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Spill

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226570419, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil... It ruins everything you have ever saved". "Spill" is a...

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Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Poetry

Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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Poetry

Smoothie

Toutoungi Claudine

ISBN: PB: 9781784104122, Carcanet, September 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Smoothie" is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes – often enough to fend off desp...

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Poetry

Sarajevo Roses Poems

Waterman Rory

ISBN: PB: 9781784104085, Carcanet, September 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Sarajevo Roses" is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move . On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to...

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Poetry

The Swiss List

Second Seedtime Notebooks, 1980-94

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857424341, Seagull Books, August 2017
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of...

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Poetry

Stack

Davies James

ISBN: PB: 9781784104863, Carcanet, July 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Following in the footsteps of minimalist poets such as Aram Saroyan, James Davies finds new ways of making poetry. "Stack", a form of "list poem", offers a range of surprising interventions and modular combinations that reinvent poetry.

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Seasonal Disturbances

McCarthy Woolf Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781784103361, Carcanet, June 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut "An Aviary of Small Birds" ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence,...

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Poetry

Set Thy Love in Order

Romer Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781784103767, Carcanet, June 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems" gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento:...

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Poetry

The German List

Skeleton Plays Violin Book Three of Our Trakl

Trakl Georg

ISBN: HB: 9780857424297, Seagull Books, June 2017
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that whil...

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