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Impossible Loves
ISBN: PB: 9781784108618, Carcanet, October 2019
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, more intensely as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves are another theme. And violence...
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Salvage At Twilight
ISBN: PB: 9781784107918, Carcanet, October 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poet – a man of the world in the widest sense – reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with "Deposition", a harrowing elegy in five parts: the bel...
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Donegal Tarantella
ISBN: PB: 9781784107871, Carcanet, September 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.
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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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Kingdom of Love
ISBN: PB: 9781784108571, Carcanet, September 2019
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Kingdom of Love" is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann.
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Action
ISBN: PB: 9781784107710, Carcanet, August 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. The Action reveals the individual character of each poem and sequence, "written only when the internal pressure demands and the slow pace of craft allows". Carol Ann Duffy observed in T...
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In Her Feminine Sign
ISBN: PB: 9781784108533, Carcanet, August 2019
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
At the heart of "In Her Feminine Sign", Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, "the tied circle" – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into t...
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In Nearby Bushes
ISBN: PB: 9781784108458, Carcanet, August 2019
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet – the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by m...
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So Many Rooms
ISBN: PB: 9781784108496, Carcanet, August 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"So Many Rooms", the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.
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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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