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Joy
ISBN: PB: 9781784105037, Carcanet, November 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Dugdale's fourth collection displays an increasingly urgent approach to historical and current geopolitics . It combines an open interest in the historical fate of women, particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous sha...
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£9,99
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Love in Another Language Collected Poems and Selected Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781784105075, Carcanet, November 2017
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poems, and excerpts of Davis verse translation from medieval Persian poetry (some over 700 years old).
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£20,00
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Magic of What's There
ISBN: PB: 9781784104948, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The Ted Hughes Award-winning poet David Morley explores the suffering and tragedy of his Romany childhood through fiercely personal poems. Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challeng...
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On Trust A Book of Lies
ISBN: PB: 9781784104160, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"On Trust" is a collection of poems organised around the idea of telling the truth. Inspired by the idea that poetry is often seen as being a vehicle for the articulation of individual truths, or as a medium for unvarnished and unprocessed confession...
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£9,99
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Crossing the Mirror Line
ISBN: PB: 9781784104993, Carcanet, October 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Challenging debut from a mature new poet exploring the ways in which the past travels with us across landscapes. Crossing the Mirror Line explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections and the relationship between the viewer a...
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President of Planet Earth
ISBN: PB: 9781784104207, Carcanet, October 2017
124 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Inspired by the Russian futurist Khlebnikov, Wheatley provides a riveting poetic vision of world culture. This collection imagines futuristic social states from the South American nation of "Oblivia" to post-independence referendum present-day Scotla...
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£12,99
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In Darkest Capital Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104900, Carcanet, October 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This" Collected Poems" spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle generation. In "Darkest Capital" engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.
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£20,00
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Who Reads Poetry 50 Views from "Poetry" Magazine
ISBN: HB: 9780226504766, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map
Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, "Poetry" magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here", which has invited readers "from outside the...
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£18,00
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Smoothie
ISBN: PB: 9781784104122, Carcanet, September 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Smoothie" is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes – often enough to fend off desp...
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Sarajevo Roses Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104085, Carcanet, September 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Sarajevo Roses" is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move . On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to...
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