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Homunculus
ISBN: PB: 9781784109912, Carcanet, August 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This third collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack is a long poem remaking the "Elegies" of the "last Roman poet" Maximianus, boldly exploring sex and old age.
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£10,99
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As Best We Can
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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£10,99
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Red Gloves
ISBN: PB: 9781784109554, Carcanet, June 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.
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£10,99
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Sweet Nothings
ISBN: PB: 9781784109394, Carcanet, May 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.
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£10,99
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Squid Squad A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781784109356, Carcanet, April 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Squid Squad", award-winning poet Matthew Welton takes his first foray into fiction in verse form.
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£10,99
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Walt Whitman Speaks His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
ISBN: PB: 9781784108946, Carcanet, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, Carcanet publishesa distillation from Horace Traubel's conversations with the great American poet. Whitman speaks from the heart, an old man whochanged the course of American poetry and, by extension,...
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£14,99
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Complete Poems Volume II: 1939-1962
ISBN: PB: 9781784108441, Carcanet, June 2019
576 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After 1939, William Carlos Williams had embarked on the great original experiment that led to his magnificent, faulted master-work "Paterson", and the work in the second volume of "The Complete Poems" provides a luminous record of his developing stra...
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£25,00
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My Reef My Manifest Array
ISBN: PB: 9781784106911, Carcanet, January 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for th...
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£12,99
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Complete Poems Volume I: 1909-1939
ISBN: PB: 9781784106713, Carcanet, September 2018
600 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Described by Thom Gunn as "an ideal edition", this first volume of William Carlos Williams' "Collected Poems" is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite...
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£25,00
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Rondo
ISBN: PB: 9781784106430, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in "Rondo" a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to "troubling the stubborn world for meaning".
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£9,99
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