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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,... -
Roll Deep: Poems Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University) 9780393353624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and... -
The Absurd Man: Poems Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University) 9780393867411
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable... -
The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers by Brian Turner 9780393356885
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports-people are... -
Flight by Chaun Ballard 9781946482136
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.98Flight gives testament to the struggle of skin color in contemporary America. Utilizing both innovation and tradition, Chaun Ballard's poems give voice to the silenced, proof to the disenfranchised,... -
The Invention of the Darling: Poems Li-Young Lee 9781324123477
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11"The poet of rapture and tenderness" (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God... -
A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees: Poems by Kendra Tanacea 9780996858489
Booksplease Price: £14.27A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life's strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns, remodels, sex, longing, joy; sometimes... -
Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.00A poet of "epic perception" and "subtle music," Mei-mei Berssenbrugge opens form into long, shimmering lines of profound emotional intensity and multivalent voices, splintered with space, silence,... -
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair 9780803290631
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness,... -
A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life under Lockdown Meghan O'Rourke 9780300257359
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.60Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas"If only our response to the pandemic on other fronts could have been as speedy and... -
Gut by Amanda Larson 9781632430977
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.15These poems follow the aftermath of and recovery from trauma. Amanda Larson's Gut begins with an epigraph from Frank O'Hara: "Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you." From there,... -
A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a "field of heaven...outside spacetime." Long, lyrical lines map a geography of... -
The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.64From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. ... -
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by 9780820334318
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £25.05Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated... -
This Other Eden: A Novel by Paul Harding 9781324074526
Booksplease Price: £9.73In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of... -
At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems by Steven Duong 9781324130666
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture-the ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of...