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A Presentment of Englishry by Liam Guilar 9781848616622
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Are you English?' is never a neutral question. In the 11th century a `Presentment of Englishry' was the offering of proof that a dead man was English and therefore unimportant. In the 12th century... -
Apocalypse: An Anthology by James Keery 9781784108182
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021. This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan... -
Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology by Andrew Louth 9780198261964
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £45.73This book seeks to exorcize the spectre of the Enlightenment by drawing on H. G. Gadamer's demonstration of `how little the traditions in which we stand are weakened' by the legacy of the... -
Among Communists Sinéad Morrissey 9781800174061
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes.About the AuthorSinead... -
Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird
Booksplease Price: £15.55In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are... -
Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall 9781800173903
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.04The poems in Near-Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes... -
Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity: Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson Beverley Nadin 9781032233024
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.97Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense. Observing Donaghy's critical perspectives on... -
Weighing Light: Poems by Geoffrey Brock 9781566636674
Booksplease Price: £16.21The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Geoffrey Brock's Weighing Light. From the glinting scales in a painting by Vermeer to the white lines that disappear beneath a headlight's... -
The Nameless Places by Richard Lambert
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A hotel with mysterious guests, a city where the moon wanders, an abandoned seaside pavilion, are some of the places visited in this, Richard Lambert's second collection. Structured around a movement... -
Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism by Gary E. Day 9780333629000
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers a much needed reassessment of F.R. Leavis. Gary Day argues that post-structuralist theory has defined itself in opposition to Leavis when in fact there are certain parallels between... -
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21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £32.02This revisionist narrative of poetic change in the twentieth century challenges the accepted notions of what poetry is and can be in the new century and makes the case for the seminal place of poetry... -
Call and Response by Rachel Spence
Booksplease Price: £7.35Call and Response is a sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter, addressed to her mother during her mother's illness. Hard-edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of... -
One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"One Eye'd Leigh" is a book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words. They find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day... -
In the Wake of the Day by John Ash 9781847770448
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"In the Wake of the Day" is a book of memories and journeys; from the chaotic energy of urban life in modern Istanbul, where John Ash lives, to the ruins of vanished civilisations; from personal... -
Egg/Shell by Victoria Kennefick 9781800173835
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024. 'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir') The lives depicted by... -
Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism by Gary E. Day 9780312164195
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book offers a much needed reassessment of F.R. Leavis. Gary Day argues that post-structuralist theory has defined itself in opposition to Leavis when in fact there are certain parallels between... -
The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life by Andre Naffis-Sahely 9780141984933
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . ... -
Under Tainaron Kelvin Corcoran 9781837380046
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Under Tainaron recasts elements of the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and is rooted in the locations where that mythology originated. On that basis the author's libretto discloses its poignant... -
Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't... -
Retrieved Attachments by Peter Robinson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson's new collection are to people and places, friends and loved ones, mentor poets and artists. Deploying the full range of his gifts, these poems are... -
Debris Daniel Huws 9781800175228
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Debris collects poems from Daniel Huws' first two books, Noth (1972) and The Quarry (1999), alongside a substantial set of new poems and translations, and a few occasional poems.Huws is now... -
A Newer Wilderness by Nicola Healey 9781915968043
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Prize.A Newer Wilderness gives voice to human powerlessness and existential conflict. Amid loss and oppression, attentiveness to animals and nature's immediate... -
Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War by Raphael Ingelbien 9789042011236
Booksplease Price: £72.07In Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphael Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish... -
The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel 9781800173293
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024. Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024. A The Telegraph Book of the Year. The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August... -
Foundations of Mental Health Care Michelle Morrison-Valfre (Health Care Educator/Consultant, Heatlh and Education Consultants, Forest Grove, OR) 9780323661829
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £43.80Build a broad fundamental knowledge of mental health concepts and disorders! Foundations of Mental Health Care, 7th Edition uses an easy-to-read, multi-disciplinary approach to describe the treatment... -
Ted Hughes and Christianity by David Troupes 9781108483896
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £81.16Ted Hughes is one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This book provides a radical reassessment of his relationship to the Christian faith, revealing his critically-endorsed... -
A History by Dan Burt 9781913513368
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A History is an elegiac 10-poem sequence, written about and in memory of Jill Robinson, a vital and continual presence in the poet's life for almost seven decades, until her death from cancer in 2018... -
Daughter of the Sun Rachel Spence 9781915628343
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the gentle rivers of Shropshire to the heat-baked seas of Greece, Daughter of the Sun radiates with mothers and tracks our orbits around them.The book opens with a sonnet sequence on Spence's... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
No Cherry Time by Jennie Feldman 9781910345818
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In its geographical sweep - from Israel / Palestine westward across Europe, then circling back to Greece - No Cherry Time reflects a personal tale of alienation, departure and quest. Fine-tuned to... -
The Fox's Wedding by Rebecca Hurst 9781912915958
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.50Rebecca Hurst's debut pamphlet is woven through with fairy tales, folklore and landscape. She uses the natural world, family mythology and the theory of fairy tales to unpack, embroider, and explode... -
Spirits of the Stair: Selected Aphorisms by Peter Robinson 9781848610620
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50When Peter Robinson published "Untitled Deeds" in 2004, a number of his readers expressed surprise that the writer who, as early as 1983, had been described as 'the finest poet of his generation' in... -
Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999 - 2016 by Hakan Sandell 9781784101848
Booksplease Price: £14.19Poetry rejoices even if the culture dies,over the girl with her first electric, how her high,thin voice, amplified many timesover by the loudspeaker, is like a giant'sin the green grass of the... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she... -
Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands Stella Halkyard 9781800174375
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and... -
Nineveh Zohar Atkins 9781784107390
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's poems offer humour and hospitality... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten 9781781381632
Booksplease Price: £39.80This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
Smoothie by Claudine Toutoungi 9781784104122
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Smoothie is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous,... -
Mirrorball by John Muckle 9781848615977
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39What are those distorted smears of colour in the mirror ball? Are they people? Look closer. Yes. They are people. They are us. And there am I, a small pink smudge, an arched eyebrow ... or perhaps... -
Master of Distances by Jordi Doce 9781848618862
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Master 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...