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As Best We Can
ISBN: PB: 9781784109882, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The latest collection from the author of "Poetry the Basics" (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.
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£10,99
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What Must Happen
ISBN: PB: 9781784101961, Carcanet, July 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"What Must Happen" is Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date, recalling lost parents, relations and friends. Shared childhood memories, and the history of hometown Stoke-on-Trent, connect Wainwright's personal them...
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Reasoner
ISBN: PB: 9781847771469, Carcanet, September 2012
80 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm
In a series of ninety-five poems we listen to "the Reasoner", a voice that is by turns ardent, despairing and comic. Petty obsessions rub against attempts at philosophical seriousness; vernacular expression vies with an intent deliberation. Above all...
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Clarity or Death!
ISBN: PB: 9781857549126, Carcanet, July 2008
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me – or else that I didn't live much longer!" Clarity or Death! takes its title from this letter of Wittgenstein's. That desire for clarity in our knowledge of t...
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Red-Headed Pupil And Other Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857540567, Carcanet, May 1994
80 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
But there's a lot to follow. What is his body, what is his mind? How can he be him? What is real, and can he look for it? Is he only a different version of a brick wall? Studiously, peering closer, as though at an anatomy lesson, "he tries harder"....
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£6,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856355981, Carcanet, January 1985
112 pp., 19x13 cm
This collection of Jeffrey Wainwright's poetry brings together most of his first collection, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and much of what he has written since that time. The poems confront a wide range of intellectual, personal, and politic...
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£5,95
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