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Whittling a New Face in the Dark by D. J. Dolack 9781939568021
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.84Whittling a New Face in the Dark is a call to arms for language to rise above its inadequacy. DJ Dolack's poems are born from moments we must work hard to forget: the child's first funeral dirge; an... -
Nests in Air by Nathan Hoks
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64For Nathan Hoks, a poem is a verbal nest, a weave of various scraps and strands inside of which something incubates. In Nests In Air, he makes this definition manifest by blending research of... -
Fjords Vol.2 by Zachary Schomburg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"The thing about killing is, like everything else, it feels as bright as love for just a flash." The second volume in Zachary Schomburg's Fjords series of evocative prose poetry, this is a collection... -
Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile by Hussain Ahmed
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile explores the role of silence in a time of war. The war Hussain Ahmed accounts here is both physical and psychological, and the survivor within these poems uses his... -
The Self Unstable by Elisa Gabbert 9780984475292
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of... -
The Sisters Jordan Windholz 9781939568922
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A sensory-rich collection of poems that conjures magical worlds that combine the gorgeous imaginings of child's play with the mystery of dark fairy tales.A lyric meditation on childhood, adulthood,... -
There Must Be a Reason People Come Here by Brian Foley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: "What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?" There Must Be A Reason People... -
The Fastening by Julie Doxsee
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50In Julie Doxsee's fifth poetry book, The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned... -
Pillar of Books by Bo Young Moon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god,... -
Light Mesh by Choi Jeongrye 9781965154175
Booksplease Price: £15.40A debut English-language collection from an award-winning contemporary Korean poet.Light Mesh, Choi Jeongrye’s final book, performs a dislocation of the everyday. In poems that are playful,... -
L' Heure Bleue Elisa Gabbert 9781939568175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the... -
Echo's Errand by Keith Jones 9781939568519
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Lyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity's dark history. These poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already "known" world. In this... -
Seguiriyas by Ben Meyerson 9781939568731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A debut poetry collection that draws on the music and culture of flamenco to explore diasporic experience.In Seguiriyas—which derives its title from the flamenco palo (or “song form”) of the same... -
Risk by Rusty Morrison 9781939568762
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the co-publisher of acclaimed poetry press Omnidawn, Risk engages directly with limitations, both those that structure the literal form of the poems and literary form and those that are both... -
Biologicity Shin Hae-uk 9781939568939
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88An acclaimed "poet's poet" with deadpan wit and a gift for lyric innovation reveals an entirely new side of Korean contemporary poetry.This debut English-language collection by Shin Hae-uk offers up... -
Concealed Words by Sin Mok
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A debut English-language collection of hopeful and carefully attentive poems by one of South Korea's most lauded young poets.This collection offers a selection of poems from Sin Yong Mok's earlier... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People Solah Lim 9781939568434
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and... -
Crane 9781965154038
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Through interweaving prose and verse, Crane resurrects two figures from myth: Cardea, goddess of hinges, and Echo, the nymph transformed into reflective sound. Moving between intimate narratives and... -
Fugue and Strike by Joe Hall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26These are poems that rock you like a tilt-a-whirl, off-kilter and non-stop.In this collection of poems by Joe Hall, you might find yourself laid off at a cannabis grow or vomiting gold. You might... -
The Black Ocean by Brian Barker
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.26In The Black Ocean, poet Brian Barker attempts to make sense of some of the darkest chapters in history while peering forward to what lies ahead as the world totters in the wake of human complacence... -
Opera Buffa by Tomaz Salamun
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Opera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective... -
The Color of Peace by Nguyen Phan Que Mai 9781965154113
Booksplease Price: £13.65Where memory meets hope: a powerful collection from one of Vietnam's most important contemporary voices.In this stunning collection, international bestselling author Nguyen Phan Que Mai turns her... -
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert 9781939568267
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939568267Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
The Odd Month Valeria Meiller 9781939568915
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A collection of 29 ecopoetic vignettes that explore the complexities of politics and progress in the Global South.Known colloquially as "the odd month" for its unusual number of days, February in the... -
It's not over once you figure it out by Isaac Pickell 9781939568632
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A linguistically experimental and socially engaged collection of poems that examines questions of colorism within an economically driven world.In a collection of poems that collapses the spectrum... -
Difficult: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing by Kristina Marie Darling
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88What motivates writers to create purposefully difficult texts? In what ways is textual difficulty politically charged? In this collection of smart and accessible essays, Kristina Marie Darling seeks... -
Our Human Shores 9781965154014
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.Our Human... -
The New World by Kelly Schirmann
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A hybrid collection of poetry and prose, The New World follows the attempts, failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and... -
Hail, Che! by Pak Jeong-de 9781965154090
Booksplease Price: £13.52An explosive collection of revolutionary poems that make the case that only poetry can save humanity.Korean poet Pak Jeong-de envisioned Hail, Che! as a textual performance that sings and dreams of... -
Buffalo Free Rapid Transit by Joe Hall 9781965154151
Booksplease Price: £13.54Immerse yourself in a surreal, social poetics in a crisis-plagued Rust Belt city. The sequel to Joe Hall's intense and unsparing Fugue & Strike, Buffalo Free Rapid Transit combines a darkly observant... -
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anais Duplan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator... -
Just Like by Lee Sumyeong 9781939568755
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Poems that break with traditional syntax and disrupt our perceptions of how language works in this first collection in English of poems by one of South Korea's most established contemporary poets and... -
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans Bill Knott 9781939568748
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The debut collection from Bill Knott that influenced a generation of poets and rockstars is now back-in-print for the first time in almost 60 years and includes a new introduction by Richard Hell... -
Applause for a Cloud 9781939568991
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Sayumi Kamakura's Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales.Sayumi Kamakura juxtaposes a surreal... -
Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world Chaun Webster 9781939568687
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world is a multi-form long poem that offers an extended contemplation on being that lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both... -
Radio Days by Ha Jaeyoun 9781939568724
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A collection of poems that gives new life and magic to the everyday. Radio Days offers a unique collection by Ha Jaeyoun in a distinct, clear style, distinguishing it from her previous works in... -
From Being to Being 9781965154052
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Characterized by genius wordplay, Oh Eun's poems play with homophones and homonyms while keeping the wit, criticalness, and beauty we associate with Korean poetryIn their sonic play, Oh Eun's poems... -
Hackers by Aase Berg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"This is a threat." That's how Hackers, Swedish writer Aase Berg's seventh book of poetry, begins. Hackers is a furious, feminist book about wanting to "hack" the patriarchal system-both in the... -
Ascend Ascend by Janaka Stucky 9780997457834
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Ascend Ascend was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old... -
Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania Hamish McDonald 9781805263951
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.34Stretching from Fiji in the east to New Guinea in the west, Melanesia is astonishingly diverse. Its islands are home to some 1,200 language groups, many of them still isolated from the outside world...