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The Avengers by Stan Lee 9780143135784
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £33.88Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesStarting in 1961, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and their... -
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.56An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde's critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama... -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.74A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an... -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford 9780231187558
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.29A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays by Dora Malech 9781609388713
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £25.71Poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets,... -
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers Keetje Kuipers 9781960145680
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.75The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These unforgettable love poems-queer, complicated, and almost... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz 9780231200561
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.50There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
Seed Celestial by Sara R Burnett
Booksplease Price: £14.38Poems reflecting on contemporary political issues, mythological origins, and the capacity for hope in the face of uncertain futures. This collection weaves together themes of motherhood,... -
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root,... -
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers 9781960145451
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95The daring and deeply sexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with the embodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. These unforgettable love poems-queer, complicated, and almost... -
Rift Zone by Tess Taylor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.82RIFT ZONE, Taylor's much-anticipated fourth book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines-rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Taylor's hometown-an... -
Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram by Mike Chasar 9780231188944
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £90.83It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new... -
Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry by Robert Stilling
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.78During the struggle for decolonization, Frantz Fanon argued that artists who mimicked European aestheticism were "beginning at the end," skipping the inventive phase of youth for a decadence thought... -
Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram by Mike Chasar 9780231188951
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new... -
The Intangibles Elaine Equi 9781566895644
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Equi's poems insist that despite the fact that most of our everyday reality has been rendered accountable and computable, there is still a region of experience that escapes our GPS-mapped... -
Invasive species by Marwa Helal 9781937658939
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent... -
Maroon Choreography by Fahima Ife
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black... -
The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee 9780143135739
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.17"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
SLINGSHOT by Cyree Jarelle Johnson 9781643620091
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.312020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2020 FINALIST for the FIRECRACKER AWARDS SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation. ... -
Even Shorn by Isabel Duarte-Gray
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Even Shorn takes its title from the Song of Solomon and that Book's equation of pastoral feminine beauty with the plenty of harvest. Isabel Duarte-Gray argues that material bounty no longer exists in... -
How to Communicate: Poems John Lee Clark 9781324074793
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms... -
The Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers Mark Gevisser 9781788165150
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Guardian's Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil... -
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless... -
YOU by Rosa Alcalá 9781566897013
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.Rosa Alcala choreographs language to understand the body as... -
Repetition Nineteen by Monica de la Torre 9781643620145
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Monica de la Torre's first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after... -
Females Andrea Long Chu 9781804298213
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment by Rita Felski
Booksplease Price: £21.99How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end?... -
The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers by Lauren Arrington 9780198846543
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £29.18A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the... -
July by Kathleen Ossip
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country-whether ironic,... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment Rita Felski 9780226729466
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end?... -
Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21 by D.S. Marriott
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A... -
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi 9780063240094
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A... -
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.79Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A... -
Captain America by Jack Kirby 9780143135753
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.35The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre... -
Captain America by Jack Kirby
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.43The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre... -
Black Panther by Don McGregor 9780143135814
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.02The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre... -
Copper Nickel (31/32) by Wayne Miller 9781733276023
Booksplease Price: £8.75Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally renowned American writers and nine translation folios with generous selections of work by internationally known writers from Argentina,... -
Black Panther by Don McGregor
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.53The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre...