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A Zen Forest: Zen Sayings by Soiko Shigematsu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid,... -
The Pearl Diver of Irunmani by Marc Vincenz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Marc Vincenz seeks nothing less than to track and sing “the forms life takes / as it vanishes and reappears / then as it dissolves.” Marc Vincenz’s The Pearl Diver of Irunmani charts the paths of... -
Multiverse: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Tzveta Sofronieva
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Multiverse brings together four decades of work by the multi-lingual poet of whom Joseph Brodsky said “Listen carefully, she has something to say”. Sofronieva’s poetry covers a wide range from short... -
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry by Eleanor Goodman 9781945680038
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file... -
Beyond the Edge of Suffering: Prose Poems by Peter Conners 9781945680519
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Prose poems and flash fictions revealing the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of living through Covid, political chaos, and personal upheaval. Peter Conners' unique blend of prose... -
KB: The Suspect by Marcelijus Martinaitis 9781893996281
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"To the pantheon of East European poets-Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub -- we must now add Martinaitis. 'K.B.,' the poet's common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the... -
Echoing Song: Contemporary Korean Women Poets Peter H. Lee 9781893996359
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This first comprehensive anthology of modern Korean women's poetry in English demonstrates the originality and variety of the twenty poets whose work is presented. Each poet is represented with a... -
Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now Mary Berg 9781893996649
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The writing of Cuban women writers is virtually unknown in this country. Ten of the best Cuban women writers who have risen to prominence in the last decade of the 20th century are included in this... -
Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life by Robert Bly 9781935210641
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers."--The New York Times "Bly's poems flow from ...the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to... -
Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance by Rafael Alberti 9781935210917
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning... -
Pelvis with Distance by Jessica Jacobs 9781935210665
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A biography-in-poems of Georgia O'Keeffe, interwoven with the poet's lyric accounts of a solitary month in a primitive desert cabin. A narrative-driven collection that reads like a novel, this book... -
Back Roads To Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal by Matsuo Basho 9781893996311
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals... -
A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Spears Jones 9781935210696
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"Vibrant with the intensity of blues singers."-Feminist Bookstore News "Patricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her... -
Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems by Gail Wronsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This book collects over four decades of work by this unique and imaginative poet. Wronsky's poems, informed by her reading of classical texts as well as contemporary poetics, explore feminism,... -
Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile Pablo Neruda 9781945680649
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile is a stunning collaboration of visions: the vision of a great photographer and the vision of a great poet. Windows That Open Inward is a mosaic of visual... -
The Devil's Country by Perla Suez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This novel unravels a tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, a fourteen year-old girl named Lum Hue, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother, and sole... -
There is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado by Antonio Machado 9781893996663
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22"Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you walk". While others suggest taking the road less travelled, Antonio Machado suggests that we each make our own road. In this series of brief... -
Notes from the Journey Westward by Joe Wilkins 9781935210368
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"Wilkins' poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoric--it's a call to find the limits of survival... -
The Poet and the Sea by Juan Ramon Jimenez 9781935210016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This bilingual collection traces Juan Ramon Jimenez's relationship with the sea, a major theme in his work, from his seminal book Diary of a Poet Recently Married alongside other poems from his body... -
A Moment Short of Perfection: Selected Poems of Kristin Dimitrova by Kristin Dimitrova 9781945680878
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Dimitrova suggests through vivid, sometimes ironic imagery that our life is imperfect, but we don't have a better one.Kristin Dimitrova seems to want to stop time, to make us notice how important the... -
Haiku Master Buson by Yuki Sawa
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68This is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognised as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In... -
Hatchet / Hamartia Carmen Boullosa 9781945680397
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A bilingual poetry collection in which a microwave, a fly, a soup, a football match, a train, or a child in the subway serve as pretexts to explain the tragic nature of life when death is involved... -
The Uncommon Speech of Paradise: Poems on the Art of Poetry by Robert Hedin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Uncommon Speech of Paradise showcases the work of 120 modern and contemporary poets from seventeen countries-Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, and Anna Akhmatova-as well as works by... -
The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945680472Author Yun WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 by Stephen Corey 9781945680533
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems. Stephen Corey's work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and... -
Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska 9781945680687
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.75Building the Barricade, harrowing and demanding, here takes its place in English among the twentieth century's master works of war-witness.”—Jane HirshfieldBuilding the Barricade, is poetry of... -
Notes from the Sea by Marjorie Agosin 9781945680731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation, a creative force of energy, spirituality, and... -
Alfonsina Storni: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni 9780934834162
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a... -
Gabriela Mistral: A Reader by Isabel Allende 9781877727184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Gabriela Mistral's name evokes a constellation of contradictory images: a rural schoolteacher and first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize, a poet who sang to children but never had any of... -
300 Tang Poems by Geoffrey Waters
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel... -
They'll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Contemporary Hungarian Poetry by Gabor Gyukics
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm,... -
Aflame by Gary McDowell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Via both associative lyrics and disjunctive narratives, Aflame looks to the intersection of T/time and experience, sex and fatherhood, husbandry and the cosmos, and whether the experiences Aflame... -
A Tree Becomes a Room by J. P. White 9781945680656
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Poems that travel with a sense of urgency, bearing witness to precarious beauty, fleeting joy and the unfinished work required to survive. The poems in this collection are located in many places... -
Still Life by Alex Long 9781935210290
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"There is nothing 'still' in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these... -
Flares by Christopher Merrill 9781945680465
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.86The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world. Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what... -
Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind by Gyoskusei Jikihara 9781893996144
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.91"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."-Seng-t'san The Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-t'san, the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, is considered to be the... -
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems from Sung Dynasty China by Yang Wan-Li by Yang Wan-Li
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for... -
Women: Recados Gabriela Mistral 9781893996090
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Most of these essays on women were originally published in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in English for the first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary women... -
Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems by Tatiana Orono
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Orono is the first English-language collection of Orono's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s... -
Bruno Folner's Last Tango by Mempo Giardinelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It’s a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there’s a price to pay. In this...