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Ever Since I Did Not Die
ISBN: HB: 9780857427908, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857428370, ISBN: HB: 9780857421715, Seagull Books, March 2021
164 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left s...
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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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Cargo Hold of Stars Coolitude
ISBN: HB: 9780857427854, Seagull Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Cargo Hold of Stars" is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transpo...
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857427878, Seagull Books, January 2021
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance....
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Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow Safeguarded Notes, 1952-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780857427915, Seagull Books, December 2020
342 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...
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£21,99
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Infinity Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780857427427, Seagull Books, November 2020
160 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm
This volume of poems by Cyril Wong, one of the leading figures of poetry in Singapore, reflects the many ways in which love between two men can unfold, balancing emotional outpourings with meditations on the nature of relationships. The poetry punctu...
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Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City
ISBN: HB: 9780857427816, Seagull Books, November 2020
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 5 halftones
"Porcelain" is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at...
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I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
ISBN: HB: 9780857427373, Seagull Books, March 2020
80 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
"we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings" Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Pre...
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Present Hour
ISBN: PB: 9780857427533, ISBN: HB: 9780857421630, Seagull Books, February 2020
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixt...
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