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Panic Cure - Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century by Forrest Gander 9781848612952
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50The poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido Garcia Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorria, Pilar Fraile Amador, and... -
The Complete Poems by Orhan Veli 9781848614376
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Orhan Veli Kanik (1914-1950), more commonly known as Orhan Veli, was a pioneering Turkish poet and one of the founding members of the Garip (Strange) movement. His innovative poetics wore a unique... -
My My My Life by Alasdair Paterson 9781848617520
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $11.52In My My My Life Alasdair Paterson treats us to a cornucopia of existential titbits, real or imaginary - from questions of pirate and Pictish identity to riffs on twilight and the twilight years, via... -
Textile with Birds and Shadow Keri Finlayson 9781837380152
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Drawing from, and reflecting on, the experience of teenage years stilled by illness and pain, for this, her second collection, Keri Finlayson has made poems concerned with the complementarity and... -
Littoral by Patricia Debney 9781848612938
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A year after her young son's diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, Patricia Debney spent six weeks writing in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. From the often bleak, always shifting winds and seas, prose... -
Symphony for Human Transport by Lisa Samuels 9781848615472
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'A moment in fast-forward and in fast-reverse, a moment suspended and dilating, a moment gathering into physical thought, thought open to the inrush of percepts time orchestrates as feeling and... -
Trees Before Abstinent Ground by Peter Larkin 9781848616752
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Trees become myriad versions (instalments) of themselves without verging onto an unsensing multiplicity as they traverse partially resistant or patient terrains: so these poems explore contrasting... -
Ornament of Asia by Alice Kavounas 9781848610613
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In "Ornament of Asia", Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language. Following on from "The Invited"... -
Livestream by Lisa Samuels 9781848618763
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Livestream is digital capture thrown elsewhere, body fluids that charge being, and planetary liquid flows. Livestream's poetry entangles with those phenomena. The poems erupt, stagger, hold, and... -
Advice to a Young Poet: Conseils a un jeune poete by Max Jacob 9781848618626
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'Advice to a Young Poet' is an English translation, first published on the centenary of the author's birth in 1967, of Max Jacob's posthumous 'Conseils a un jeune poete'. This was Jacob's last major... -
The Country Gambler by Erica McAlpine 9781848614819
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"It's rare to open a first book that combines beauty and authority: Erica McAlpine's The Country Gambler is such a book. McAlpine is a dazzlingly accomplished formalist...A powerful intelligence... -
A Long Weekend on the Sofa by Kenny Knight 9781848615014
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Kenny Knight's second collection offers more explorations of his Plymouth childhood and the absurdities, as well as the joys, of his adult years. He is still amazed by the fact that Lobsang Rampa was... -
Youthful Verses by Marina Tsvetaeva 9781848617315
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The poems in Youthful Verses cover the years between 1913 and 1915, a period of unparalleled freedom in Marina Tsvetaeva's life. Recently married and with a baby daughter, she chronicles in a... -
Singletary by Geraldine Clarkson 9781848619975
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44"The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat..." (Book of Revelation). Poems of comfort and cream, of Lima, intimes, and home; still lives, still life, still alive... Bookish ruts, mystic... -
Colours Nailed to the Mast: A Book of Ingredients by John Wilkinson 9781848619432
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Colours Nailed to the Mast is not so much a memoir as an immemoir, fretting at traces, gaps and losses that start to expose absence as the productive heart of my poetic life; for with poetry I have... -
The Summer of Agios Dimitrios by Peter Hughes 9781848610644
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"The Summer of Agios Dimitrios" started out as a poetical journal kept on the west coast of the Mani peninsula in Greece as the summer of 2007 turned into its autumn.About the AuthorPeter Hughes is a... -
The Modulus of Rupture by Peter Hughes 9781848618787
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Comments on previous work by Peter Hughes: 'a poet who stands at the very forefront of twenty-first-century lyricism' -Ian Brinton, P.N. Review 'Peter Hughes personalises and modernises... -
What Space Between Us by David Rushmer 9781848618299
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848618299Author David RushmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint -
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... -
Collected Poems, Volume 1: 1973-2004 by Frances Presley 9781848618114
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.72The first volume of Frances Presley's Collected Poems, 1973 to 2004, provides an important overview of her earlier life and poetic development. She experiments with modern and postmodern poetry and... -
The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy 9781848618282
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'I was happy being machine when round the bend beside a stream was birdsong happening in the trees.' Ruth McIlroy is a poet of the 'tilting world'. Her lyrics are charged with immediacy and... -
Branches of a House by Agnieszka Studzinska 9781848617773
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"From a Conradian vantage point on the banks of the Thames to Lodz's Piotrkowska Ulicia, the longest street in Europe, Agnieszka Studzinska calibrates her seeing on history's ruins making their way... -
Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems 1961-2012 by Rochelle Owens 9781848612587
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02A survey of the life's work of one of America's most original avant-garde poets and playwrights.About the AuthorA central figure in the international avant-garde for fifty years, Rochelle Owens is a... -
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Selected Poetry and Prose: "The Absolute is a Room" by John Riley 9781848614888
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28"By the time of his death at the age of 41, Riley had achieved a poetry whose importance is not circumscribed by the concerns and trends of its day. His finest poems are an embodiment of integrity... -
PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman 9781848618022
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50International PEN celebrated its Centenary in 2021. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, active in PEN for decades, was asked to record her memories. Writers' freedom and freedom of expression are vital for a... -
One Step at a Time by Alice Kavounas 9781848618947
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Whether Alice Kavounas is walking the bounds of her home in Cornwall, speaking across time to her brother, or wryly contemplating two funerary caskets, one containing a dog's ashes, the other those... -
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa 9781905700240
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50This is the only integral collection of Pessoa's Caeiro heteronym in English, and the poems are accompanied by the introductions of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Alvaro de Campos, two of Pessoa's... -
Master of Distances by Jordi Doce 9781848618862
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Master of Distances consists of a hundred or so prose fragments fluctuating between dream, nightmare and a harsh reality: the bleakness of ageing, and accompanying the loved one through a long and... -
Kelptown by Carol Watts 9781848617339
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"This is poetry at the edge of the land, but also at the edge of our horizon. Kelptown is Kemptown, so we are on the south coast of England. But this is not a poetry in which borders are fixed. What...