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under the aegis of a winged mind
ISBN: PB: 9781938769580, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police...
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£14,00
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Under the Aleppo Sun
ISBN: HB: 9780857425485, Seagull Books, October 2018
64 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city of Aleppo, which has been subject to almost incomparable devastation and deprivation. Aleppo is Alice...
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£12,99
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Unearthly Toys
ISBN: PB: 9781784105389, Carcanet, February 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This David Lynch-esque debut from Ned Denny taps into the ethereal, transcendental and the "second psychedelic revolution".
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£12,99
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Unlikely Designs
ISBN: PB: 9780226472379, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, "Unlikely Designs" draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charle...
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£13,50
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Ursa Major
ISBN: HB: 9780857423740, Seagull Books, November 2016
72 pp., 19.7x14 cm
Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations – over...
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Upriver
ISBN: PB: 9781602232020, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
60 pp., 23x15 cm
There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those...
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£11,50
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Update Poems 2011-2012
ISBN: PB: 9780856464591, Carcanet, October 2014
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
After the completion of "Dear Life", his highly praised ninth collection of poems, Dennis O'Driscoll kept his finished poems in a computer file called "Newest Poems", subtitled "Since completion of Dear Life" and "April 2011-". This book reproduces i...
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£9,95
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Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226660622, ISBN: HB: 9780226660615, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 44 halftones
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information – a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a...
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£39,00
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Unlock
ISBN: PB: 9780856463365, Carcanet, March 2006
128 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The sixth collection by China's foremost contemporary poet, Bei Dao, was greeted as perhaps his finest on its publication in America. The 49 poems were written in the USA, and have been translated into English by Eliot Weinberger (the distinguished e...
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£8,95
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Under the Breath
ISBN: PB: 9780856463471, Carcanet, September 2002
80 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Peter Dale's first full collection in over ten years brings together lyrical poems and monologues in which bleakness and tenderness alternate, conflict and finally coexist. The bitter-sweet shifts of memory are evoked throughout with an understated t...
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