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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...
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£20,00
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Chess with My Grandfather
ISBN: HB: 9780857427953, Seagull Books, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new life for himself. But with the storm clouds of war gathering over Europe, the Politeama Theatre in Buenos Aire...
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£18,99
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B After Dante
ISBN: PB: 9781784109592, Carcanet, March 2021
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After seven centuries, the "Divine Comedy" reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut "Unearthly Toys", Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
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£16,99
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Apocalypse An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781784108182, Carcanet, March 2021
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...
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£19,99
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800170124, Carcanet, March 2021
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The "Collected Poems" of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.
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£25,00
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Hernando Colon's New World of Books Toward a Cartography of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300230413, Yale University Press, March 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.
This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal––that...
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£25,00
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No Chronology
ISBN: PB: 9780226768977, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In No Chronology, Karen Fish's third collection of poems, she investigates those moments when the boundary of everyday life merges with history, imagination, and art. Fish was trained as a visual artist, and this way of seeing is intrinsic to her app...
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£15,00
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No One Leaves the World Unhurt
ISBN: PB: 9781938769757, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyda...
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£14,00
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Creep Love
ISBN: PB: 9781938769764, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Michael Walsh's poetry collection Creep Love explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into disturbing fabl...
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£14,00
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