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Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784108113, Carcanet, January 2020
356 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminalessayist and thinker. This second and final volume of the "Yves Bonnefoy Reader", contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well asa generous selection of essays from all pe...
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£30,00
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Prophecy Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107277, Carcanet, April 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following his acclaimed "Pandemonium", Thomas McCarthy's "Prophecy" dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods a...
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£9,99
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PN Review Number 243
ISBN: PB: 9781784101541, Carcanet, September 2018
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm
The September-October 2018 issue The last published poems of the late Matthew Sweeney A translation of one of the most famous Ethiopian oral poems John Ash's first published poem in over a decade New poems by Sophie Hannah, Claudine Toutoungi and...
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£6,99
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PN Review Number 242
ISBN: PB: 9781784101534, Carcanet, September 2018
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm
The July-August 2018 issue Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land Vahni Capildeo picks up Ke...
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£6,99
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Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784106515, Carcanet, September 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Sextus Propertius, the late Augustan poet, is best known today from Pound's famous "Homage", less translation than brilliant experiment. Patrick Worsnip's new versions rise out of the Latin and brilliantly recreate the poet's voice, his life and love...
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£12,99
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Pearl
ISBN: PB: 9781784106591, Carcanet, September 2018
64 pp., 24.2x16.9 cm
Receiving a call from the State Department that her daughter Pearl has been protesting global violence by chaining herself to a flagpole at the American embassy in Dublin and refusing to eat, liberal New Yorker and single mother Maria Meyers heads to...
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£9,99
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President of Planet Earth
ISBN: PB: 9781784104207, Carcanet, October 2017
124 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Inspired by the Russian futurist Khlebnikov, Wheatley provides a riveting poetic vision of world culture. This collection imagines futuristic social states from the South American nation of "Oblivia" to post-independence referendum present-day Scotla...
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£12,99
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Peelin Orange Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104580, Carcanet, February 2017
272 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. "Peelin Orange" shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence.
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£14,99
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Poems Without Irony
ISBN: PB: 9781784103040, Carcanet, January 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This first collection is full of experiments with language, form and theme. It asks to be read aloud, it surprises the voice and ear. Simplicity is seduced by extravagance, and vice versa.
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Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784103125, Carcanet, December 2016
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The poems of the author of "Le Grand Meaulnes" ("The Lost Domain") search for the lost Eden of pre-war Europe. His poems appear now in English for the first time.
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