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Intersections Shorter Poems 1994-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780856463211, Carcanet, November 2000
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Michael Hamburger's new collection gathers his shorter poems written since his "Collected Poems 1941-1994" of 1995. His strong and sinuous poems are alert to the intersections of past and present, of continuity and change. His searching form of natur...
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Nevermore
ISBN: PB: 9781903039021, Carcanet, November 2000
264 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history (as in the group of bird poems entitled "Plato's Aviary"), for the naive curiosity and lu...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463242, Carcanet, November 2000
128 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm
Anthony Howell's choice from his five previous books displays a poet of great variety and accomplishment. From playful short poems to extended narratives, whether in free verse or traditional forms, his skill enlivens his subjects and offers surprise...
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What? Again? Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857544992, Carcanet, November 2000
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The bewildering range of the Scottish writer Frank Kuppner's work, as evidenced in the ten books he published in the last century, is such that many people did not know where to start. Here, for them, is the obvious place to do so, at least where his...
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Creation of the World Days One and Two
ISBN: PB: 9781857543872, Carcanet, October 2000
64 pp., 21.8x13.6 cm
"The Creation of the World" is the autobiography of one of Portugal's most celebrated modern writers, Miguel Torga. Six days comprise "The Creation", published in English in its entirety for the first time. We begin with Torga's childhood in the wi...
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Letters of Keith Douglas
ISBN: PB: 9781857544770, Carcanet, October 2000
386 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Keith Douglas (1920-1944) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the poets of the First World War, his art was tried,...
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Eca's English Letters
ISBN: PB: 9781857545005, Carcanet, October 2000
128 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm
Solemn, grand, vulnerable – and a little absurd: England in the 1880s. The gentry endures tedious country-bound winter weeks (fashion forbids them from showing their faces in London). Lord Beaconsfield is mourned, and a national legend buried. "The T...
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Guinea Woman New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857544862, Carcanet, October 2000
134 pp., 21.6x13 cm
The poetry of Lorna Goodison, Derek Walcott says, "is a rooted, organic delight, true in its intonations to the Jamaican language she loves, fresh in its wit and pain and in the high, spiritual gossip of its leaves". The poet is endowed with all th...
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Your Name Here
ISBN: PB: 9781857545203, Carcanet, October 2000
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Everyone wants to subscribe to a deed of heroism, especially if the risks are largely imaginary. The headline announcing a daring deed; in the tourist shop a poster promising a spectacular, sun-drenched corrida, and there is a space between the legen...
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Swarm
ISBN: PB: 9781857544954, Carcanet, September 2000
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Swarm", Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros, and law. The poet confronts a fundamental problem: whom to address, whom there still is to address. She negotiates passionately with...
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