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Brotherton Prize Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784109233, Carcanet, March 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An anthology to celebrate the winner, shortlisted poets and other contributors to the first Brotherton Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre.
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£12,99
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Nineveh
ISBN: PB: 9781784107390, Carcanet, May 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Zohar Atkins's first collection "Nineveh" takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'hara. His poems offer humor and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigma...
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£9,99
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Collected Poems, 1990-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781784105259, Carcanet, January 2018
400 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Career-defining collection of the most decorated US poet, timed to mark his 90th birthday. The book contains: "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992), "And the Stars Were Shining" (1994), "Can You Hear, Bird" (1995), "Wakefulness" (1998), "Gi...
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£20,00
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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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£9,99
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Commotion of the Birds
ISBN: PB: 9781784103088, Carcanet, October 2016
128 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The commotion of fifty-five new poems: Ashbery at his most vertiginous, witty, irresistible. And the tenses, unstable, invite the past to move in on the present and future.
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£9,99
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Breezeway
ISBN: PB: 9781784101152, Carcanet, June 2015
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poems in "Breezeway" move lightly between the everyday world, with its pleasures and absurdities, and the worlds of literature and art, with theirs. John Ashbery's poems are haunting, surprising, hilarious, and knowing, the work of an old and alw...
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£9,99
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Collected French Translations Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781847772343, Carcanet, April 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The companion volume to "Collected French Translations: Prose", this book reflects John Ashbery's lifelong engagement with French poetry. From 1955 Ashbery spent almost a decade in France, working as an art critic, and formed a close relationship wit...
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£19,95
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Collected French Translations Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781847772350, Carcanet, April 2014
362 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
John Ashbery is known as America's foremost poet, but his prose writing and his engagement with prose writers – through translations, essays and criticism – have had a profound impact on the cultural landscape of the past half-century. This book, the...
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£19,95
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Quick Question
ISBN: PB: 9781847772282, Carcanet, January 2013
128 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
In "Quick Question" John Ashbery extends an invitation to readers to accompany him into the extraordinary worlds of the everyday, experienced through the box of tricks that is language. He revels in twist and transformation, the constant mutability o...
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£9,95
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Close to the Next Moment Interviews from a Changing Ireland
ISBN: PB: 9781847770486, Carcanet, September 2010
304 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved into a new era. Her ex...
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£18,95
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