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Barbarians Arrive Today Poems & Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109943, Carcanet, September 2020
352 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
With "The Barbarians Arrive Today", Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering uniqu...
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£19,99
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Captain's Verses
ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...
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£14,99
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Oresteia of Aeschylus
ISBN: PB: 9781784108731, Carcanet, April 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new verse translation of the "Oresteia of Aeschylus", with illustrations by Tom Phillips.
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£16,99
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Forgetting
ISBN: PB: 9781784108908, Carcanet, January 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This personal book explores both the public and the private dimensions of forgetting and its scary Siamese twin, remembering. Forgetting takes in our modern fear of Alzheimer's and dementia; the abuse to which such slogans as "Remember Auschwitz!" c...
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£10,99
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Heaven
ISBN: PB: 9781784108861, Carcanet, January 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the first translation of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas's two major collections "Heaven" ("El cielo", 2000) and "Heat" ("Calor", 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into freewheeling megalomaniacal fli...
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£12,99
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Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784108113, Carcanet, January 2020
356 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminalessayist and thinker. This second and final volume of the "Yves Bonnefoy Reader", contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well asa generous selection of essays from all pe...
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£30,00
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Double-Tracking Studies in Duplicity
ISBN: PB: 9780995705227, Carcanet, October 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe lo...
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£10,99
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Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781784106263, Carcanet, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Pater. This volume brings together a generous selection of Pater's non-fiction writings on literature, art, history, philosophy and mythology, supported by a c...
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£18,99
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Cemetery in Barnes
ISBN: PB: 9781784105464, Carcanet, March 2018
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The 18th novel from the distinguished novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright. A short, intense mystery novel that begins in gentle elegy and ends in diabolism and – murder.
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£9,99
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Haunted House
ISBN: PB: 9781784101138, Carcanet, April 2015
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pierre Reverdy's surrealistic tale Maison hantee was written in 1928 and first published in 1930. Andre Breton would later include it in a list of the ten books he would most like to take to a desert island. John Ashbery's translation of this modern...
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£8,99
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