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Double-Tracking Studies in Duplicity
ISBN: PB: 9780995705227, Carcanet, October 2019
120 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe lo...
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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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Discipline 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107079, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Discipline", her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as p...
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Dictator
ISBN: PB: 9781784106188, Carcanet, October 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Dictator" recreates "Gilgamesh" using the 1500 word vocabulary of Globish (from the words "global" and "English") put together by Jean-Paul Nerriere. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to r...
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Desolate Market
ISBN: PB: 9781784105129, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
A fourth collection by a Cheshire-born, Yorkshire resident poet who combines poetic skill, deep thought and feeling in poetry that grows out of his social work and his sense of a self-impoverishing world.
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Dear Pilgrims
ISBN: PB: 9781784105860, Carcanet, June 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
John F. Deane's poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are...
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Diary of the Last Man
ISBN: PB: 9781784103484, Carcanet, April 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The opening poem sequence, "Diary of the Last Man", sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its errat...
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Dirt
ISBN: PB: 9781784102005, Carcanet, August 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.
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Dog Star Notations Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784101848, Carcanet, March 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
H?kan Sandell's "Dog Star Notations" is the first selection available in English from one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. Since abandoning a university education decades ago, Sandell has resolutely gone his own way, drawing on any tradition th...
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Doctor's Dictionary Writings on Culture and Medicine
ISBN: PB: 9781784100568, Carcanet, August 2015
328 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine – never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medic...
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