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Prose Occasions 1951-2006
ISBN: PB: 9781847770080, Carcanet, February 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Prose Occasions" gathers over half a century's critical writing by the poet Thomas Kinsella. It makes available for the first time in a single volume key works including "The Divided Mind", his influential discussion of Anglo-Irish poetry, writings...
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£18,95
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Arioflotga
ISBN: PB: 9781857549331, Carcanet, October 2008
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Surely none of us can have been left quite unaffected by the recent startling and unfortunate disaster of the disappearance of the "Great Poetic Anthology" into the electronic cracks between the major academic institutions which were preparing it – s...
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£9,95
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Poems Song and the Orchard
ISBN: PB: 9781857549799, Carcanet, February 2008
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Brigit Pegeen Kelly creates a magical landscape of sound-patterns, myths and surreal encounters, celebrating the mystery and surprise of creation. She is one of the best-loved poets writing in the United States today, a finalist for the Pulitzer Priz...
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Jungle Book
ISBN: HB: 9781402743405, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2007
352 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Children will delight in this unabridged version of Rudyard Kipling's classics, Jungle Books One and Two! Not only does this attractive volume feature the beloved tales of Mowgli, the "man cub" raised by wolves, and Rikki Tikki Tavi, but also the les...
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£8,99
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Meanest Flower
ISBN: PB: 9781857548686, Carcanet, July 2007
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Wordsworth's "meanest flower that blows" suggested to him "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears". The lyrics, elegies, songs and ghazals in Mimi Khalvati's new book pay attention to things the imagination generally disregards, an attention t...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857549034, Carcanet, June 2007
196 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricis...
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Other Routes 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
ISBN: PB: 9781904955122, Signal Books, January 2006
432 pp., 19.6x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The collection includes pilgrimage accounts, which describe a 'national' circuit (as in Lady Nijo's, c. 1280, or Sei Shonagon's, c. 990, accounts) or move across vast regions to places of learning and pilgrimage or to a particu...
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£14,99
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In My Father's House
ISBN: PB: 9781857547665, Carcanet, September 2005
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From a quick-tempered singing grandmother to a performance of The Mikado in an African village: David Kinloch's exploration of his relationship with his father is both unexpected and affectionate. An extended sequence of poems moves from personal mem...
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Strange Land
ISBN: PB: 9781903039731, Carcanet, January 2005
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Like King David's, the muse of Strange Land, Tim Kendall's voice is angry and loving, plaintive, disdainful, celebratory. This is a twenty-first-century psalter. A first collection with conviction and authority, Strange Land gathers poems of love and...
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£6,95
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God's Breakfast
ISBN: PB: 9781857547443, Carcanet, August 2004
240 pp., 22x13.5 cm
Frank Kuppner's seventh Carcanet collection, consisting of three books in one, asks the big questions: What is reality a commentary on? Why does non-existence have such a huge opinion of itself? Why don't the eternal silences of space shut up and giv...
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