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PN Review Number 243
ISBN: PB: 9781784101541, Carcanet, September 2018
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm
The September-October 2018 issue The last published poems of the late Matthew Sweeney A translation of one of the most famous Ethiopian oral poems John Ash's first published poem in over a decade New poems by Sophie Hannah, Claudine Toutoungi and...
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PN Review Number 242
ISBN: PB: 9781784101534, Carcanet, September 2018
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm
The July-August 2018 issue Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land Vahni Capildeo picks up Ke...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784106676, Carcanet, September 2018
320 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
George Seferis (1900-1971) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Truthful and magical, his poetry has captivated both Greek and foreign readers. Aptly described by Charlotte Du Cann as "the unlocker of ancient stones and sea voyages", S...
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Devotion
ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...
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Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602233607, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
"The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us – /became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, /we disappeared into trees – /they clothed usin delirious green. /... We knew the song/ of this place, made it up, / sang it –" Homeste...
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Spill
ISBN: PB: 9780226570419, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings
"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil... It ruins everything you have ever saved". "Spill" is a...
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£14,00
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All Under One Roof
ISBN: PB: 9781784102241, Carcanet, June 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose "Selected Poems" was published in Britain in Karen Leeder's brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with "All Under One Roof", a wide-ranging selection from her radical r...
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Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India
ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout
Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...
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Land of My Fathers
ISBN: HB: 9781908446541, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth century with the triumphant return of freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back "home," however, these Americo-Liberians had to integrate into the resident tribes – who did not necessar...
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New Poetries VII An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784105587, Carcanet, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From the first "New Poetries" anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve nota...
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