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Sho by Douglas Kearney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.312022 WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYEschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney's Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming... -
Patter by Douglas Kearney 9781597095808
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that... -
The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.75From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.About the AuthorDOUGLAS KEARNEY'S work as a poet,... -
Fear, Some by Douglas Kearney 9781597090711
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Stealing tropes from militancy to minstrelsy, Fear,some broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial and aesthetic anxieties overlap. These poems seek to pressurize content... -
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney 9780986437373
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986437373Author Douglas KearneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Fence BooksPublisher Fence... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing Anthony Reed (Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University) 9781421421209
Booksplease Price: £23.17Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed 9781421415208
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era... -
YEET! jason b. crawford 9781632431707
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.51Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom. Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford's YEET! envisions the... -
Black Love Letters by Cole Brown 9781638931201
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.85As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . ... -
The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice Katja Hilevaara 9781138674837
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14As practitioner-researchers, how do we discuss and analyse our work without losing the creative drive that inspired us in the first place?Built around a diverse selection of writings from leading... -
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always 9798891060128
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79On the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes... -
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by 9780820332772
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £79.56This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre... -
Lauren Halsey: emajendat by Lauren Halsey 9780847847815
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £29.59The artist s important work centers the on Black community, both aesthetically and materially. Halsey gathers icons of pride, autonomy, initiative, and resilience from local vernacular sources... -
Gumbo Ya Ya: Poems by Aurielle Marie 9780822966661
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.84Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize "Some writers write poetry to flex what they can do. Aurielle Marie writes reckoning poems themselves come to work. Gumbo Ya Ya kicks with this lit lit... -
Wail Song: or wading in the water at the end of the world Chaun Webster 9781939568687
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Wail 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... -
As When Waking Daniel Schonning 9780226843841
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.48An exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint. The poems of Daniel Schonning's debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering... -
Origins of the Syma Species by Tares Oburumu 9781496237026
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu's collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a... -
The Intimacy Trials Aja Couchois Duncan 9780226848105
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future. Aja Couchois Duncan's third... -
Imperial Liquor: Poems by Amaud Jamal Johnson
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.64Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability... -
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry by Gary Jackson
Booksplease Price: £16.60The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre-receiving wide... -
Permanent Record Naima Yael Tokunow 9781643622422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown,... -
Safe Houses I Have Known Steve Healey 9781566895613
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday life-the suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his... -
Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes: Poems Imane Boukaila 9781639550784
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66The newest entry in the Multiverse series, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes is a debut collection activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing.This is a book of what its teenage... -
Dissonance Kristin Dykstra 9780226840314
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94A collection of poems and photographs that take the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains as a microcosm for considering climate change, borders, and community life. In Dissonance, translator... -
Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Kathryn Nuernberger 9781350224582
Booksplease Price: £23.22A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing... -
Vexations by Annelyse Gelman 9780226826110
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.15A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman's book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on... -
The Rendering by Anthony Cody
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £11.98A poetry collection that considers climate change and the possibility of wholeness within the Anthropocene. Through a series of experimental poems centered on ecology, Anthony Cody's The Rendering... -
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by 9780820334318
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £29.37Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated... -
Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In Toxicon & Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeney's... -
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this... -
All the Rage by Rosamond S. King
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.312022 HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARDS FINALIST!2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST!2021 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST!A new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King,... -
The Upstate by Lindsay Turner 9780226828640
Booksplease Price: £15.82Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis. Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay... -
PORTAL by Tracy Fuad 9780226831534
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.11A poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety. Tracy Fuad's second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes... -
the delicacy of embracing spirals mimi tempestt 9780872869257
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through, a radically human lens. "mimi tempestt writes like a third... -
Eat the Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARDPEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTRecommended by Hector Tobar as an essential Los Angeles book in the New York Times.Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories... -
the deja vu: black dreams & black time by Gabrielle Civil
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions.Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the deja vu activates... -
I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." -Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family,...