days of Petrol by Bridget Khursheed 9781848617933
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Bridget Khursheed's interest is in ecopoetry and the teetering intersections between landscape (or the shape of things), nature and population. Her new collection, The Last Days of Petrol, centres on... -
Selected Poems by Ruben Dario 9781848617131
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13Ruben Dario (1867-1916), the Nicaraguan poet and founder of the literary movement known as Modernismo - somewhat akin to French Symbolisme - died more than a century ago, but his influence on... -
Designed to Fade by Mary Coghill 9781905700059
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Mary Coghill's first collection is a sequence of poems that seeks to engage with the problem of the role of woman in the city. Urbanisation is frequently seen as a male phenomenon, and it is usually... -
My Father: Mi padre by Eduardo Moga 9781848617575
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Like a glazier reconstructing a mirror broken into a hundred shards, Eduardo Moga assembles a portrait of his father, thirty years after his death, from tiny sharp fragments of memory. This is no... -
In a Time of Drought: Volume 4: Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten 9781848611788
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Set in the crumbling ruins of Yugoslavia, In a Time of Drought explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key figure is the... -
If Trees Allay an Earth Retrialling by Peter Larkin 9781848618954
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40“Larkin’s way of pulling language up by the roots – literally, as we have frequently to go back to the root meanings of words to understand his unorthodox grammar – does not make it easy for the... -
My News for You: Irish Poetry 600-1200 by Geoffrey Squires 9781848614338
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50The poems translated here were, with one or two possible exceptions, written between the 7th and 12th centuries AD, making them the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Latin, which arrived with... -
Memory's Morning by Anne Blonstein 9781905700769
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A musical phrase, a dream image, the absence of a lover, fragments of conversation with friends, an atrocity, the fragility and infinite mutability of words ...each of the 71 poems in this collection... -
Past Futures: Collected Poems by Clive Faust 9781848615403
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.72"Back forty years ago I wrote of The Gist of Origin: 'In such a bare age as ours, the truth, though terrible, is clean. The worlds of Chaucer, Homer and Tolstoy were conventionally realized... -
Day for Night by Richard Deming 9781848614857
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Much of this book is a dense, exhilarating ride through phantasmagoria, illuminated by bright, gleaming generalities: 'someone in the audience will wonder if that is how we are meant to survive... -
A Berlin Entrainment by Peter Hughes 9781848616677
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin. Of... -
Collected Poems, Vol. 1 by Peter Riley 9781848616103
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $28.48A major event, the publication of Peter Riley's collected poems in two volumes covers his work from the early 1960s to today. Volume 1 covers 1962-1997, encompassing books such as Love-Strife... -
Smoke Rising: London 1940-41 by John Seed 9781848614321
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"Despite exalted notions of the author, writers work with the materials they find around them and try to hammer out some kind of new thing with bits of discursive wood lying around and rusty... -
Cantilena: One Book in Four Spans by John Peck 9781848614734
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.72Thematically, Cantilena appropriates subjects familiar to the Modernist long poem: recent European and American history, art making, political corruption and the question of individual complicity,... -
The Return of the Man Who Has Everything by Rupert M. Loydell 9781848614192
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.40In The Return of the Man Who Has Everything, Rupert Loydell continues to explore post-confessional narrative in his poems, as he has previously done in Wildlife and the Smartarse anthology. The Man... -
Casket by Andy Brown 9781848616837
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44The Franks Casket is an 8th century Anglo-Saxon treasure chest in the British Museum, decorated with runes, some Latin text and images from various traditions. Each rune has a pictorial value: for... -
Spiritual Letters by David M. Miller 9781848614550
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44"The word 'spiritual' is, in this volume, ripped away from the New Age and returned to its sources in Kabbalah and early Christian (gnostic) writings. But it carries with it the world as we have... -
Imagems 1 by Richard Berengarten 9781848613126
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Imagems 1 contains six statements by a European poet who challenges modernism and post-modernism alike and extends (beyond) both. Richard Berengarten takes as his twin cues a statement by his mentor... -
The Messier Objects by Michael Zand 9781848614567
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The Messier Objects are a catalogue of astro-nomical bodies discovered and published by Charles Messier in 1771. In this new collection of poems, Michael Zand re-frames these objects as totemic... -
Openings: A European Journal by Jeremy Hooker 9781848613041
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Openings is a sequel to Jeremy Hooker's earlier Welsh Journal and Upstate: A North American Journal, permitting us a peak over the shoulder of a fine English poet at work, and on the move.Book... -
On Ruins and Return: Poems 1999-2005 by Rachel Tzvia Back 9781905700370
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40"On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005" is Rachel Tzvia Back's second full-length collection and tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the last... -
Airs by Maurice Scully 9781848618015
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Maurice Scully has published several books of poetry over a long writing life, most recently Play Book (Coracle Press, 2019) & Things That Happen (Shearsman, 2020). Things That Happen... -
The Sea Within by Gonca Ozmen 9781848611481
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In just two short books, Gonca Ozmen's startling and arresting poems have earned her an unprecedented reputation in Turkey. Her mysterious, dream-like imagery and her fresh, restless approach to... -
Book of Changes by Paul Naylor 9781848611993
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Paul Naylor's Book of Changes starts with the understanding that there is no greater change in our lives than death - except birth; birth is the change that continues to change. Both are difficult to... -
The Pursuit of Happiness by Laurie Duggan 9781848612228
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The Pursuit of Happiness collects shorter poems written during and after the composition of Crab & Winkle, and concludes with 'The Nathan Papers', an earlier and longer work written in Australia... -
Notebook of Signs by M. T. C. Cronin 9781905700110
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25M.T.C. Cronin's last Shearsman collection 1-100, was awarded two major literary prizes in her native Australia and also brought her significant attention both in the UK and the USA. Her new... -
Apologia by Craig Watson 9781848618848
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Craig Watson was a man of many talents, interests, and skills. He launched what would become a multifaceted career first in professional theater as a stage manager, producer, and manager of public... -
Shifting Registers by Ian Seed 9781848611597
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25With a fragmented yet rich lyricism, 'Shifting Registers' crosses borders between lost and rediscovered identity. The voices in the poems may be tentative and vulnerable, regretful and haunting, or... -
Charenton by Chus Pato 9781905700332
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In Chus Pato's poems, language is a cognitive-emotive artefact, and this in every living sense of the word: explosive. Her language welcomes cognition's pathways, and stylizes history, literature,... -
The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes 9781848616790
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $20.89Camoes (ca.1524/25-1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and Goethe elsewhere. A wonderful lyric poet, and also an...