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Carmina

Catullus Gaius Valerius

ISBN: PB: 9781847772596, Carcanet, November 2014
144 pp., 22.2x13.5 cm

Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. "Carmina" captures in English both the mordant, scathing wit and also the concise tendernes...

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Corpse Washer

Antoon Sinan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205640, Yale University Press, August 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of...

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Call Waiting

Ward David C.

ISBN: PB: 9781847772268, Carcanet, August 2014
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

David C. Ward's first full-length poetry collection combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observation of America – its landscapes, its history, its politics. Ward's poems are peopled by those who seem never quite...

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Fiction

Cold Spell

Vanasse Deb

ISBN: PB: 9781602232426, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With precise and evocative prose, "Cold Spell" tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both. From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she...

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Fiction

Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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Coming Forth by Day

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772688, Carcanet, June 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

Gabriel Levin's new collection breaks new ground in its formal experimentation as well as in its exploration of remote corners of the Mediterranean. The long title poem is written from the multiple perspectives of the personages in Courbet's large pa...

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Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

Miller Kei

ISBN: PB: 9781847772671, Carcanet, May 2014
80 pp., 21.6x13.2 cm

In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of...

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Literary Criticism

Cruelty and Laughter Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Dickie Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226142548, ISBN: HB: 9780226146188, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental – the product of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie contests these assumptions in "Cruelty and Laughter", a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic l...

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Poetry

Collected French Translations Poetry

Ashbery John

ISBN: PB: 9781847772343, Carcanet, April 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The companion volume to "Collected French Translations: Prose", this book reflects John Ashbery's lifelong engagement with French poetry. From 1955 Ashbery spent almost a decade in France, working as an art critic, and formed a close relationship wit...

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Fiction

Collected French Translations Prose

Ashbery John

ISBN: PB: 9781847772350, Carcanet, April 2014
362 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Ashbery is known as America's foremost poet, but his prose writing and his engagement with prose writers – through translations, essays and criticism – have had a profound impact on the cultural landscape of the past half-century. This book, the...

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