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Apocalypse An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784108182, Carcanet, March 2021
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...
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£19,99
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Arrow
ISBN: PB: 9781784109929, Carcanet, September 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Arrow" is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is "Dear, beloved", a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: "it was m...
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£10,99
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As Best We Can
ISBN: PB: 9781784109882, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The latest collection from the author of "Poetry the Basics" (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.
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£10,99
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Angular Desire Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109257, Carcanet, March 2020
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.
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£16,99
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Air Year
ISBN: PB: 9781784109028, Carcanet, February 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.
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£9,99
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Art of Escape
ISBN: PB: 9781784108823, Carcanet, January 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Among Mina Gorji's poems in "New Poetries V" (2011) was one about Houdini entitled "The Art of Escape" which returns here as the titlepoem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of "the...
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£9,99
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Afterwardness
ISBN: PB: 9781784107994, Carcanet, October 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A book of "oriental sonnets" exploring the long-term effects of early childhood displacement and loss by multi-prize-winning poet Mimi Khalvati.
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£9,99
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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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£9,99
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At the Brasserie Lipp
ISBN: PB: 9781784107031, Carcanet, February 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences 'this in-/fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely alive, spots of time which vivify him and his past. Through memory and...
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£9,99
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Anemos
ISBN: PB: 9781784106300, Carcanet, July 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Christine Marendon grew up in Bavaria with German and Italian as her languages; she is a significant translator as well as a radical eco-poet, keenly aware of social issues. This collection is translated into English by the leading UK translator Ken...
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