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Boombox by Rupert M. Loydell
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Rupert M Loydell's third Shearsman collection shows him continuing his forays into collage and experimental writing, but always with a lyric turn.About the AuthorRupert M Loydell is the editor of... -
Shearsman 89 & 90 by Tony Frazer 9781848611559
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2011. Contents will be announced in July 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781848611559Author Tony FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Shearsman... -
Shearsman 85 & 86 by Tony Frazer 9781848611108
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2010. The issue contains new work by Linda Black, Melissa Buckheit, Claire Crowther, Michael Farrell, Clive Faust, Angela Gardner, Giles Goodland,... -
Shearsman 67 and 68 by Tony Frazer 9780907562948
Booksplease Price: £9.42The first of Shearsman's double issues for 2006, no. 67/68 features new poetry by (amongst others) Anne Blonstein, Tilla Brading, Richard Burns, Claire Crowther, Devin Johnston, Peter Makin, Deborah... -
Shearsman 141 and 142 Kelvin Corcoran 9781848619340
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2024 features poetry by Josephine Balmer, Daragh Breen, Steve Brock, Carmen Bugan, Anna D’Alton, Amy Evans Bauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, Lucy Hamilton,... -
Beautiful Feelings of Sensitive People: screen grabs of British Poetry in the 21st Century Andrew Duncan 9781848619418
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.19Beautiful feelings of sensitive people is just a five-word way of explaining to someone who never reads poetry what we are hoping to find in a book of poems. It is the most unifying (and... -
Pictures from Mayhew.: London 1850 by John Seed 9780907562627
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Every word in this book by John Seed is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the 'Morning Chronicle' from 1849 to 1850, then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, 'London... -
Poems 1990-2003 by Harriet Tarlo 9780907562450
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50This is the first large collection of poems by Harriet Tarlo, and showcases all of her shorter poems from the 1990-2003 period. Her work is best described as "radical pastoral", and readers with an... -
The Eastern Boroughs by John Welch 9780907562436
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This is his fifth collection of poetry, containing work written over the last six years. As well as editing an anthology of South Asian literature, 'Stories from South Asia' (Oxford University Press,... -
At a Stretch by Ian Davidson 9780907562443
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Of this collection the author explains in his Afterword, "This book is in six parts. The divisions are porous and the parts bleed into each other. The poems were written using a variety of... -
What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 by Peter Cole 9780907562795
Booksplease Price: £14.34This volume is the first UK publication by Peter Cole, an acclaimed American-Israeli poet and translator. The book reprints the entire contents of his two US collections, "Rift" (1989) and... -
without title Gerry Loose 9781848618664
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62“without title : it’s a modest name for a book, but also a refusal of the very idea of human ownership of land (was there ever a sillier phrase than ‘title deed’?). There’s an extraordinary clarity... -
The Dustbowl by Jim Goar 9781848613218
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The Dustbowl is a collection of serial poems that intertwine Arthurian legend and Dust Bowl lore with fragmented memories of a childhood in California. The book's polyphonic voices conjoin... -
Releasing the Porcelain Birds by Carmen Bugan 9781848614697
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceausescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500... -
Beast by Irene Sola 9781848615526
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. It's a creature that spills its guts and impels the same from others-peoples, animals, limbs, foodstuffs, logical... -
Alashka by Nathaniel Tarn 9781848615854
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Alashka is a lost book. It was first published as half of a very large, well-printed volume in 1979, spliced together with Tarn's Selected Poems up until that point. The publisher was a new outfit in... -
The Honicknowle Book of the Dead by Kenny Knight 9781848610170
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Conoisseurs of the arcane will no doubt wonder what it is about Plymouth and Buddhism: first Lobsang Rampa, a.k.a. Cyril Henry Hoskins - erstwhile plumber's son and host to the transmigrated soul of... -
Song of the Constant Sea by Richard Owens 9781848617919
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Song of the Constant Sea is a poem of moderate length which attends to the deeply entangled network of interrelations and genealogies that come together and variously cohere within a single... -
Nostoc by Daragh Breen 9781848616912
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Like the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain, fragments of invented folklore and mongrel histories have stained through from Breen's subconscious and come... -
Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way by Linda Russo 9781848613935
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The poems in Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way arise amidst those remnants, historical and everyday, that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek... -
The Wine Cup by Richard Berengarten 9781848618503
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Sonnet-sequences have a history of nearly 1,000 years. But a sequence of villanelles? Here, perhaps for the first time ever in English, is a suite of twenty-four of them. The delicate instrument of... -
Without by Maxine Chernoff 9781848611962
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The series of poems in Maxine Chernoff's Without are elegiac brushstrokes, each somewhat feathery and brushing in more than one direction, which creates tension and unexpected arrivals as well as... -
Of Heads & Hearts by Lucy Hamilton 9781848615717
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton's. Of Heads & Hearts is an intricate and rich collection that riffs on the interconnectedness of human relationships... -
Spring in the Ruined City: Selected Poems by Fu Du 9781848610002
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.27The Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), is celebrated as the greatest moment in Chinese poetry, a time when poetry was highly rated, and some of China's most famous poets were writing. Du Fu (712-770 AD) is... -
Tell me no more and tell me by Ralph Hawkins 9781848617766
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Tell Me No More and Tell Me, first published in 1981 focuses upon the poet's immediate surroundings, the Essex marshes and the small black timber framed cottage he lived in at the time. Looking back,... -
Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson 9781848619067
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In his fourth collection from Shearsman Books, Alasdair Paterson ranges as widely as ever — from the bewilderments of a Scottish childhood to the mixed messages of later life, from gnarly nature... -
Interviews Through Time by Roy Fisher 9781848612983
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes... -
The Other Woman by Toby Olson 9781848614277
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In 2014, Toby Olson's wife Miriam died at the age 80, and after nearly 50 years of marriage. She had suffered from Alzheimer's for some years before her death and Toby became her principal carer... -
Maldon: A Version by Michael Smith 9781848616530
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £7.32Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment usually known as The Battle of Maldon, which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading Vikings which took place ca. 991... -
Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs: Three Books by Phil Maillard 9781905700837
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"Looking at this collection, Sweet Dust And Growling Lambs, I think I can perceive a few recurrent themes. The first relates to mythology, in a broad, story-telling kind of fashion. Of recent... -
Model City by Donna Stonecipher 9781848613881
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns... -
Tocayo: New and Selected Poems and Songs by Joe Doerr 9781848614710
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Poetry. "By turns erudite and lyrical, esoteric and oracular, profane and ethereal Joe Doerr's TOCAYO contains multitudes. This vast miscellany, a bravura poetic performance by every measure,... -
Blood Party by Merle Lyn Bachman 9781848614147
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Merle Bachman's Blood Party is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions-in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes the story: of... -
Goodbye Tissues by Deborah Meadows 9781848610132
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"From Anglo-Saxon diphthongs to that mysterious three-dimensional mirrored state of being, the enantiomorph, from Aquinas to Holderlin to California, Deborah Meadows takes us on a journey... -
Bona Vada by Jeremy Reed 9781848611641
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Companion volume to Jeremy Reed's 2009 collection, Bona Drag.Book InformationISBN 9781848611641Author Jeremy ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman... -
Bernard Spencer - Essays on His Poetry & Life by Peter Robinson 9781848612549
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50When Bernard Spencer died in September 1963, he left behind two collections of poetry and a volume of collaborative translations from George Seferis. The second of these collections, With Luck... -
Miracle of Mexico: Poems by Alfonso Reyes 9781848616882
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) was the leading Mexican writer of his time. He was revered by his great successor Octavio Paz, a writer who, like himself, was also an Ambassador. Enormously prolific, he... -
Vauxhall by Catherine Daly 9781905700714
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Vauxhall is pitched where voice and experience coincide. The poems sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and ven-ding machines. Vauxhall... -
Twitters for a Lark: Poetry of the European Union of Imaginary Authors by Robert Sheppard 9781848615656
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The EUOIA is the brainchild of Belgian poet Rene Van Valckenborch. For his last project before his disappearance around 2010, Van Valckenborch supposedly asked one poet from each of the EU states to... -
The Logic of the Stairwell by Marc Atkins 9781848611610
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to...