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Raking Light
ISBN: PB: 9781784103323, Carcanet, February 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Raking Light" is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of "raking light", in whi...
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£9,99
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Wittgenstein and Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226420400, ISBN: HB: 9780226420370, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry", and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary". But few books have really followed up on these claims...
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£79,00
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Echo of Ice Letting Go
ISBN: PB: 9781602233119, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay re...
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£11,50
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Blumenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...
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£18,50
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Dirt
ISBN: PB: 9781784102005, Carcanet, August 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.
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Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435162556, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
608 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.
This anthology includes 23 of H. P. Lovecraft's weirdest tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Colour Out of Space", "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow Out of Time". It also features six collaborative 'revisions' that expand the scope of Lov...
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£30,00
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784100520, Carcanet, June 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Abdellatif Laabi is the most important contemporary Moroccan poet, editor, novelist, translator and public intellectual. From 1972 to 1980 Laabi was imprisoned for his peaceful activism against the repressive regime of Hassan II; he was adopted as an...
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Mutants Selected Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780857423337, Seagull Books, April 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Toby Litt is best known for his "hip-lit" fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In "Mutants", he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book b...
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Spills
ISBN: PB: 9781847772251, Carcanet, February 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In Spills Angela Leighton combines poetry, memoir, libretto, short story, prose-poetry and translation, slipping between genres while hearing the conversations between them. "You start from who you are, and walk and walk", she writes, in the spirit o...
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£12,99
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Luna Park
ISBN: PB: 9781857549874, Carcanet, November 2015
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Drawing on themes of magic, dreams and the nocturnal, Grevel Lindop's new collection of poems ranges in subject from the hidden histories of words to the folklore of yew trees, and in place from a haunted English library to a derelict Australian funf...
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