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Be With by Forrest Gander 9780811226059
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with... -
Knot by Forrest Gander
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596711Author Forrest GanderFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S... -
The Trace Forrest Gander 9780811224864
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of... -
Twice Alive by Forrest Gander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.70In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental,... -
Eiko and Koma by Forrest Gander
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.13For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound. In tribute and... -
Torn Awake Forrest Gander 9780811214865
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.35In his new collection Torn Awake, Gander continues to blend passion with intelligence, unveiling the forces of physical nature and personhood, the self as a construction of reciprocally reflective... -
Mojave Ghost Forrest Gander 9780811237956
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that... -
Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218870Author Forrest GanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
Deeds of Utmost Kindness by Forrest Gander 9780819512123
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.94A haunting and peculiar travelogue, Deeds of the Utmost Kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from Japan to the rural Ozarks to contemporary Moscow. The... -
The Blue Rock Collection by Forrest Gander 9781844710454
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The author's training as a geologist influences the themes and forms of the poems and the single essay in this book. Often his poetic forms are determined by rock characteristics, even when the... -
Redstart: An Ecological Poetics by Forrest Gander 9781609381196
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.28The damage humans have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poet's means and material. But can poetry be ecological? Can it display or be invested with values that acknowledge the... -
Water's Edge: Writing on Water by Forrest Gander 9780810145795
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A wide-ranging consideration of water's plenitude and paucity-and of our relationship to its many forms Water is quotidian, ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this element, the... -
Panic Cure - Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century by Forrest Gander 9781848612952
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34The poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido Garcia Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorria, Pilar Fraile Amador, and... -
Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene by Lynn Keller 9780813940625
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is... -
Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene by Lynn Keller 9780813940618
Booksplease Price: £65.48In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is... -
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia Volume 9 by William Wright
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Home to extraordinary writers such as William Styron, Tom Wolfe, and Ellen Glasgow, the state of Virginia's literary past is among the most prolific in the nation. Indeed, this state, with its... -
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond 9780691280462
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69A vibrant and compelling bilingual edition of poems by the acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest GanderEven Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of... -
Syllabus of Errors: Poems by Troy Jollimore 9780691167688
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21...we are fixed to perpetrate the species-- I meant perpetuate--as if our duty? were coupled with our terror. As if beauty itself were but a syllabus of errors. Troy Jollimore's first collection of... -
What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 by Peter Cole 9780907562795
Booksplease Price: £14.34This volume is the first UK publication by Peter Cole, an acclaimed American-Israeli poet and translator. The book reprints the entire contents of his two US collections, "Rift" (1989) and... -
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry by Mark Irwin 9781433134050
RRP: £85.25Booksplease Price: £75.42Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor... -
Radio Nostalgia by Chris Hamilton-Emery 9781784630744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Radio Nostalgia examines the borders of war, social exile, and manufactured liberty expressed through corporate media. The poet's world is mediated through news anchors, oracles and heralds, where... -
Poetry's Geographies by Zoe Skoulding 9781848618510
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Poets from Mexico, Korea, Galicia (Spain), Palestine, Russia, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, India and France, translated by anglophone poets from the USA, the UK, Canada and India. Kareem James Abu-Zeid,... -
Then Come Back: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 9781780373607
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and... -
IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY BY THE GREAT POETS OF OUR TIME: 2021 by V.V.A.A. 9791220117470
Booksplease Price: £13.27We are pleased to present to our European readers "In The American Grain". This anthology is a fine selection of the best contemporary American poets, who have won the most important awards... -
It Must Be a Misunderstanding: New and Selected Poems by Coral Bracho 9781800171978
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclan Prize 2023. Mexican poet, teacher and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published several books, two in English thanks to... -
Sur's Ocean: Classic Hindi Poetry in Translation by Surdas 9780674290174
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.77"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly... -
A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose by Major Jackson by Major Jackson 9780472039067
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59In this collection of essays, interviews, and notes, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets,... -
Draw Me After: Poems by Peter Cole 9780374607876
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95"Cole's splendid ear orchestrates awakenings." -Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive Peter Cole's luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole... -
Assembling the Shepherd by Tessa Rumsey 9780820321684
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.00Driven by an endless matrix of poetic forms, the poems of Assembling the Shepherd create a world where allusions to Plato and the Dead Sea scrolls intermingle with car culture and terrorism, where... -
Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1976-2000 by 9780874174984
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41The ascetic and enigmatic vastness of the Great Basin has challenged the talents of many writers, but few have met the challenge as successfully as William L. Fox. In Reading Sand, Fox's elegant... -
A Marginal Sea by Zoe Skoulding 9781800172517
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award 2023. A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Mon/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of... -
Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics by James Byrne 9781911469193
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight... -
Poetry After the Invention of America: Don't Light the Flower by Andres Ajens 9780230115798
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending... -
Translating the Lilies Back into Lists by Laynie Browne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Laynie Browne's latest poetry collection, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists playfully employs the list poem and delivers poems which evade genre and subvert the quotidian material of daily... -
Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk 9780299346942
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.33Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in... -
Spectacle & Pigsty Kyoko Yoshida 9781890650537
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.70If you think of haiku when you think of Japanese poetry, this book will be a huge surprise. The strange and wild poems of Kiwao Nomura deal with sex and loss and memory by making unpredictable leaps... -
The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Cecilia Vicuna 9780195124545
Booksplease Price: £65.06Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the... -
Sun in Days: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.10From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes... -
Eskatos and the Stretched Necks of Stillness by Mats Sderlund 9781632064158
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66The English-language debut and foremost work of lauded Nordic poet Mats Soederlund, winner of the 2025 Karin Boye Literary Prize, the 2024 Norrland Literature Prize, and the Swedish Catapult Prize.In... -
The Roof of the Whale Poems by Juan Calzadilla 9780299346645
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Venezuelan poet Juan Calzadilla (b. 1931), past recipient of the National Prize in the Visual Arts and the National Prize in Literature, is considered one of the most influential poets of the Spanish...