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Solitudes and Other Early Poems by Antonio Machado 9781848613911
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.28Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between Becquer, Ruben Dario and the generation of Jimenez, Lorca, Alberti, Guillen, Cernuda,... -
Gone to Marzipan by Ralph Hawkins 9781848610217
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28'Ralph Hawkins' poems always give the impression of turning up late and being drunk when they do arrive. They minimize the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and... -
Uncertain Measures by Aidan Semmens 9781848613515
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'A Ritual Landscape' sets out Aidan Semmens' stall from the start of this, his third full-length collection. These are poems that 'have legs'-that continue the journey outward begun in A Stone Dog... -
Outside the Institution: Selected Poems by Lars Amund Vaage 9781848610750
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.25This is the first collection in English by Lars Amund Vaage, one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway.About the AuthorLars Amund Vaage was born 1952 in Sunde on the... -
The Arboretum Towards the Beginning by Nathan Thompson 9781848610149
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.25Nathan Thompson mixes process and poetics with a dry wit, to produce texts that hold the reader's hand through landscapes of the tangential (with occasional diversions back to the straight and... -
Poems (1633) by John Donne 9781848613874
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.72This volume-presented in the original spelling, with all its inconsistencies-reproduces the text of Poems by J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death, published in 1633, two years after Donne's death... -
Ra-T by Juli Jana 9781848613676
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44The figure of ra-t slithers through these pages like the Zelig of London Town - an ocular witness at every juncture of its history. His split name makes him a fractured and contradictory creature... -
Motive and Opportunity by Paul Vangelisti 9781848617155
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $11.52Motive & Opportunity is principally located in Los Angeles, where the poet has lived and worked since 1968. The five pieces collected here are various attempts at poetic language trying to settle in... -
I'd Ask You to Join Me by the Rio Bravo and Weep but You Should Know Neither River nor Tears Remain by Lawrence Schimel 9781848615151
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25This is a translation of Chavez's Mexican volume from 2013, a book of poems that deals with life on the border, its dangers, its delights and its peculiarities. The book was awarded Mexico's... -
The Lust of Unsentimental Waters by Rosa Alcala 9781848612334
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Rosa Alcala's poems dwell in the liminal space between the personal and the political--poems built on the idea that 'the world exists,' and that work to define the metaphysical and ephemeral... -
Shearsman 115 & 116 by Tony Frazer 9781848615694
Booksplease Price: $12.15The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2018 features poetry by Michael Aiken, Geraldine Clarkson, James Coghill, Adam Flint, Robin Fulton Macpherson, Mark Goodwin, Harry Guest, Tania Hershman,... -
Rampant Inertia by Alan Halsey 9781848613560
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In Rampant Inertia Alan Halsey, identified by Tony Lopez as a 'normally secret and invisible language spy', is found going about his familiar business, dismantling the rhetoric of Austerity while... -
Line to Curve by Anna Reckin 9781848615809
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Line and curve evolve and collide in varied forms in Anna Reckin's second collection. Paintings slip into landscapes, rooms slide into pattern, a Chinese jade cup is pool, blossom and branch; an... -
Prayers for the Dead, and Other Poems by Michael Smith 9781848613379
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25This is Michael Smith's first collection since his Collected Poems of 2009, and is an elegiac volume. As the author says: "Let me try to define prayer as I am using it here. It is a voice in the... -
Partly in Riga, and Other Poems by Ian Davidson 9781848611306
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This book is in five sections. 'Wear and Tear' contains poems about the birth of my son Gruffydd in 2009, a brother to Robert and Brendan they may not have expected, and the worlds he produced on his... -
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781848615342
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25This volume contains the complete text of the great Hopkins poem, together with Nigel Foxell's introduction and his copious notes, touching on nearly every line in the poem. An indispensable reader's... -
Sonnets of Various Sizes by Peter Oswald 9781848614925
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Poet and dramatist Peter Oswald has been writing sonnets alongside his other work for the best part of thirty years. This volume brings a substantial selection of them together for the first time... -
Analfabeto an Alphabet by Ellen Baxt 9781905700363
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'Analfabeto / An Alphabet' was written in Recife, Brazil, and Brooklyn, New York. Part dictionary, part travel diary, part historical record, it crosses genre boundaries narrating a story of... -
The English Poems by Thomas Gray 9781848613577
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) is a poet with an strange reputation. At least one of his poems is considered to be an indispensable classic of English poetry; others provide quotable lines or phrases that... -
Bottomland by Laressa Dickey 9781848613263
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Bottomland is a collection of six longer sequences of poems: American Rough-leg; Bottomland; Catalogue of Utilities; A Pictorial History of Wilderness; Route to Cloudless: Day; and Mimesis, Synaptic... -
Selected Poems by Cheng Mai 9781905700882
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28A bilingual (English & Chinese) collection by Dalian-based poet-editor, Mai Cheng. This is the first collection of his work to be made available in translation. [Mai Cheng] would seem to have no... -
Lares/Manes - Collected Poems by Billy Mills 9781848610460
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $21.83Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. After spending some time in Spain and the UK, he now lives and works in the mid-west of Ireland. This collection brings together his seven previously published... -
The Council of Heresy: A Primer of Poetry in a Balkanised Terrain by Andrew Duncan 9781848610071
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $20.89Andrew Duncan's latest study of contemporary British poetry offers studies of some thirteen modern poets, together with a number of general essays giving an overview of events and trends in British... -
Areas of Fog by Joseph Massey 9781848610521
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28One needs only to watch and listen in gratitude as poems informed by Bronk, Niedecker, Olson (to name a few), and the landscape of Humboldt County, California take shape "In the room / of a memory //... -
The Pistol Tree Poems by Peter Hughes 9781848611719
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40"By turns absurd, sophisticated, bawdy, tender, precise and sprawling, The Pistol Tree Poems captures the intellectual intimacy and infectious spontaneity of poetic collaboration at its white-hot... -
The Ring by Lynne Hjelmgaard 9781848611474
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The Ring is a book-length sequence of poems where the protagonist, a new young widow, moves from the strangeness of city to city, (from Copenhagen to London to Rome to Paris) trying to come to terms... -
A Confusion of Marys by Rupert M Loydell 9781848616967
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In A Confusion of Marys Rupert Loydell and Sarah Cave explore, write back to and re-imagine the story of the Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary, in terms of sequential writing, re-versioning,... -
My Father in Water by Carol Guess 9781848611856
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"My father hovers in the aperture of a glistening window, suicide botched by his mother's ghost. Numbers from his slide rule pause on the sill, fallen by chance into a brilliant formula." This... -
To the Hitchhiking Dead by Khaled Nurul Hakim 9781848618534
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28To the Hitchhiking Dead is a book-length sequence culled from notebooks made between 1986-1988 when hitchhiking in Europe and England or otherwise doing nothing. An unknown poet - even to himself -... -
Else by Mark Goodwin 9781905700974
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40A first collection for Leicestershire poet Mark Goodwin, and winner of an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. "It's thrilling to welcome a new poet into the company of our seriously exciting younger nature... -
Hard Reds by Brandi Homan 9781905700813
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25A first collection for Chicago-based poet and small-press publisher, Brandi Homan. "Like the stream of cut-paper hearts in her Valentine Factory, Brandi Homan's poems are connected 'at the blade's... -
Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums - Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada by Bill Freind 9781848611849
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $24.06Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse... -
A Curious Shipwreck by Steve Spence 9781848610972
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25These are poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9781848611580
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Studies in Classic American Literature [...] is at once a work of cultural criticism, a study and critique of American myths, a meditation on the relationship between the Old World and the New, a new... -
The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere: El valle pierde su atmosfera by Winett de Rokha 9781848617834
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Winett de Rokha (1892-1951) was born Luisa Victoria Anabalon Sanderson to a well-to-do family in Santiago de Chile - her father was a General and her mother a society lady, and her brother later... -
Makers of Empty Dreams by Ian Seed 9781848613454
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25With a sparse, haunting, often playful lyricism, the makers of empty dreams emerge like figures in the reels of an old, almost abandoned film. Their stories, often set in different countries which we... -
Angels the Size of Houses by Aaron Kent 9781848617667
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $11.52"This poetical collection, Angels the Size of Houses (70-plus sheets of cool and frantic paginated speech) is a buzzing and hyper-inventive set of multifarious devices, with exceptional prosodical... -
Hotel Lautreamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay by Kent Johnson 9781848611894
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautreamont, and with a knowing nod to John Ashbery's book of the same title, this is the... -
Selected Poems by Luis Miguel Aguilar 9781848619302
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"Luis Miguel Aguilar's work is a conversation, between the past and the present, between the educated and the lay person, between useless details and essentials, between erudite data and vital... -
The Third Shore: Chinese and English-language Poets in Mutual Translation by Lian Yang 9781848613096
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language", because a translation is neither the same as the original, nor the same as the normal foreign-language of other texts, for it is something...