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Poppies in Translation
ISBN: PB: 9781847770202, Carcanet, March 2015
146 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua – many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal and the allegorical, certainties are undone in an open...
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£9,99
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Fragments and Assemblages Forming Compilations of Medieval London
ISBN: PB: 9780226269405, ISBN: HB: 9780226924915, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones
In "Fragments and Assemblages", Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from...
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£22,00
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Ozone Journal
ISBN: PB: 9780226207032, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
from "Ozone Journal" Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette, we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference between an oboe and a bassoon at the river's edge under cover...
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£13,50
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Rue Traversiere
ISBN: HB: 9780857422279, Seagull Books, March 2015
88 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm
Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime", Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Pr...
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£16,00
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Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian, Notebooks No. 7 EUtROPEs: The Paradox of European Empire
ISBN: PB: 9782952596268, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
463 pp., 20.9x14.7 cm, 32 colour plates
"Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks" publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. In Volume Seven, scholars from across the continent consider Europe as a discourse made of t...
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£20,00
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Openwork Poetry and Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780300197631, Yale University Press, October 2014
328 pp., 21x14 cm
Andre du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume sets out to remedy the oversight, introducing a selection of Du Bouchet's poetry and pros...
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£53,00
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Nightwatches of Bonaventura
ISBN: PB: 9780226141565, ISBN: HB: 9780226141428, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura", "The Nightwatches of Bonaventura" is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named...
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£36,00
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To Forget Venice
ISBN: PB: 9780226181264, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...
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Woman Without a Country
ISBN: PB: 9781847772176, Carcanet, September 2014
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection consider questions of inheritance and identity, of what is handed down and what is lost. Boland's poems are acts of preservation: they are aware of the significance of objects, memories, words, in keeping al...
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Fall in, Ghosts The War Prose of Edmund Blunden
ISBN: PB: 9781847772114, Carcanet, August 2014
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme. His classic prose memoir, "Undertones of War", and his early edition of Wilfred Owen's poems were just...
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