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Darkness Inside Out
ISBN: PB: 9781847772015, Carcanet, December 2012
118 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm
"In Darkness Inside Out" Rodney Pybus takes the reader on a series of excursions within real and imagined, beautiful and barbaric worlds. From Suffolk to Cape Town, from comedy to elegy, Pybus's poems explore the collusions of language and memory, th...
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£12,95
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Otherwise Unchanged
ISBN: PB: 9781847772008, Carcanet, December 2012
120 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating elements from English, Welsh, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese...
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£9,95
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
ISBN: PB: 9781593082086, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2012
352 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, colour illus.
Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical acc...
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£5,99
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Small World
ISBN: PB: 9781847771582, Carcanet, November 2012
80 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm
"Small World" tells a story of the changing relationship between a father and his two daughters, one severely disabled, a "mermaid in a wheelchair", the other discovering the difference of her elder sister, the "moon" to her "earth". Each succeeding...
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Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past
ISBN: PB: 9780300178869, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the ora...
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£34,00
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Ninjas
ISBN: PB: 9781847771476, Carcanet, November 2012
80 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto utterly strange – and eerily familiar – worlds. Lonely ghosts hover around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among themselves, their heads '"filled with pollen and bored...
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£9,95
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Greek Anthology, Book XVII
ISBN: PB: 9781906188054, Carcanet, November 2012
196 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"The Greek Anthology" is a treasure of the ancient world, sixteen books of poems, amatory, religious, elegiac, and satirical, written over the course of more than a millennium. And now at last the legendary "Book XVII" has surfaced. As full of poems...
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£12,95
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781847771261, Carcanet, November 2012
1000 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For the first time the vast, experimental totality of "Gunslinger" poet Edward Dorn's work is collected in a single volume. After studying with Charles Olson at Black Mountain College, Dorn took on the American West, developing an unmistakeable voice...
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£29,99
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Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.
In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...
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£39,00
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Ice Floe III
ISBN: PB: 9781602231917, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2012
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The third volume of the revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe III" features new and exciting works of poetry by authors from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. All work is presented in both its original la...
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£15,00
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