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Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Part antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey's new collection of poems, Splay Anthem, takes the reader to uncharted poetic spaces. Divided into three sections-"Braid," "Fray," and... -
Nod House by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811219464
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30With Nathaniel Mackey's fifth collection of poems, Nod House, we witness a confluence of music and meaning unprecedented in American poetry. Mackey's art continues to push the envelope of what is... -
Blue Fasa by Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Nathaniel Mackey's sixth collection of poems, Blue Fasa, carries forward what the New Yorker has described as the "mythological conception" and "descriptive daring" of his two intertwined serial... -
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews by Nathaniel Mackey 9781609385835
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.95Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey's multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman's interest in... -
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing by Nathaniel Mackey 9780521444538
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets... -
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674055438
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy," one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the repetition of a word or phrase... -
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America by Abram Foley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?"... -
To Go Into the Words by Norman Finkelstein 9780472039418
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64To Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen... -
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America by Abram Foley 9781517911669
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history Michel Foucault famously theorized "the author function" in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?"... -
Double Trio: Tej Bet, So's Notice, Nerve Church: Limited Edition Box Set Nathaniel Mackey (University of California at Santa Cruz) 9780811230629
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.14For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poems-"Song of the Andoumboulou" and "Mu"-that... -
Orphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics by Robert L. Zamsky 9780817360146
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and musicOrphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing Anthony Reed (Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University) 9781421421209
Booksplease Price: £23.17Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era... -
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed 9781421415208
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era... -
American Poetry as Transactional Art by Stephen Fredman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art. Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about... -
From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D. Nathaniel Mackey (University of California at Santa Cruz) 9780811218443
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.10From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volumes 1-3 collects the first three installments-Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, and Atet A.D.-of Nathaniel Mackey's genre-defying work... -
The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word by Meta DuEwa Jones 9780252036217
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets... -
Stet: Poems by Dora Malech
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and... -
Stet: Poems by Dora Malech 9780691181431
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and... -
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide Kirby Morris 9780807846704
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on... -
No Exit: Contemporary American Literature and the State Seth McKelvey 9780813953076
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82America's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying-sometimes and... -
No Exit: Contemporary American Literature and the State Seth McKelvey 9780813953069
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39America's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying-sometimes and... -
Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age by Peter O'Leary
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter O'Leary offers a new reading of modern and contemporary poets' treatment of religion and the nature of the divine in a secular age. The book seeks to come to... -
Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip James Goodwin 9781838069896
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"This major new work is thought, spirit and sense (in every sense) 'fleshed out' in 'all the corners' by being unmade - as poetry, as music, as (black and white) images, and as attention to the... -
Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations by Jason Lagapa 9783319856179
Booksplease Price: £51.92This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative... -
Expanding Authorship: Transformations in American Poetry since 1950 by Peter Middleton 9780826362636
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Expanding Authorship collects Peter Middleton's significant essays exploring how the agency of the disputed figure of the author has increasingly extended beyond an individual, narratable self. In... -
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry Charles Henry Rowell (Texas A&M University) 9780393339406
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.52This is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to... -
A Long Essay on the Long Poem: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms-the long poem For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and... -
Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison by Saadi A. Simawe
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has... -
Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics by Christopher Beach 9780817309541
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Artifice and Indeterminacy gathers the strongest and most representative writings of the past two decades and shows more clearly than ever before the depth and breadth of contemporary American... -
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph... -
My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John... -
Which Walks by Laura Moriarty 9781643622774
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices.Documenting (and interrogating) the poet's daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and... -
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and... -
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora by Nadia Ellis 9780822359289
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and... -
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780472066834
Booksplease Price: £18.48In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. O'Brien... -
Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification Gordon E. Thompson 9781138270565
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that... -
Theatre Picasso Wu Tsang 9781849769976
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Marking the centenary of one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings, The Three Dancers, this exciting publication brings to life the artist's performative persona and his interest in dance, music... -
Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art by Steve Tomasula
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.12A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing-prose, poetry, and hybrid-from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and... -
Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics by James Byrne 9781911469193
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight... -
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anais Duplan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator...