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When You Said No, Did You Mean Never? by Fani Papageorgiou 9781848612655
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Fani Papageorgiou gives us a poetry in which "almost everything happens in language" yet what is crucial is precisely what's covered by that harsh little word "almost," and in which "empty space is... -
Trick Vessels by Andre Bagoo 9781848612037
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Aptly titled are these poems: they are like vials without bottoms . held up, looked through, a universe can be discerned. They pour and continue to pour a mixture of guile and subterfuge, language... -
The Fool and The Bee by Martin Corless-Smith 9781848616448
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"A masque: it's all a mask, celebrating the "organic" . . . British nature (transplants to US), in layers of spring and subsequent decay, within a long cultural history and a (to middle age)... -
Into the Interior by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848618459
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Poets Kelvin Corcoran and Alan Halsey have often collaborated. In the past this brought us Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (West House 2001), A Horse That Runs: To & Fro with Wallace Stevens... -
"Proof…" by Peter Riley 9781848618855
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44'How do you get mortal harmony out of a stone box into the moving air? With ash and ink, and sing a lyric air with passion.' "Proof..." asks and answers this question in 27 short poems as only... -
this porous fabric: Selected Poems by Ulrike Draesner 9781848617858
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Ulrike Draesner is recognised as one of Germany's most important living poets, as well as being an original and daring writer of fiction. Her poetic language, recorded where breath and script meet,... -
Make Us All Islands by Richard Georges 9781848615274
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRichard Georges was born in Trinidad and raised in the British Virgin Islands where he lives and works... -
Alexander Pope at Twickenham by Alan Wall 9781905700998
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Accompanying Alan Wall's Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old... -
A Book of Psalms Alan Baker 9781837380176
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows... -
The Art of Walking by Sonia Overall 9781848614482
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Sonia Overall is a novelist, poet and lecturer based in Kent. The Art of Walking is a collection of responses to movement and place, reflecting the writer's interest in the relationship between... -
Everything Awake by Sasha Steensen 9781848617100
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848617100Author Sasha SteensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint -
Collected Poems by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848618923
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $34.17A major event, this volume presents some 40 years of work. "Corcoran has as wide a range and as rich a vocabulary as any poet now writing. He possesses a flawless ear, a fresh eye for image and... -
Shearsman 127 & 128 by Tony Frazer 9781848617643
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.15The first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021. Poetry by Charlotte Baldwin, Linda Black, Melissa Buckheit , Charlotte Baldwin, Susan Connolly, Harriet Cooper-Smithson, Claire Crowther, Amy... -
Anniversary Snow by Brian Yang Lian 9781848616707
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"If Yang Lian is new to you, I hope it spurs you on to read more of this extraordinary poet. If you have read him before, then you will find familiar themes here: the search for a mature wisdom, the... -
The Trusty Servant by Andrew Jordan 9781848618442
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40I chanced to see Old English verse in paragraphs like prose, obsolete characters redolent of atmospheres we are no longer encouraged to admit. An ancient tradition, reaching beyond us into new forms,... -
Her Various Scalpels by Sophie Mayer 9781848610408
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25These poems usher you into an intimate cinema where Gertrude Stein kisses Patti Smith. Where a bird steps through the screen and becomes a girl, where a girl moulds a cock and becomes a city, where a... -
All Space Away and in by Mark Goodwin 9781848615632
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44All Space Away and In ...is on mist-smudged snow just to our north or in a bulbous evolving sky or in a rhyolite bowl of wobbling Welsh syllables ...Here Mark Goodwin becomes involved with animals &... -
The Disappearance of Snow by Manuel Rivas 9781848612211
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Many readers outside Spain do not know that the acclaimed novelist, Manuel Rivas, is a significant poet in his homeland, writing in his native Galician. This volume redresses the balance, offering a... -
From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu by Tom Lowenstein 9781848612297
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50In the voice of an eighteenth century poet who the previous afternoon had written 'Kubla Khan', this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central Asian... -
The Waters of Marah: Selected Prose 1973-1995 by David Miller 9780907562665
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40'The Waters of Marah', subtitled Selected Prose 1973-1995, brings together the best of the author's non-poetic output. The prose here however mostly includes work that the author classifies as... -
Short Attention Span by Harry Guest 9781848616875
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Throughout his career, Harry has written occasional poems, haiku, squibs and jests, and this little collection brings together a range of them that will delight his readers.About the AuthorHarry... -
Night Window by Ian Seed 9781848619135
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"I go to Ian Seed's poetry whenever I need reminding of the possibilities or a good slap in the inspiration. A master of the prose poem and the unexpected lyric. There's a beautiful, painterly logic... -
What's in Store: Poems 2000-2007 Trevor Joyce 9781848619692
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $25.09What's in Store, now in a second edition (and first UK edition) was Trevor Joyce's first full-length book following the publication of his collected earlier poems, with the first dream of the fire... -
Palenque: Selected Poems 1972-1984 by Nathaniel Tarn 9781848619036
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.25Palenque was first published jointly by Shearsman Books and Oasis Books in 1986, and sought to offer British readers an overview of what the poet had been up to since his expatriation to the USA in... -
Hazard or Fall by Catherine Hales 9781848611139
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'I think the necessity of poetry is to irritate, to evoke the uncomfortable response. Scraps of language from different places and registers-radio, tv, conversations, lawyer-speak, etc. coalesce and... -
Our Lady of Pain: Poems of Eros and Perversion by Algernon Charles Swinburne 9781848616455
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Swinburne was born in 1837 in London and spent his childhood on the Isle of Wight and in Northumberland. He attended Eton and then Balliol College, Oxford, where he became friends with the... -
Shearsman 137 / 138 by Tony Frazer 9781848619104
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.15The second double issue of Shearsman imagine for 2023 features poetry by Serena Alagappan, Wendy Allen, Mark Byers, Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell, Peter Dukes, David Dumouriez, Marie-Louise Eyres,... -
Below This Level by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848616844
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive... -
Selected Poems by Lady Mary Chudleigh 9781848610484
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Mary, Lady Chudleigh was a confidante of John Dryden and a leading figure amongst the women writers of her day. In many ways a proto-feminist, while still a provincial aristocrat and devout... -
beyond by aonghas macneacail 9781848619050
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Aonghas MacNeacail (1942-2022) was a major Scottish writer from Skye. He composed poetry, songs, journalism, scripts, librettos and translations. Among Gaelic-speakers he was known as Aonghas Dubh -... -
Lessways Least Scarce Among: Poems 2002-2009 by Peter Larkin 9781848612426
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"For Larkin, landscape is not so much a thing as a process, a kind of prosody marked by opening (which the prose poem enacts through clearings of verse) and by colonizing, to a rhythm not necessarily... -
Silent Street by Marc Atkins 9781848615700
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Atkins' texts are unprecedented. His work gets stronger, more varied in tone, more versatile in every way. He has gone from a studied neutrality of registration to more personal inflections,... -
The Bloods by D. S. Marriott 9781848611511
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In The Bloods, his third poetry collection, D.S. Marriott's recurrent theme is that of memory and absence: 'bound to what is remembered/ what is absent'. In poems that both embody and inhabit this... -
Give Forest its Next Portent by Peter Larkin 9781848613843
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"Peter Larkin's sustained engagement with the poetics of scarcity registers the eco-philosophical ramifications of a resource economics now generating scenarios of absolute scarcity in the face of... -
In the Common Dream of George Oppen by Joseph Bradshaw 9781848611498
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The life of George Oppen (1908-1984) thwarted the expectations of a literary career. After publishing his first book at 26 with a preface by Ezra Pound, Oppen gave up poetry to become an organizer... -
Ancestral Lines by Jeremy Hooker 9781848615083
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Ancestral Lines is a sequence of poems about 'the river of desire' that flows through the lives of a family. In these poems Jeremy Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents, and an elusive great... -
Forgetfulness Ian Seed 9781837380114
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, and finally to a series of splintered memories... -
Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry by Tom Lowenstein 9780907562740
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume... -
These Numbered Days: Gezaehlte Tage by Peter Huchel 9781848616608
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"With Brecht, Benn, Bobrowski and Celan, Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post-war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena, Huchel is above all a realist... -
Thin Ice by Alice Kavounas 9781848613157
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of...