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As a Said Place by John Hall 9781848615038
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"blink / and the outline is lost" As a said place gathers together poems written since Keepsache (2011). The book is shaped around 'I'm on the Train', a sequence prompted by and on a... -
Richard Berengarten - A Portrait in Interviews by Richard Berengarten 9781848615120
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88Spanning a period of fifteen years, these five 'Inter-views' with Richard Berengarten explore the many facets of his writings. Hospitably and expansively, they yield insights into the work of a poet... -
Shearsman 103 & 104 by Tony Frazer 9781848614222
Booksplease Price: €11.21The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015 includes original work by Tim Allen, sean burn, James Byrne, Michelle Cahill, Geraldine Clarkson, Martin Crucefix, Laura Elliott, Michael Farrell, Keri... -
Aperture by Anna Leahy 9781848615168
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Anna Leahy's generous poetic imagination encompasses women from Marie Curie to Esther Williams to Elizabeth Siddal, poet Felicia Hemans to the mothers of the characters in The Wizard of Oz, a... -
On the Governing of Empires by Alasdair Paterson 9781848611160
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from "A Michelin Guide", procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names... -
The Bunny Poems by David Caddy 9781848611955
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22The Bunny Poems give us a 'localised sensation' of twentieth-century rural existence. They re-connect us with the land as a deep, mirroring presence; the double-edged properties of plants;... -
The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins 9781848618633
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02In her debut collection The Lost Book of Barkynge, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine,... -
This to That and Thus: Poems 1983-1998 Joseph Donahue 9781848619838
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06This to That and Thus contains four separate complete collections, the author's first four books, thus demonstrating the wellsprings of a remarkable career."For a poetry that yields such immediate... -
The Glamour Poet Versus Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls by Jeremy Reed 9781848613232
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, a major long poem written in the shop, while... -
Selected Poems by Lee Harwood 9781905700936
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02In 2004, Shearsman published Lee Harwood's Collected Poems, which proved what many of us had known for many years: that Harwood is one of our living masters. Four years on, and we now offer a smaller... -
Sleepwalking with Orpheus by Craig Watson 9781848611382
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he... -
Arrivals of Light by Robin Fulton Macpherson 9781848617186
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and editor. Since 1973 his home base has been in Norway and, in the decades since, he has built... -
Notes Relating to an Idea of Blue by David H. W. Grubb 9781848611825
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36David Grubb has published novels, poetry and short stories. Much of his writing has been founded on an understanding of rural life and values and more recently by his experience of extreme poverty... -
Birds of the Sherborne Missal by Elisabeth Bletsoe 9781848617483
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02A missal contains the text and often the music to conduct the Christian Mass throughout the year and the one at Sherborne was created c. 1400 for the monks of the Benedictine Abbey there. It is... -
Some Perfect Year by Cameron Gearen 9781848614840
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Cameron Gearen's first full-length collection of poetry, Some Perfect Year, opens with a poem entitled 'Invitation,' and it's one we should heed. "Come with stones and a selectively green car. /... -
Be My Reader by Alec Finlay 9781848611078
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance, football, travel and technology. Affectionate, celebratory and... -
Leaf Weather by Shira Dentz 9781848612273
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71"Veering - often within a single poem, often within a single line - from self-lacerating anger to desperation, from mordant satire of the confessional mode to stunned (and stunning)... -
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross 9781848613997
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88Beyond the Sea brings together two book-length sequences first published in Mexico in the early years of the century, both taking their origins from Greece, a matter of central importance for the... -
Selected Poems 1975 - 2010 by Ken Bolton 9781848612099
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06A gay, light-hearted type, Ken Bolton cuts a moodily romantic figure within the dun Australian literary landscape, his name inevitably conjuring perhaps that best known image of him, bow-tie askew,... -
I Heard it Through the Grapevine: ASA Benveniste and Trigram Press by Jeremy Reed 9781848614635
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, was not only a self-taught, one-off maverick genius as... -
Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light by Maria Baranda 9781848615434
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Maria Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation, born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efrain Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well... -
Cantes Flamencos (Flamenco Songs): The Deep Songs of Spain by Michael Smith 9781848612105
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women... -
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone 9781848614727
RRP: €12.79Booksplease Price: €12.22A new collection from award-winning poet Will Stone, whose poems have been described as haunting, beautiful, savage, lyric and visionary, inventive, searing yet poignant, mesmerising and original... -
The Release by Jeremy Hooker 9781848617995
Booksplease Price: €15.02Since Welsh Journal (2001), I have periodically adopted a form of writing that juxtaposes prose and poetry. The Release is a work of this kind, in which diary entries and poems are combined and... -
The Guide to Being Bear Aware by S. J. Fowler 9781848615380
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Incorporating a breathtaking sweep of international literary and philosophical influences and drawing deeply from the great European poets of the 20th century, The Guide to Being Bear Aware is a... -
Ascension Notes by Sarah Law 9781848610781
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.22"Ascension Notes" makes a place for space and light. Language ascends and reflects back on itself in short lyrical poems and longer fragmented sequences. A woman, at a table, writing; Woolf's phrase... -
Interior by Linda Black 9781848619197
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"Indelible and deeply resonant, Linda Black's 'Interior' demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. This collection constitutes a wondrous neo-Cartesian studio evoking an ars poetica that... -
Thin Ice by Alice Kavounas 9781848613157
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71Thin Ice takes the reader on an odyssey of the imagination, with poems whose sources range from a childhood in Maine, to NYC of the Vietnam era, to our paranoid post-9/11 world. There is a measure of... -
Concert at a Railway Station: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam 9781848616011
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €15.02An extensive sampling of the whole of Mandelstam's career from his first collection up to the late poems that were memorised by his wife, when it was too dangerous to have them written down. One of... -
To an Unknown Shore by Theodore Enslin 9781848615557
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Theodore Enslin (1925-2011) is widely regarded as one of the most musical of American avant-garde poets. He was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. His father was a biblical scholar and his mother a Latin... -
Pine to Sound by Nancy Kuhl 9781848614123
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"If an echo is a 'pining into sound,' Kuhl rewrites it in a way that gives pining uncommon agency - this is not a 'pining away' but a pining toward, a pining into. It's vigorous; it's vivid, but... -
Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics by Michael Heller 9781848612181
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €16.62This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and... -
Selected Poems by Mary Coleridge 9781848611399
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Clearly suggesting the influence of poets such as Robert Browning, Emily Bronte and Christina Rossetti, and paralleling the techniques of more modern poets such as Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew and D.H... -
Several Dances by Maurice Scully 9781848613362
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"(Scully's) innovations...take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any redisual mythos, & use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody.... -
Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffe 9781848613720
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848613720Author Mercedes RoffeFormat PaperbackImprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
The Pact by Jennifer Militello 9781848617810
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum... -
Simply Living Life by David Jaffin 9781848618565
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €19.67On' Light Sources' and 'Landing Rights': "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical." — Chicago Review "Jaffin's 'Through Lost Silences' offers a rare... -
Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill 9781848616080
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a `masterpiece'; Grass... -
Humming by Maurice Scully 9781848610590
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36"Humming" is Maurice Scully's first full-length book of new work since his "Things That Happen" project (1981-2006). Dedicated to the poet's late brother, it places human life in... -
Footnotes by Avik Chanda 9781905700677
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22A first collection of lyric poems in English by Calcutta resident, Avik Chanda, who already has one volume to his name in Bengali.Book InformationISBN 9781905700677Author Avik ChandaFormat...