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Redaction by Reginald Dwayne Betts
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £56.04Throughout their award-winning careers, visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet, memoirist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of incarceration and the... -
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic... -
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts 9780393542035
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.72In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic... -
Doggerel: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781324134398
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.79One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025 One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of... -
Doggerel: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781324089254
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.27Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic-but equally rich-lens: dogs... -
Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295814Author Reginald Dwayne BettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80I -
Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali by Mohammed Kazim Ali
Booksplease Price: £79.23Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one... -
Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali by Mohammed Kazim Ali 9780472053506
Booksplease Price: £34.37Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one... -
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance,... -
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History by Hoke S. Glover, III 9781324078876
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £9.97A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the... -
Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration by Diana Marie Delgado 9798888902479
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s incarceration system. These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up... -
Freedom and Confinement: An Interview with Etheridge Knight Elizabeth Gordon McKim 9780822967927
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.86Freedom and Confinement is a powerful, book-length conversation between poets Elizabeth Gordon McKim and Etheridge Knight, recorded in 1990 as Knight was dying of cancer. The interview traces... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Padraig O. Tuama 9781324035473
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.68In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This... -
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City by Nicholas Dawidoff 9781324066026
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.94One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to... -
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing by Natalie Diaz 9781496217738
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens's four gold-medal victories in the 1936... -
Blessing The Boats by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An award-winning collection from one of America's most beloved twentieth-century poets'The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt' Toni... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 by Sid Holt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.88The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power,... -
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó. Tuama 9781324074809
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.17In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This... -
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System Alec Karakatsanis 9781620979143
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A "searing, searching, and eloquent" (Martha Minow, Harvard Law School) investigation into the role of the legal profession in perpetuating mass incarceration-now in an accessible paperback format... -
PEN America Handbook For Writers in Prison by Caits Meisner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52"This is one of the best books on writing that I've ever read. I couldn't put it down." -Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for... -
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips 9780300274141
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.75An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "Illuminating, deeply endearing essays."-Ron Charles, Washington Post "A lovely,... -
What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System by Vivian Nixon
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently... -
At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 19872010 by Lucille Clifton 9781960145987
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet... -
Nigel Poor: The San Quentin Project by Nigel Poor
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to... -
Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration by Diana Marie Delgado 9798888904466
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.55Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system. These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make... -
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69Alec Karakatsanis does not believe there should be two different justice systems for the rich and for the poor. And he certainly doesn't think people who have gone to law school, passed the bar, and... -
Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity by Lori Gruen
Booksplease Price: £111.44Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans. We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make society safer. We hope that more convictions and policing for animal... -
Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy Judith Resnik 9780226754741
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £28.58An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment's purposes and prisoners' rights.Impermissible Punishments explores the... -
How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan 9780300272468
Booksplease Price: £10.99A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for Poetry in Translation "Reading... -
Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People by Alexandra Cox 9780813570464
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet... -
Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People by Alexandra Cox 9780813570471
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet... -
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780753559550
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and... -
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes by George Yancy 9781442269118
Booksplease Price: £43.10Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenges of raising black boys today. From Trayvon Martin... -
Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom by Vincent Schiraldi 9781620978177
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69With a foreword by Bruce WesternNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRThe most comprehensive critique of probation and parole-and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing... -
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R Fleetwood
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Smithsonian Book of the YearA New York Review of Books "Best of 2020" SelectionA New York Times Best Art Book of the YearAn Art Newspaper Book of the...