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So Many Rooms
ISBN: PB: 9781784108496, Carcanet, August 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"So Many Rooms", the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.
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£9,99
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Poetry and Time
ISBN: HB: 9780857426550, Seagull Books, July 2019
72 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 30 colour plates
For nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone, and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive, and forceful. A lifelong collaborator, Neumann's paintings have accompanied the work of Cees Nooteboom, Seamu...
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£21,99
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435169357, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, June 2019
128 pp., 18.4x10.9 cm, illus.
This edition features an attractive bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.
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£12,99
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Against Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780226613505, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation – not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what...
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£14,00
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Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home
ISBN: PB: 9781602233645, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. /...
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£11,00
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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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£6,99
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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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£6,99
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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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£25,00
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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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£11,00
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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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