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Pelted By Flowers Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880860, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had "a well-developed sense of beauty and can skip with both feet". This proved prophetic for a life that has included a number of careers and passions – Lightfoot has earned a master's...
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Lucky Wreck Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781938769801, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation,...
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Snow's Wife
ISBN: PB: 9781933880815, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hards...
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My Second Work
ISBN: PB: 9780887486548, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher's pet". Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget...
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£13,00
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Sickle
ISBN: HB: 9780857426116, Seagull Books, March 2019
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his father – his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe, and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts and waves can still be ours. But Endre is stran...
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Gilgamesh Retold
ISBN: PB: 9781784106140, Carcanet, October 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Jenny Lewis has produced a versatile and inventive retelling of "Gilgamesh" which brings alive a story that is as resonant today as it was when first composed in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) four millennia ago. In 2012 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fell...
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Errant
ISBN: PB: 9781784106348, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Errant" is Israeli poet Gabriel Levin's sixth collection. It is a book of riddles by an imagination whose fate is that of the wanderer who keeps waking up and watching the dream vanish just before he can quite grasp it.
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Arcimboldo's Bulldog New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784105709, Carcanet, May 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter's face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform th...
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Trinity Poets
ISBN: PB: 9781784103569, Carcanet, April 2017
380 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Over six centuries, Trinity College, Cambridge, has spawned more poets than any other institution. Here are Herbert, Byron, Tennyson, Housman et al : an unparalleled singing school.
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Raking Light
ISBN: PB: 9781784103323, Carcanet, February 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Raking Light" is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of "raking light", in whi...
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