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Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018**Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity... -
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S... -
Some Bright Elegance Kayo Chingonyi 9781844718726
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.15Some Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement,... -
Poetry Review 106/03 Autumn 2016 by Kayo Chingonyi 9781900771979
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900771979Author Kayo ChingonyiFormat PaperbackImprint Poetry SocietyPublisher Poetry Society -
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi 9781838855321
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.31A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape... -
In Our Mad and Furious City: Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize Guy Gunaratne 9781472250216
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02*WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE... -
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342864
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary world's most... -
Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the... -
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342895
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ***'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating . . . tender and lacerating'... -
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers by Ned Beauman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'These essays lift back the skin to reveal something secret and precious, articulating private truths and distilling sensation into language ... this collection is a timely, triumphant celebration of... -
PLUS ULTRA by Sarah Fletcher
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.02'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellect and instinct.' - Kayo Chingonyi In myth, the... -
Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi 9781905233618
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.35Portrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright debut that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from... -
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei... -
Ballad of a Happy Immigrant by Leonardo Boix
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.13'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open'... -
Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse by Paul Farley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways,... -
Bluff: A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself Danez Smith 9781784745738
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41‘A writer who never loses their way’ New York TimesA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home... -
The Epic of Cader Idris Samatar Elmi 9781905233878
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £13.12If language is music, it is apt that a playlist is a poem. It makes even more sense in The Epic of Cader Idris, coming from Samatar Elmi, a poet whose concerns with the origins of things and the... -
Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781780376714
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry – an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine... -
A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu. In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and... -
Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for the End of the World: Six traditional tales retold by six ground-breaking poets by Helen Mort
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout. Illustrated by Inkquisitive (Amandeep Singh) in his vibrant signature... -
Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen Malika's Poetry Kitchen 9781472155061
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26One of the Evening Standard's Best Non-fiction 2021.'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard - and so this writing... -
Feral Kate Potts 9781780374161
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between 'animal' and 'human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training... -
ISDAL by Susannah Dickey 9781035015054
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Guardian and Irish Times Book of 2023The much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.ISDAL is a timely... -
Ten: the new wave Karen McCarthy Woolf 9781780371108
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.24Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to... -
Nature Matters: Vital Poems from Global Majority Writers Mona Arshi 9780571370283
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Revitalising conversations around environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices is both urgent and inspirational.There has been a welcome surge... -
A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023** An award-winning poet explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form 'Formally... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as... -
Pretenders Kate Potts 9781780377308
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Pretenders, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can 'the imposter phenomenon' - a sense that our true... -
The Wickedest Caleb Femi 9780008688240
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.75'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN ... -
Saltwater: Winner of the Portico Prize by Jessica Andrews 9781473682801
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 'A distinctive new voice for fans of 'Fleabag' or Sally Rooney' Independent'Raw, intimate and authentic' The Sunday Times'Gorgeous . . . Andrews's writing is... -
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018**A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017**A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018*'[Smith's] poems are enriched to... -
Assembly by Natasha Brown
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD...