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Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls by Suzanne Bocanegra
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63In Poorly Watched Girls, New York based artist Suzanne Bocanegra (born 1957) explores the ways that popular entertainment theatricalizes women in trouble. For the immersive video Valley, she... -
New Critical Perspectives on Ageing Women in the Writings of Doris Lessing by Laurenz Volkmann 9783631922132
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.70This book uses some of Doris Lessing's fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically, on the ageing of women. Lessing's fiction invites... -
Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear Sarah Shin 9781739371715
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Bodies of Sound began by enquiring into how sonic experience is intervening in realms such as gender, memory, disability justice, anti-colonial ways of knowing, and anti-war movements - responding to... -
Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence by Jane Hedley 9783319781563
Booksplease Price: £46.28Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in... -
Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives by Heike Hartung 9781350230613
Booksplease Price: £96.35This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Graz. Bringing together insights from... -
The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies by Tanis MacDonald 9781554583621
Booksplease Price: £72.86The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed... -
Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry by Cecilia Piantanida 9781350101890
Booksplease Price: £103.11Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic... -
A Map of Misreading: with a New Preface by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195162219
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.70In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how... -
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... -
How Greek Tragedy Works: A Guide for Directors, Dramaturges, and Playwrights by Brian Kulick
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage... -
The Best American Poetry 1999 by David Lehman 9780684860039
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Sales have escalated for THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY since the debut volume in 1988, and what has become a must for poetry lovers should stir even more excitement with Robert Bly as this year's guest... -
Slow Burn by Jordi Doce 9781915968067
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Suddenly there's a room missing in the house. Just yesterday there was a door, now it's gone. A path opens through the forest, which fades as you enter. Disappearance, absence, these are now integral... -
Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry by Barbara K. Fischer
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to... -
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps by Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann 9781501399503
Booksplease Price: £95.49Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence – to... -
Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide by Stephen Benson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This is the first anthology and guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. 'We murder to dissect' writes Wordsworth. It's a sentiment shared by many lovers of literature and art, as... -
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... -
Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique: Epic Proportions by Katharine Burkitt
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial... -
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion by Cynthia R. Wallace 9780231214186
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She... -
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics Laura Jansen 9780192870698
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £81.38Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years... -
The Forest of Sure Things Megan Snyder-Camp 9781932195880
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12Winner of the Tupelo Press / Crazyhorse First Book PrizeThe Forest of Sure Things is a layered sequence of poems set in a remote, historic village at the tip of a peninsula on the Northwest Coast,... -
Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing by Susan Mary Pyke 9783030038762
Booksplease Price: £76.10Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how... -
Appendix Project Kate Zambreno 9781913513689
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the... -
Night breaks apart, like pomegranate seeds in my palm: Poems Aakriti Kuntal 9781803095752
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.39Aakriti Kuntal wields language like a blade and a balm, carving out poetry that is urgent and unafraid to ask what it means to exist. What does it mean to exist within language-to shape it, and in... -
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond 9780691280462
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.02A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of... -
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond 9780691280448
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472072910
Booksplease Price: £82.00Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
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... -
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine by Kazim Ali 9780472052912
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.89Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects-the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry... -
Love Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780811237499
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £8.73Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare... -
Shooting Star Peter Temple 9780857383518
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom... -
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides David Grene 9780226844695
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.04Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond... -
Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World Froma I. Zeitlin 9780691002217
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not... -
Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Carrie Conners 9781496839527
Booksplease Price: £28.57Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late... -
Family Lines: Poems About Parents and Parenthood Simon Armitage 9780571365043
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A companion for life, this anthology is filled with unforgettable poems by, for and about parents. Poems about parents and parenthood have been written throughout history, exploring the relationships... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.67The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book... -
Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: Something to Hold on to by Sara Tanderup Linkis 9781032092850
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis' "Something to hold on to ..." open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after... -
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani 9780393977912
Booksplease Price: £87.97Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly... -
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poet by Mark Scroggins 9780817358044
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.75In Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively... -
We Were Not There by Jordi Doce 9781848616813
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Jordi Doce is one of the three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure. He brings all his faculties to the rich task of being; his voice inhabits the names, not just with wonder,...