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Language of Jazz
ISBN: PB: 9781857541649, Carcanet, November 1997
220 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"I invented jazz in 1902", said Jelly Roll Morton. He was in the right place at the right time – New Orleans at the turn of the century – so in a sense his claim is as good as anyone else's; but jazz actually evolved from a complex variety of sources...
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£9,95
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Language of the Field
ISBN: PB: 9781857541663, Carcanet, November 1997
220 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"The Language of the Field" is an extensive, witty and authoritative dictionary. It provides etymology, definition and examples of words associated with the fauna (chased and chasers), the country lore and the implements of Field Sports – words which...
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£12,95
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Portugal A Companion History
ISBN: PB: 9781857542110, Carcanet, November 1997
240 pp., 19.6x13.1 cm
Professor Saraiva's multi-volume "History of Portugal" is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a c...
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£14,95
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Fading Contact
ISBN: PB: 9780856462818, Carcanet, November 1997
96 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm
Fading Contact is a middle-period masterwork by the great Serbo-Croat poet who died suddenly at the height of his powers in July 1996. It marks the watershed between the blazing, vivid imagery of his youthful poetry and the measured, complex verse of...
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£7,95
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857543353, Carcanet, November 1997
220 pp., 22.2x13.5 cm
The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, "The Sundial", in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for h...
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£14,99
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Complete Poems, Volume II
ISBN: HB: 9781857542615, Carcanet, October 1997
352 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
In this second volume of the "Complete Poems" all of Robert Graves's work from 1927 to 1942 – the Laura Riding Period, as series editor Patrick Quinn describes it in the "Centenary Selected Poems" – is included. "The Cool Web", "Flying Crooked", "Dow...
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£40,00
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Poets on Poets
ISBN: PB: 9781857543391, Carcanet, October 1997
420 pp., 25x18 cm
To mark National Poetry Day 1997, Nick Rennison, who compiled the "Waterstone's Guide to Poetry", and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late f...
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£9,95
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Late
ISBN: PB: 9780856462948, Carcanet, October 1997
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Late" is both an elegy for and a celebration of life in our century as we approach the end of the millennium. In the spirit and style of Michael Hamburger's much-admired sequences "Variations", "Travelling" and "In Suffolk", it is a narrative medita...
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£7,95
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Raucle Tongue, Volume 2 Hitherto Uncollected Prose
ISBN: HB: 9781857542714, Carcanet, October 1997
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
Quarried from newspapers and journals, in which Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M.Grieve) wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, this collection – the second – reflects his enduring interests and eclectic range of concerns. On the centenary of his birth in 1992,...
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£35,00
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Reed Music
ISBN: PB: 9780856462795, Carcanet, October 1997
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Reed Music" is Peter Levi's first collection of completely new work since "Shadow and Bone" (1989). In these exhilarating poems he combines a watercolourist's gift for the spontaneous evocation of a scene with a very different gift for formal elegy....
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