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Life in a Field Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430908, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 1 halftone
This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs b...
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£16,00
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Lucky Wreck Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781938769801, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation,...
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£15,00
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Letters to America
ISBN: PB: 9781800170087, Carcanet, November 2020
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Letters to America" the Guyanese-British poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar has some difficult things to say. The twenty-two poems are full of lived tales and memories – of Britain, the Caribbean and the United States – and of specific a...
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£10,99
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Land's End New and Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780226720739, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
With her latest poetry collection, Gail Mazur once again shows her mastery of the descriptive-meditative narrative, powerfully evoking the past while writing from the firm ground of the present. In Land's End, we see Mazur writing with the kind of ly...
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£19,00
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Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780967885636, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human throug...
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£23,00
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Long Beds
ISBN: PB: 9781784109677, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.
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£10,99
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Little History of Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300232226, Yale University Press, March 2020
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...
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£14,99
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La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living
ISBN: PB: 9781632430786, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imag...
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£15,00
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Locus
ISBN: PB: 9781632430632, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In "Locus", Jason Bayani's poetry explores the experience of identity that haunts Philipinx-Amer...
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£14,00
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Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home
ISBN: PB: 9781602233645, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. /...
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£11,00
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