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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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£16,00
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Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...
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£20,00
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Great Fall
ISBN: PB: 9780857428417, ISBN: HB: 9780857425348, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind". The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropol...
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£9,99
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£18,99
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Swale
ISBN: PB: 9781936970681, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection is named for a "swale", a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the land...
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£13,00
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Coming To Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780226725123, ISBN: HB: 9780226725093, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea change in the English seventeenth century, when, over the course of a half century, "conscience" made...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Growlery
ISBN: PB: 9781784109899, Carcanet, August 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's "New Poetries VII", Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.
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£10,99
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Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland
ISBN: PB: 9781851245321, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 67 colour illus.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are two of the most famous, translated, and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Ali...
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£15,00
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La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living
ISBN: PB: 9781632430786, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imag...
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£15,00
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Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation
ISBN: PB: 9780226706771, ISBN: HB: 9780226398174, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: t...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Field Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300246339, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm
The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, present sensations, and the impingements of th...
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£14,99
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