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playtime by Andrew McMillan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**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: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48*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 by Andrew McMillan 9781838858957
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.57A 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50*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... -
Pity Andrew McMillan 9781838858988
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A 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... -
100 Queer Poems by Andrew McMillan 9781529115338
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston... -
Homography: New collection by Polari Prize longlisted poet edited by TS Eliot winner Joelle Taylor Nathan Evans 9781912620388
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Homography: mapping multiple perspectives of a single subject; words with same form, different meaning (see gay); homosexual history approached through autobiography; projective transformation (from... -
Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil by Andrew McMillan 9780733638084
Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733638084Author Andrew McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher... -
Slide by Mark Pajak
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82**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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50*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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50**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,... -
I Will Greet the Sun Again: 'Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful' Caleb Azumah Nelson by Khashayar J. Khabushani 9780241514733
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching, honest and riveting. A book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break one... -
Caliban Shrieks Jack Hilton 9781784878764
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A 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... -
Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton 9781784878757
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.36A 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12The 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... -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Winner 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: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.19In 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... -
I Will Greet the Sun Again: 'Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful' Caleb Azumah Nelson by Khashayar J. Khabushani 9780241514740
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching... a book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian'I will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! ... -
Slip by Amelia Loulli 9781787334670
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48One 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... -
What is the Grass by Mark Doty
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Mark 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... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude... -
Homie by Danez Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A 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... -
Manorism by Yomi Sode 9781802061932
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED 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 ..... -
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82**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: £13.00Booksplease Price: £7.65** 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... -
The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 9781529110739
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The 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... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781784878238
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.28Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37AN 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... -
HERO: A love story Katie Buckley 9781035413072
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Hero 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.'The truest representation of the headiness and power of... -
Poetry Book Society Winter 2017 Bulletin by Poetry Book Society 9781999858902
Booksplease Price: £10.53Featuring Sasha Dugdale Tim Dooley Paul Deaton Fleur Adcock Ahren Warner & more. The PBS Winter 2017 Bulletin marks the launch of a brand new, full-colour redesign, with extended reviews, more... -
HERO: A love story by Katie Buckley 9781035413089
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.92Hero 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.'The truest representation of the headiness and power of... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats Emmett de Monterey 9780241995785
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95AN 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28White 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Limbic 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... -
I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken 9781784746629
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect'Siken's signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale ReviewA collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate... -
The Underground Cabaret by Ian Seed 9781848617230
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39The 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...