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Blue Yodel by Ansel Elkins
Booksplease Price: £16.74Winner of the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the... -
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown 9780063278189
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063278189Author Jericho BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Lyric Now by James Longenbach 9780226715995
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound’s make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever... -
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry Charles Henry Rowell (Texas A&M University) 9780393339406
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.52This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to... -
DARK HORSES: Poets on Overlooked Poems by Joy Katz
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.70Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's Dark Horses joyfully... -
Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets by Christopher Hennessy 9780472068739
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63This is the first book to collect the voices of our foremost and emerging gay poets. ""Outside the Lines"" gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in contemporary American poetry... -
Philoctetes by Sophocles 9780195136579
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £13.63Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £11.29Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195387827
Booksplease Price: £94.33Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New... -
As Burning Leaves by Gabriel Jesiolowski 9781597090254
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35The 2015 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award winner, chosen by Carl Phillips. An arresting whisper of a debut, As Burning Leaves is a record of what remains. It moves through... -
The Art of Running: From Marathon to Athens on Winged Feet by Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705043
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 490 BCE the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary 26 mile run to deliver to the people of Athens news of their city's victory over the Persians. Each year, all over the... -
Taking to Water by Jennifer Conlon 9781637680766
Booksplease Price: £14.38A debut collection of poems that question gender and embrace queerness through the natural world of North Carolina. A tender imagining and devastating reckoning, Jennifer Conlon's debut presents a... -
Clausewitz: A Biography by Roger Parkinson 9780815412335
Booksplease Price: £14.86Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz (1780-1831), Prussian general and military theorist, is most famous for his book On War, a work that has influenced numerous wartime leaders from Lenin to Henry... -
Westerly by Will Schutt 9780300188516
Booksplease Price: £18.07Will Schutt is the 2012 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition A young soldier dons Napoleon's hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous... -
The Best American Poetry 1995 by David Lehman 9780684801513
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise,... -
Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends by James Crews 9781635868951
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to `On War' by Jon Tetsuro Sumida
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36For nearly two centuries, On War, by Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz (1780-1831), has been the bible for statesmen and military professionals, strategists, theorists, and historians concerned... -
PN Review 275 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174184
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
The Fsg Poetry Anthology by Jonathan Galassi 9780374606442
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Poetry has always been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity, ever since Robert Giroux first brought T. S. Eliot to the company. FSG's personality and literary profile have been... -
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The... -
Shifting the Moon from its Orbit: A Night at the Acropolis Museum Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705180
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination, not a forest or mountain peak, but the deserted... -
Fabulae: Poems by Joy Katz by Joy Katz
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.37In Fabulae, Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, turning it over and over in her mind, constructing a sensual and striking autobiography. Her poems find flaws in how we live in the world and... -
Eruv by Eryn Green
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Eryn Green's Eruv is the latest winner of the oldest annual literary award in the United States, which originated in 1919 to showcase the works... -
Best American Poetry 2010 by Amy Gerstler 9781439181454
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78AMY GERSTLER'S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected... -
The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King Carolyn Forche 9781780373928
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said:... -
How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark 9781324035343
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.99Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms... -
Felling Volume 31 by Kelan Nee 9781574419313
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.56This collection is a record of one man's navigation of loss, addiction, and labor. At once a meditation on the allure of a legacy in self-destruction and a giving over to hope, Felling is an... -
The Lyric Now by James Longenbach
Booksplease Price: £18.63For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever... -
Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft Ellen Pinsky 9781032850115
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields -poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more- explore what drives them to... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 39 2009 by Janet Starkey 9781905739233
Booksplease Price: £52.01Contents: V.M. Azzara, Domestic architecture at the Early Bronze Age sites HD-6 and RJ-2 (Ja alan, Sultanate of Oman); Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels & Antoine Zazzo, Prehistoric camels... -
A Boy in the City by S. Yarberry
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88In this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the cosmopolitan, and intimacy. A Boy in the City uses poems as pillars to interrupt and excavate an... -
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 37 2007 by Lloyd Weeks 9781905739103
Booksplease Price: £49.06Contents: 1) Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin, underwater archaeology, and the Farasan Islands (Geoff Bailey, Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber, Anthony... -
A Shiver in the Leaves by Luther Hughes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from... -
So Much for Life: Selected Poems by Mark Hyatt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry. Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt's work survives thanks to the intervention... -
All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran 9781802060065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering ... [an] unforgettable collection' Observer'Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking'... -
How to Communicate: Poems John Lee Clark 9781324074793
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms... -
Copper Nickel (31/32) by Wayne Miller 9781733276023
Booksplease Price: £8.85Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally renowned American writers and nine translation folios with generous selections of work by internationally known writers from Argentina,...