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Emperors
ISBN: PB: 9781784109103, Carcanet, February 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Later Emperors", the second Carcanet collection from Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones, is a catalogue of ambition and failure: historical figures – emperors, historians, moralists – are brought back to life and consider the world in which we live...
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English Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784105747, Carcanet, November 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
I was born in Belgium, I'm Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.' So writes Leonard Nolens in 'Place and Date', which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this sel...
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Errant
ISBN: PB: 9781784106348, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Errant" is Israeli poet Gabriel Levin's sixth collection. It is a book of riddles by an imagination whose fate is that of the wanderer who keeps waking up and watching the dream vanish just before he can quite grasp it.
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Essence of the Brontes A Compilation with Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781847772466, Carcanet, September 2014
328 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Muriel Spark always regarded the Brontes with a novelist's eye. As Boyd Tonkin argues in his lively introduction, written for the new edition, the Brontes inspired Spark at the very beginning of her own career, but not in a straightforward way. Throu...
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Eavan Boland A Poet's Dublin
ISBN: PB: 9781847774477, Carcanet, May 2014
96 pp., 21.6x21.5 cm
Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, pl...
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Empty Air New Poems 2006-2012
ISBN: PB: 9780856464539, Carcanet, September 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Tony Connor's tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic se...
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Eventualities
ISBN: PB: 9780856464515, Carcanet, September 2013
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Like many good poets, John Birtwhistle publishes sparingly. In his first collection for more than twenty years, he produces a dazzling array of poems on a range of historical, political and personal subjects. These lucid, witty, tender poems, by turn...
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Ethiopia Boy
ISBN: PB: 9781906188092, Carcanet, February 2013
64 pp., 21.1x13.2 cm
Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a "barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions... old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz". Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems th...
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Exactly My Own Length
ISBN: PB: 9781906188047, Carcanet, November 2011
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Olivia McCannon's first collection explores life on the edge of possibility: in one moment the familiar is blown open, we plunge into the unknown. A chance meeting seals a lifetime; a girl leaps from a window, away from safety – "she wanted to see wh...
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Exchanging Hats
ISBN: PB: 9781847771605, Carcanet, October 2011
128 pp., 25x22 cm
Elizabeth Bishop was a painter throughout her life, although few were aware of her originality as an artist. It was not until 1993 that her forty surviving paintings were tracked down, identified and exhibited by the poet and art critic William Bento...
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