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Non-aligned Storyteller
ISBN: PB: 9780856461231, Carcanet, December 1984
64 pp., 22x17 cm
Thomas McCarthy's third book confirms his standing among the finest Irish poets to emerge in recent years. "The Non-Aligned Storyteller" develops both personal and public themes in eloquent, incisive and moving poems. Reviewing his last collection in...
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Noise Made by Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856461330, ISBN: HB: 9780856461323, Carcanet, November 1984
112 pp., 22x14 cm
"Most of what there is to learn about poetry has to be learnt in one's own language. But it is mostly learnt by reading and turning over poems in one's head, and little by deliberate criticism". Peter Levi's essay – meditated, as he says in his prefa...
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Lamentation of the Dead
ISBN: PB: 9780856461408, Carcanet, October 1984
40 pp., 22x14 cm
Peter Levi's inaugural lecture as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford discusses the lamentation of the dead in written and oral poetry from Homer and the Bible to recent times, by way of Shakespeare, Milton and the Serbian epics. He puts...
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Out Walking
ISBN: PB: 9780856461163, Carcanet, October 1984
88 pp., 22x14 cm
The earliest poems in John Welch's first full-length collection are short poems written in the late sixties. In the seventies his writing became more consciously experimental, as in the "Grieving Signal" poems, but without losing sight of a proper hu...
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All for the Wolves Selected Poems 1947-1975
ISBN: PB: 9780856460968, Carcanet, July 1984
152 pp., 22x14 cm
This selection from Peter Russell's work of many years illustrates the range of a poet who, in Kathleen Raine's words, has "kept faith (as did his master Ezra Pound) with what is perhaps the greatest imaginative and philosophical conception of the Eu...
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Things Common, Properly Selected Poems 1942-1982
ISBN: PB: 9780856460913, ISBN: HB: 9780856460906, Carcanet, May 1984
216 pp., 22x14 cm
"Things Common", Properly is a major retrospective collection of Peter Whigham's poems and verse translations. The selection contains all the poems which he wishes to keep in print, and includes the whole of "The Blue Winged Bee", which was a Poetry...
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Scaffolding New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856461064, Carcanet, May 1984
144 pp., 22x14 cm
"What poetry must do", Jane Cooper has written, "is alert us to a truth, and it must be necessary; once it exists, we realize how much we needed exactly this". "Scaffolding" presents Jane Cooper's new and selected poems gathered over three and a half...
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Northern Summer New and Selected Poems 1963-1983
ISBN: PB: 9780856461156, ISBN: HB: 9780856461149, Carcanet, May 1984
224 pp., 22x14 cm
"Northern Summer" is a representative selection from John Matthias's previous books, together with a group of poems written since 1980. Robert Duncan wrote of his first book, Bucyrus, that in part "Matthias is a Goliard – one of those wandering souls...
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Lost and Found Poems 1975-1982
ISBN: PB: 9780856460890, Carcanet, February 1984
128 pp., 22x14 cm
"Lost and Found" contains Harry Guest's work written during 1975-1982. "At their best Harry Guest's poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion", John Cotton wrote in "P...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856354144, Carcanet, January 1984
128 pp., 18x12 cm
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