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Orphan Sites
ISBN: PB: 9780856463846, Carcanet, March 2006
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Julian Turner's "Crossing the Outskirts" was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection. In his second book he explores his familiar themes of identity and loss, and new, more personal ones –...
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ISBN: HB: 9781402714603, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2005
224 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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At the End of the Broken Bridge 25 Hungarian Poems 1978-2002
ISBN: PB: 9781857547962, Carcanet, May 2005
108 pp., 19.6x12.6 cm
This quarter-century opened with Janos Kadar exercising a third decade of political power, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of 1956. Hungary, however, was instrumental in the changes of 1989, initiating free elections. The transition to democracy w...
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Bayamus & Cardinal Polatuo Two Novels
ISBN: PB: 9781878972217, DAP, Exact Change, February 2004
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Sc...
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9781857546569, Carcanet, December 2003
112 pp., 22x13.5 cm
In the decade since the quincentenary of his birth (1994), popular and scholarly understanding of the importance of the life and writings of William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536) has risen rapidly, and there is demand for a useful selection of his writings....
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Skywriting
ISBN: PB: 9781903039649, Carcanet, November 2003
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poems in Charles Tomlinson's new collection celebrate the colours and textures of places, and the people and histories that have created them. "Skywriting" forms a journey through the landscapes of Tomlinson's imagination: Mexico, Italy and Japan...
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Metamorphoses Poetry and Translation
ISBN: PB: 9781857545869, Carcanet, June 2003
240 pp., 21.8x13.7 cm
Charles Tomlinson declares that this book, emerging from the practice, the art and magic of translation, concerns itself with "the way certain fables of metamorphosis have captured the poetic imagination and how translation – literary metamorphosis –...
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Crossing the Outskirts
ISBN: PB: 9780856463525, Carcanet, September 2002
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
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American Essays Making it New
ISBN: PB: 9781857544763, Carcanet, July 2001
192 pp., 21.7x13.6 cm
Charles Tomlinson's "Some Americans" was an unusual book, combining memoir and the detailed and intimate critical reading of poets he admires. He writes as a poet reading poets and learns less by analysis than by empathy. Thus William Carlos Williams...
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Song Offerings
ISBN: PB: 9780856463112, Carcanet, June 2000
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 primarily for this work, parts of which he had rendered into the lucid, grave English prose of prayer. Although he wrote over 40 books of poetry, this is...
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