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playtime by Andrew McMillan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.49**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019**'Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so' Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan... -
Physical by Andrew McMillan
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We... -
Pity Andrew McMillan 9781838858988
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024A BBC MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024AN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGHLIGHT OF 2024A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN... -
Pity by Andrew McMillan 9781838858957
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.25A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024A BBC MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024AN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGHLIGHT OF 2024A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN... -
pandemonium Andrew McMillan 9781787333192
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.63*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan's... -
Homography: New collection by Polari Prize longlisted poet edited by TS Eliot winner Joelle Taylor Nathan Evans 9781912620388
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76Homography: mapping multiple perspectives of a single subject; words with same form, different meaning (see gay); homosexual history approached through autobiography; projective transformation (from... -
Slide by Mark Pajak
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE**'Fresh, urgent, alive... genius' PATIENCE AGBABIThis assured and arresting first collection moves... -
The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH... -
The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.63*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching... -
The Martian's Regress by J. O. Morgan
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.63**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs,... -
Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton 9781784878757
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.31A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW... -
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2018I could not be held responsiblefor desirehe could not be held at allTracking the joys and... -
Stereo(TYPE) by Jonah Mixon-Webster
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88The award-winning poet's darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt systemLyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster's debut aims its... -
What is the Grass by Mark Doty
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a... -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young... -
Rapture's Road: From the author of All Down Darkness Wide Sean Hewitt 9781787334274
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $17.92In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland'Points to a bright future for Irish... -
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE**The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the... -
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020****SHORTLISTED... -
Slip by Amelia Loulli 9781787334670
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and steadfastly... -
Homie by Danez Smith
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness,' Guardian'In its cutting compassion, Homie is as much a celebration of loved ones' lives as it... -
Manorism by Yomi Sode 9781802061932
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEA GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wonder of a collection' Caleb Azumah Nelson'Thrilling ..... -
Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION... -
The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 9781529110739
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89The cult gay classic of the early 1990s, reissued to mark the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riotsBetween nights, earning his keep at Excellent, Idaho's outrageously pink whorehouse,... -
The Working Classic by Aaron Kent 9781739393915
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76The Working Classic is a collection of poetry, interviews, and essays with Aaron Kent. These diverse texts attempt to showcase how a gentrified creative industry routinely ignores working class... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.07AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months... -
White Ghosts by Katie Hale
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15White Ghosts, the debut collection by poet and novelist Katie Hale, traces maternal lines, and the legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of America, through revealing,... -
Limbic by Peter Scalpello 9781838390044
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Limbic is Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slippery nights out fuelled by chemsex, on drunken lads' holidays, and into the quiet violence of small... -
David Hockney - Moving Focus by Helen Little 9781849767729
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.15A panoramic new perspective on the life and work of one of Britain's most important artists: David Hockney.David Hockney is Britain's most important living artist, one who is constantly moving into... -
The Underground Cabaret by Ian Seed 9781848617230
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26The 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 is... -
Hero: A fierce and captivating literary love story for 2025 by Katie Buckley 9781035413119
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Hero is a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.'Pulls no punches... A fearless interrogation of female... -
Collapse by Édouard Louis 9781787305038
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.86I often hated my brother, but I have to understand his life.The unflinching story of Edouard Louis's brother's violent life and death.'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing... -
Time is a Mother: From the bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $18.49Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of... -
Handling Stolen Goods by Degna Stone
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.61In a collection that encompasses both Siri and the trickster god Anansi, in his travels from West Africa via the Caribbean to Black working class communities in the Midlands and North East of... -
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt 9781787335202
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.51Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each other's lives.'It's a novel about us' KAVEH AKBAR'Hewitt writes with such... -
Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann 9781800173811
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2024. In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and... -
Open, Heaven Seán Hewitt 9781787335196
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each other's lives.'It's a novel about us' KAVEH AKBAR'Hewitt writes with such... -
Why I Write Poetry: Essays on Becoming a Poet, Keeping Going and Advice for the Writing Life by Ian Humphreys 9781913437299
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing?... -
Lady Laurie Bolger 9781916760141
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45Lady, the first full collection of poems by Laurie Bolger, arrives with an effervescent rush of endorphins and explores the many roles girls and women are asked to play and the dressing-up outfits... -
The Magic of What's There by David Morley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to... -
Why I Am Not a Bus Driver Ashley Hickson-Lovence 9781913268749
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.95Why I Am Not a Bus Driver is a moving and musical debut collection exploring grief, love and the power of community, from the author of The 392, Your Show and Wild East (Mal Peet Award, Carnegie...