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Threadbare Coat Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109981, Carcanet, November 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This "Selected Poems" celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.
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Two Tongues
ISBN: PB: 9781800170001, Carcanet, October 2020
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's "Two Tongues", a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicio...
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Tenderfoot
ISBN: PB: 9781784109714, Carcanet, July 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From one of the editors of Carcanet's anthology of "Ethiopian Amharic Poetry" ("Songs We Learn from Trees", 2020), comes a collections about growing up in a hungry country and wondering how to be happy.
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The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: PB: 9781784108694, Carcanet, November 2019
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the c...
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Tripping Over Clouds
ISBN: PB: 9781784107437, Carcanet, June 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Tripping Over Clouds" issues a bold challenge to Ezra Pound's maxim to 'go in fear of abstractions'. Underpinning this is a re-imagining of abstraction as a prior state of possibility from which the world and ourselves are constantly re-emerging – a...
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Thousandfold
ISBN: PB: 9781784106393, Carcanet, January 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Nina Bogin's Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments – the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends....
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Third Mandarin
ISBN: PB: 9781784104009, Carcanet, August 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.
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Translations from Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781784106065, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.
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Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
ISBN: PB: 9781784103804, Carcanet, July 2017
84 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following her 2013 debut "This is Yarrow" (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, "The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx". The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monol...
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Trinity Poets
ISBN: PB: 9781784103569, Carcanet, April 2017
380 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Over six centuries, Trinity College, Cambridge, has spawned more poets than any other institution. Here are Herbert, Byron, Tennyson, Housman et al : an unparalleled singing school.
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