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Lurex by Denise Riley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection... -
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal... -
A Chorus of Ears: On 'the voice of the poem' by Denise Riley 9781035095964
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' - The Sunday TimesA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living... -
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley 9780822335122
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal... -
The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony by Denise Riley
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: "What does it matter what you say about other people?" The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about... -
The Language, Discourse, Society Reader by Denise Riley 9780333763711
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The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony by Denise Riley 9780804739115
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: "What does it matter what you say about other people?" The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about... -
'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley 9780333346129
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Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow by Denise Riley 9781681373997
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373997Author Denise RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint < -
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPRING 2022 BULLETIN Alice Kate Mullen 9781913129392
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22the poetry book society was founded by t.s. eliot to share the joy of poetry. it's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our... -
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a... -
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Assurances by J. O. Morgan 9781787330856 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.10**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a... -
The Lights by Ben Lerner 9781915051080
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and... -
Decreation by Anne Carson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. But how can we undo self... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 9780099595540
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself.(I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood... -
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it... -
The Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020 WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS' POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John... -
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59This first selection of Geoffrey Hill's poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the... -
Shame and Modern Writing by Barry Sheils
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent... -
In the Cut: With an introduction by Olivia Sudjic by Susanna Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n.,... -
Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort by Jürgen Pieters
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature History of the concept of consolation Readings of canonical works (Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Flaubert) Critical analysis of... -
Try To Be Better by 9781916052000
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Try To Be Better is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of W. S. Graham, foregrounding experiment and process. Contemporary writers and artists respond to prompts... -
The M Pages by Colette Bryce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brilliant, moving book . . . Reminiscent of one of this century's great elegies, Denise Riley's A Part Song, The M Pages is similarly probing, hurt, skeptical and smarting . . . in a book packed... -
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face Christopher Riopelle 9781857096828
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.90An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso's Woman with a Book and Ingres's Madame Moitessier This publication examines, in detail, two extraordinary interrelated... -
PN Review 250 by Andrew Latimer 9781784108298
Booksplease Price: £7.81The November-December 2019 issue The celebratory 250th issue of PN Review Sinead Morrissey's StAnza lecture exploring Denise Riley's 'A Part Song' Elaine Feinstein's last poems Richard Price... -
Bad Object by Elizabeth Weed 9780822368786
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Before her death in 2001, Naomi Schor was a leading scholar in feminist and critical theory and a founding coeditor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. This issue takes as its... -
The Sound Sense of Poetry by Peter Robinson 9781108422963
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his... -
Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present by Tom Jones
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.78The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth,... -
Touched by Ian Marriott 9781788641364
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical... -
The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France by Iris Moon 9780367199081
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (1762-1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms... -
The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s Susan L. Siegfried 9780300282177
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.34A fascinating consideration of the dynamic relationship between fashion, art, and the modernizing forces of the early nineteenth century Across the visual arts in France and Britain in the 1820s... -
Selected Poems by John Glenday
Booksplease Price: £16.21Selected Poems collects the work of one of our foremost lyric poets, John Glenday. The elemental themes long associated with Glenday's name are strongly represented here: the sea, the sky; light and... -
handiwork by Sara Baume
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Every devotee of literature and art should read this rare, bright-lit, hard-won book, and every student of life - that is to say, everyone.' - Sebastian Barry In this contemplative short... -
Hollow Bone, The by Ian Marriott
Booksplease Price: £14.82Cyfrol o gerddi sy'n pefrio o ddelweddaeth gynnil ac iaith eglur yw The Hollow Bone. Ynddi, fe'n gwahoddir i fyfyrio ar ryfeddodau byd natur - y coedwigoedd, y mynyddoedd ac ehangder Antarctica... -
Poetry, Publishing, and Visual Culture from Late Modernism to the Twenty-first Century: Fugitive Pieces by Natalie Pollard 9780198852605
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.95This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It proposes a vulnerable, fugitive mode of reading poetry,... -
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation Prof Stephen Regan 9780241269626
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of...