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Fiction

Biographic: Shakespeare Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781452912, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each...

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Poetry

Raking Light

Langley Eric

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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Poetry

Clinic, Memory

Feinstein Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9781784103200, Carcanet, February 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a section of new poems. The selection ranges from early...

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Poetry

Long Pass

Connolly Joey

ISBN: PB: 9781784103286, Carcanet, February 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

"Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this..." In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet – in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy – keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say...

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Literary Criticism

Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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Literary Criticism

Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Poetry

Peelin Orange Collected Poems

Morris Mervyn

ISBN: PB: 9781784104580, Carcanet, February 2017
272 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. "Peelin Orange" shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence.

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Literary Criticism

Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Wittgenstein and Modernism

LeMahieu Michael, Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

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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Fiction

Echo of Ice Letting Go

LeMay Julie

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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