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Spirits of the Place New Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856461651, ISBN: HB: 9780856461644, Carcanet, August 1986
88 pp., 22x14 cm
Tony Connor's new collection – his seventh in all, and his first since the 1982 "New and Selected Poems" – evokes the spirits of very different places, times and people. The poems move eastwards from America, where he has settled, back to Lancashire...
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Living in Disguise
ISBN: PB: 9780856461736, Carcanet, August 1986
120 pp., 22x14 cm
E. A. Markham's new collection confirms his standing as one of the most energetic and original poets to emerge in recent years. "He has a very distinctive voice", commented Carol Rumens in "The Observer". 'Writing in Time Out", Valerie Sinason descri...
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Why I May Never See the Walls of China
ISBN: PB: 9780856461606, ISBN: HB: 9780856461590, Carcanet, August 1986
128 pp., 20x16.2 cm
An eye for detail informs these poems by Anthony Howell. The book charts his wanderings from Hampshire to Australia, and finally to Sicily. His renewed interest in the description of emotional as well as geographical landscape is one of the pleasures...
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Green Road Poems 1977-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780856461675, Carcanet, August 1986
72 pp., 22x14 cm
Philip Holmes's third book centres on a sequence of poems about the Swaledale lead mines in Yorkshire and those who lived, worked, stayed or emigrated to America from there. These poems, and three other groups which complete the collection – poems in...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856356216, Carcanet, January 1986
168 pp., 19x13 cm
"Though nature's sternest painter yet the best" – Byron George Crabbe (1754-1832) arrived late on the Augustan scene. Born in the same decade as Burns and Blake, he outlived Keats by more than ten years. His father was a warehouse-keeper in Aldeburg...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856356407, Carcanet, January 1986
144 pp., 19x13 cm
Part of the "A and R Modern Poets" series, this title contains selections from the work of A. D. Hope, chosen by David Brooks. Hope has also written "Collected Poems" and "Orpheus".
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856356674, Carcanet, January 1986
144 pp., 19x13 cm
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856356698, Carcanet, January 1986
96 pp., 19x13 cm
"Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other. In true communion with his surroundings, a man is dowered with a wisdom and an ecstasy that nothing else else can give (and this is perhaps what he is created for)", Georg...
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Poets of Munster An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780856461224, Carcanet, September 1985
224 pp., 22x14 cm
In "Poets of Munster" Sean Dunne charts the vigorous and diverse poetry that has been written in Ireland's southernmost province during the last half-century. Twenty-five poets – from Thomas MacGreevy and Frank O'Connor to Thomas McCarthy, from Sean...
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Letter to Juvenal 101 Epigrams from Martial
ISBN: HB: 9780856461415, Carcanet, September 1985
120 pp., 22x14 cm
Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nature, whose acute observations of life are tinged with a keen awareness of death. Peter Whigham's sel...
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