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Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.04Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times,... -
Mi Revalueshanary Fren Linton Kwesi Johnson 9781931337298
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931337298Author Linton Kwesi JohnsonPage Count 96Imprint -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson 9781035006335
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist... -
Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution by David Austin
Booksplease Price: $179.87What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and... -
Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution David Austin 9780745338132
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $41.66What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and... -
Lines of Resistance: Essays on British Poetry from Thomas Hardy to Linton Kwesi Johnson by Adrian Grafe 9780786462834
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $58.99Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how... -
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries John L Williams 9781472130136
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky,... -
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky,... -
Verbal Riddim: Dub Poetry Various 9781784878276
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean,... -
Surge Jay Bernard 9781784742614
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a... -
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The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 by Paul Beatty 9781786070159 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.33A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent) * One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS AND INEQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY... -
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz by Vivien Goldman 9781399601757
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'Essential reading: the making of history as it was happening. Vivien was there' JARVIS COCKERVivien Goldman was the first, most passionate and indubitably the most elegant chronicler of reggae,... -
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Graham MacPhee
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.16Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity Graham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other... -
Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English: Cultural Traditions (1970s-2000s) by Bartosz Wojcik 9783631645444
RRP: $127.47Booksplease Price: $113.99This book presents the phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. It showcases the literary... -
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Kwame Dawes 9781845231293
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets. "Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with... -
Other by Peter Quartermain 9780819522580
Booksplease Price: $39.90When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry... -
Poems of London by Various
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today.The pantheon of classic... -
Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing by James Procter
Booksplease Price: $49.43Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the... -
The Rock History Reader Theo Cateforis 9781138227712
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $112.54This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes... -
The Allen Fisher Companion by Robert Hampson 9781848616264
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $30.89The essays included here cover the range of Fisher’s career. Redell Olsen and cris cheek discuss Fisher’s relations to Fluxus and the documentary. Will Rowe approaches Place in terms of the... -
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology Paul Field 9780745339771
Booksplease Price: $182.13From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the... -
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology Paul Field 9780745339757
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.08From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the... -
British Black and Asian Poetry: Race, Aesthetics and Politics 1970–2023 by Omaar Hena 9781009712392
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $180.89This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant... -
Come Back to Me My Language Edward Chamberlin 9781845234324
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.85Come Back to Me My Language remains the authoritative study of the remarkable flourishing of West Indian poetry which emerged in the latter half of the 20th century. Writing with clarity and vigour,... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: $49.43The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems SuAndi 9781800174993
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20The first substantial selection of poems by SuAndi, whose work - as a performer, a writer for stage and an arts curator - has recently been celebrated by her winning the RSL Benson Medal Award... -
Not Quite Right For Us Sharmilla Beezmohun 9781905233632
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.28Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not... -
The Mantle of Struggle: A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas by Irvine Anfre 9781771136204
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.43Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives,... -
BEAST Liam McCormick 9781911570264
Booksplease Price: $35.62We follow Zara as she rants and raves her way through Glasgow's gig economy. When the Council pilot a red-light district in the Merchant City, she realises she could have it so much better. Fuelled... -
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by... -
Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry Stewart Brown 9781845230531
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20This isn't a conventional book of academic essays, though these pieces on Caribbean, African, British and American poets are always scholarly and intellectually rigorous. They are particularly... -
Poetry for the Many Jeremy Corbyn 9781682195024
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal... -
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation Prof Stephen Regan 9780241269626
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland,... -
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain by E. A. Markham
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $26.31E.A. Markham's iconic anthology Hinterland opened up new territory for many readers, with its substantial selections by 14 key poets with photos, interviews, essays by the poets themselves. It became... -
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Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain by E. A. Markham 9781852240875 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $4.39E.A. Markham's iconic anthology Hinterland opened up new territory for many readers, with its substantial selections by 14 key poets with photos, interviews, essays by the poets themselves. It became... -
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer by Colin Grant 9780099526728
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Discover the untold history of reggae legends of Bob Marley and the original Wailers.The perfect must-read if you loved the film One Love.Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners,... -
Brixton Rock by Alex Wheatle
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84"Pacy; witty; his characters are real and recognisable" LINTON KWESI JOHNSON"Alex Wheatle is the real deal; he writes with heart and authenticity, books that make you laugh and worry and cry and... -
The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King Carolyn Forche 9781780373928
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said:...