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Poets of Munster An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780856461224, Carcanet, September 1985
224 pp., 22x14 cm
In "Poets of Munster" Sean Dunne charts the vigorous and diverse poetry that has been written in Ireland's southernmost province during the last half-century. Twenty-five poets – from Thomas MacGreevy and Frank O'Connor to Thomas McCarthy, from Sean...
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£7,95
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Letter to Juvenal 101 Epigrams from Martial
ISBN: HB: 9780856461415, Carcanet, September 1985
120 pp., 22x14 cm
Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nature, whose acute observations of life are tinged with a keen awareness of death. Peter Whigham's sel...
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£8,95
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Signalled Love
ISBN: PB: 9780856461446, Carcanet, July 1985
64 pp., 22x14 cm
David Hartnett's first collection introduces a poet with an assured voice and a strong and subtle technique. His poems deal with the fragility and tenaciousness of our relationships, both with others and with the natural order, in the present and the...
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Against Theory Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
ISBN: PB: 9780226532271, University of Chicago Press, June 1985
152 pp., 23x15 cm
"Against Theory", the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge – issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in "Critical Inquiry" (8:4) – strikes some...
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£15,00
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Shakespeare's Birthday
ISBN: PB: 9780856461422, Carcanet, April 1985
40 pp., 19x13 cm
The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained medita...
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£4,95
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Thasos and Ohio Poems and Translations, 1950-80
ISBN: PB: 9780856355844, Carcanet, January 1985
128 pp., 22x14 cm
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Tribute to Freud Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780856355998, Carcanet, January 1985
208 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Bringing together "Writing on the Wall", composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and Advent, a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, "Tribute to Freud" offers a rare glimpse into the consulting room of the father of psychoan...
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£9,99
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856355974, Carcanet, January 1985
128 pp., 19x13 cm
One of Scotland's most interesting and highly praised writers, his reputation is built upon a considerable body of work in both English and Gaelic that encompasses a wide range of genres including novels, short stories, plays, and poetry.
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856355981, Carcanet, January 1985
112 pp., 19x13 cm
This collection of Jeffrey Wainwright's poetry brings together most of his first collection, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and much of what he has written since that time. The poems confront a wide range of intellectual, personal, and politic...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856355851, Carcanet, January 1985
112 pp., 19x13 cm
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