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Gaudent Angeli
ISBN: PB: 9781784107956, Carcanet, September 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world of the web we experience it in new ways, its predi...
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Fur Coats in Tahiti
ISBN: PB: 9781784107635, Carcanet, July 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group, and the New York school. Jeremy Over mixes collage, doodles, erasures, findings, and mistranslations to create unlikely meeting...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784105112, Carcanet, August 2017
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 an...
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Playing the Octopus
ISBN: PB: 9781784102807, Carcanet, September 2016
84 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"He avoids the pipes. He has his reasons. He has heard the story Of the octopus who was locked into a room For a week to practice. When they let him out the pipes had learned To play the octopus. The thing about musicians is They respond to glory"....
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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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Dear Life
ISBN: PB: 9780856464584, Carcanet, April 2014
120 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Dear Life" was Dennis O'Driscoll's ninth book of poetry. Like his earlier work, it engages with contemporary issues – the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming – as well as providing fresh perspectives on the timeless topics of work...
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Valparaiso
ISBN: PB: 9781847771353, Carcanet, May 2012
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 2007 Mary O'Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship the Celtic Explorer. It took her far out into the Atlantic, and it returned her to a self and a country made strange. "Valparaiso", a collection begun at sea, is a book of searches...
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Baboons of Hada
ISBN: PB: 9781847770660, Carcanet, April 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Baboons of Hada" introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to explore a world of intricat...
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Deceiving Wild Creatures
ISBN: PB: 9781847770042, Carcanet, September 2009
76 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are "found in the field": the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus. Robe...
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Reality Check
ISBN: PB: 9780856464027, Carcanet, September 2007
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Dennis O'Driscoll lends his transformative vision to everyday "bread and butter" routines and the insidious forces that imperil them. From the entertaining mixture of shorter poems which opens his eighth collection, he branches out with "Skywriting",...
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