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Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop by Nikolai Duffy 9781848612778
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"A sequence of fragments seems the most appropriate form for a work of this kind, introductory, surveying, essentially personal, marked, as with all things, by my own reading and preoccupations... -
Joao: (sonnets) by John Mateer 9781848616493
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Joao is a book of sixty-two sonnets recounting twelve years of the life of a poet who travels widely, encountering friends and loves, translators and, sometimes, famous authors. Its protagonist is... -
Selected Poems 1971-2016 by Laurie Duggan 9781848615731
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02"Duggan's is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim: you wrote like this about that?" -Alan Wearne, Sydney Morning Herald "I think of how Pound defined... -
Free Verse as Formal Restraint: An Alternative to Metrical Conventions in Twentieth-Century Poetic Structure by Andrew Crozier 9781848613966
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02This volume contains the remarkable PhD thesis submitted by Crozier in 1972, and for which his external examiner was J.H. Prynne-whose comments on the thesis are also included here, as an afterword... -
Poems from Afghanistan by Colin Simms 9781848612556
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28This volume brings together the majority of Colin Simms' poems that record his visits to Afghanistan, as a naturalist, during the 1980s. Approximately half of the poems previously appeared in two... -
Second Tongue by Yolanda Castano 9781848616578
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616578Author Yolanda CastanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher... -
The Structure of Days Out: With storytellers, hunters and their descendants in a Native Alaskan Community, 1973-1981 by Tom Lowenstein 9781848617681
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $19.93Tom Lowenstein taught English in London and at Northwestern University between 1965 and 1974 . He first went to Tikigaq in 1973 and returned there to work with Asatchaq and other elders from 1975 to... -
Within the Inscribed: selected prose and conversations by Michael Heller 9781848617513
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13The title, and to some extent, the thematics of this book, is based on the volume's epigraph, a sentence of Geoffrey Hartman's: "The sacred has so inscribed itself in language that while it must... -
The Book of Things by Ilhan Berk 9781848614628
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Unparalleled in the English language, The Book of Things, Ilhan Berk's uniquely compelling lyric trilogy, is an uncommon meditation on the inner life of common things. Mud, bras, slugs and... -
A Ticket toTrilce by M.T.C. Cronin 9781848617506
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Cronin's remaking, re-envisaging, re-creation of Cesar Vallejo's astonishing masterpiece Trilce enables a re-imagining of many of Vallejo's lifelong obsessions: childhood, the family unit,... -
Melancholy occurrence by 9781848615816
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13John Seed has pioneered a form of documentary poem using found texts - developing the model of Charles Reznikoff, and likewise concentrating on historical events. Previous volumes for Shearsman Books... -
Drawing in Ash by Will Stone 9781848614598
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Drawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone's second collection. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the Roman ruins of... -
Radio Mast Horizon by Andrew Taylor 9781848612624
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25This collection, the author's first full-length book, gathers poems written over the past decade. The poems, some gathered from previous pamphlets, are concerned with place, love, identity and... -
In the Empire of Chimeras by Martin Anderson 9781848616165
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and non-native... -
More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry: Selected Poems 1989-2012 by Simon Smith 9781848615106
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the... -
Undocumentaries by Rosa Alcala 9781848610729
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'Rosa Alcala, originally from Paterson, N.J. is a true daughter of W.C. Williams with a distinct, gutsy, and penetrating identity twining a public poeisis with her own luminous particulars. I know of... -
Locust and Marlin by J. L. Williams 9781848613287
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Locust and Marlin considers how, in lives bright and brief as a candle's burn, we tell our stories and locate the places where we live and love. Where is the origin, our point in space from which we... -
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Damian Furniss 9781848614444
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40101 poems about power and its consequences, one for each year from the beginning of the Great War to the present day, together making a history of the past century. All is for the best in the best of... -
Shearsman 117 & 118 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848616035
Booksplease Price: $12.15The second issue of Shearsman for 2018 contains poetry by Martin Anderson, James Bell, Guy Birchard, Susie Campbell, Martin Corless-Smith, Cathy Dreyer, Carrie Etter, Khaled Hakim, Ralph Hawkins,... -
Forked Tongues: Galician, Basque and Catalan Womens's Poetry by Manuela Palacios 9781848612419
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Galicia, the Basque country and Catalonia have often found in Ireland an "Inspiring Other" whether for political, social or cultural reasons. This anthology engages in an intercultural... -
What Space Between Us by David Rushmer 9781848618299
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848618299Author David RushmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher... -
Shearsman 73 and 74 by Tony Frazer 9781905700349
Booksplease Price: $12.15The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2007, featuring poetry from: Susana Araujo, Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Andy Brown, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Patricia Farrell, Fergal Gaynor,... -
Shearsman 87 & 88 by Tony Frazer 9781848611542
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.15This 30th anniversary issue of Shearsman contains poetry by Lisa Armstrong, Sean Burn, Susan Connolly, Ray DiPalma, Gareth Durasow, Amy Evans, Anne Gorrick, Penny Harter, philip kuhn, John Mateer,... -
Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai Daniel Samoilovich 9781848619364
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Daniel Samoilovich’s book-length sequence, Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily eking out a hotel life in 1930s Switzerland. ‘Here/ where... -
A Cranic of Ordinaries Eliza O'Toole 9781848619272
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28This cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well-known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk-Essex border with her dog Fin, nose-down tail-up, urging her... -
A Conference of Voices by Rupert M. Loydell 9780907562566
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The largest collection of original writing yet by this talented British poet, painter, editor and publisher. "Loydell is a poet who, in painting a Steinian portrait of himself, tells us he is... -
Firewriting and Other Poems by John Muckle 9780907562641
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand... -
Tig by Maurice Scully 9780907562962
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40'Tig' is the last part of a vast poetic undertaking by Irish poet Maurice Scully that bears the overall title "Things That Happen". (Earlier parts are the trilogy 'Five Freedoms of Movement',... -
Burning the Heartwood by Janet Sutherland 9780907562887
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Burning the Heartwood is a first collection of lyric and pastoral poems. Janet Sutherland was born in Salisbury in 1957. After a childhood on a small dairy farm followed by studies at Cardiff and... -
Leaves of Field by Peter Larkin 9780907562979
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Peter Larkin might best be described as an eco-poet. His work stretches the fabric of form and language in an attempt to come to grips with the despoliation of our forests, woods and countryside. The... -
Chrysalis in the Desert by Wendy Saloman 9781848610361
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The central poem in Wendy Saloman's new collection, and from which it takes its title, is the narrative of a woman's journey through various crises in Jewish history, from biblical times to modern... -
Aurora by Pura Lopez-Colome 9781905700387
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Aurora was first published in Mexico City in 1994 by Ediciones Equilibrista, and was the author's third full-length collection. Composed of five extended sequences, Aurora contemplates the pacts we... -
What Use Is Poetry, The Poet Is Asking by Rachel Tzvia Back 9781848616400
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40"Rachel Tzvia Back transmutes the hard and sharp facts of the world into green and gold in these poems that bristle with desperate hope. She's always biblical to me, not just because the... -
Cont. by Amy Evans 9781848614543
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614543Author Amy EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Poetry's Geographies by Zoe Skoulding 9781848618510
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Poets from Mexico, Korea, Galicia (Spain), Palestine, Russia, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, India and France, translated by anglophone poets from the USA, the UK, Canada and India. Kareem James Abu-Zeid,... -
By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry by Aidan Semmens 9781848612853
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collection takes its title, was not the first or last... -
Bird Book by Laura Walker 9781848611535
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25'bird book' is written in collaboration with a field guide to North American birds. Each page both borrows and departs from language found in an individual bird entry. The resulting text is an... -
A Democracy of Posions by Tim Allen 9781848617889
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The texts in this volume run parallel with the years of Austerity leading to Brexit and its fallout, issues internalised here before resurfacing within new narrative contexts and scenarios in which... -
March by Andrew Taylor 9781848615052
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Building on his debut collection Radio Mast Horizon (Shearsman Books, 2013) Andrew Taylor takes the reader on a journey through landscapes and places such as the Welsh hills, the West Coast Mainline... -
Shadow Box by Gerrie Fellows 9781848618480
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Shadow Box originated with a single piece, 'The Curiosities of Dr Hunter', a poem which gathered together many objects from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in an investigation into the nature of...