> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # a booklist for the winter season - URL: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/a-booklist-for-the-winter-season/ - Published: 2023-12-05T15:02:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T13:29:25.000Z - Description: what we want to read and share and gift and hold - Author: bog bodies press - Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1792589186246, #Import 2026-10-21 13:27 the nights are growing darker and colder in the winter’s seemingly endless march, and this time of year often leaves us longer stretches of evening to fill, gifts to track down and the sometimes feverish desire to escape into a world held on paper. (escape into? find? race through interrogate drag back delve into discover etc. etc. etc.) not entirely surprisingly, our shelves are full and constantly growing - books spreading across floorboards and over stools, pouring out of corners and piling up below desks. we still seem to find it impossible to pass a bookstore by. below we’ve listed some of our favourite books to read and to gift, and others that are next on our lists to buy ourselves. we’ve linked them to independent bookstores here in europe, but go and ask your local bookseller if they can order them in for you - they usually can, and buying through them allows small publishers to continue to stock books in those shops for you to find! otherwise, where possible, order through the publisher directly. #### mnemotope issues 001 and 002 multiple authors, published by bog bodies press what a surprise to find this here - but in all seriousness, we love seeing people’s reactions to the poetry, prose, recipes, reviews and all sorts of everything that populate our community magazines, and hope you’d love it too. [*buy here*](https://bogbodiespress.com/mnemotope-1?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/8e02fb13-7d11-48aa-8ff1-0662329b1ccb_473x688-1.png) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/1378f299-e59d-4859-944b-1bd273d92f36_427x604.png) #### kind ground, black butter concept lucy hodge-sellers, published by bog bodies press our new book! a conversation on the power of language and poetry as a force for resistance in ireland and beyond. archival photos, dialogue and short texts bookending it all. (the book isn’t officially out until next week, so in the meantime please enjoy this sneak peak image below.) [*buy here*](https://bogbodiespress.com/kind-ground,-black-butter?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/38882cbd-8626-4caa-a2d8-8856b6ae9584_4032x3024-jpeg.jpg) #### anam cara john o’donoghue, published by penguin books lovely, gentle, poetic wisdom from celtic teachings - so wonderfully and easefully written that this moving piece of writing really wraps itself around you. [*buy here*](https://www.alanhannas.com/Anam-Cara-Spiritual-Wisdom-from-the-Celtic-World%5F9781804992548?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/1a9c8161-09ac-4736-8f27-8759032f551d_259x400.png) #### the dispossessed ursula k. le guin, published by harper collins strikes an unusual balance between escapism and confronting you with the realities of our world. beware that you might end up underlining most of this text; it will make you want to cry and start a revolution. [*buy here*](https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek?authortitle=ursula-k-le-guin/the-dispossessed--9781473228412&ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/75b5d118-8667-4d84-aa37-8e7c8726e0a5_382x598.png) #### the decay of lying oscar wilde, published by penguin books wilde’s sharp piercing wit is in full play here, and this short essay is one of those that i find myself always coming back to. it’s fun and bright and clever and brilliant. [*buy here*](https://booksupstairs.ie/product/the-decay-of-lying/?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/f9146076-0fe2-41cc-8019-3e260c78b06f_365x595.png) #### letters to a young poet rainer maria rilke, published by penguin books warm, earnest and insightful correspondence from an established poet to a younger one. makes you want to pick up a pen immediately, and we highly suggest that you do. [*buy here*](https://www.kennys.ie/shop/letters-to-a-young-poet-rilke-9780486831855?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/4e436785-04f8-4c6f-9e8a-5adc38d342d4_301x481.png) #### drive your plow over the bones of the dead olga tokarczuk, published by fitzcarraldo editions atmospheric, crackling writing from an incredible author. dark and humorous and utterly enveloping. [*buy here*](https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek?authortitle=olga-tokarczuk/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead--9781910695715&ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/58fde440-8eb1-40a3-97d7-51af94688eda_288x438.png) #### mama phife represents cheryl boyce taylor, published by haymarket books a book that feels like it carries your heart for you. her love for her son pours out of the pages and into your hands, and reminds you of the depths of connection. [*buy here*](https://lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781642592665?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/52bd9346-45d3-4c03-93f0-b57bc5a83d02_329x500.png) #### the whisper félicia atkinson, published by shelter press one of the most beautifully made books we’ve found this year. it feels like a portal into the atkinson’s poignant, sensitive work and the world it suggests. you’ll almost want to frame it but then it would be much too far from reach. [*buy here*](https://www.rile.space/books/the-whisper?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/156fc8e3-3dad-43bb-ae8a-04853c19a9d2_337x483.png) #### assata: an autobiography assata shakur, published by chicago review press a powerful autobiography from a courageous, wise and funny woman. shakur was a member of the black panther party and the black liberation army, as well as the fbi’s most wanted woman - she really can do it all. [*buy here*](https://sjakoo.nl/en/product/assata-an-autobiography/?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/edcb9100-f408-4e88-8f7e-e133ebf5df68_264x402.png) #### tenderness record - the life of ilya zdanevich igor terentiev, published by rab rab press a short volume holding letters and transcripts of zdanevich’s zaum dramas; a peek into avant-garde poetry and theatre. best read aloud, and approached with curiosity. [*buy here*](https://after8books.com/tenderness-record-%E2%80%93-the-life-of-ilya-zdanevich.html?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/245aa164-d2ee-4c5c-9232-7cc9ff2a3dbd_356x544.png) #### lunch poems frank o’hara, published by city lights books a poet who writes like it’s breathing, and pulls pulsing, vibrant scenes to life. this collection is a wonderful place to start if you’ve never read o’hara. [*buy here*](https://www.kennys.ie/literature/lunch-poems?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/86987202-be13-465f-b89b-cd5c492ad428_249x321.png) #### the passion according to g.h. clarice lispector, published by new directions this book is incredibly simple. a woman enters a room and kills a cockroach. lispectors ability to extrapolate a novel from this one scene and hold you with her the whole time is truly mesmerising. [*buy here*](https://www.rile.space/books/the-passion-according-to-gh?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/78328e82-b2fd-4eab-b036-e15a983aef22_272x423.png) #### the sugar and the hunger robert linhart, published by rab rab press we haven’t got our hands on this one yet, but are eagerly awaiting its arrival; in the first english translation of this work, linhart explores the stories of working people in sugar regions in north-eastern brazil. [*buy here*](https://www.rabrab.net/shop/p/rab-rab-journal-6-gwerz-8ylhr-rbbfj-7elnt-x6b6z-r6fyc-fz4pc?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/fb29cd8f-b6a1-4f63-9a53-c0a84ed45df2_276x449.png) #### the paper, issue 1 multiple authors, published by the paper madness, immediacy, warmth, chaos and laughter are plastered all over these a3 (!!!) pages. reading it at this monstrous size feels like some sort of joke, and it only kind of is - one of the most brilliantly fun publications we’ve found this year. [*buy here*](https://thepaper.bigcartel.com/product/issue-1?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) #### ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/376c6b8f-f2bd-4dd5-9df7-d3e0ec247c20_503x737.png) talk soon - until then, happy reading!!! love, your bog bodies bisous [Subscribe now](#/portal/signup)