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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463389, Carcanet, September 2002
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Containing all her published work along with over 70 uncollected poems, this is the definitive edition of a poet with a growing body of admirers. Clive Wilmer spoke of "the ghostly music" of Sally Purcell's poetry and described her first book as "a m...
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£12,95
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Wonderful Things from 400 Years Collecting The Bodleian Library 1602-2002
ISBN: PB: 9781851240777, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2002
172 pp., 27.6x21 cm, 84 colour illus.
Taking its title from Howard Carter's famous description of his first glimpse of the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, this book offers a timeless portrait of highlights representing the range of the Bodleian Library's unique collections. The...
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£29,99
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Survey of Modernist Poetry and a Pamphlet Against Anthologies
ISBN: PB: 9781857545685, Carcanet, August 2002
258 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The books paired here make up the first collaborative study of "Modernist" poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. In "A Survey of Modernist Poetry", Laura Riding and Robert Graves produce a contemporary reaction t...
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£14,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857546156, Carcanet, August 2002
194 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
"Selected Poems" is a comprehensive selection of poetry written over seven decades. His unique style emphasises belief in a unity between inner and outer worlds, between subjective and objective, between the poetry, the philosophy and the private lif...
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£9,95
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Scientific Papers
ISBN: PB: 9781857545678, Carcanet, July 2002
87 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
David Morley declares, "The concept of this text is that each piece of writing is a scientific paper of itself, a series of findings. The practice of writing science and poetry is, for me, a single discussion of perception carried out with the same e...
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£9,95
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Collected Poems and Translations
ISBN: HB: 9781857545814, Carcanet, July 2002
320 pp., 22.5x14 cm
Elaine Feinstein's voice is clear, passionate and subtle. She writes about love, loss, jealousy and the pressures of living as mother and wife, drawing coherent shapes out of her own inner uncertainties, tenderly calling up an ageing father, a child...
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£29,95
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Country of Perhaps
ISBN: PB: 9781857545500, Carcanet, June 2002
94 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Country of Perhaps" is a work in two parts. Part I, a collection of lyric poems, explores the nature and the power of human illusion, and shows how that power is generated not from 'cultural forces' but from the demands of individual choice in t...
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£6,95
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857545647, ISBN: HB: 9781857545807, Carcanet, June 2002
136 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
A nature poet by inclination, Sidney Keyes was drawn to the work of Holderlin and Rilke, taking them – paradoxically – to war against the Germans. They draw out his essentially Wordsworthian temperament; he was also touched by the very different imag...
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£9,95
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£18,95
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Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781584651789, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansio...
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£24,00
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Deaf Way II: Anthology A Literary Collection by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers
ISBN: PB: 9781563681271, Gallaudet University Press, June 2002
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Deaf Way II: Anthology" brings together stellar contributions by 16 international writers who are deaf or hard of hearing. This remarkable collection features poetry, essays, short stories, and one play, all of which offer thought-provoking pers...
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£17,50
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