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"Long Weekend" and "Reader over Your Shoulder"
ISBN: HB: 9781857546644, Carcanet, December 2006
848 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From the perspective of the early 1940s, Robert Graves and his co-author of "The Long Weekend", the journalist and historian Alan Hodge surveyed the darkening interwar years from 1918 to 1939 with wit, insight and a passionate curiosity about the idi...
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£45,00
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"Purity of Diction in English Verse" and "Articulate Energy"
ISBN: PB: 9781857548891, Carcanet, December 2006
384 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for "The Movement" and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers and teachers of poetry. They have also proven of valu...
PB:
£18,99
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Shepherd's Calendar
ISBN: PB: 9781857548914, Carcanet, November 2006
272 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For the first time in nearly 180 years, this is a book that presents, side by side, two major versions of one of John Clare's most celebrated poems, "The Shepherd's Calendar". The final manuscripts of the poem that Clare composed are placed against t...
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£18,95
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Averno
ISBN: PB: 9781857548372, Carcanet, November 2006
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gluck's new collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter it is both passageway between worlds...
PB:
£9,95
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Odes
ISBN: PB: 9781857548518, Carcanet, November 2006
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Horace (65-8 BC) is the most beguiling of the great Latin poets. He has left an ineradicable mark on Western literature: Dante placed him alongside Homer and Virgil, and his works have been translated and re-imagined since the Renaissance. Len Krisak...
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£14,95
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Out of my Borrowed Books Poems by Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind and Amy Levy
ISBN: PB: 9781857548549, Carcanet, November 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This anthology brings together for the first time a substantial selection of poems by Augusta Webster (1837-1894), Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), three poets whose writing both reflected and helped to shape a time when women wer...
PB:
£12,95
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Last Place on Earth
ISBN: PB: 9781857548853, Carcanet, October 2006
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Last Place on Earth" is a warm, witty celebration of the textures of a life. The vanishing world of a working-class childhood is evoked alongside football in the park and the purposeful calm of ironing; family parties and born-again bikers, joke...
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£8,95
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments
ISBN: PB: 9781857549010, Carcanet, October 2006
416 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form but many embodied in extensive drafts. "Ed...
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£16,95
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Essays on Departure New and Selected Poems 1980-2005
ISBN: PB: 9781903039786, Carcanet, October 2006
188 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Essays on Departure" is a gathering of 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English, work from eight books, including a generous excerpt from the electrically erotic verse novel "Love, Death and the Changing of th...
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£12,95
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Nameless Earth
ISBN: PB: 9781857548389, Carcanet, October 2006
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Believing, as Ezra Pound did, that real emotion is all that endures, Robert Gray has avoided "magic realism", whismy, irony and mannered tone in his poetry. Instead, his style is classically direct, clear and concrete, demonstrating an Augustan prefe...
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£9,95
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