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it by Inger Christensen 9780811215947
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.61it is the masterwork by Danish poet Inger Christensen ("a true singer of the syllables," said C. D. Wright), often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets. On its... -
Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.77The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times... -
alphabet Inger Christensen 9781852243104
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was one of Denmark's best-known poets. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet it has enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a... -
Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901233827Author Inger ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher... -
The Painted Room by Inger Christensen 9780811239448
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29The Painted Room is a magnificent three-part short novel about the Italian Renaissance, and, specifically, the intrigue surrounding the frescoes that Mategna (1431-1506) made on the walls of a famous... -
Natalja's Stories by Inger Christensen 9780241790465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From one of Denmark's most revered authors, a startlingly original novel about a migrant's fate, told across several generationsThis is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St... -
Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen 9780811215794
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Natalja?s Stories by Inger Christensen 9780811239462
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual... -
Berlin Fresco - Selected Poems by Norbert Hummelt 9781848610965
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Berlin Fresco" is the first volume in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher, Norbert Hummelt. Born in the Rhineland in 1962, he has been a freelance writer since... -
Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire Wendy Xu 9780472040001
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Moving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of... -
In Possession of Loss by M. T. C. Cronin 9781848613829
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"This is poetry that goes direct to that other place and inhabits it. in possession of loss has a clear sparseness, almost a minimalism, that is also highly complex. Read as a single book-length... -
Out of Nowhere Into Nothing by Caryl Pagel
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytellingOut of Nowhere Into Nothing is a collection of sublime meditations on the... -
By Battersea Bridge by Janet Davey 9780099566021
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of -... -
Insistence Ailbhe Darcy 9781780370781
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38A new child should mean new hope. But what if that's no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy's second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is... -
'We Needed Coffee but...' by Matthew Welton 9781847770028
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59'We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew flatter and the roads became quiet and dusk began to colour the sky,... -
Imaginary Menagerie Ailbhe Darcy 9781852249014
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield: London, Paris, Africa, Eastern Europe or the States. Driven... -
I'm Ok, I'm Pig! Kim Hyesoon 9781780371023
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature... -
Awake by Harald Voetmann 9780811230810
Booksplease Price: £13.14In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone... -
What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium by Kim Simonsen 9781646053728
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee Kim Simonsen introduces a new poetics to Faroese literature rooted in natural history, philosophy, and the materiality of all things. The rhetorical title of... -
Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani 9780811238854
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.29One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest -Hasib Hourani Hasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and... -
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel by Laynie Browne 9781643620251
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.09A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes,... -
Holy Winter 20/21 Maria Stepanova 9781780376950
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor - the world had withdrawn from her, time had 'gone numb'...