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God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107550, Carcanet, June 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Death is a many-colored harlequin,' Stanley Moss addirmed on his ninety-second birthday. Rosanna Warren writes of his latest poems, 'Undaunted, outrageously alive, Moss flaunts more colors than the Grim Reaper ever dreamed of, laughs in his face, rhy...
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£19,99
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435169357, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, June 2019
128 pp., 18.4x10.9 cm, illus.
This edition features an attractive bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.
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£12,99
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Skin Can Hold 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107314, Carcanet, May 2019
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Vahni Capildeo, author of "Measures of Expatriation" (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with her third Carcanet collection, "Skin Can Hold". The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied pr...
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£9,99
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Few Interiors
ISBN: PB: 9781784107352, Carcanet, May 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Few Interiors" is the debut collection from an alumna of Carcanet's "New Poetries" series, and a recent favourite in the pages of "PN Review". Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things – movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms...
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£9,99
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Year of Blue Water
ISBN: PB: 9780300242645, ISBN: HB: 9780300242652, Yale University Press, May 2019
96 pp., 21x14 cm
How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective...
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£14,99
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£30,00
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Nineveh
ISBN: PB: 9781784107390, Carcanet, May 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Zohar Atkins's first collection "Nineveh" takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'hara. His poems offer humor and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigma...
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£9,99
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Raven / Le Corbeau
ISBN: PB: 9780999652282, DAP, Lucia - Marquand, May 2019
20 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) claimed to have learned English in order to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of "...
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£53,00
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Prophecy Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107277, Carcanet, April 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following his acclaimed "Pandemonium", Thomas McCarthy's "Prophecy" dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods a...
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£9,99
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Girl 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107239, Carcanet, April 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Girl", Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. "Girl" picks up where Goss's...
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£9,99
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Ransom Street
ISBN: PB: 9781940939902, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Ransom Street" is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for t...
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£13,00
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