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81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated,... -
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19'Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could... -
Kim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72... -
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere 9781474617666
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could... -
Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere 9780571380985
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting 'found' content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it... -
After Fame: The Epigrams of Martial by Sam Riviere
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Welcome to After Fame - an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere's process-derived works.It was Martial who... -
A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes moral obviousness, drives against false certainty. It's as... -
The Lodgers by Holly Pester 9781783789832
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa.' After a year away, a woman... -
Room: An Anthology of Poems by Nell Keddie 9781905208081
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £5.30Poems by Nell Keddie, Maggie Sullivan, Susan Utting, Allison McVety, Paul Merchant, Sam Riviere, Michael Swan, Siriol Troup and others in the adult section from a National Competition; young... -
Nothing by Daniel O'Connor 9781474615303
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23It come out of nowhere - said the woman who found Michael, knocked into a coma by a rogue golf ball.He can remember nothing of the life he wakes up to. Not the job in insurance in an office by the... -
Nothing Daniel O'Connor 9781474615327
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A dark and funny exploration of the fears and anxieties embedded in domestic suburban life' Big Issue'Bringing to mind Flann O'Brien or Charlie Kaufman. You find yourself at the mercy of your... -
Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023 Richard Milward 9781399602020
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles... -
Kimberly's Capital Punishment by Richard Milward
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I found the eyeball fifteen minutes before I found the rest of him.'Having moved to London with her athletic boyfriend, the sweet-but-stuttering Stevie, Kimberly soon tires of him and decides to... -
Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.68'"Hello," says the wallpaper.'Spanning one torrential paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop... -
Apples Richard Milward 9781399602433
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.'As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of... -
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399623131
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Compulsively readable' New York Times'Utterly original' Alberto ManguelIn the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well... -
Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399631037
Booksplease Price: £12.70My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning.His father was one of that generation of tragic... -
Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399631020
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. His father was one of that generation of tragic... -
The Story Smuggler by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399623117
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is... -
Tityrus by Duncan Wiese
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The ideals of simple country living have captivated poets for a crow's age. But in the countryside that Tityrus knows, the beech trees tower like skyscrapers, mice wrestle each other, and the nearby... -
Enemies by SJ Fowler 9781908058133
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22SJ Fowler has Enemies. And the Enemies of his Enemies are his friends. This groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary collection is the result of collaborations with over thirty artists, photographers and... -
The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult lifeAs in life, she was a pain in the arsein death. He could hear her roaringall the way from the fifth circle,'Why the hell do you... -
Dear World and Everyone In It by Nathan Hamilton 9781852249496
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53Dear World & Everyone In It is a ground-breaking new poetry anthology presenting the work of over 60 of the most talented and interesting young poets currently writing in the UK. Chosen by one of the... -
Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.94"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I've read in some time."-Dwight Garner, New York Times"In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis... -
Nuper Verba by Kent Johnson 9781848618572
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"If, as it has been claimed, the satirist is a left-handed writer, the analogy seems made for Kent Johnson's inimitable, fearless and much needed contribution - the one-in-ten, or more like...