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Can Dentists Be Trusted?
ISBN: PB: 9780856463761, Carcanet, November 2004
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Martina Evans's third collection of poems begins and ends in the dentist's chair. In between come stories ranging from an Irish childhood to present-day London, featuring voices from the poet's own to those of her family, her cat, and a supporting ca...
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Selected Prose 1953-2003
ISBN: PB: 9781857547573, Carcanet, November 2004
300 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
John Ashbery has been called "the finest poet in English of his generation" ("The Times"). A broad selection of Ashbery's prose writings from 1957 to 2004 is collected here for the first time. Literary reviews and essays, articles on film, and key pi...
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£14,95
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Songs of Imperfection
ISBN: PB: 9780856463662, Carcanet, October 2004
96 pp., 23.4x15.3 cm
Many tensions are at work in the playfully unconstrained poems of Stanley Moss: ordinary and mythical lives, the political and the personal, high art and low comedy intermingle, achieving an effect that is often surreal and always striking. Here God...
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Crossing the Carpathians
ISBN: PB: 9781903039687, Carcanet, October 2004
64 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"Crossing the Carpathians" is a collection of poems about exile, family, and the survival of love. Carmen Bugan was born in Romania, and her book has its origins in her experiences during the 1980s, as a child of political dissidents and as an exile...
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All The Poems Collected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9781857547733, Carcanet, October 2004
400 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Muriel Spark was a poet before she was a novelist: "All the Poems" presents the full range of the poetry of one of the most acclaimed modern British writers. Here are villanelles, ballads and epigrams, as well as freer forms, all marked by brilliantl...
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Drawings
ISBN: PB: 9781857546620, Carcanet, October 2004
144 pp., 22x22 cm
"Tatler editor Geordie Greig's Book of the Year", 2004 Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) died young: preparing a show for New York, she contracted pneumonia and never recovered. Her work, large- and small-scale, is now represented in all the leading British...
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£29,95
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Black Marigolds and Coloured Stars
ISBN: PB: 9780856463723, Carcanet, October 2004
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For many, the versions from Asian and Oriental poetry made by E. Powys Mathers during and shortly after the First World War rank with those of Arthur Waley or Ezra Pound. This volume, pairing his first two books, Coloured Stars and Black Marigolds, a...
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New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463730, Carcanet, October 2004
272 pp., 23.4x15.3 cm
Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary l...
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£14,99
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Canals of Mars
ISBN: PB: 9781857547726, Carcanet, October 2004
240 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"The Canals of Mars" begins with a poem elegising the poet's father and welcoming his newborn son. It concludes with a moment in which everything "is finished and about to happen". Patrick McGuinness's poems in this powerful first collection sharply...
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Amalgamemnon
ISBN: PB: 9781857548150, Carcanet, September 2004
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" (T...
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