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Marksman
ISBN: PB: 9780887486593, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations...
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£13,00
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Moving House
ISBN: PB: 9781784109639, Carcanet, June 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This highly anticipated new collection from a prize-winning Chinese Singaporean writer probes the place of history in our contemporary, border-crossing lives and communities.
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£10,99
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My Second Work
ISBN: PB: 9780887486548, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"The soul remembers all of this. How I swept the floor / with my golden hair. How I fed it watermelon and wine / from a porcelain dish. How I called it teacher and it called me teacher's pet". Metaphysical in concern and hypermodern in tone, Bridget...
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£13,00
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Mask for Janus
ISBN: PB: 9780300246384, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm
While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, l...
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£14,99
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Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9780887486449, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm
At the funeral the priest said, our sister enters the gates of paradise in a company of angels. Mom, were you waiting? I have no mother, your mother's gone, and the you that lives on, me, I must learn she is enough. From this room I see snow. Snow. T...
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£13,00
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Mistress
ISBN: PB: 9781936970629, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm
This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in whic...
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£12,00
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Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir
ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...
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£15,00
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Map Towards Fluency
ISBN: PB: 9781784108403, Carcanet, June 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of...
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£9,99
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My Reef My Manifest Array
ISBN: PB: 9781784106911, Carcanet, January 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for th...
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£12,99
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Monk's Eye
ISBN: HB: 9780857425478, Seagull Books, October 2018
63 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up "Monk's Eye" on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems – which can be read in...
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£12,99
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