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American Poetry Now by Ed Ochester
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £27.02American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary... -
ReWriting the Body by Wyatt Townley 9781622882168
Booksplease Price: £17.82The body is a poem we are writing with every breath, says Townley, who in her dual life has taught yoga for decades. Albert Goldbarth calls Rewriting the Body "affectingly emotional even as it's... -
Bluebird: Poems by James Crews 9781950584550
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.65Bluebird is a wide-ranging and open-hearted chronicle of the poet's life on an organic farm with his husband in rural Vermont. Written with clarity and attention to the moments that make life... -
The Quarry by Dan Lechay 9780821415337
Booksplease Price: £29.68Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there. Like James Wright, Robert Bly,... -
We Found a Hat Jon Klassen 9781406397116
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.97"The award-winning author of I Want My Hat Back is at his glorious best" Guardian, Best Books of the YearTwo turtles have found a hat. The hat looks good on both of them. But there are two turtles... -
The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland by William Barillas
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge... -
Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries: A Handbook by Richard W. Oram 9781442234970
Booksplease Price: £90.57Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of... -
Beautiful Trouble by Amy Fleury
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories of... -
Eight Mile High by Jim Ray Daniels 9781611861426
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.67In these linked stories, the constants are the places-from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar; from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a... -
Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Koozer by Mark Sanders 9781622880300
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £18.55The Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser is a comprehensive examination of the former US Poet Laureate's long-time contribution to American letters. For many years, Kooser's... -
Hip Hops: Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here... -
Detector Dogs, Dynamite Dolphins, and More Animals with Super Sensory Powers by Cara Giaimo 9781529510515
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Meet incredible animals with all kinds of highly developed senses and learn about the jobs they do in this fantastic book full of amazing facts, cool science and exciting activities, from the experts... -
The Quarry by Dan Lechay 9780821415344
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there. Like James Wright, Robert Bly,... -
The Purple Puffy Coat by Maribeth Boelts 9781406394702
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Beetle gives Stick Insect an attention-grabbing coat for his birthday - but is that what Stick Insect really wants? A delightful story about friends learning to understand each other.It's almost... -
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen 9781406390735
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Winner of the Kate Greenaway MedalWinner of the Caldecott MedalA New York Times Bestseller "There is character and narrative drive, suspense, menace, morality and a twist" The Sunday TimesJon Klassen... -
Mortality, with Friends by Fleda Brown 9780814348741
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.58Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer... -
We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The multiple award-winning and bestselling Jon Klassen presents the final tale in his acclaimed and bestselling hat trilogy, giving his deadpan finale a surprising new twist...Hold on to your hats!... -
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen 9781406387797
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Jon Klassen for the smallest hands! The very first HAT book in board book form."The funniest book ever written" Jenny Colgan, Guardian"One of the simplest yet most original and entertaining picture... -
Red Ocher by Jessica Poli
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In Jessica Poli's Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties,... -
The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems by Marjorie Saiser 9781496228123
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.372022 High Plains Book Award Winner in Poetry Marjorie Saiser's strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection... -
The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony by Ladan Osman 9780803266865
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.62Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman's speakers, who are almost always... -
The Kid and Me: A Novel by Frederick Turner 9781496206893
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In The Kid and Me Frederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln County War in what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals... -
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Caldecott Medalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull... -
The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: £20.87From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems by Roy Scheele 9781496230577
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The poems in Produce Wagon explore the vast and varied circumstances of the human experience. Roy Scheele delves into his love for his wife in "Remembrances," the opening poem from his first... -
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book II: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood 9780061791130
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Of especially naughty children it is sometimes said, "They must have been raised by wolves." The Incorrigible Children actually were. Thanks to the efforts of their plucky governess, Miss Penelope... -
Cold Snap as Yearning by Robert Vivian 9780803296237
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.64Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horse-woman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way, and this collection... -
The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Look up! From the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the Hat trilogy comes a new deadpan gem.Turtle really likes standing in his favourite spot. He likes it so much that he asks his friend Armadillo... -
Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave by Kim Dower 9781597096218
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.64**Gold Medal in Poetry from the Independent Publisher Books Awards** In Kim Dower's fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave, death has never felt so alive! Alluring titles to... -
This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains by David Stark 9780231165228
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places-the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of... -
Late Invocation for Magic Jim Daniels 9781611865745
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.34In poems selected from his long career, Jim Daniels focuses on Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, where issues of class and race and justice play out in the streets and kitchens and backyards and... -
Exiles of Eden by Ladan Osman 9781566895446
Booksplease Price: £13.19Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally... -
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In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot 9780803242975 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £1.25In December 1988, Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally disabled and utterly changed. "In the Shadow of Memory" is a candid memoir of...