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Glorious Veils of Diane
ISBN: PB: 9780887486692, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Glorious Veils of Diane is about the weird way children turn themselves inside out on the world, and a reimagining of the author's own childhood. Diane is an ever-changing archetype, a self-conscious child who's seen too many horror movies and is dis...
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£13,00
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NAKED A New Poetry Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781734618105, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2020
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In his new collection of poetry, Naked, Abiodun Oyewole unveils his thoughts on self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. Known as a founding member of The Last Poets, a spoken word performance group that arose out of the bl...
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£14,00
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Hallelujah Station and Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781938769597, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
M. Randal O'Wain's debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss. These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic...
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£15,00
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Solace Is Not the Lullaby
ISBN: PB: 9780300250343, ISBN: HB: 9780300250350, Yale University Press, May 2020
80 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm
The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osier's poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. In his foreword to the collection, award-winning poet Carl Phillips notes, "Ce...
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Dregs of the Day
ISBN: PB: 9780300242775, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
The final published work by the renowned Mairtin O Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction, or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or w...
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£9,99
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Gaudent Angeli
ISBN: PB: 9781784107956, Carcanet, September 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world of the web we experience it in new ways, its predi...
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£9,99
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Fur Coats in Tahiti
ISBN: PB: 9781784107635, Carcanet, July 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group, and the New York school. Jeremy Over mixes collage, doodles, erasures, findings, and mistranslations to create unlikely meeting...
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£9,99
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Roughly For the North
ISBN: PB: 9781602233621, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North" "Roughly for the North" is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an a...
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£11,00
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784105112, Carcanet, August 2017
360 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 an...
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£25,00
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Playing the Octopus
ISBN: PB: 9781784102807, Carcanet, September 2016
84 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"He avoids the pipes. He has his reasons. He has heard the story Of the octopus who was locked into a room For a week to practice. When they let him out the pipes had learned To play the octopus. The thing about musicians is They respond to glory"....
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