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Apocalypse An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784108182, Carcanet, March 2021
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...
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£19,99
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Rise Wildly
ISBN: PB: 9781933880808, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and...
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£15,00
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Quiet Orient Riot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430830, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherho...
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£15,00
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Moving House
ISBN: PB: 9781784109639, Carcanet, June 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This highly anticipated new collection from a prize-winning Chinese Singaporean writer probes the place of history in our contemporary, border-crossing lives and communities.
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£10,99
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Scatterplot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430779, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
"Scatterplot" navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through...
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£15,00
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Any God Will Do
ISBN: PB: 9780887486531, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"There are no machine guns, or cameras, here". "Any God Will Do" is a collection that investigates the lines between worldliness and asceticism, belief and delusion, chance and design, desire and its transcendence. Internal and end rhyme structure t...
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£13,00
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Afterwardness
ISBN: PB: 9781784107994, Carcanet, October 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A book of "oriental sonnets" exploring the long-term effects of early childhood displacement and loss by multi-prize-winning poet Mimi Khalvati.
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£9,99
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Cage of Lit Glass
ISBN: PB: 9781938769399, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, "Cage of Lit Glass" engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting...
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£13,00
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Map Towards Fluency
ISBN: PB: 9781784108403, Carcanet, June 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of...
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£9,99
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Wounds Fragments Derelict
ISBN: PB: 9781940939926, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
120 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Wounds Fragments Derelict" is Carlos Gabriel Kelly's debut poetry collection. These poems comprise a narrative of love and loss. Throughout the collection, Kelly weaves poetic fragments into a narrative expressing the torment of a relationship that...
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£12,00
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