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Captain's Verses
ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...
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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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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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Cyprian Kamil Norwid Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464379, Carcanet, August 2011
104 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Cyprian Norwid, born in 1821 near Warsaw, is one of the most innovative and idiosyncratic figures in Polish literature. His unique poetry is now recognized as among Poland's finest. Adam Czerniawski's selection from all phases of the poet's work beau...
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Awater
ISBN: PB: 9780856464072, Carcanet, May 2010
112 pp., 19.6x13 cm
The poetry of Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) was distinguished by clarity of language combined with mystical content. His masterpiece Awater, written in 1934, is the most important Dutch poem of the 20th century. This edition of "Awater" features thre...
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Selected Writings to 1845
ISBN: PB: 9781857545456, Carcanet, April 2002
225 pp., 19.8x12.6 cm
This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the nineteenth century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic...
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Dithyrambs of Dionysus
ISBN: PB: 9780856463273, Carcanet, March 2001
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In its completed form, "Dithyrambs of Dionysus" was Nietzsche's last book. The nine poems of this cycle were composed during 1883-1888 and assembled for publication shortly before his breakdown in 1889. They represent the ultimate visionary poetic st...
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