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Due North by Peter Riley 9781848613942
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Due North is a poem in twelve chapters concerned with human movement northwards or out in the quest for work, subsistence, settlement and gratification, and in danger of getting trapped in various... -
The Voronezh Workbooks by Osip Mandelstam 9781848618350
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13Osip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his "Stalin... -
Venus Blue Gustaf Sobin 9781848619913
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13Venus Blue is a novel in pursuit of its own subject: a 1930s bush pilot and 'gorgeous vagabond' named Molly Lamanna. As the focal point of an intense devotion, Molly, nonetheless, defies description:... -
On the Margins of Great Housing Estates by Andrew Duncan 9781848619968
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This follows a 12-year year halt, and the first product of the new phase was With Feathers on Glass (2023). 'A history of shopping' was started around 2003 and falls on both sides of the gap. That... -
Face it M Stasiak 9781837380183
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A boy scratches his name on a staircase as the decades sweep him over him. Young people run from childhood to claim a city that may destroy them, while in the aftermath of a terrible event even our... -
From Hepworth's Garden Out by Rupert M. Loydell 9781848611245
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25From Rupert Loydell's first visit to this small Cornish harbour town - an event recorded in one of the poems included in this book - he, along with many others, has been fascinated by the combination... -
Aeneid: Books I-VI by Virgil 9781848614284
Booksplease Price: $28.39David Hadbawnik's astonishing modern translation of the Aeneid has been appearing in excerpts in a number of US publications, but this is the first time that a sizeable group of them has been bought... -
Not the Full Story - Six Interviews with Lee Harwood by Lee Harwood 9781848610019
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40To accompany Lee Harwood's new Selected Poems, we offer also this book-length collection of interviews with Harwood by his long-time friend and admirer, Kelvin Corcoran - himself also a Shearsman... -
Or Scissel by J. H. Prynne 9781848616219
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44This most recent experiment with words on the page continues the duet-passage between J.H. Prynne and the possibilities of lyrical transformation, subsequent eventually to Poems (Bloodaxe, 2015)... -
Sea Pie: A Shearsman Anthology of Oystercatcher Poetry by Peter J. E. Hughes 9781848612310
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Oystercatcher Press has published over 50 pamphlets of contemporary poetry in its short existence. It won the inaugural Michael Marks Award 'for outstanding UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form'... -
The Jazz Season: Selected Poems Edip Cansever 9781837380350
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Edip Cansever (1928-1985) was born in Istanbul. He grew up in a country transitioning from the Ottoman Empire into a modern Turkish republic. As a student of law and sociology he was widely... -
Les Chimeres by Gerard de Nerval 9781848614031
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Nerval is one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. His great sonnet cycle, Les Chimeres, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate... -
Destiny Manifest by Nancy Gaffield 9781837380299
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The poems in this collection were written over a 10-year period, beginning with 'Springtime in the Rockies'. This poem was sparked by an incident in 2014 where a bowhunter shot and killed a bull... -
Handbook of Foams: Manual de espumas Gerardo Diego 9781848619869
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Manual de espumas was published in 1924 and was one of the most important eruptions in the early phase of the 20th-century Spanish avant-garde. Heavily influenced by Vicente Huidobro and his theories... -
Strange Architectures JL Williams 9781837380251
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"This tour through Piranesian dreamworlds is also a tour through collective desire. With a subtle clarity, Jennifer Williams shows how our fears and longings manifest in architectural fantasies: the... -
On the Royal Road: with Hiroshige on the Tokaido by James Bell 9781848617865
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Long fascinated by Hiroshige's woodblock prints, and especially the famous Tokaido Road albums, James Bell worked for several years on an extended series of ekphrastic poems inspired by the second of... -
A Man of Heart by Liam Guilar 9781848618602
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50'A Man of Heart', the second part of 'A Presentment of Englishry', is the story of Vortigern and the end of Roman Britain. It is also a story about story-telling. It continues to follow the narrative... -
How Culhwch Won Olwn: A verse translation of the oldest Arthurian story Liam Guilar 9781837380121
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a prose tale, written in medieval Welsh, which survives in two manuscripts from the 14th century. The story, in its current version, probably dates from the... -
Arctic Poems: Poemas articos by Vicente Huidobro 9781848619937
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Huidobro published Poemas articos in Madrid in 1918, this being the last of a rapid series of publications which established him as a major new talent both in French and in Spanish. Poemas articos is... -
Pitch Lake Andre Bagoo 9781845233532
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95In Pitch Lake, Andre Bagoo, author of the Bocas prize shortlisted poetry collection, Burn, displays a continuing commitment to exploration and experiment.Andre Bagoo has been awarded The Charlotte... -
The Undiscovered Country by Andre Bagoo 9781845234638
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41'A manifesto, a literary criticism, a personal chronicle of literary life, a book of days, a stage wherein famous writers such as Walcott, Thomas, Gunn, Espada, and others become actors, The... -
Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Bulletin Alice Kate Mullen 9781913129750
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our... -
Paradise Takeaway by Alistair Noon 9781915048097
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Paradise Takeaway is a long poem with Luton Airport in it. Part memoir, part invention, it takes us along the bus and train routes of the London metropolitan area, not stopping at the eponymous fast... -
Home: 2021 by Emily Critchley 9781913513085
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.56Home, the latest collection from writer Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to many different manifestations of... -
Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies by V. J. Maharaj
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71This book, based on a conference organised by The Friends of Mr Biswas, explores the writing careers of Seepersad Naipaul and his two sons, Vidia and Shiva, within the sustenance and sometimes pain... -
night exposures by Gerry Loose 9781908251947
Booksplease Price: $12.91Combining pressing geopolitical urgency with a subtle and gentle lyricism, as we have come to expect from Gerry Loose, his new book ranges wide, broad and deep, to settle back home in the... -
Inner Verses Pam Rehm 9798891060104
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon Press) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehm's Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim,... -
Low Chrissy Williams 9781780375649
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35This new collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. These poems... -
Elevated Realms - An Anatomy of Mina Loy by Sara Crangle 9781399524322
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.70Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara... -
Poems of Love and Hate Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781852246457
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young... -
Chasing Catullus Josephine Balmer 9781852246464
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly... -
Elevated Realms: An Anatomy of Mina Loy Sara Crangle 9781399524339
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.49Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara... -
Classical Women Poets Josephine Balmer 9781852243425
Booksplease Price: $11.95Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... -
The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2010 Roy Fisher 9781852249595
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81This new expanded edition of "The Long and the Short of It" covers 55 years of Roy Fisher's poetry. Playing the language, pleasuring the imagination and teasing the senses, Fisher's witty, inventive... -
Slakki by Roy Fisher
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.52Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is... -
The Citizen: and the making of 'City' Roy Fisher 9781780375960
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55When Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had 'started writing like mad' and produced 'a sententious prose book, about the length of a short novel, called the Citizen' he was registering a... -
Poems & Fragments by Sappho
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne...