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Transformatrix by Patience Agbabi
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'They call me Jax, though my real name's EvaThe whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious divaNo.1 on the guest list, top of the chartsWhen I make my grand entrance, the sea of sequins parts.... -
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo 'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin ZephaniahFIGHT CRIME, ACROSS... -
The Time-Thief by Patience Agbabi
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71It's midsummer's day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her Leapling classmates are visiting the Museum of the Past, the Present and the Future. But on the day of the school trip, disaster strikes, and... -
The Circle Breakers by Patience Agbabi
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.53Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face with... -
Wonderland Patience Agbabi 9781917718202
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.91Colwyn Bay, 1980. Sixteen-year-old Tamilola has moved up from London; everything's different, everyone belongs except her. Then she discovers an amazing Northern Soul club at the end of the pier with... -
Bloodshot Monochrome Patience Agbabi 9781847671530
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing... -
Telling Tales Patience Agbabi 9781782111573
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the... -
The Past Master by Patience Agbabi 9781838855819
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71It's New Year's Eve and there's trouble on the timeline. Elle is sent on an urgent trip to the 31st of December 1999, the eve of the new millennium, where Millennia's on the rampage. She aims to... -
I Have Found a Song by Patience Agbabi 9781904634867
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.05"I Have Found a Song" is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council... -
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Winner 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... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama 9781838856359
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Padraig's illuminating... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O Tuama
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Padraig O Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive... -
Spoken Word in the UK by Lucy English
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history,... -
Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English: Cultural Traditions (1970s-2000s) by Bartosz Wojcik 9783631645444
RRP: €72.23Booksplease Price: €64.59This 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... -
Translating His-stories by Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte 9781009673174
Booksplease Price: €66.79Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories... -
How Things Are On Thursday by Ros Barber 9780856463747
Booksplease Price: €11.90A striking performer of her own poems, Ros Barber has the gift of recreating her voice - and the voices of others - on the page. The poems in this debut collection demonstrate her wide range in form... -
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Kwame Dawes 9781845231293
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Red 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... -
Poems of London by Various
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.84Poems 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... -
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps by Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann 9781501399503
Booksplease Price: €114.66Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ‘gutter’ in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence – to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson 9780521197854
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €55.09This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
Off The Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
A Poem for Every Autumn Day by Allie Esiri 9781035044733
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Autumn Day, you will find verse that will transport you to vibrant, cosy autumnal scenes, from harvest festival to... -
Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres by Jahan Ramazani
Booksplease Price: €30.63What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its... -
Even the Trees Roshni Gallagher 9781780377766
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40In her debut collection, Even the Trees, Roshni Gallagher asks what can be seen, named, or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present,... -
Moojag and the Auticode Secret: The Auticode Secret by N.E. McMORRAN
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.62The award-winning, quirky cli-fi adventure mystery for readers 10 years and up. If Nema can't uncover a lost boy's true identity in time they may never escape the sticky world he designed... ... -
Slide by Mark Pajak
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE**'Fresh, urgent, alive... genius' PATIENCE AGBABIThis assured and arresting first collection moves... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.20From 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,... -
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden 9781805303510
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was and contemplating what could be. And poems of fire and fury that will... -
Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts: Postcolonial Literature and the Politics of Gaps Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann 9781501399541
Booksplease Price: €36.34Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives - the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence - to... -
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Shane McCrae 9781838854225
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At eighteen months old, he was kidnapped from his parents' house... -
Moojag and the Lost Memories by N.E. McMorran 9781838097882
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.62NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER 2024 & FIREBIRD AWARD WINNER 2023 READERS FAVORITE 5 STARS 2023Sequel to the Nautilus award-winning neurodivergent, cli-fi adventure mystery 'Moojag and the Auticode Secret'... -
Moontide Niall Campbell 9781780371184
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of... -
Creativity in Language and Literature: The State of the Art by Joan Swann 9780230575608
Booksplease Price: €47.36"Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book. Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creative and dialogic nature are especially appropriate... -
Part of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History by George the Poet
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66"This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" - LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the PoetPart of a Story That Started Before Me... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has... -
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae 9781838854195
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.15VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was... -
Part of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History George the Poet 9780241567005
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024."This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" - LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent by Various Authors
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.60Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie...