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Apologia by Craig Watson 9781848618848
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Craig Watson was a man of many talents, interests, and skills. He launched what would become a multifaceted career first in professional theater as a stage manager, producer, and manager of public... -
Shifting Registers by Ian Seed 9781848611597
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57With a fragmented yet rich lyricism, 'Shifting Registers' crosses borders between lost and rediscovered identity. The voices in the poems may be tentative and vulnerable, regretful and haunting, or... -
Charenton by Chus Pato 9781905700332
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50In Chus Pato's poems, language is a cognitive-emotive artefact, and this in every living sense of the word: explosive. Her language welcomes cognition's pathways, and stylizes history, literature,... -
To be Continued by Anne Blonstein 9781848611733
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57In this collection, her second volume from Shearsman, Anne Blonstein continues to explore the possibilities of novel poetic forms. These poems have been compared to gemstones, changing "in sense... -
The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes 9781848616790
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $34.00Camoes (ca.1524/25-1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and Goethe elsewhere. A wonderful lyric poet, and also an... -
In a Mist by Geoffrey G. O'Brien 9781848613607
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"The spare, elegiac poems in Geoffrey O'Brien's new collection move at the borderline between actual memory and screen memory. I love their chiseled intimate strangeness. Reading them I discover... -
Fugue: Fugue State by John Wilkinson 9781848618985
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82Fugue State is John Wilkinson’s fifteenth book of poems, and the most fiery. In it, the world is thicker than ever, crowded with all sorts of things, from futures to the exhumed bodies of 80 girls... -
Life Has Become More Cheerful by Aidan Semmens 9781848615533
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82"Aidan Semmens is a poet who has always been fearless in confronting the plight of the world with its disturbed ways. The mordantly titled Life Has Become More Cheerful is a chilling quote by... -
Inventory by Linda Black 9781905700905
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82Linda Black's first collection consists entirely of prose poems. The author says of the collection: "I like how the form allows for an ending that isn't an ending - I don't believe in the idea... -
A Cloud of Witnesses by Kjell Espmark 9781848618237
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.57Kjell Espmark (b.1930) was Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University from 1978 to 1995 and has been a member of The Swedish Academy since 1981, serving as Chairman of The Nobel... -
The Invention of Culture by Lisa Samuels 9781905700851
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The poems in The Invention of Culture mix prosodic rhythm with prose syntax and variant line shapes, as though the page were not only paper but also screen and musical score inscribed by a languaged... -
Days of Earthly Exile by Alexandra Sashe 9781848617711
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Alexandra Sashe is a poet whose work is infused with a kind of religious ecstasy, and whose work has its roots in the work of Paul Celan and the mystical thinkers of the Eastern Church. Her... -
What the Things Sang by Giles Goodland 9781848610545
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If (to contradict Wittgenstein) poems are engaged in... -
Archilochus on the Moon by Simon Perril 9781848613065
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Archilochus on the Moon explores the tangled roots of lyric. History maintains that Archilochus was the first lyric poet, and in the ancient world he was second only to Homer in terms of poetic... -
False Memory by Tony Lopez 9781848611948
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50"[...] by far my favourite individual volume of poetry this year [was] Tony Lopez's False Memory, a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a... -
Hearing Still by George Messo 9781848610224
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The Middle East, both real and imagined, forms the background against which George Messo's third collection, "Hearing Still", shapes its recurring themes: silence, destruction, resistance, and... -
Berlin Fresco - Selected Poems by Norbert Hummelt 9781848610965
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82"Berlin Fresco" is the first volume in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher, Norbert Hummelt. Born in the Rhineland in 1962, he has been a freelance writer since... -
A Stone Dog by Aidan Semmens 9781848611658
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens's poetry-though, like the sports headlines he writes for the News of the World, his verse is grounded in word-play and... -
Englands Helicon by John Bodenham 9781848611054
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Following the publication in 1557 of Tottel's Miscellany, a number of other anthologies or miscellanies appeared. Englands Helicon differs from its predecessors in representing a particular style of... -
The Llyn Writings by Peter Riley 9781905700158
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Since the 1970s, Peter Riley and his wife have been making regular trips to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, and he has been writing a series of poems and meditations about the place - a... -
Parallel Lines by Dennis Barone 9781848611627
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57I have organized Parallel Lines somewhat chronologically. There are stylistic (not thematic) groupings which break the chronology and there are repetitions, such as a number of "breath"... -
Pigeons and Pussy by William Minor 9781848613072
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Two poem-sequences: Pigeons, and Pussy. A short poem on every page, 3 or 4 lines. The sequences presented on facing pages, emphasising the fact that the title word could be subtitled by the other if... -
In Five Eyes by Andrew Duncan 9781848612723
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50In Five Eyes recovers two almost-lost collections of poems-Sound Surface & Surveillance and Compliance-published some 20 and 10 years ago, respectively, but which were written in the 1980s and... -
Involutia by Deborah Meadows 9781905700196
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Deborah Meadows' fourth collection is a rigorous and spellbinding series of poems: innovative, experimental, and featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray & Gilles Deleuze... -
The Goddesses of Water: Las diosas del agua by Jeannette L. Clariond 9781848617612
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82All beginnings are empty, dawns to be filled with symbols, sediments, and imaginings from remnants of history, gathering from many sources. In August 2021 we celebrate the founding of... -
The Markov Chain by Ted Pearson 9781848615335
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"When Basil Bunting declared that 'Pens are too light. / Take a chisel to write,' I imagine he had in mind the kind of exact and exacting poetry Ted Pearson has been steadily producing for... -
Tripping Daylight by Peter Dent 9781848612341
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $21.82One might be looking at a game of consequences with serially switched pronouns ...or a stranger-than-life biography where missed moves and alternatives compete with the actualite for attention... -
Let's Not Call it Consequence by Richard Deming 9781905700660
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57In Let's Not Call It Consequence, Richard Deming's first full-length collection of poems, the poet brings together abstraction and precise images to explore the intensities and reversals of lyric... -
Country of Warm Snow by Mervyn Taylor 9781848617278
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $18.75In Country of Warm Snow, the author seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once. It is the life of an immigrant who has been in the US for fifty-odd years, whose heart, when... -
Enchant / Extinguish by M. Stasiak 9781848617629
RRP: $15.75Booksplease Price: $15.37M. Stasiak grew up in Newfoundland, and now lives and works in London. Her work has been published in magazines including Magma, The Rialto, Brittle Star, Interpreter's House, Envoi, Urthona, Iota,... -
Serpentine by Christopher Middleton 9781848615861
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Serpentine: A mineral or rock consisting of a hydrous magnesium silicate, H4 M3 Si2 O9, and having usually a dull green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance, resembling a serpent's skin... -
How the Light Changes by Steve Spence 9781848617902
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57This new collection brings together a mix of montaged and strangely juxtaposed materials composed over a period of several years between 2012 and 2017 and continues a tradition whereby images and... -
Shearsman 99 & 100 by Tony Frazer 9781848613331
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $19.78The first issue of the magazine for 2014, and a big anniversary, as the magazine's second series reaches the 100th issue. Originally appearing as a quarterly, the magazine converted to bi-annual... -
Birds and Fancies by Elizabeth Treadwell 9781905700165
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Rhyme and ancestry - literary and otherwise - become contemporary in Elizabeth Treadwell's newest collection, Birds & Fancies, which traces a deepening initiation into the mysteries and... -
Black Seeds on a White Dish by Shira Dentz 9781848611283
Booksplease Price: $21.57The poems in 'black seeds on a white dish' spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus-by... -
Under Balkan Light: v. 5: Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten 9781848611795
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.25Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book... -
Carillonneur by Agnes Lehoczky 9781848613461
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Poems in this collection take a new psychogeographical approach in order to explore urban landscape - both known and new districts of Sheffield and Budapest. Writing from the viewpoint of a outsider... -
Is That a Bruise or a Tattoo? by Sean Burn 9781848612945
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57sean burn's third full-length poetry collection ranges across poems on the great punk collage artist linder, on the little-known cumbrian sculptor / painter lorna graves and a moving tribute to the... -
Selected Poems 1988-2016 by Alan Halsey 9781848615397
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Selected Poems 1988-2016 focuses on Alan Halsey's longer poems from the period and brings together the previously scattered sequences Ars Poetica, Tracks & Tracts of the Lizopard, A Looking-Glass... -
Lectio Violant by Steve Ely 9781848617544
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"The poems in this book are improvisations arising from contemplative readings of four chapters of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible-Matthew VI, Mark V, Luke XV and Luke X. Lectio...