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Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry by Andrew Duncan 9781848614994
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.19Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating... -
Shift Perception by Helen Lopez 9781848610736
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Helen Lopez is a painter and poet who lives in Anglesey. This collection is her first book, but she has a long track-record as a painter with one-person exhibitions in England and Wales, and... -
With a Stranger's Eyes by Jeremy Hooker 9781848619708
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27With a Stranger’s Eyes is in two parts. The first, Dutch Girl is set mainly in the Netherlands, where Jeremy Hooker lived for four years with his wife, Mieke. The second, longer part records... -
The Dance at Mociu by Peter Riley 9781848613867
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty 'stories' of Transylvania, a part of the world that has fascinated the author for many years, and which he and his wife visited frequently around the... -
Amorgos Notebook by Elsa Cross 9781848614833
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as... -
The Mute by Lars Amund Vaage 9781848612600
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The mute-perhaps especially he-can be expressive too. That is one of the claims/assertions Lars Amund Vaage develops in these poems. Many of the poems concern work. Work can also be creation,... -
A Meteorologist in the Promised Land by Becka Mara McKay 9781848610835
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In these poems, the reader carries her 'lone heartbeat' while sifting through the confusion of a psychically, physically rubbled world. There is loss, transcribed literally as spaces in the poems,... -
The Wife of the Left Hand by Nancy Kuhl 9781905700066
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In her first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught... -
Urn & Drum by Lila Matsumoto 9781848615687
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"The world within Urn and Drum is a cornucopia of shapes, colours, and objects, fashioned almost as a gleeful, surreal picture-book; a playful naivety that leads to serious questions of what it... -
Bobcat Country by Brandi Homan 9781848610859
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Brandi Homan's "Bobcat Country" is the unholy love child of Lynda Barry and Ween. Fabulously honest, surprising, and hilarious, these poems are a TGIFriday's extravaganza of retarded... -
A Baltic German Life: Freedom, the Gulag and Beyond by Claus von Rosen 9781848613614
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Claus von Rosen was born into one of the Baltic Ritterschaften, the German-speaking landed nobility of the Baltic countries, then part of the Russian Empire. He prospered as an executive in... -
After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing by Jon Thompson 9781848610415
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62'After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing' lays bare the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with what Jon Thompson sees as a culture of violence and war... -
The Hoplite Journals (Complete in One Volume) by Martin Anderson 9781848612914
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06This compendium edition of all three volumes of Martin Anderson's The Hoplite Journals evokes events and places largely in South East and South Asia as well as the West, exploring allegiances and... -
The Dances of Albion by John Milbank 9781848613959
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Of this collection, the author says: "Since I come from all over the island of Britain, it is to me my locality in the world, as much as it is my nation. Of the perplexing variety of this... -
Honey Protocols by Monika Rinck 9781848619630
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Among many other things, Honey Protocols can be approached as a dictionary (offering peculiar and extravagant definitions of creatures and concepts alike), as a routine documenting its own abolition... -
Diversifications: Mayakovsky, Brecht and Me by Augustus Young 9781848610446
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Diversifications includes a long poem by the author, 'The Long Habit of Living', together with his loose reworking of Mayakovsky's classic long poem 'Cloud in Pants', and some loose translations of... -
Sarabad by Abdulkareem Kasid 9781848614420
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Well-known in the Arab world as a poet, essayist and translator Abdulkareem Kasid, born in Basra in 1946, escaped from Iraq in 1978 and went to live in Aden. He lived and worked in Damascus for ten... -
The Black Heralds and Other Early Poems by Cesar Vallejo 9781905700103
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Before writing his breakthrough poem sequence 'Trilce', Cesar Vallejo published 'The Black Heralds', his first book of poems, in 1919. Although heavily indebted to the aesthetics of modernismo,... -
Ficticia by Maria Baranda 9781848611238
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Ficticia was first published in Mexico in 2006. The book is a trilogy of long poems: an initial sequence bearing the overall title, a series of 'Letters to Robinson', and a 'Sky Cycle'. While these... -
The Clockwork Gift by Claire Crowther 9781848610323
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'The Clockwork Gift' is Claire Crowther's second collection of poems, following 'Stretch of Closures' which was shortlisted for the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection in 2007. The... -
The Sun-Artist by Susan Connolly 9781848613133
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32The Sun-Artist is a collection of "pattern poems" by a poet who has been experimenting with visual texts - often with a uniquely Irish "subject matter" - for several years. Her... -
Returns by John Welch 9781848619326
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27John Welch's new book, his fourteenth since his first full length collection appeared in 1984, is writing that reflects on the strangeness of continuing to make poems 'Like a ball / thrown from an... -
Horology by Derek Gromadzki 9781848617407
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Horology teeters on the brink; 'faience' and 'plumbago' float to the surface like literary flotsam but the vessel is never quite sunk. Words are strung like trade beads carrying faint signs of... -
Strangeness and Power: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Andrew Michael Roberts 9781848616004
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAndrew Michael Roberts is Professor of Modern Literature in the School of Humanities at the University of... -
Avia by Nathaniel Tarn 9781848610026
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Avia is a book-length epic poem that takes for its subject matter the war in the air in World War Two. The verse narratives are stories told by combat pilots from all the major battle theatres, but... -
Selected Poems by Alfred Kolleritsch 9781905700301
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Alfred Kolleritsch was born in Brunnsee, Austria in 1931, and now lives in Graz. He concluded his studies of Philosophy and German with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger. He is perhaps best-known as... -
Talk Like Galileo by David Sergeant 9781848611122
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Eggs, woods, football, nations, smoke, birds (common, other), tigers, murders, curtains, rivers, chromosomes, love (varieties of), Welles (Orson), pints, bras, partings, heartings, breakings,... -
The Distaff Side by Mary Leader 9781848618060
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848618060Author Mary LeaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher... -
Imagems 3 by Richard Berengarten 9781848619074
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32“The age both of present-day poetry and of poetry-to-come is irreducibly and inevitably transcultural, multilingual, international.” Together with his Imagems 1 and 2 (2013, 2019), Richard... -
Boombox by Rupert M. Loydell
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Rupert M Loydell's third Shearsman collection shows him continuing his forays into collage and experimental writing, but always with a lyric turn.About the AuthorRupert M Loydell is the editor of... -
Shearsman 89 & 90 by Tony Frazer 9781848611559
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2011. Contents will be announced in July 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781848611559Author Tony FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Shearsman... -
Shearsman 85 & 86 by Tony Frazer 9781848611108
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2010. The issue contains new work by Linda Black, Melissa Buckheit, Claire Crowther, Michael Farrell, Clive Faust, Angela Gardner, Giles Goodland,... -
Shearsman 67 and 68 by Tony Frazer 9780907562948
Booksplease Price: £9.42The first of Shearsman's double issues for 2006, no. 67/68 features new poetry by (amongst others) Anne Blonstein, Tilla Brading, Richard Burns, Claire Crowther, Devin Johnston, Peter Makin, Deborah... -
Shearsman 141 and 142 Kelvin Corcoran 9781848619340
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2024 features poetry by Josephine Balmer, Daragh Breen, Steve Brock, Carmen Bugan, Anna D’Alton, Amy Evans Bauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, Lucy Hamilton,... -
Beautiful Feelings of Sensitive People: screen grabs of British Poetry in the 21st Century Andrew Duncan 9781848619418
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.19Beautiful feelings of sensitive people is just a five-word way of explaining to someone who never reads poetry what we are hoping to find in a book of poems. It is the most unifying (and... -
Pictures from Mayhew.: London 1850 by John Seed 9780907562627
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Every word in this book by John Seed is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the 'Morning Chronicle' from 1849 to 1850, then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, 'London... -
Poems 1990-2003 by Harriet Tarlo 9780907562450
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50This is the first large collection of poems by Harriet Tarlo, and showcases all of her shorter poems from the 1990-2003 period. Her work is best described as "radical pastoral", and readers with an... -
The Eastern Boroughs by John Welch 9780907562436
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This is his fifth collection of poetry, containing work written over the last six years. As well as editing an anthology of South Asian literature, 'Stories from South Asia' (Oxford University Press,... -
At a Stretch by Ian Davidson 9780907562443
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Of this collection the author explains in his Afterword, "This book is in six parts. The divisions are porous and the parts bleed into each other. The poems were written using a variety of... -
What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 by Peter Cole 9780907562795
Booksplease Price: £14.34This volume is the first UK publication by Peter Cole, an acclaimed American-Israeli poet and translator. The book reprints the entire contents of his two US collections, "Rift" (1989) and...