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Deke Dangle Dive Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880853, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his dome...
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£15,00
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Dream Women Called
ISBN: PB: 9781938769740, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the poems in The Dream Women Called, Lori Wilson attends to the spirits of depression, uncertainty, and fear while wondering at the beauty in what's broken, the remarkable in the ordinary, and the balm that the natural world can offer. Follow...
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£14,00
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Disturbing the Light
ISBN: PB: 9780887486609, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...
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£13,00
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Donegal Tarantella
ISBN: PB: 9781784107871, Carcanet, September 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.
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£9,99
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Devonte Travels the Sorry Route
ISBN: PB: 9781632430670, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route", has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history an...
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£14,00
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Discipline 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107079, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Discipline", her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as p...
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£9,99
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Dictator
ISBN: PB: 9781784106188, Carcanet, October 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Dictator" recreates "Gilgamesh" using the 1500 word vocabulary of Globish (from the words "global" and "English") put together by Jean-Paul Nerriere. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to r...
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£12,99
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Desolate Market
ISBN: PB: 9781784105129, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
A fourth collection by a Cheshire-born, Yorkshire resident poet who combines poetic skill, deep thought and feeling in poetry that grows out of his social work and his sense of a self-impoverishing world.
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£9,99
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Dear Pilgrims
ISBN: PB: 9781784105860, Carcanet, June 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
John F. Deane's poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are...
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£9,99
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Diary of the Last Man
ISBN: PB: 9781784103484, Carcanet, April 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The opening poem sequence, "Diary of the Last Man", sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its errat...
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