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Circle / Square
ISBN: PB: 9781938769665, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, September 2020
32 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Throughout Circle / Square, T. J. McLemore renders the language of physics and theoretical science into poetry to illuminate the mysterious ways we experience reality. Exploring the complex and at-times dense world of scientific language, MeLemore sp...
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ISBN: PB: 9781784109905, Carcanet, August 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular "Writing Challenges" literature podcast, this is Morley's most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked,...
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Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...
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Long Beds
ISBN: PB: 9781784109677, Carcanet, July 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.
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Centenary Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109967, Carcanet, July 2020
288 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is the third "Selected Poems" by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his death at the age of ninety. All his...
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Gifts of Fortune
ISBN: PB: 9781784109431, Carcanet, May 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This seventh collection from Peter McDonald is a book of poems where fortune itself, which sets the terms for a life, becomes a lyrical music.
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Found Architecture Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109318, Carcanet, April 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.
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Sleep of Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780300248586, Yale University Press, February 2020
136 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy o...
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Flourish
ISBN: PB: 9780887486555, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In "Flourish", multiple meanings catch light – as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing t...
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Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...
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