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B After Dante
ISBN: PB: 9781784109592, Carcanet, March 2021
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After seven centuries, the "Divine Comedy" reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut "Unearthly Toys", Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
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£16,99
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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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Welfare Handbook
ISBN: PB: 9781784108984, Carcanet, July 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of "Joy" (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem) deals with the women's experience of emigration, displacement and changed identity.
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£11,99
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Pearl
ISBN: PB: 9781784106591, Carcanet, September 2018
64 pp., 24.2x16.9 cm
Receiving a call from the State Department that her daughter Pearl has been protesting global violence by chaining herself to a flagpole at the American embassy in Dublin and refusing to eat, liberal New Yorker and single mother Maria Meyers heads to...
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£9,99
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Translations from Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781784106065, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.
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£12,99
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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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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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Love in Another Language Collected Poems and Selected Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781784105075, Carcanet, November 2017
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An abundant, moving collection by the leading formal poet and Persian translator of our time. Including poems from eight previous collections, new poems, and excerpts of Davis verse translation from medieval Persian poetry (some over 700 years old).
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£20,00
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Joy
ISBN: PB: 9781784105037, Carcanet, November 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Dugdale's fourth collection displays an increasingly urgent approach to historical and current geopolitics . It combines an open interest in the historical fate of women, particularly women-creators, and an interest in the fictional and dangerous sha...
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£9,99
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Stack
ISBN: PB: 9781784104863, Carcanet, July 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following in the footsteps of minimalist poets such as Aram Saroyan, James Davies finds new ways of making poetry. "Stack", a form of "list poem", offers a range of surprising interventions and modular combinations that reinvent poetry.
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£9,99
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