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Reynard the Fox
ISBN: PB: 9781857549133, Carcanet, December 2008
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Reynard the Fox" is one of the great poems of the English countryside and rural life. The headlong dash of John Masefield's narrative carries the reader on an exhilarating chase through the meadows and copses of the landscape the poet loved, pursued...
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£12,95
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Popeye in Belgrade
ISBN: PB: 9781857549690, Carcanet, November 2008
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
James Sutherland-Smith has lived and worked in Serbia and Montenegro through the difficult transitions. Old states fragmented and a new Balkan political landscape emerged. He writes, not as an observer, but from within cultures rebuilding after polit...
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£9,95
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Ticks and Crosses Personal Terms 4
ISBN: PB: 9781857549300, Carcanet, November 2008
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The fourth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, "Ticks and Crosses" covers the years 1976 to 1978 with the sharp wit and provocative intelligence that made the earlier books an acclaimed success. Raphael observes the inner workings of film studios...
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£18,95
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Searched For Text
ISBN: PB: 9781847770547, Carcanet, November 2008
32 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Searched for Text" is a first chapbook collection of poems by a poet alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. His elegies, poems of love and...
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£7,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464133, Carcanet, November 2008
144 pp., 19.7x13 cm
This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems from his later books. Vianello's exceptional lyric gif...
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£9,95
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857548259, Carcanet, November 2008
304 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Austin Clarke's first book of poetry was published in 1917, his last in 1971. In a writing life spanning much of the twentieth century, Clarke created from his early, Yeatsian immersion in Gaelic myth and literature a poetry of passionate, idiosyncra...
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£30,00
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Continuum
ISBN: PB: 9780856464089, Carcanet, October 2008
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Continuum follows the path taken in "Take My Word for It", with poems written in her original English. As in her translated Romanian poems, Nina Cassian is a born lyric story-teller. Many of her poems take the form of short fables or even parables, f...
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£8,95
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Little Book of Hours
ISBN: PB: 9781857549706, Carcanet, October 2008
104 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Little Book of Hours" takes as its starting points John Donne's "No man is an island" and St Paul's letter to the Corinthians: "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is...
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£9,95
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Maltese Dreambook
ISBN: PB: 9780856464096, Carcanet, October 2008
80 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
With Jerusalem as its epicentre, "The Maltese Dreambook" extends Gabriel Levin's quarter-century-long ramble through the Levant, his adopted homeland. On a Greek island, in the desert wastes of southern Jordan and in Malta, whose Stone Age temples se...
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£8,95
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Arioflotga
ISBN: PB: 9781857549331, Carcanet, October 2008
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Surely none of us can have been left quite unaffected by the recent startling and unfortunate disaster of the disappearance of the "Great Poetic Anthology" into the electronic cracks between the major academic institutions which were preparing it – s...
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£9,95
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