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Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.25The title of this book comes from the African proverb - "until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." In this poetic reimagining, Nair writes,... -
Marks on the Map by Brian Johnstone
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.83Brian Johnstone's third collection from Arc, to be published as the poet turns 70, is full of memories, from the poet's own past and from the lives of the people he has encountered over the years... -
In my Garden of Mutants by Volha Hapeyeva
RRP: €8.33Booksplease Price: €7.59A bilingual introduction to the work of one of the leading poets on the Belarusian scene today - lyrical, surreal, political poetry, written in Belarusian (classified by UNESCO as a vulnerable... -
Crash & Burn by Michael O'Neill 9781911469667
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.26In Crash & Burn, Michael O'Neill describes his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus. The volume has four parts - devoted, in turn, to the preoperative chemotherapy; the operation; the... -
Orbita: The Project Kevin Orbita 9781911469322
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.42Orbita, founded in Riga in 1999, is a collective of Latvian poets writing in Russian whose unique work plays at the boundaries between various creative genres and cultures. This volume combines... -
Days Full of Caves & Tigers Fabio Pusterla 9781904614821
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.02This selection is drawn from six collections which span Pusterla's poetic career from 1985 to 2011. Pusterla's themes are many and varied, and there is a spareness and austerity about his poetry -... -
Arboretum for the Hunted Fred d'Aguiar 9781911469285
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €8.40There has always been an intense physicality to D'Aguiar's work, matched by a penchant for geographic groundedness and a biographical perspicacity, that has made him one of the finest writers of his... -
Fishermen Sleep by Sabine Lange 9781904614203
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.83Translated from the German by Jenny Williams. Introduced by Mary O'Donnell. THE FISHERMEN The fishermen sleep.In their sou'westers sea foam evaporates from their eyes the scales fall onto the pale... -
Six Polish Poets by Jacek Dehnel 9781904614500
Booksplease Price: €15.86Six Polish Poets makes available to the English-language reader the poetry of the younger generation of poets who whose first collections (with one exception) have been published in the past decade... -
Thaw by Victor Rodriques Nunez 9781908376039
Booksplease Price: €13.27Thaw is a book-length sequence of short poems, all ten lines long. Like haiku, at first glance these seem simple meditations on nature that, when given time, open out into a larger reflections on... -
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner 9781908376824
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner... -
No Bartok Before Breakfast: A Musician's Memoir by John Manduell 9781910345597
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.02It is hard to believe that one man could have had so much influence on the musical life not only of the United Kingdom, but of Europe and beyond. Yet the pages of this delightful memoir reveal the... -
Trust by Anna T Szarbo 9781908376749
Booksplease Price: €15.08''Write only what pierces and surprises,' says Anna Szabo in this riveting collection that lives up to its own advice. Domestic life is reinvented as the elemental and visceral plane of existence we... -
Selected Poems: (working title) by Ro Mehrooz 9781911469834
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €8.27This chapbook by Ro Mehrooz is the first time that the work of a single Rohingyan poet has appeared in print in a bilingual edition. The Rohingya people continue to experience genocide at the hands... -
Lizzard Looks by Prue Chamberlayne 9781911469964
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65The past and distant past creeps through the lines and unsaid words in these poems; they explore how the past forms the present and connects our shared humanity. These are sensual poems, where sound,... -
The Years Jamie McKendrick 9781910345238
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €8.27With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name, this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an... -
Midnight and Other Poems by Mourid Barghouti
Booksplease Price: €17.28Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his... -
Bloodhoof by Kristny Gerdur
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.02Bloodhoof is a compulsively modern recasting of the ancient Eddic poem Skirnimal - a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from a land of giants and her eventual return from... -
Six Catalan poets by Pere Ballart
Booksplease Price: €15.74History shows how Catalan culture has overcome critical situations far more adverse than the present. The Catalan language has not been replaced and this anthology contains four Catalans, one... -
Six Czech Poets by Alexandra Buchler 9781904614180
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.45Arc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 3The third in a series of bilingual anthologies of European poetry and an introduction to the here-and-now of Czech poetry, this volume presents the work of six... -
Eternal Traffic Mila Haugova 9781911469612
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.80Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved ones and the slipping away of one's own life. The starting point is a double loss: her mother dies and her lover goes his own way... -
A Balkan Exchange W.N. Herbert 9781904614401
Booksplease Price: €15.58Love StoryThey played games with each other -he with her head,she with his legs.Then he gave back her head,a little worn out,and she - I'm not surewhat she did with his legs,this is as much as I know... -
Whispers and Breath of the Meadows by Razmik Davoyan 9781904614470
Booksplease Price: €15.53Armenia's most significant contemporary poet, Razmik Davoyan is one of a handful of names in Armenian literature which define not only an era, but go much further to embody an entire history... -
The Art of Stealing Time by Louis Andriessen 9781900072885
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €19.29The Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen, has been writing and talking about his own work and everything which is directly, indirectly, or nothing at all to do with it, for many years now and The Art of... -
Woman's Head as Jug by Jackie Wills 9781906570835
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.02This collection is about women's experiences of work, the city, menopause and ancestry. The poems have a touch as deft as the seamstresses and other craftspeople who populate the book. They are... -
The Names of the Sea-Trout by Tom Rawling 9781910345108
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.91The Names of the Sea-Trout, his last published collection of poems, confirmed Tom Rawling as a spiritual poet. Drawing on his childhood in Cumberland, his passion for trout-fishing and his... -
Row by Tomaz Salamun 9781904614098
RRP: €18.43Booksplease Price: €14.13A new collection by the Slovenian poet, Tomaz Salamun, is always eagerly awaited, and 'Row' shows this popular and distinctive poet at the height of his powers. Translated by the American poet Joshua... -
Seal Mother by Gerður Kristný 9781911469933
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.52The narrator of Cow Seal is a woman who lives by Iceland’s northernmost coast, where the struggle for life is hard, winters attack with sea ice and cold. Her husband dies, a child dies, and other... -
The Flights of Zarza by Fernando Kofman 9781904614371
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.02"The Flights of Zarza", published in 1992, appeared in the decade in which democratic rule returned to Argentina after seven years of brutal dictatorship and state terror, a period which Kofman, a... -
Paradise Empty: Poems 1983 - 2013 by Hugo Mujica
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Paradise Empty brings together a wide selection of poetry from eleven collections by Hugo Mujica, one of Argentina's most renowned and respected poets. Mujica's work might be described as the poetry... -
Half-Light and Other Poems by Peter France 9781908376893
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.80Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the... -
Dinner with Fish and Mirrors by Ivana Milankova 9781904614784
Booksplease Price: €13.27Ivana Milankov belongs to the first generation of poets from Central and Eastern Europe to be influenced by American anti-establishment poetry, including the Beat poets. Her own work, as a result,... -
If I Only Knew by Nelly Sachs 9781911469391
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €8.27Known as a poet who spoke of the history and suffering of the Jewish people, Nelly Sachs was, at the time she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, highly regarded in her native... -
And Silk and Love and Flame Birhan Keskin 9781904614579
Booksplease Price: €13.27Birhan Keskin's (b. Kirklareli, Turkey, 1963) poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and... -
Six Estonian Poets by Doris Kareva 9781906570972
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52This anthology features the work of six of Estonia's most celebrated poets. They write from their oral tradition and folklore, explore new forms of poetry through music, marginalia and note-making... -
Travellers Michelene Wandor 9781910345269
RRP: €8.33Booksplease Price: €7.59Michelene Wandor's new poetry collection travels in many directions. There is geography: Italy, Palestine, Ethiopia, Mesopotamia, France, Egypt, the Lebanon, and, of course, the UK. Embarked... -
North Sea Poems Heinrich Heine 9781910345757
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €8.27This chapbook presents not only a variety of moods and colours in Heine's poems about the North Sea but also a loose narrative which takes us from the shore, to scenes aboard ship, and the return to... -
Shape of Time by Doris Kareva 9781904614890
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.65'Shape of Time' is Doris Kareva's eleventh collection and, as with all her books, its publication was hailed as a major literary event in Estonia. In style, it is more restrained than her earlier... -
The Conjurer by Pedro Serrano 9781911469780
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911469780Author Pedro SerranoFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Autumn Myth by Joel Lane 9781906570163
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.45The Autumn Myth attempts a reality check on the myths and dreams that permeate our world. It attacks the culture of political and corporate mendacity in modern Britain, then goes on to consider the...