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Wolf Tongue Barry MacSweeney 9781852246662
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Barry MacSweeney's last book, The Book of Demons, recorded his fierce fight against alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life - though only for three more years. When he... -
Reading Barry MacSweeney Paul Batchelor 9781852249885
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Barry MacSweeney was described as 'a contrary, lone wolf...[whose] ear for a soaring lyric melody was unmatched' (Nicholas Johnson, Independent). MacSweeney found fame with his first book, The Boy... -
Desire Lines: Unselected Poems 1966-2000 by Barry MacSweeney 9781848615793
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.92Desire 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... -
Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things by Luke Roberts 9783319459578
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities... -
Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things by Luke Roberts 9783319834078
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities... -
Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today by David Nowell Smith 9781137512239
Booksplease Price: £46.28The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors... -
The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry by Robert Sheppard 9783319340449
Booksplease Price: £46.28This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets... -
The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry by Robert Sheppard 9783319816647
Booksplease Price: £46.88This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets... -
How To Build A City by Tom Chivers 9781844718849
Booksplease Price: £10.29How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture,... -
Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court by Peter Barry 9781844712472
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.66Poetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over by radical... -
The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess by John Wilkinson 9781844713950
Booksplease Price: £17.37The Lyric Touch gathers John Wilkinson's essays on British and American poetry of the late twentieth century and on poetics, several of them referenced in standard works despite being hard to obtain... -
Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945 1979 Luke Roberts 9781399519861
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions,... -
Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. The Guardian described Terror, his first book, as... -
Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. His publications include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for... -
Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery by Chris McCabe 9781908058577
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Step through the iron gates of one of London's most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead.Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks... -
Speculatrix by Chris McCabe 9781908058256
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist... -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor 9781800171992
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends - pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary... -
Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Neil Astley 9781780373768
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings...