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Poetry

Doctor's Dictionary Writings on Culture and Medicine

Bamforth Iain

ISBN: PB: 9781784100568, Carcanet, August 2015
328 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine – never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medic...

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Poetry

Mexico in My Heart Selected Poems

Barnstone Willis

ISBN: PB: 9781784100148, Carcanet, August 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as "a sup...

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Poetry

Lost Cities Go to Paradise Las Ciudades Perdidas Van al Paraiso

Borinsky Alicia

ISBN: PB: 9780983322078, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, August 2015
150 pp., 22.8x12.7 cm

In "Lost Cities Go to Paradise", poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, sn...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

"A Very Fine Gift" and Other Writings on Theory Essays and Interviews, Volume 1

Barthes Roland

ISBN: HB: 9780857422262, Seagull Books, August 2015
168 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went...

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Literary Criticism

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"Simply a Particular Contemporary": Interviews, 1970-79 Essays and Interviews, Volume 5

Barthes Roland

ISBN: HB: 9780857422408, Seagull Books, August 2015
124 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went...

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"The 'Scandal' of Marxism" and Other Writings on Politics Essays and Interviews, Volume 2

Barthes Roland

ISBN: HB: 9780857422392, Seagull Books, August 2015
112 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went...

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Fiction

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Brothers Grimm

ISBN: HB: 9781435158115, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2015
744 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.

"Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales" collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature: "Little Red Ridin...

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Poetry

Season's Vagrant Light New and Selected Poems

Benning Sheri

ISBN: PB: 9781784101060, Carcanet, July 2015
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This book marks the UK debut of Canadian poet Sheri Benning, featuring new poems alongside work previously published in Canada. Benning's early work draws on her strongly felt connection to her native landscape, rural Saskatchewan. In poems that coup...

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Literary Criticism

Beyond Decadence Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolsky's Prose

Butler Peter

ISBN: PB: 9788024625713, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
300 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter...

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Literary Criticism

Vise and Shadow Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226254333, ISBN: HB: 9780226254166, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three".I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination", he writes in the preface...

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