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A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology by Evan Jones 9781857549386
Booksplease Price: $40.91Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology charts a nation's poetic history from Modernism to the present day. Here are 34 cosmopolitan poets whose work deserves recognition beyond national boundaries. The... -
Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust 9780192846181
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The... -
Fire Series: Poems Kelly Hoffer 9780822967682
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.86Fire Series began as an experiment in working recursively through the specialized diction of fire investigators, using technical phrases such as "structured fire," "foliage freeze," and "fire... -
Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions by Karmen MacKendrick
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $111.77Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical-but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that... -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $207.73A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an... -
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition by Yosefa Raz 9781009366274
Booksplease Price: $174.70Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is... -
Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Gwyneth Lewis 9781780370705
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823242900
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.80Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical-but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that... -
Gut by Amanda Larson 9781632430977
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $17.84These poems follow the aftermath of and recovery from trauma. Amanda Larson's Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O'Hara: "Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you." From there,... -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford 9780231187558
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an... -
Book Presence in a Digital Age by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth 9781501360978
Booksplease Price: $72.38Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media's imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From... -
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom Marcel Proust 9780192845672
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the... -
The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance-time, proximity, space, motion and tone- into text. As we follow... -
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion by Cynthia R. Wallace 9780231214193
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20The 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... -
Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy by Larissa Pham
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.18Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
Soft Targets Deborah Landau 9781780375441
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Deborah Landau's fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the... -
Foucault's Strange Eros by Lynne Huffer 9780231197151
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault's writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault's erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She... -
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel by Laynie Browne 9781643620251
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $30.81A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes,... -
The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition by Yosefa Raz 9781009366298
Booksplease Price: $48.03Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is... -
JOAN Jake Rose 9780226848235
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $26.46A narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and poetic voice. Collapsing biography and autobiography, the poetry of Jake Rose's... -
Foucault's Strange Eros by Lynne Huffer
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.09What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault's writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault's erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She... -
Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney 9781773104218
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.07Winner, Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his... -
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny'There is no one quite... -
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Heather Christle 9781472158697
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, [Christle] excavates the past to expose difficult truths' GuardianWhen Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share... -
Holy Winter 20/21 Maria Stepanova 9781780376950
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor - the world had withdrawn from her, time had 'gone numb'... -
And the Walls Became the World All Around Johanna Ekström 9781803511566
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekstroem found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing transcribed and... -
How We Are Translated: a novel by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Do you ever feel like you're not speaking the same language? Swedish immigrant Kristin won't talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend... -
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion by Cynthia R. Wallace 9780231214186
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $166.47Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book AwardsThe French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her... -
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphne B.
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 COLE FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR TRANSLATIONA nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson's Bluets As... -
Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations by Mantra Mukim 9781032157412
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an... -
Weak in Comparison to Dreams by James Elkins 9781951213725
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $36.66"Weak in Comparison to Dreams... is the most courageous and fascinating debut I have read since Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves." -Full Stop MagazineFor years, Samuel Emmer has monitored... -
movingparts by Edward Carson 9780228016663
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.07the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers allIn Edward Carson's provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what's true and... -
Lux: a novel by Elizabeth Cook
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.54King David spies on beautiful Bathsheba as she bathes and his desire drives him to acts of such callousness that even his god turns away from him. Only through searching penitence and the psalms that... -
How We Are Translated: a novel by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson 9781913348069
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE People say 'I'm sorry' all the time when it can mean both 'I'm sorry I hurt you' and 'I'm sorry someone else did something I have nothing to do with'. It's... -
By The Book: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen 9781927428818
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and... -
The Underground by Hamid Ismailov 9781632060440
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.34'I am Moscow's underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town.' So begins the story of Mbobo, the precocious 12-year-old narrator of this captivating novel by exiled Uzbek author and... -
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life Shaul Bar-Haim 9781032061146
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $65.77Winner of the 2022 Gradiva (R) Award for Best Edited Book!This book argues that the notion of 'wild' analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses,... -
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $24.00This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in...