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Crown of Thorns by GW Colkitto 9781788641494
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32In Crown of Thorns G W Colkitto presents a playful yet erudite take on sonnets and not sonnets. Layered with references that are used to hold a mirror to the self, and with an astute focus on the... -
Unbridled Messiah by Pnina Shinebourne 9781788649285
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22When Shabtai Zvi of Smyrna, a 17th Century man of piety, if eccentric and unruly, proclaims himself Messiah, euphoria and devotion ripple through Jewish communities worldwide. Imprisoned for sedition... -
Clyde: My River by G W Colkitto 9781788641302
Booksplease Price: £5.34In Clyde: my river G W Colkitto takes us on an extended journey that travels as much through time as place. Deftly weaving together scenes from childhood to adulthood, from family to social... -
Via Negativa by Omar Sabbagh 9780993168239
Booksplease Price: £12.20A novella exploring identity and interior landscape by a widely published Lebanese-British poet and critic.About the AuthorDr. Omar Sabbagh is a widely published poet and critic. His work has... -
Brontë Journey Liliana A. Pasterska 9781788641968
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76Liliana Pasterska is the maven of finding emotional depth in the detail of the everyday. In Bronte Journey we are invited to walk alongside a love story, one that is sundered by loss, yet shines all... -
Arriving Barefooted Gwen Williams 9781788648585
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22In this bilingual collection, Arriving Barefooted-Two Rough Journeys/Glanio'n Droednoeth-Dwy Daith Arw, Gwen Williams traces the journey of the Welsh settlers in Patagonia and a journey in their... -
The Slasher and the Vampire as Role Models Ian Gregson 9781788640688
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40A recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as a young poet, Ian Gregson's debut collection, Call Centre Love Song went on to be shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Described by Carol... -
Catstrawe Helen May Williams 9781788640442
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Growing from a year-long commitment to write one haiku a day, Catstrawe ranges through family history and female relationships, the stimulation of travel and the inspiration to found in the immediate... -
RIP: Poems after Gaza & Words after Waddah by Omar Sabbagh 9781788641661
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788641661Author Omar SabbaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint -
Daughter by Patricia Helen Wooldridge 9781788649445
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Composed in three movements-preludes, variations and fugue-Daughter is an exploration of what being the daughter means for the poet and her parents, recognising that there is so much of our parents'... -
Do Not Enter Alarmed Area by Nigel Hutchinson 9781788641104
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Opening a conversation with paintings and sculptures from the 16th Century to the present, this second collection by Nigel Hutchinson displays all his hallmark wit and insight. Artists as diverse and... -
Shadowmouth by Liliana A. Pasterska 9781788649902
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56A father who loomed large in his absence. A mother who was herself motherless from the age of five, a carer from a young age, who grew up amongst religious strictures. And a son bursting with... -
Things I have kept by Denise Bennett 9781788648882
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22From objects imbued with meaning and memory to the places that nurture and anchor us, Denise Bennett’s poetry is grounded in a sense of the sacredness of the everyday. There is keen attention to... -
Writing Down Deep - An Alchemy of the Writing Life by Jan Fortune
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Writing Down Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life, has been a huge labour of love over the last three years. Many of the ideas have been trialed in blog articles and in online courses, and have... -
Painters Who Studied Clouds, The by Will Kemp
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Brimming with wit, moments of acute observation and imagination, and written in a wry, self-deprecating Billy Collins-esque style, Will Kemp's third collection is replete with refreshing images for... -
The Hand of Love by Simak Haikal 9781788649056
Booksplease Price: £12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788649056Author Simak HaikalFormat PaperbackImprint -
Love Haunts in Shades of Blue by Yvonne Baker 9781788641531
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22In this prize-winning, lyrical debut full collection, we encounter poetry that is both delicate and powerful. Yvonne Baker writes in the liminal space between the interior and exterior world,... -
Mascara by Mark Wagstaff 9781788641746
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Eyes are key Masca (Latin): spectre Maschera (Italian): mask Maskharah (Arabic): foolFelicity Hepburn is back in London. In the game for one more hit. To make enough to get married, live the family... -
L’Aubier by Isabelle Llasera 9781788641777
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95what we must remember, what we would forget…How do we carry the past when memory begins to splinter, when daily words and faces elude us while the distant past haunts and torments? How do we carry... -
Stale Bread & Miracles by Jan Fortune 9781910836033
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910836033Author Jan FortuneImprint -
Where are my window songs? Patricia Helen Wooldridge 9781788641951
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Where are my Window Songs? has not a word out of place. The phrases are limpid and shimmer with sensory details so that we encounter places, creatures and the persona of the poet as though in the... -
Y Knots by Omar Sabbagh 9781911540212
Booksplease Price: £13.63Linguistically dexterous, scintillating with intelligence and wit, and balancing incisive observation with deep compassion, the short fictions in Y Knots draw us into the lives of characters we feel... -
June by Helen May Williams 9781788649094
Booksplease Price: £13.63Based in part on the author's mother's handwritten memoirs, this novel is an act of bricolage in which the narrator keeps finding gaps in the materials. We desire to regain the past, but every time... -
Running Lie, The by Jennifer Young 9781788640763
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42n Cold Crash, when Archaeologist Max Falkland, the Anglo-American daughter of a British peer, meets American John Knox in London in April 1952, her already troubled life takes on mystery. As the Cold... -
Anima/l by Fiona Owen 9781788641630
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain — Do the little things’ (Dewi Sant/St David) — is how Fiona Owen signs off her communications. And she is a poet who understands that the little things are actually the... -
A Wide River Divides Us by Gill Barr 9781788648738
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22A Wide River Divides Us opens with acute recollections of a working class childhood caught between terror and domesticity in 1970s Derry/Londonderry. A compelling shift of perspective takes the poet... -
Transience Nick Jones 9781788648608
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNick was born in Switzerland in 1953. Most of his childhood was spent in South East Kent and he went to... -
Lightship Bruce Ackerley 9781788648592
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Twenty years ago, Bruce Ackerley won Cinnamon Press's inaugural poetry collection prize with his debut, Sound of Mountain, of which RV Bailey wrote: 'finely crafted, lyrical and spare... with a... -
White Space Carol Baxendale 9781788648547
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Karen has taken photographs since she was nine, showing off her Anglo-Norwegian lifestyle, and has found her most enthusiastic audience yet: the mature student, Steven.And what better way to escape... -
Aferlives John Barnie 9781788649254
Booksplease Price: £12.52Afterlives sees John Barnie engaging with images once again, as he did in his book A Year of Flowers. Here, Barnie deploys his skills of perception to respond to a group of paintings in Peter Lord's... -
Ice by John Barnie 9781911540281
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Set in a future that may not be too distant, the ice caps have melted and the Atlantic Conveyor of warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic has collapsed, plunging North America and Europe... -
Writing Nowhere: A Beginner's Guide to Utopia by Rowan B. Fortune 9781788648035
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The alleged death of utopian fiction and its eclipsing by dystopia is, Rowan Fortune, cogently argues, grossly exaggerated. Reprising elements of their doctoral thesis on utopian fiction, Fortune... -
Solstice by Christopher J Arthur 9781788649636
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Ranging widely in substance and style Solstice moves from lyrical invocations of Nature to reactions to 'lockdown'; from a classical sonnet to the free-wheeling title poem. Across this short... -
Eye Level by Jenny Morris 9781788648875
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Jenny Morris has a gift for observation translated into fresh and lyrical imagery. In Eye Level she looks beneath the surface of memory with a wistful but never sentimental gaze. Here ‘memory stains... -
Burlesque by Mick Evans 9781788640367
Booksplease Price: £8.83Through the figure of Punch, Burlesque explores themes of identity and the roles imposed on us through circumstance and conditioning. The figure of Punch stands as an icon, the 'paradigm and picture... -
Darkness Bonnie Thurston 9781788641883
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76To interrogate darkness at this moment in history is not only timely, but vital and Bonnie Thurston does it with an honesty and precision that holds our attention. From the darkness of a melancholic... -
The Doll’s House Maker’s Room Robin Thomas 9781788641906
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Dolls' House Maker's Room sits in a house of tools and memories, the tools as much metaphors as objects, the memories laden with objects and images, with the places and events that shape what we... -
Words the Turtle Taught Me by Susan Richardson
Booksplease Price: £14.26Combining poetry with the long essay, 'Thirty Ways of Looking at the Sea', which charts her involvement with the Marine Conservation Society as resident poet as they launched an appeal to tackle the... -
Staring Back at Me Tony Bianchi 9781788640107
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfod-winning author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a... -
Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones by Bobbie Darbyshire 9781788641593
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Three troubled people, driven by loneliness, vanity and revenge, dash to the Scottish Highlands, where their lives become mysteriously entwined around a reading group in the Inverness public library...