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Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Brian 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: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.61A 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... -
The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey 9781911469384
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the... -
Crash & Burn by Michael O'Neill 9781911469667
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.44In 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... -
Graphologies by John Kinsella 9781911469650
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.28"I close my eyes and see poems written inside my head. I open them to copy them down. Through photos I see the poems with my eyes open. These are the translations and transcriptions of what I... -
The Herring Lass by Michelle Cahill 9781910345764
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The Herring Lass explores human and animal migrations: how animals and birds survive extreme climate and resist assailants can provide reflections on our global engagements, the exodus of refugees... -
Orbita: The Project Kevin Orbita 9781911469322
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Orbita, 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... -
Silence River Antonio Moura 9781906570675
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Antonio Moura's third collection has the clarity and urgency of a black and white woodcut. A playful collusion of experimental and traditional poetic styles, this collection has both a powerful... -
Days Full of Caves & Tigers Fabio Pusterla 9781904614821
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This 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: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.38There 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Translated 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: £13.37Six 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... -
You are Her by Linda France 9781906570552
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dualities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At... -
Gangs of Shadow by Michael O'Neill 9781906570828
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95When Michael O'Neill senses 'gangs / of shadow' half-beckoning from twilit water, the moment is eerily alluring as well as scary. Fusions of feeling recur throughout a book that has something of the... -
Thaw by Victor Rodriques Nunez 9781908376039
Booksplease Price: £11.98Thaw 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... -
Dry Stone Work by Brian Johnstone 9781908376053
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.The third full collection by Brian Johnstone, and his second to be published by Arc in their Poetry from the UK & Ireland series.A... -
Selected Poems from 'Les Fleurs du Mal' Charles Baudelaire 9781908376411
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution andaccelerating change - the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and themiddle-class, the radical... -
Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner 9781908376824
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Self-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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.77It 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: £12.67''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... -
Armature by Chrissie Gittins 9781900072700
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94"Reflective as well as outward-looking, [Chrissie Gittins] writes vividly about the everyday as well as less familiar lives and places. Lively, accessible and gently surprising, hers is a voice... -
Outside the All Stars by Jonathan Asser 9781900072717
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A new voice on the British poetry scene, and one of the ten commendations in this year's National Poetry Competition, Asser will undoubtedly make his mark with this memorable first collection - about... -
Fifty-Six George Szirtes 9781910345122
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.6256 is a collaboration between two poets from very different literary traditions whose ears are tuned to a mutual music. With a painting by Jenny Saville as a starting point, this collaboration grew... -
Ergo by Michelene Wandor 9781911469759
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.28Love poems and not-love poems: fierce and gentle, passionate and bitter, pushing at the boundaries of minimalist language, Michelene Wandor's latest poetry collection from Arc certainly packs an... -
Selected Poems: (working title) by Ro Mehrooz 9781911469834
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911469834Author Ro MehroozFormat PaperbackImprint Arc PublicationsPublisher Arc Publications -
Lizzard Looks by Prue Chamberlayne 9781911469964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The 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,... -
Skald: Sword & Sea-Cloud by Ian Crockatt
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.94The poet Ian Crockatt has published two superb translations of Viking poetry with Arc- Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw: the Viking Poems of Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney and The Song Weigher:... -
Paradise Empty: Poems 1983 - 2013 by Hugo Mujica
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Paradise 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: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Half-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... -
Guests of Eternity by Larissa Miller 9781904614067
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Larissa Miller is one of Russia's most highly-regarded writers - novelist, essayist and poet - and this selection from her collection "Between the Cloud and the Pit" (1999) spans her poetic output... -
Dinner with Fish and Mirrors by Ivana Milankova 9781904614784
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Ivana 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,... -
Wheel by Michael O'Neill 9781904614791
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Wheel, as the title suggests, is full of revolving perspectives and throughout Michael O'Neill's beautifully modulated second collection, the poetry turns on an axis of opposites: self and others,... -
Gangs of Shadow Michael O'Neill 9781906570644
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61When Michael O'Neill senses 'gangs / of shadow' half-beckoning from twilit water, the moment is eerily alluring as well as scary. Fusions of feeling recur throughout a book that has something of the... -
If I Only Knew by Nelly Sachs 9781911469391
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.28Known 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... -
Kill the Radio by Dorothea Rosa Herliany 9781904614111
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Striking new work by major Indonesian writer.In a strongly patriarchal society in which the norms of feminine subordination are sanctified by the strictures of religion, the rage and aggression in... -
The Flights of Zarza by Fernando Kofman 9781904614371
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61"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... -
Ljubljana by Meta Kusar 9781904614418
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The seventy-seven poems that form Meta KuA'ar's "Ljubljana" pay complex homage to her home city, the Slovenian capital. Although her vision of Ljubljana begins with places, buildings,... -
And Silk and Love and Flame Birhan Keskin 9781904614579
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Birhan 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68This 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...