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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784106997, Carcanet, February 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to th...
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£12,99
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Be-Hooved
ISBN: PB: 9781602233768, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains".Be-Hooved", her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings – structured along th...
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£13,00
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Incomprehensible Lesson
ISBN: PB: 9781784104283, Carcanet, January 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Fawzi Karim's poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published "The Plague Lands and Other Poems" (2011), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This new selection, transl...
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£9,99
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Third Mandarin
ISBN: PB: 9781784104009, Carcanet, August 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.
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£12,99
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300230017, Yale University Press, August 2017
312 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.
For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four...
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£25,00
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In Search of Dustie-Fute
ISBN: PB: 9781784103965, Carcanet, August 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: with the waters rising, a lonely giraffe speaks fro...
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£9,99
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In These Great Times A Karl Kraus Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781847772640, Carcanet, January 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Selected poems and prose by one of Austria's most controversial satirists of the interwar years.
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£14,99
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Poetry of Haitian Independence
ISBN: HB: 9780300195590, Yale University Press, July 2015
360 pp., 22.2x14 cm
This collection of deeply felt and powerfully moving Haitian poetry dating back to the first decades of the Caribbean island's independence from French colonial rule sheds a much needed light on an important and often neglected period in Haiti's lite...
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£53,00
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Upriver
ISBN: PB: 9781602232020, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
60 pp., 23x15 cm
There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those...
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£11,50
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Anyone
ISBN: PB: 9780226196954, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Milton's God Where I-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered – stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge, the onl...
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£15,00
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