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Barbarians Arrive Today Poems & Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109943, Carcanet, September 2020
352 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
With "The Barbarians Arrive Today", Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering uniqu...
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£19,99
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Captain's Verses
ISBN: PB: 9781784109240, Carcanet, September 2020
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Pablo Neruda wrote the poems in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia – a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino. Originally published anonymously in 1952 to spare his...
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£14,99
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Runaway
ISBN: PB: 9781784109950, Carcanet, September 2020
96 pp., 23.5x18.7 cm
A new collection of poetry from one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Ide...
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£12,99
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Birdsong on Mars
ISBN: PB: 9781784109752, Carcanet, August 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The fifth Carcanet collection from the man behind Stand magazine and Northern House books explores displacement and growing older.
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£11,99
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FURY
ISBN: PB: 9781784109905, Carcanet, August 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular "Writing Challenges" literature podcast, this is Morley's most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked,...
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£10,99
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Growlery
ISBN: PB: 9781784109899, Carcanet, August 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's "New Poetries VII", Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.
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£10,99
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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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Long Beds
ISBN: PB: 9781784109677, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.
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£10,99
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Tenderfoot
ISBN: PB: 9781784109714, Carcanet, July 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From one of the editors of Carcanet's anthology of "Ethiopian Amharic Poetry" ("Songs We Learn from Trees", 2020), comes a collections about growing up in a hungry country and wondering how to be happy.
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