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Letters to Madeleine Tender as Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780857425829, Seagull Books, December 2010
624 pp., 21.6x19.1 cm, 22 halftones
"Letters to Madeleine" collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancee Madeleine Pages during World War I. Stationed in the trenches of Champagne, this man of letters wh...
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£18,99
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Perfect Order Selected Poems 1974-2010
ISBN: PB: 9780856464317, Carcanet, November 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"The Perfect Order" is the first extensive selection of Nasos Vayenas's poems to appear in English. Spanning thirty-six years from 1974 to 2010, it covers every phase of his long and varied writing career – from the first registrations of his poetic...
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£12,95
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Some Times
ISBN: PB: 9780856464256, Carcanet, November 2010
104 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Memory, including the tricks it plays, is this book's overriding theme. The poems seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over more than half a century, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. They recall friends now be...
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Jean Follain 130 Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464201, Carcanet, November 2010
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"The poetry of Jean Follain" (1903-1971) is increasingly recognized, by French poets and critics and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after the Surrealist period. The poet and novelist Henri Thomas wrote of Foll...
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Taller When Prone
ISBN: PB: 9781847771230, Carcanet, November 2010
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Taller When Prone" has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragm...
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Can Poetry Save Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300168136, Yale University Press, November 2010
440 pp., 21x14 cm, 41 black&white illus., 22 colour illus.
Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From ancient Biblical times through to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems...
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Enchantment
ISBN: PB: 9781847770622, Carcanet, November 2010
78 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A blacksmith creates a girl from fire. A hedgehog conquers a kingdom. How do you ride a Camargue horse through time? How do circus people live, when the glitterball has stopped turning? In these poem-stories David Morley reinvents the oral tradition...
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Modern Canadian Poets An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781857549386, Carcanet, November 2010
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Cosmopolitan, hybrid and eloquent, modern Canadian poetry is still, for many readers outside Canada, one of the great undiscovered terrains of world literature. "Modern Canadian Poets" sets out to end that neglect, redefining the connections between...
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How Now!
ISBN: PB: 9780856464324, Carcanet, November 2010
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In "How Now!" Alan Moore treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss with gentle humour and tough seriousness. He evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult yea...
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Complete Poems The 1554 Edition of the "Rime", a Bilingual Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226770727, ISBN: HB: 9780226770710, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the earl...
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£110,00
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