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Alstonefield A Poem
ISBN: PB: 9781857546484, Carcanet, December 2003
144 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
"Alstonefield: A Poem" is a long poem in ten-line stanzas which explores Riley's preoccupation with a limestone village in Dovedale. Like much of Riley's writing, it has close affinities with Prynne's, Nevertheless, there is more of Cowper in this ve...
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Memory of the Fire Selected Poems 1989-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780856463464, Carcanet, December 2003
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Justo Jorge Padron is one of Spain's leading poets. Born in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island, in 1943, he is among the most representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s. The brilliance of his metaphorical imagination provides the Spanis...
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£11,95
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Walking Out of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780856463655, Carcanet, December 2003
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In "Walking Out of the World", triolets, quatrains and villanelles are interspersed with finely modulated free verse, culminating in the striking sequence "The Sentences of Death". Mead's curiously fascinating poems, with their beguiling echoes of th...
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Ship of Birth
ISBN: PB: 9781903039632, Carcanet, November 2003
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Ship of Birth" records a father's responses in the time immediately before and after a child is born. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a "Ship of Death", so this "Ship of Birth" contains what is significant to the child: the...
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Skywriting
ISBN: PB: 9781903039649, Carcanet, November 2003
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poems in Charles Tomlinson's new collection celebrate the colours and textures of places, and the people and histories that have created them. "Skywriting" forms a journey through the landscapes of Tomlinson's imagination: Mexico, Italy and Japan...
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Manganese
ISBN: PB: 9781903039717, Carcanet, November 2003
136 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Manganese" starts with a murder in China in the age of Confucius and ends with a sestina about a difficult family Christmas in front of the television. Plain-spoken narrative is juxtaposed with an enigmatic, densely woven imagery exploring fugitive...
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Map of the Territory
ISBN: PB: 9781903039694, Carcanet, November 2003
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Map of the Territory" reflects Nigel Forde's fascination with things in the process of change: music, the momentary insight, twilight rather than night or day. Written over a period of years, the poems meditate on memory and landscape: it is in th...
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£7,95
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Revolutionary Art of the Future re-discovered poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857547337, Carcanet, October 2003
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Revolutionary Art of the Future" is a selection from three hundred poems by Hugh MacDiarmid discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland in 2003. This is the first time many of them have appeared in print. The...
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Book of Stones
ISBN: PB: 9781857546408, Carcanet, October 2003
64 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
In "The Book of Stones" Adam's Schwartzman explores what it means to live in the new South Africa, to be part of historical processes while sustaining an individual life. The poet returned home in 1999 to live and work in the country he had mythologi...
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In the Country of Birds
ISBN: PB: 9781857546415, Carcanet, October 2003
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
These poems are the fruit of estrangement, in particular from origins. They draw on James Sutherland Smith's experiences of life in the Middle East and Middle Europe; what is most strange, they tell us, is not to be found in exotic locales, but close...
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