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The China Shop Pictures by Robert Saxton 9781848612563
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40The China Shop Pictures ranges widely in time, space and subject matter, encompassing Jacobite wine glasses, pedagogical horses, a Japanese invention for walking on water, and a medley of viewpoints... -
Matronymics by Kate Ashton 9781848618916
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In her second collection Kate Ashton examines woman's estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at adolescence to... -
Convalescence Dance by Alexandra Sashe 9781848615502
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Alexandra Sashe is a Russian poet who now lives in Vienna, and writes in English, her fourth language. This is her second Shearsman collection, following 2014's Antibodies. A poet whose work is... -
Anime Animus Anima by Jaime Robles 9781848610880
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Anime, Animus, Anima" is formed from a mass of influences but most prominently from three classic Japanese anime. Parts One and Three evolved from imagery in "Ghost in the Shell" (1995, Production I... -
Cadastral Map by Jill Magi 9781848611726
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28In Cadastral Map, Jill Magi writes: "I enter as a writer, one kind of mapmaker, needing to ask, is traditional nature writing in English a cadastral map? Abstracting, narrowing, taking an especially... -
199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees by 9781848614307
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13Sascha Akhtar's method-writing invites the poetry into a pre-envisaged form which is then adhered to stringently. The manuscript was written continuously on exactly 199 pages. The poet was interested... -
Equilibrium's Form by Susanne Dyckman 9781905700202
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In Susanne Dyckman's first full-length collection, following from her Etherdome Press chapbook published in 2005, poetic tonalities and phrasings are used to disrupt the chronology of past and... -
The Phoenix Nest by (R S Of the Inner Temple) Anonymous (R S of the Inner Temple) 9781848611047
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Following the publication of "Tottel's Miscellany" in 1557, a number of other such miscellanies appeared, none of them especially significant from an artistic point of view. In 1593, however, a... -
Stigmata by Gezim Hajdari 9781848614413
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Gezim Hajdari (b. 1957) was born in Lushnja, Albania, but has lived in Frosinone, Italy, since 1992, initially in the ruins of an abandoned building, but now in an apartment that he was awarded by... -
Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows 9781848616356
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Uncommon Place is a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent... -
Shearsman 121 & 122 by Tony Frazer 9781848616783
Booksplease Price: $12.15The second double-issue of Shearsman for 2019 features poetry by Clark Allison, Annemarie Austin, Benjamin Balint, Miranda Lynn Barnes, Alison Brackenbury, Rachael Clyne, Andrew Duncan, Chris Emery,... -
Collected Poems by Michael Smith 9781848610538
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Michael Smith was born in Dublin in 1942, and is well-known for his poetry, his editorial work, his translations of Spanish poetry (many of them for Shearsman Books), and his polemical support for... -
The Body in Space by Gerrie Fellows 9781848613430
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25This is a poetry of layers and echoes. Poems which bring together people and places - family relationships enacted through webs of intimacy or distance, the dead remembered in interleaved images of... -
rebel matter: poems 2000-2021 by Victor Rodriguez Nunez 9781848618527
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.28"This magnificent selection from two decades of work by Victor Rodriguez Nunez confirms his pivotal position in international poetry. Dissolving fixed identities and formal limitations alike, the... -
Sur(rendering) by Mario Martin Gijon 9781848617049
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Mario Martin Gijon's (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short pas-sionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet immerses us in... -
Obsequy for Lost Things by Martin Anderson 9781848613508
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences. The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all share, however, like the author's previous collection of prose-poetry... -
Poetry and Public Language by Tony Lopez 9781905700646
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $18.98A collection of essays based on the conference of the same name held at the Univeristy of Plymouth in April 2007. Contributors are Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten; Andrea Brady, Allen Fisher, Robert... -
Selected Poems by Anibal Nunez 9781848612594
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.50Anibal Nunez (1944-1987) has been described as the best Spanish poet of his generation, sometimes called the generation of '68. His recognition has been a long time coming, no doubt due to the fact... -
Exact Colour of Snow by Bridget Khursheed 9781848619678
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Exact Colour of Snow articulates a complicit, playful commentary on our mundane interactions with the natural world. Notes, fragments and glimpsed biographies explore how we ignore our fragile... -
Anima by Jose Kozer 9781848611467
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50A sixty-year-old man writes a poem and entitles it 'Anima'. Days later he writes another poem with a tone similar to the first, entitles it 'Anima', then realises he has just begun a series which... -
Talking Poetics - Dialogues in Innovative Poetry by Scott Thurston 9781848611917
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.13This is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Caroline Bergvall, Jennifer Moxley and Andrea Brady carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston... -
Gyrfalcon Poems by Colin Simms 9781905700356
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28This is Colin Simms' third Shearsman collection. A noted naturalist and expert on birds of prey, he collects here his poems on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied... -
Sarments: New and Selected Poems by John James 9781848615786
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50"This collection is an essential delight; a `book resonant of a life / neither following nor in pursuit', gathering old and new work all equally fresh. As the epigraph to the first poem attests, `one... -
Forget Reading by Anthony Hawley 9781905700707
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25In Forget Reading, Anthony Hawley's second collection, poems speak up despite themselves, and in doing so they af?rm poetry's slight, subterranean power inside a culture of overwhelming and decadent... -
Syncopations by Laressa Dickey 9781848616592
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25"Laressa Dickey's Syncopations continues the thematic explorations of her earlier work-family, memory, the American South-but displays a depth and richness all its own. In "Two Holed Mouth," Dickey... -
Bomarzo by Elsa Cross 9781848616509
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The open mouth of the Orcus, in the front-cover photograph, represents an entrance to the underworld, according to all the symbolism embedded in the Gardens of Bomarzo, built in the 16th Century in... -
Two Duets With Occasion by Simon Perril 9781848619449
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Simon Perril's new collection gathers two discrete works. '45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser' turns to the Swiss modernist as guide to the inner workings of educational workplaces, and the... -
Watersong by Andy Brown 9781848614505
RRP: $9.68Booksplease Price: $9.44Watersong begins with the first of the great cholera epidemics of 19th Century England. Focussing on the poet's home city of Exeter, the poems interlace select details from Exeter's 1832 cholera... -
As If Only by Ian Davidson 9781905700080
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25The author says of this book: These poems were written in Bangor, in north Wales, in Barcelona, in London, on the Baltic coast and in Fez and Marrakech. Despite the distances involved they are the... -
Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson 9781848617353
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848617353Author Luke ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices by Brandel France De Bravo 9781848610576
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50Mexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry-something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares... -
Like the Rains Come: Selected Poems 1987-2006 by Mercedes Roffe 9781905700554
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25Argentine poet Mecedes Roffe has published eight collections in Spanish, in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and the USA, but this is the first book-length survey of her work in English. The... -
Violades & Appledown by George Messo 9781848612648
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25And here, where forest entrails spill into winter light, you find me, straying out from the forest's dark memory - Itinerant Hebrew poet David Vogel, Arctic explorer Samuel Hearne and surveyor David... -
Letters from the Takeaway, & other distances by Khaled Hakim 9781848616370
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25For a brief period in the 1990s Khaled Hakim published sparingly and performed semi-improvisatory routines. This collection gathers all the work previously published. As the first-and for some time... -
Beneath by Simon Perril 9781848614406
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite... -
Momentum by Scott Thurston 9781905700325
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Momentum aims to recuperate what may be had of a lyric tradition refracted through a post-Language sensibility; generating, amongst other things, responses to Proust, Shelley and the experience of... -
Essays on Performance Writing, Poetics and Poetry: Writings towards Writing and Reading: Vol 2 by John A. Hall 9781848613188
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02This companion volume to On Performance Writing, with implicated readings, brings together most of the essays-taking a deliberately broad view of that term so as to include, for example, two... -
An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013 by Roy Fisher 9781848613003
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $18.50When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added and Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and... -
The Mouth of the Earth by Manuel Rivas 9781848616233
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $13.25For Manuel Rivas, words are the most sensitive of creatures. In the same way that frogs or glow-worms are the first to manifest signs of pollution in the natural environment, words suffer as a result... -
The Personal Art: essays, reviews and memoirs by Peter Robinson 9781848617438
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $21.27As Angela Leighton wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, Peter Robinson 'has been a generous promoter of contemporary poetry for decades, and this collection of essays bears witness to his...