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Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951-1955 by William T.La Moy 9780815609162
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.30Grace Hartigan emerged during the 1950s as a leading representative of the 'second generation' of the New York School of abstract expressionist painters, a movement that achieved international... -
Heidegger in the Literary World: Variations on Poetic Thinking by Florian Grosser 9781538162552
Booksplease Price: £103.41Within the vast reception history of Martin Heidegger's philosophical thought poets, novelists, and playwrights have occupied a central place. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives by... -
PN Review 270 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173699
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2023 issue An issue of dialogues, with whales, with Rimbaud, with Mexico, Afghanistan, Germany, Canada, with John Lucas, D.H. Lawrence and many more Includes new poems by Colm... -
PN Review 258 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.74The March-April 2021 issue; The last interview with the poet John Ash; Major new talent featured: Michael Brett; Novelist Kirsty Gunn reads Henry James during lockdown; Reem Abbas, the young... -
How Poets See the World by Willard Spiegelman 9780195174915
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.07Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of... -
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Boell's novel blows a stent in the human heart. . . It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introduction'This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole... -
PN Review 256 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.74The November-December 2020 issue. Vahni Capildeo's Letter from Quarantine and Andrew Fitzsimons' poetry from 'Basho in Lockdown'. Essays by David Rosenberg and Ricardo Nirnberg on the effect and... -
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" -... -
PN Review: 240 by Michael Schmidt 9781784101510
Booksplease Price: £8.76* PN REVIEW PRIZE: featuring the winning and commended poems; * Peter Scupham at 85: celebrating a great poet, humourist and long-time contributor; * Poet, translator and MPT editor Sasha Dugdale in... -
So Where are We?: Poems by Lawrence Joseph 9780374537715
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.62So where are we? Lawrence Joseph asks in the title poem of his powerful and moving sixth book. Beginning where his acclaimed collection Into It left off, amid the worldwide violence unleashed by the... -
After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America by Vernon Shetley 9780822313427
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic... -
Emporium by Ian Pindar 9781847770653
Booksplease Price: £13.99Emporium, Ian Pindar's first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on... -
Theory of Mind - New & Selected Poems by Bin Ramke 9781890650414
Booksplease Price: £13.94Drawing upon four decades of poetry and including an ample selection of new work, this perceptive collection shares a wealth of intimate experiences and compelling encounters with the world. Citing... -
My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.14"It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive... -
Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter by Fairfield Porter 9780472109760
Booksplease Price: £48.98"The publication of Porter's letters marks an occasion for a renewed celebration of his painting and an appreciation of his quirky, indeed ornery, personality. Porter was a feisty correspondent, who... -
Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse by Stephen Fredman 9780521399944
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognised as a pioneering study in contemporary American poetry. Many recent American poets have... -
PN Review 266 Michael Schmidt 9781800172852
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The July-August 2022 issue. Major autobiographical essay by Alberto Manguel. Fleur Adcock writes an elegy for her long-time editor. James Campbell takes us on a tour of the TLS and his... -
PN Review 257 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.74The January-February 2021 issue.; Editorial considers the British Library's controversial Printed Heritage Provenance Research report and its negative impact on their welcome anti-racism policy.;... -
Reading F. T. Prince by Will May
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91F.T. Prince (1912-2003) is now emerging as one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry. Born in South Africa, he came to England in the 1930s, where he studied alongside... -
Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts by Ellen Levy 9780199746354
Booksplease Price: £80.92"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Ellen Levy's Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of... -
AMERIFIL.TXT: A Commonplace Book by Douglas Crase 9780472066360
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.34From its title forward, AMERIFIL.TXT is an unusual book. The title, unpacked like a computer filename and pronounced "Amerifile Text," reveals the book's beguiling proposition: that the answer to the... -
PN Review 260 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.74The July-August 2021 issue; Major account by Poet of Europe Sinead Morrissey of her experiences in Gdansk, with reflections on the Belfast troubles among which she grew up; Sujata Bhatt breaks a long... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.80The 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... -
PN Review 262 by Michael Schmidt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The November-December 2021 issue Includes 'Scattered Snows, to the North' by Carl Phillips, shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem Award 2022 Major spread of poems by Carl Phillips,... -
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett 9781566891592
Booksplease Price: £13.57“When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them,... -
Trinity Street: Poems by Jen Currin 9781487011628
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist. While... -
Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Ann Marie Mikkelsen 9780230105836
Booksplease Price: £46.28In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects... -
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Fremon 9780993009389
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Progressing by image and word associations, Fremon evokes Bourgeois's history and inner life, bringing a sense of fascinating and moving proximity to the internationally renowned artist... The art... -
Nineveh Zohar Atkins 9781784107390
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's poems offer humour and hospitality... -
The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine by Joseph Parisi 9781566634687
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.82"The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine established its... -
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose by Lawrence Joseph 9780472051618
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63Praise for Lawrence Joseph:"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness... Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry." ---John Ashbery"Like Henry... -
Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature by Steven Monte 9780803232112
Booksplease Price: £51.59For all its recent popularity among poets and critics, prose poetry continues to raise more questions than it answers. How have prose poems been identified as such, and why have similar works been... -
Disembark: Stories by Jen Currin 9781487011895
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Award-winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life. The stories in Disembark feature queer... -
Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie by Lytle Shaw 9781609381691
Booksplease Price: £26.19In this stimulating and innovative synthesis of New York's artistic and literary worlds, Lytle Shaw uses the social and philosophical problems involved in "reading" a coterie to propose a new... -
The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by Nikki Skillman 9780674545120
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £31.21Exploration of our inner life-perception, thought, memory, feeling-once seemed a privileged domain of lyric poetry. Scientific discoveries, however, have recently supplied physiological explanations... -
The Poetry Circuit: Live Reading 1900-1970 Peter B. Howarth 9780192896940
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £104.91Live performance has changed poetry more than anything else in the last hundred years: it has given poets new audiences and a new economy, and it has generated new styles, from Imagism, to... -
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication by Joe Brainard 9781598532784
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.66Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a "recognizable American phenomenon" and "oddball classicist"-with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John... -
The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop by Dr. Angus J. Cleghorn 9781107672543
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions, what John Ashbery... -
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson 9781609381097
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.76In this whip-smart study, Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers... -
Beautiful Enemies Friendship and Postwar American Poetry by Andrew Epstein 9780195181005
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £34.96Despite the deep-seated notion that the archetypal American poet sings a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with friendship and its...