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In The Event
ISBN: PB: 9781784109936, Carcanet, October 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
John Birtwhistle has said that "one writes each poem just to learn how to write it", and insists that he "doesn't care a dried pea for Artistic Development or Finding One's Own Voice". The result, of course, is that a strongly recognisable voice come...
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Impossible Loves
ISBN: PB: 9781784108618, Carcanet, October 2019
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, more intensely as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves are another theme. And violence...
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In Her Feminine Sign
ISBN: PB: 9781784108533, Carcanet, August 2019
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
At the heart of "In Her Feminine Sign", Dunya Mikhail's luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, "the tied circle" – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into t...
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In Nearby Bushes
ISBN: PB: 9781784108458, Carcanet, August 2019
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet – the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by m...
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Incomprehensible Lesson
ISBN: PB: 9781784104283, Carcanet, January 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Fawzi Karim's poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published "The Plague Lands and Other Poems" (2011), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This new selection, transl...
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Illuminations Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781784106638, Carcanet, September 2018
176 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Arthur Rimbaud's "Illuminations", first published in 1886, changed the language of poetry; in John Ashbery the book has a translator whose virtuosic originality brings Rimbaud's visions to life in English. The "crystalline jumble" of Illuminations, J...
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Ink Trade Selected Journalism 1963-1993
ISBN: PB: 9781784103927, Carcanet, May 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Despite his disingenuous claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, "Urgent Copy" (1968) and "Homage to Qwert Yuiop" (1986); a posthumous collection of occasi...
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Installations for a New Baby
ISBN: PB: 9781784105341, Carcanet, February 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
First full debut from a promising young poet reflects a risky exploration of the unfamiliar and a search for strangeness, spirituality and stories.
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In Darkest Capital Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104900, Carcanet, October 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This" Collected Poems" spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle generation. In "Darkest Capital" engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.
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In Search of Dustie-Fute
ISBN: PB: 9781784103965, Carcanet, August 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: with the waters rising, a lonely giraffe speaks fro...
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