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Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 20 Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings

Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300228281, Yale University Press, February 2019
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The English critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth century. This twentieth and final volume of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson presents the author's occasional writing, inc...

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Poetry

Gallop Selected Poems

Brackenbury Alison

ISBN: PB: 9781784106959, Carcanet, February 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's "Selected Poems" begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behin...

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Poetry

Collected Poems

Kociejowski Marius

ISBN: PB: 9781784106997, Carcanet, February 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to th...

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Babel Adventures in Translation

Duncan Dennis, Harrison Stephen, Kohl Katrin, Reynolds Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781851245093, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
176 pp., 24.4x20.7 cm, 65 colour illus.

This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of tran...

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Poetry

Be-Hooved

Ka Mar

ISBN: PB: 9781602233768, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains".Be-Hooved", her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings – structured along th...

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Other Things

Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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Fiction

Curl

Bobe T. O.

ISBN: PB: 9781939663429, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2019
72 pp., 17.8x10.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica's shop has six mirrors on the walls, si...

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Fiction

Readymade Bodhisattva The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction

Park Sunyoung, Sang Joon Park

ISBN: PB: 9781885030573, DAP, Kaya Press, February 2019
528 pp., 18.4x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction" presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and c...

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Poetry

Incomprehensible Lesson

Karim Fawzi

ISBN: PB: 9781784104283, Carcanet, January 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Fawzi Karim's poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published "The Plague Lands and Other Poems" (2011), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This new selection, transl...

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Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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