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Unearthly Toys
ISBN: PB: 9781784105389, Carcanet, February 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This David Lynch-esque debut from Ned Denny taps into the ethereal, transcendental and the "second psychedelic revolution".
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£12,99
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Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound Collected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781784102487, Carcanet, March 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Born in 1915 in Cambridge, England, Rupert John Cornford was a committed communist who fought in defence of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War and was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Cordoba in 1936. Though his life was tragically...
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£9,99
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Update Poems 2011-2012
ISBN: PB: 9780856464591, Carcanet, October 2014
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
After the completion of "Dear Life", his highly praised ninth collection of poems, Dennis O'Driscoll kept his finished poems in a computer file called "Newest Poems", subtitled "Since completion of Dear Life" and "April 2011-". This book reproduces i...
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£9,95
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Unlock
ISBN: PB: 9780856463365, Carcanet, March 2006
128 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The sixth collection by China's foremost contemporary poet, Bei Dao, was greeted as perhaps his finest on its publication in America. The 49 poems were written in the USA, and have been translated into English by Eliot Weinberger (the distinguished e...
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£8,95
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Under the Breath
ISBN: PB: 9780856463471, Carcanet, September 2002
80 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Peter Dale's first full collection in over ten years brings together lyrical poems and monologues in which bleakness and tenderness alternate, conflict and finally coexist. The bitter-sweet shifts of memory are evoked throughout with an understated t...
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£7,95
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Un Tour D'Ecosse
ISBN: PB: 9781857545166, Carcanet, July 2001
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Un Tour d'Ecosse" provides a vision of Scotland from the handlebars of the ecologically friendly machine the French call "la petite reine". Here are poems of loss and desire, poems in Scots and English and poetry in English about Scots. There is an...
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£6,95
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Under Storm's Wing
ISBN: PB: 9781857543612, Carcanet, June 1997
320 pp., 21.5x13.6 cm
"Here is a portrait of the poet by his wife which has no equal, not even in Mary Shelley's sketches of her husband" – New Statesman Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the cel...
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£20,00
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