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Exactly My Own Length
ISBN: PB: 9781906188047, Carcanet, November 2011
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Olivia McCannon's first collection explores life on the edge of possibility: in one moment the familiar is blown open, we plunge into the unknown. A chance meeting seals a lifetime; a girl leaps from a window, away from safety – "she wanted to see wh...
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Child New and Selected Poems 1991-2011
ISBN: PB: 9781847770943, Carcanet, November 2011
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011" combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work autobiographically, telling the stories of her life in four section...
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£12,95
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Hands
ISBN: PB: 9781847771421, Carcanet, November 2011
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In Moya Cannon's new collection, "Hands", the commonplace is transfigured by an attentiveness that jolts us into wonder. The poems sing of deep connections: the impulse to ritual and pattern that, across centuries, defines us as human; a web of inte...
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Petrarch Songs and Sonnets
ISBN: PB: 9780856464386, Carcanet, October 2011
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Petrarch deserves to be valued as a real man, a careful thinker, a good poet", writes Nicholas Kilmer introducing his enlarged selection of the great Italian poet who lived from 1304 to 1374. Free in form yet holding close to the central impulses of...
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Exchanging Hats
ISBN: PB: 9781847771605, Carcanet, October 2011
128 pp., 25x22 cm
Elizabeth Bishop was a painter throughout her life, although few were aware of her originality as an artist. It was not until 1993 that her forty surviving paintings were tracked down, identified and exhibited by the poet and art critic William Bento...
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New Poetries V An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781847771315, Carcanet, October 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird, Stephen Burt, Sophie Hannah, Emma Jones, Nicole Kra...
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Selected Poems and Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781847771209, Carcanet, October 2011
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedic...
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It Was Just, Yesterday
ISBN: PB: 9781905583379, Carcanet, September 2011
152 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
The characters in Mirja Unge's debut collection are all, in their own way, evading something; whether failing to confront the true nature of an encounter, or avoiding responsibilities as a parent, sibling or friend. Abuse, betrayal and neglect lurk b...
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Sound Houses
ISBN: PB: 9781847771124, Carcanet, September 2011
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Will Eaves' first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience – of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness – provides his them...
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Last Tram
ISBN: PB: 9781905583355, Carcanet, September 2011
184 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
"What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning..." For Nedim Gursel, the state of exile isn't a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which he, and countless...
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