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Poetry

Apocalypse An Anthology

Keery James

ISBN: PB: 9781784108182, Carcanet, March 2021
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...

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Literary Criticism

Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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The German List

All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey

Schwarzenbach Annemarie

ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...

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Fiction

Jewish Studies

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer

Kluge Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780857427823, Seagull Books, December 2020
120 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm

Alexander Kluge's work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective – "calibrated" – against...

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Poetry

Arrow

Chakraborty Sumita

ISBN: PB: 9781784109929, Carcanet, September 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Arrow" is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is "Dear, beloved", a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: "it was m...

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Poetry

As Best We Can

Wainwright Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9781784109882, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The latest collection from the author of "Poetry the Basics" (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.

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Poetry

Artaud the Momo and Other Major Poetry

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802351, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
160 pp., 18.4x12 cm

"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...

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Poetry

Angular Desire Selected Poems and Prose

Rayaprol Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9781784109257, Carcanet, March 2020
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.

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Poetry

Against Heidegger

Rivera L. M.

ISBN: PB: 9781632430793, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as L. M. Rivera shows, an addiction. "Against Heidegger" is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion...

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Poetry

Air Year

Bird Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781784109028, Carcanet, February 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.

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