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Jebel Marra
ISBN: PB: 9781905583546, Carcanet, December 2014
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors... all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this...
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Silent Highway
ISBN: PB: 9780856464522, Carcanet, November 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The centrepiece of "Silent Highway" is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontas's voyage to the arrival of the "Windrush" br...
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C. H. Sisson Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781847772657, Carcanet, November 2014
528 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
C. H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a generous selection of his poems, translations and essays. The poems are drawn from all periods of Sisson's writing life, from the darkly satirical work of th...
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Carmina
ISBN: PB: 9781847772596, Carcanet, November 2014
144 pp., 22.2x13.5 cm
Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. "Carmina" captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tendernes...
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Aviary of Small Birds
ISBN: PB: 9781906188146, Carcanet, October 2014
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"An Aviary of Small Birds" is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after long labour, the baby's heart gives out. Howeve...
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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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Burnfort, Las Vegas
ISBN: PB: 9780856464577, Carcanet, October 2014
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Martina Evans's fifth collection moves from the impact of American culture and rock'n'roll in the 1960s on her home town, a small Catholic community in rural Ireland, to life in contemporary London. Her poems spring from memories, anecdotes of local...
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Weather Wheel
ISBN: PB: 9781847772589, Carcanet, October 2014
80 pp., 21x13.5 cm
In this, her boldest collection to date, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on which she draws her emblems of human life and love. Restricting herself in each poem to sixteen lines, set in coup...
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Gumiguru
ISBN: PB: 9781847772572, Carcanet, October 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar – a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenhamo's second collection is a cycle of poems distilling the experiences of a decade into one calendar y...
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"Faithful" and "Virtuous Night"
ISBN: PB: 9781847774798, Carcanet, September 2014
80 pp., 21.5x15.3 cm
You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter wi...
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