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New Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784108656, Carcanet, November 2019
210 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century'sbest-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almostfifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, during her lifetime shereceived numerous awards, including the W. H. Sm...
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£12,99
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Smart Devices 52 Poems from the Guardian "Poem of the Week"
ISBN: PB: 9781784107796, Carcanet, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Carol Rumens has been contributing "Poem of the Week" to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with th...
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The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: PB: 9781784108694, Carcanet, November 2019
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the c...
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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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Greek Ballad Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300233346, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exi...
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Armor & Ornament
ISBN: PB: 9781602233874, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Armor & Ornament" turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millenn...
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Brightword
ISBN: PB: 9780887486517, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, November 2019
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors – individual and collective – that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain.  In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and ma...
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Afterwardness
ISBN: PB: 9781784107994, Carcanet, October 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A book of "oriental sonnets" exploring the long-term effects of early childhood displacement and loss by multi-prize-winning poet Mimi Khalvati.
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£9,99
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Impossible Loves
ISBN: PB: 9781784108618, Carcanet, October 2019
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, more intensely as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves are another theme. And violence...
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Salvage At Twilight
ISBN: PB: 9781784107918, Carcanet, October 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poet – a man of the world in the widest sense – reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with "Deposition", a harrowing elegy in five parts: the bel...
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