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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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£12,99
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Venus as a Bear
ISBN: PB: 9781784105549, Carcanet, April 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...
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Vladimir Mayakovsky And Other Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784102920, Carcanet, October 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Womack gives us an essential Mayakovsky: "A Cloud In Trousers", "I Love", a film scenario, a play, agit-prop, love poetry, public and private verse. The great poet of the Soviet era remains a great enigma.
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£14,99
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Visible Voices Translating Verse into Script and Print 3000 BC - AD 2000
ISBN: PB: 9781847772121, Carcanet, February 2016
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Visible Voices" Nicolas Barker traces the history of the "translation" of poetry from a spoken medium to a written, or printed, medium. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancient Near East through the development of alphabetic scripts, the...
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Valparaiso
ISBN: PB: 9781847771353, Carcanet, May 2012
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 2007 Mary O'Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship the Celtic Explorer. It took her far out into the Atlantic, and it returned her to a self and a country made strange. "Valparaiso", a collection begun at sea, is a book of searches...
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£9,95
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Vasko Popa Complete Poems 1953-1987
ISBN: PB: 9780856464348, ISBN: HB: 9780856464331, Carcanet, August 2011
488 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of...
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Village Life
ISBN: PB: 9781847770592, Carcanet, May 2010
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From a fountain where "all the roads in the village unite", concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain – the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological tim...
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£9,95
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Verse and C.
ISBN: PB: 9780856463327, Carcanet, May 2001
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Verse &c" collects a substantial body of Oliver Bernard's poetry written since the early 1980s and the publication of "Poems" (1983). His versions of French poets – Rimbaud, Apollinaire – are widely known and praised, but his original work has recen...
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£9,95
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Viriditas
ISBN: PB: 9780856463310, Carcanet, May 2001
72 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Peter Levi's final collection contains the moving lyrics he composed, often while walking round the green in the Gloucestershire village where he lived, as well as other poems written since "Reed Music" (1997). Despite his increasing blindness, his p...
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£7,95
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Vita Nova
ISBN: PB: 9781857544176, Carcanet, May 2000
64 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Since Ararat in 1990, Louise Gluck has been exploring a form of her own invention, the book-length sequence which combines worldly dramas and ecstatic utterance, a literal world and the worlds of legend and myth that impart meaning or irony to our wa...
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