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Best American Experimental Writing by Cole Swensen 9781890650964
Booksplease Price: £15.82BAX compiles the best writing inspired by an experimental ethos written in North America in 2013. It features 75 works by a diverse range of emerging and established writers. The anthology is a vital... -
Sorry Was in the Woods by Michelle Taransky 9781890650810
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12In a woods where bodger and cabinet maker are at work, Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where perspective is not singular, where waiting,... -
from unincorporated territory ^lukao] by Craig Santos Perez 9781632430410
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £11.05from unincorporated territory [lukao] is the fourth book in native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), and his current... -
Ventifacts by Christine Hume 9781890650650
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.36Ventifacts begins the year Christine Hume's daughter develops a wind phobia, but quickly blows into lyric investigations of the wind in art, politics, and literature, highlighting the currents... -
Goddess of Democracy: an Occupy lyric by Henry Wei Leung 9781632430403
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize Written in and of the protest encampments of one of the most sophisticated Occupy movements in recent history,... -
Guera by Rebecca Gaydos 9781632430243
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Invoking a Mexican slang term that translates roughly as "white girl," Guera considers how the body's meaning as a racialized, gendered, and sexualized surface shifts as it crosses linguistic and... -
Subterranean by Richard Greenfield 9781632430502
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £11.91The elegies that comprise Richard Greenfield's third book of poems, Subterranean, open the rhetoric of the form in new ways, creating a site of grieving that transcends a focus on the death of the... -
Of Annunciations by Ewa Chrusciel 9781632430397
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.18In her book, Chrusciel maps the biblical event of annunciation onto the current migration crises. Annunciation becomes a symbol of the "yes" that we utter in front of reality, particularly confronted... -
From Unincorporated Territory [hacha] by Craig Santos Perez 9781632430496
Booksplease Price: £13.24From Unincorporated Territory [hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam). Perez weaves... -
In a Town Called Mundomuerto by Randall Silvis 9781890650193
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.26A lyrical story of bittersweet memories and the enduring power of love, this is the tale of an old man reciting the same story of Lucia Luna he has told hundreds of times to a young boy. The boy can... -
Debts & Lessons by Lynn Xu 9781890650803
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The poems in Lynn Xu's striking debut collection, Debts & Lessons, travel under the power of history's illusory engine and echo its ululations of love, violence, and lament. Named after the first... -
Oil Spell by Claire Marie Stancek 9781632430557
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Oil Spell gathers many of today's dark energies-US drone strikes, environmental disaster-and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influences-Dorothy... -
Day Counter by Sara Mumolo 9781632430601
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Sometimes collage essay, sometimes daybook, sometimes poetry, Day Counter offers snapshots of daily life-at home, in the workplace, and within the societal (often politically-charged) meeting-grounds... -
The Icelandic Cure by J.D. Moyer 9781632430519
Booksplease Price: £6.04In the year 2021, Jane Tokugawa leads a U.S. delegation from the Centers for Disease Control to investigate a new retroviral gene therapy approved in Iceland, a shining nation churning out Olympic... -
Defensible Space/if a crow— Ian Lockaby 9781632431592
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.31Experimental poetry that embraces shifts, adaptation, and the unknown as a means to move beyond old and dying worlds. Considering how we might detox from old languages, systems, and modes of life,... -
Clay Martha Ronk 9781632431677
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.49Poetry that finds meaning and connection in the process of creating pottery from clay. The poems in Clay look to the process of forming clay on a potter's wheel to examine our sense of touch and... -
The Wayfarer Cyrus Console 9781632431561
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.47Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse. Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents... -
One Big Time 9798891060142
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Lisa Fishman's latest collection, One Big Time, is a stunning articulation of the author's "journey-in-place" in the environs around a one-room cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen... -
Omitting All That Is Usually Said Robin Caton 9781632431554
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.96Poems that consider the complexities of human life and the ways that we perceive reality. In Omitting All That is Usually Said, Robin Caton explores the nature of light, form, language, meaning,... -
Inventorys Sam Creely 9781632431639
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.45A poetic documentation of imperial structures through the story of a shipwrecked Spanish trade vessel. In this work of hybrid historiography, Sam Creely modulates the English sentence to map the... -
The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian Brody Parrish Craig 9781632431530
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.64A poetry collection that questions the current construction of psychiatric treatment while speaking through lived experience and advocating for disability justice. The poems of Brody Parrish... -
Shadows and Clouds by Marcus Stewart 9781632431264
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.31Stories that question our experience of time, truth, and memory. Through the stories in Shadows and Clouds, Marcus Stewart invites us to consider how things are not always as they appear or as we... -
Extraordinary Tides by Pattie Mccarthy 9781632431172
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £10.43A poetry chapbook that reflects on shifting time and tides through the language of the shoreline. Pattie McCarthy's extraordinary tides occupies a space in the intertidal, the in-between place of... -
Descent Arria Deepwater 9781632431714
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.35A work of fabulist fiction that centers on the lives and protection of those living in sick, disabled, and other marginalized bodies. Arria Deepwater's Descent is a modern fairy tale exploring the... -
Apprentice to a Breathing Hand Laynie Browne 9781632431615
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Poetry that considers how we live with constant shifts, positioning alchemy as an example of endless change. The poetry of Laynie Browne's Apprentice to a Breathing Hand explores alchemy,... -
The Ghost Trio by Clyde Derrick 9781632431127
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £6.84A story set in Prague that crosses the lines between the living and the dead. The great love of your life is dead, but that doesn't stop him from communicating with you-or luring you to join him in... -
Percussing the Thinking Jar Maw Shein Win 9781632431608
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.48A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the... -
Etymologies by Walter Ancarrow
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27A poetry collection that playfully questions the meanings of words. Walter Ancarrow's collection Etymologies considers language as a process, rather than as a singular fixed history. These poems... -
Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974–2024 John Yau 9781632431752
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and... -
A Duration Richard Meier 9781950268788
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies-animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies-that are injured and... -
Turncoat Molly Bendall 9781632431691
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.64Poems set in a state of heavy surveillance as the speaker navigates uncertainty and shifting realities. Through the poems in Turncoat, Molly Bendall's sixth collection, the speaker and other... -
Hover Liza Flum 9781632431646
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Poetry and prose that takes on multiple forms to celebrate queer polyamorous families. Liza Flum's Hover focuses on queer polyamorous families, considering the ways people in radical family... -
Coda Steven Seidenberg 9781632431738
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.20Experimental lyric and narrative poetry that brings together philosophy, theology, and humor. The nameless narrator of Coda attempts to trace the origins of linguistic and perceptual... -
Two Appearances After the Resurrection Shane McCrae 9781632431721
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.79McCrae's latest collection considers the nature of perception and experiments with form and punctuation. This is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are... -
Everyone I Love, Alive Jason Bayani 9781632431684
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Bayani's third poetry collection considers how we might cultivate life in times of oppression and upheaval. With this collection of poems, Jason Bayani leans into traditions of lyric, song, and... -
Yours, Purple Gallinule by Ewa Chrusciel 9781632431103
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.70Lyrical satire that imagines mental illnesses as various bird species. Ewa Chrusciel's fourth book in English, Yours, Purple Gallinule, playfully explores health and illness as they are culturally... -
Naomie Anomie: A Biography of Infinite Will Jennifer Hasegawa 9781632431653
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms. Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of... -
PULSE Maria Nazos 9781632432162
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Named for the Pulse nightclub shooting and the rhythm of heartbeats, this collection of poems grapples with finding life amid profound losses. The poems of PULSE look deeply into a troubled world,... -
WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. Rodrigo Toscano 9781632431745
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27Poetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of peoples across the hemisphere. This four-part collection of poetic fables engages the emerging field of... -
music from behind a stone wall Steven Rood 9781632431271
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.27A collection expressing musical experience and daily life through poetry. The poems in Steven Rood's newest collection take on a musical sensibility as they flow from the poet's sixty years as a...