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No Man's Land by Tupa Snyder 9781905700608
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Tupa Snyder's early life and education was in India. She grew up a child of the remnants of the Raj - the British Empire in India - in the isolated compound of a power plant in Calcutta, thirty years... -
Jubilate Messi by Steve Ely 9781848616134
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71I've played, watched and loved football all my life. Along with birds and birding it is my most enduring passion. So I thought I'd write about it. My original intention was to write a poetic history... -
From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781848616028
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €15.02Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921-1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following... -
Florilegium by Molly Vogel 9781848617025
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Molly Vogel's first collection of poems, Florilegium is an exploration of life written in 'the language of flowers'. The poems regard flowers as both symbols and means of communication; in a broader... -
Shape of Faith by John Phillips 9781848615328
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"Phillips would have us look no further than the poem itself for the primary matter of its own accordant recognition as fact. So that to write is to read ourselves into being alive in forms we... -
A Wind-Up Collider by Peter Dent 9781848616660
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616660Author Peter DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar 9781848613928
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image, a... -
Back of a Vast by Mark Goodwin 9781848611191
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath... -
Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed by Amish Trivedi 9781848616332
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed is an exploration through a wandering mind in the middle of external chaos. The poems trace private and public histories, from Lincoln mythos to serial... -
The Underground Cabaret by Ian Seed 9781848617230
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36The prose poems in The Underground Cabaret form the final volume of a quartet, following on from New York Hotel, Identity Papers and Makers of Empty Dreams. "In The Underground Cabaret, Ian Seed... -
A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne by Ian Brinton 9781848610422
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €28.70"A Manner of Utterance" offers a collection of responses to J.H. Prynne's poetry by his readers: not merely academics, but poets, composers, teachers and a painter (Ian Friend, one of whose... -
Voices Carry by Mervyn Taylor 9781848614970
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Strands of Trinidad, Mervyn Taylor's birthplace, are woven throughout this beautiful collection of poems that turn to memory and desire, an unsentimental saudade that contains what has been lost and... -
Reports after the Fire: Selected Poems by Pietro De Marchi 9781848617988
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06Pietro De Marchi was born in Seregno, Milan, in 1958, and has lived and worked for much of his life in Zurich where he is a professor of Italian at the university. A widely published critic and... -
The Fabled Third by Liam Guilar 9781848619647
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88"The Fabled Third is the final instalment in the sequence that began with A Presentment of Englishry. It continues to follow Laȝamon's 12th century version of the legendary history of Britain up to... -
Selected Poems (1990-2020) by Gezim Hajdari 9781848619616
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06"Gëzim Hajdari's generous literary, scholarly, and editorial work extends across different countries and languages. Resistance, commitment, social justice, freedom, courage, and solidarity are at the... -
The Book, Behind the Dune by Andres Sanchez Robayna 9781848615229
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02The Book, Behind the Dune is a long unitary poem about the birth of a poetic consciousness and its development in a world marked by the discovery of beauty, eroticism and the reality of evil... -
Seahorses by Hazel Frew 9781905700615
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Scottish poet Hazel Frew's first collection of poems offers tales of families, of growing up, and of the world around us, seen with uncommonly fresh eyes. "I like my poems to get to the point,... -
Kinetic by Michael Ayres 9781905700431
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36Kinetic is Michael Ayres' third collection. It displays a distinct evolution from the poetry of its predecessor, the epic and turbulent a.m. Embodied largely in short, lyrical poems, language in... -
Swimming Pool by Agnes Lehoczky 9781848615427
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06Here the text or the poem is a swimming pool, a pool in which language or thought-as-body glide through cultural and or phenomenological spaces; fluid places for being, thinking or even swimming in... -
Collected Earlier Poems by Toby Olson 9781848619227
RRP: €27.31Booksplease Price: €26.28Toby Olson began writing poetry while in high school and he continued writing it while in the U.S. Navy, and later as a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He received a Master's Degree at... -
Beckmann Variations and Other Poems by Michael Heller 9781848610873
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max... -
Track by Norman Finkelstein 9781848612068
Booksplease Price: €19.11Track is a book-length poem, originally released in the USA by Spuyten Divil in three volumes. "Norman Finkelstein's Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress. An excursis through... -
Give Some Word by Cralan Kelder 9781848611443
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in... -
Shearsman 101 & 102 by Tony Frazer 9781848613836
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €9.76The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2014 contains new poetry by Isobel Armstrong, Paula Bohince, Peter Boyle, M.T.C. Cronin, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Ray DiPalma, Tim Dooley, Michael Farrell,... -
Remains to Be Seen by David Rushmer 9781848615823
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02"In David Rushmer's stunning book, Remains to Be Seen, we find a carefully crafted rendering of a voice in the world, each syllable of this drama earned. There is a microtonal attention to... -
A Revolutionary Calendar by Zoe Skoulding 9781848616905
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.36This year-long sequence of five-line poems takes as its point of departure the French Republican Calendar, devised by the poet Fabre d'Eglantine with the aim of breaking the power of the Church and... -
The Complete Poems by Cesar Vallejo 9781848612266
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €31.99This large volume brings together under one set of covers the three volumes published by Shearsman in 2005 and 2007: The Black Heralds and Other Early Poems, Trilce and The Complete Later Poems. Some... -
Selected Essays by Eduardo Milan 9781848614741
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848614741Author Eduardo MilanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher... -
A Nest This Size by Aidan Fine 9781848617360
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €10.63Aidan Fine's A Nest This Size is a journey embarked on via contradictory terms that occur when one attempts to explore the limitations of human (vs?) sentient abidance. Postmodern problems with... -
She Lives There Still by Mary Leader 9781848615847
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22She Lives There Still is Mary Leader's second collection with Shearsman Books. In some senses, it is an extension of her previous Shearsman volume, Beyond the Fire, in that it reinforces what John... -
Essays on the Poetry of Trevor Joyce by Niamh O'Mahony 9781848613393
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €16.62This is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the work of Trevor Joyce, one of the Republic of Ireland's most innovative poets of the past 50 years. Contributions from: Lucy Collins, Eric... -
Strata by Helena Eriksson 9781848612747
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €12.22The poetry of Helena Eriksson can be positioned within the Swedish literary avant-garde associated with the poetry magazine and publishing house, OEI. It is her strong, unique voice, however, which... -
Islands of Voices: Selected Poems by Douglas Oliver 9781848617179
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €17.06Douglas Oliver (1937-2000) was a poet with a substantial reputation in the late 1980s and 1990s, finding a larger audience for his socially-committed poetry in a way that no other of his poetic... -
Salt on the Eye: Selected Poems by Hanne Bramness 9781905700417
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €15.02This is the first collection of Hanne Bramness' work to be published in English for many years, and it surveys an increasingly impressive body of work, which won her the prestigious Scandinavian... -
Nuper Verba by Kent Johnson 9781848618572
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22"If, as it has been claimed, the satirist is a left-handed writer, the analogy seems made for Kent Johnson's inimitable, fearless and much needed contribution - the one-in-ten, or more like... -
Gestation by Patricia Debney 9781848613669
RRP: €8.93Booksplease Price: €8.71Exploring fragmentation, delusion and parental ageing, the long poem Gestation forms part of Patricia Debney's next collection, Baby.Book InformationISBN 9781848613669Author Patricia DebneyPage Count... -
Seated Woman by Guillaume Apollinaire 9781848618381
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.88Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was at the forefront of the aesthetic revolution that is the European Avant-Garde of the early twentieth century. In the accompanying memoir to his English... -
Walk Song by David Herd 9781848618428
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €12.22Written between 2015 and 2020, the poems of Walk Song build through a series of sequences which look to animate solidarities and the languages of rights. Taking their bearings from the Refugee Tales... -
Shearsman 129 / 130 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848617735
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.21The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021 contains poetry by Tomi Adegbayibi, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowski , Daragh Breen, Belinda Cooke , Stuart Cooke , Gareth Culshaw , Carrie Etter ,... -
Desire Lines: Unselected Poems 1966-2000 by Barry MacSweeney 9781848615793
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €20.13Desire Lines: Unselected Poems, 1966-2000 presents work drawn from across MacSweeney's writing life. Beginning with The Boy From the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother, which brought the 20-year-old...