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Planisphere
ISBN: PB: 9781847770899, Carcanet, December 2009
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Even after half a century of amazing readers, John Ashbery continues to delight and challenge with his inventiveness. "Planisphere" takes the reader on a dizzying journey in the company of a virtuoso and sorcerer who makes the commonplace magical, di...
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£12,95
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Stone Sleeper
ISBN: PB: 9780856463976, Carcanet, November 2009
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar's rich and haunting poems in "Stone Sleeper", his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the...
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£9,95
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Curriculum Vitae A Volume of Autobiography
ISBN: PB: 9781847771025, Carcanet, November 2009
226 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her f...
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£12,99
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Looking Out, Looking In New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464140, Carcanet, November 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as "a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment", E. A. Markham was a leading light in British Caribbean writing. He was a poet, novelist and short story writer, ess...
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£14,95
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Through the Square Window
ISBN: PB: 9781847770578, Carcanet, November 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its conseque...
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£9,95
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Watering Can
ISBN: PB: 9781847770882, Carcanet, November 2009
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion – "a bit of a Howl for a new generation", wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The p...
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£9,95
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Hundred Thousand Places
ISBN: PB: 9781847770059, Carcanet, November 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To walk through a landscape is to be part of a slow unfolding of time and distance, to commit yourself to an adventure. "The Hundred Thousand Places" is a single poem that travels across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island land...
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£9,95
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Last Geraldine Officer
ISBN: PB: 9780856464218, Carcanet, October 2009
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ("Geraldine") family that has tilled the...
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£10,95
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Rays
ISBN: PB: 9781847770103, Carcanet, October 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Teasing, funny and celebratory – "Rays" is a wry and tender lover's gift. Continuing Richard Price's virtuosic playfulness of form, it improvises on the formal shape of sonnet and canzone, charging them with the energy of blues and rock, glimpsing na...
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£9,95
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Facing the Public
ISBN: PB: 9780856464126, Carcanet, October 2009
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The opening poems of the Cork-born writer's fourth collection draw on stories from her Irish childhood, tales of the impact of the Black and Tans on her family's locality in the 1920s. The heady brew of Irish politics and religion is close to the sur...
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£7,95
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