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Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen by Michael Heller 9781848612082
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $24.38These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political... -
Wildlife by Rupert M. Loydell 9781848611528
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03In these mercurial poems, real and imaginary events combine with overheard, quoted and misquoted voices to produce a slippery and unreliable series of opinionated poems. What appear at first to be... -
Shearsman 97 & 98 by Kelvin Corcoran 9781848613034
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.37The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2013 contains poetry by Theodoros Chiotis and Sophie Mayer, Patricia Debney, Carrie Etter, Charlotte Faber, Kim Goldberg, Graham Hardie, Michael Haslam,... -
Shearsman 81and 82 by Tony Frazer 9781848610279
Booksplease Price: $18.37This second double-issue of "Shearsman" magazine for 2009 includes work by Isobel Armstrong, Linda Black, Chris Brownsword, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Mark Dickinson, Ray DiPalma, Sally Flint, Damian... -
Shearsman 69 and 70 by Tony Frazer 9781905700028
Booksplease Price: $18.37The second issue of the Shearsman journal for 2006, featuring poetry by Paul Batchelor, Linda Black, Richard Burns, Kelvin Corcoran, M.T.C. Cronin, Mark Goodwin, Anthony Hawley, Matthew Jarvis, rob... -
Shearsman 71 and 72 by Tony Frazer 9781905700134
Booksplease Price: $18.37The first Shearsman double-issue for 2007, number 71 & 72, features new poetry by C.J. Allen, James Bell, Richard Deming, Tamara Fulcher, Becky Gould Gibson, Lucy Hamilton, Peter Hughes, Maryrose... -
European Hymns Andrew Taylor 9781848619494
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26European Hymns is Andrew Taylor’s fourth collection published by Shearsman Books. Over four sections, the book traces the calendar year throughout the seasons. Beginning with the optimism that spring... -
Mimic Pond by Carol Watts 9781848619173
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Mounts Pond is a small urban pond on Blackheath, in south-east London, named for its dark earth. It is one of four ponds on the heath and the only one which comes and goes with seasonal weather... -
Basket of Braids: Cesto de trenzas Natalia Litvinova 9781848619371
Booksplease Price: $24.61The title of Basket of Braids forms a surprising image. Why would anyone store braided hair in a basket? “The women in my family / keep the hair / they cut off / in a basket of braids. // It’s an... -
Tomorrowland by Lisa Samuels 9781848610507
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Tomorrowland is a book-length poem of bodily transit and colonial forgetting. Its names and events perpetually arrive in a new world, whose versions here combine promised lands and historical suicide... -
Doctor Placebo by Alan Wall 9781848611337
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. As a medical practitioner he broods about his patients; as a writer he... -
Real Lear: New and Selected Poems Claire Crowther 9781848619388
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61“Crowther writes about this world, this country and this era with such accuracy and honesty you find yourself wrapped up in the mystic and otherly vision without question. For me the work sits with... -
Golden Satellite Debris Martin Corless-Smith 9781848619487
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61"Golden Satellite Debris is my 13th book. I don't feel particularly superstitious about that. I do still feel as if a book of mine coming into the world is still an unprecedented surprise. I feel a... -
A Farewell to Everything by Ilma Rakusa 9780907562771
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Slovakia, to a Hungarian and Slovenian parents, and spent her childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. From 1965-1971 she studied Slav Languages & Literature, and... -
New and Collected Poems by John Seed 9780907562634
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61This collection of John Seed's original poetry, most of which has been out of print or hard to find for many years, is published simultaneously with the companion volume, 'Pictures from Mayhew'. ... -
Anything the Landlord Touches by Emma Lew 9780907562924
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Emma Lew is highly regarded amongst contemporary Australian poets for the dramatic intensity of her poems, which combine sudden shifts of voice and perspective with a heightened awareness of the... -
The Concerto Form by Anthony Hawley 9780907562849
Booksplease Price: $20.03Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. 'The Concerto Form' is his first collection. He has a B.A. in Italian Literature, and has also translated... -
Textual Possessions by Peter Philpott 9780907562535
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26'Textual Possessions' brings together three long sequences of poems: 'In the Present Historic Tense', 'An Encounter Upon the Beach at Minehead With the Prince of This World', and 'On Being Voiced'... -
The Moon, the Chief Hairdresser (highlights) by Ralph Hawkins 9780907562429
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26"Do you think there's too much archaeology? Too many people need to dig things up and find them out. It's not necessary to some people and more than necessary for others. There's an industry around... -
At Mark Goodwin 9781848618411
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61"Like the landscapes where the poet walks, climbs and watches, language is fractured in these poems. The reader becomes a climber too among words that break and re-form, reflect, scatter and slide in... -
Torchwood by Jill Magi 9781905700547
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03While "Torchwood" documents the loss of a religion and at times, the loss of language, it gathers hope as it goes. The mostly serial works in this collection explore the possibility of faith in... -
Collected Poems 1976-2016 by Peter Robinson 9781848615243
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $36.95Collected Poems 1976-2016 gathers carefully chosen and reviewed texts from Peter Robinson's nine books of poetry, to which is added a newly completed tenth collection. They include his early... -
On the Way to Work by Ian Davidson 9781848615625
RRP: $14.63Booksplease Price: $14.27These poems were written on the way to work, walking the two and a half miles from near Saltwell Park in Gateshead to Northumbria University in Newcastle. The journey took me through Gateshead's... -
Forest Music by Susan Connolly 9781848610262
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Forest Music is Susan Connolly's second full-length collection. Many poems in the book depict Susan Connolly's personal encounter with her landscape. Living in Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley,... -
Slant by Linda Black 9781848614680
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26"Step into the magical word-world of Linda Black. Singsong and urbane by turn, these poems are rich in Hardyesque rhythms and moods undercut by an astute and often funny commentary. Using techniques... -
Notebook of Last Things by Jon Thompson 9781848616486
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that change-its rhythms and... -
Selected Poems by Juan Antonio Villacanas 9781848610637
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $27.96This is the first book-length collection of the poetry of Juan Antonio Villacanas in English, and enables Anglophone readers to meet for the first time one of the most significant Spanish poets of... -
Last Harvest by Harry Guest 9781848617261
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Last Harvest brings together poems of place, poems on religion, poems on family and friendships, and poems that rebel against the passing of the years. [...] enough however here for mysteries, times... -
An Oakwoods Almanac by Gerry Loose 9781848614352
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61Deliberately and quietly, Gerry Loose has spent years walking the woodlands to observe the poetry of clouds and winds; to cheer the dance of gnats and moths, to listen intently to the musical... -
Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' by John Mateer 9781848612815
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $24.61World Literature Today has described John Mateer as "the most recent reincarnation of of the international poet". Born in South Africa, John Mateer has for the past two decades been documenting the... -
On the Margins of Great Empires: Selected Poems by Andrew Duncan 9781848615984
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61At this point in time Andrew Duncan is better known as a critic of contemporary poetry - and an entertaining, waspish, and unusual critic at that. His own poetic work has been under-recognised and... -
how to spear sleep by Nathan Shepherdson 9781848617414
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03A late-life, late 1960s Celan straddles the perception and the hallucination that akin to Abraham he must choose between Poetry and his own son. The test is in the asking rather than what is being... -
Those Summer-Soothing Days by David Jaffin 9781848618657
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $28.04Previous comments on David Jaffin's work:On Light Sources and Landing Rights: "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical." The Chicago Review "Jaffin's... -
Unfinished and Uncollected by George Economou 9781848614369
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems, published by Shearsman in 2013, this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and... -
Time Being by Carmen Bugan 9781848618039
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26"In these poems, many addressing the 'long Sunday' of the pandemic years, Carmen Bugan reflects on the impact of the virus through the prism of personal family moments and local experience. She... -
Settings by Tim Allen 9781848610064
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03"I had in mind a kind of anti prose poem that would look and smell like one but give a different taste and have a different texture. One way of doing this was by making the conclusion of each Set... -
The Desert by Maria do Cebreiro 9781848616240
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61"The majority of these poems exist thanks to a convalescence that lasted half a year and that, like the practice of Hesychasm, forced me to become quiet, solitary and silent. In the writing of this... -
Sonnets by Camille Martin 9781848610705
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61In her second book of poetry, Camille Martin breathes fresh life into the sonnet in a collection that is at once edgy and lyrical. The word 'sonnet' comes from 'song', and the musicality of "Sonnets"... -
I Came, I Saw: Eight Poems by John Peck 9781848612136
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $24.61"For my money, the best poet of my generation...as indifferent to academic fashions as he is to those of the poetry market." (Clive Wilmer) "Perhaps the most challenging-and one of the most... -
Networks by Mark Dickinson 9781848617650
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03"In this brilliant collection, Mark Dickinson ranges - with a passionate, weary restlessness - over bird, plant, monetary, sexual, and internet networks, but mocks any easy connection between these...