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Gut by Frances Poet
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to 3-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a supermarket cafe turns into a far more troubling incident, their... -
Fibres by Frances Poet
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'We were two weans playing at wee hooses... Now we're both paying the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's... -
Adam by Frances Poet
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you killed, exile is your only choice. Frances Poet's play Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that... -
Maggie May by Frances Poet 9781848429512
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'They say we're like swans. Ruddy beautiful graceful things on the surface of a lake but underneath we're paddling like mad.' Maggie and Gordon first met, dancing to Rod Stewart songs, in 1971... -
Still (NHB Modern Plays) by Frances Poet
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'Folk say you can trick a brain. Placebo power... I'm going to stand up and it'll feel better.' Gaynor's got to leave the house if she wants to meet her newborn grand-daughter. Stillness has been... -
Marie de France: Poetry by Marie De France 9780393932683
Booksplease Price: £22.42Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, she... -
All That's Left by Jack Hirschman 9781931404082
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.93The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All That's Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with... -
Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6 by Alejandro Murguia 9781931404136
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic account of San Francisco's Native and Latino literary... -
Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose by Matthew James Babcock 9781611490220
Booksplease Price: £90.57Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own... -
Stage Fright: Selected Plays from San Francisco Poets Theater by Kevin Killian 9780999719824
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999719824Author Kevin KillianFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Kenning EditionsPublisher... -
New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco - Poets from Hell by Alan Allen 9781412052702
Booksplease Price: £22.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412052702Author Alan AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £26.99Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first,... -
Earth on Fire and other poems: A bilingual edition by Rene Noyau 9781909747852
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Joseph Rene Noyau (1911-84) was a Creolophone and Francophone Mauritian writer and poet who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Jean Erenne which he used for the poems in this collection... -
Where River Meets Ocean by Devorah Major 9781931404037
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22This collection of poetry begins with the poet's inaugural address as Laureate of San Francisco, a sparkling essay that shows how poetry can please and empower. Strong, introspective and caring,... -
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems: Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) by Lew Welch 9780872865792
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.69**A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012** Lew Welch was a brilliant and troubled poet, legendary among his Beat peers. Ring of Bone collects poems, songs, and even a few drawings, documenting... -
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.85Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted... -
Front Lines by Jack Hirschman 9780872864009
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published... -
San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets by David Meltzer 9780872863798
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of... -
Love Works by Janice Mirikitani 9781931404020
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80This impressive collection brings together Mirikitani's strongest poems on a diversity of subjects: the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the fragility and challenges of family... -
The Poetry Deal by Diane Di Prima 9781931404150
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.27"The Poetry Deal: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 gives us di Prima's vision as she looks back at a life lived truly and looks out at a society she still has hope for even as it grieves its... -
and then we became by devorah major 9780872867260
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Top Poetry Books of Fall 2016 - Library JournalWho are we humans, with our differences and our personal histories, mythologies and urgencies, as well as our collective struggles and dreams? Why are... -
City Bird and Other Poems: City Lights Spotlight Series No 24 Patrick James Dunagan 9780872869332
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An underground denizen of San Francisco soars above it in a state-of-the-art long poem."These poems about San Francisco challenge the media narrative of a city in decline, paying tribute to its joys... -
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by Bob Kaufman 9780872867697
Booksplease Price: £16.272020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book... -
Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems by Bill Berkson 9781566892292
Booksplease Price: £16.75Known for his art criticism, as the editor of Frank O'Hara's In Memory of My Feelings, and for his collaborative work with artists like Alex Katz and Philip Guston. Bill Berkson is well-loved by a... -
Sun of Consciousness by Edouard Glissant 9781937658953
Booksplease Price: £11.14Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) was Martinican philosopher Edouard Glissant's first published work, and opened the Poetique (Poetics) strain of his oeuvre. This book-length essay,... -
The Collected Poetry by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £23.89This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire's poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook -... -
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography by Lisa Jarnot
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.56This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland,... -
The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics Léopold Sédar Senghor 9781478038603
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold Sedar Senghor, together with Aime Cesaire and others, developed the influential and perennially relevant negritude movement - a Black artistic,... -
The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics Léopold Sédar Senghor 9781478033677
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.40Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold Sedar Senghor, together with Aime Cesaire and others, developed the influential and perennially relevant negritude movement - a Black artistic,... -
The Words Will Come: New Plays from the RADA Elders Company by A. C. Smith 9781786825841
Booksplease Price: £24.78Broken Pieces by A C Smith Broken Pieces chronicles recently widowed Barbara's bittersweet process of remembering the painful memories she drew away from - tracing backwards through time to reclaim... -
Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France by Gretchen Schultz 9781442646728
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.54Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this... -
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair John Bossy 9780300094510
Booksplease Price: £17.67This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy... -
National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781350161009
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.99National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading...