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Sunset Maker Poems / Stories / A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9780856461958, Carcanet, October 1987
88 pp., 23x15 cm
The tone of much of this new collection by Donald Justice is autumnal, memorial. These tributes in the form of elegies and homages to the almost forgotten – people and places and times past – constitute an attempt, in the author's words, to "rescue w...
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£6,95
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Last Quarter
ISBN: PB: 9780856461910, Carcanet, May 1987
32 pp., 19x13 cm
This special edition of poems by Ivan V. Lalic was jointly published by Anvil Press Poetry and Turret Books to mark the occasion of his participation in Poetry Live, May 1987. It is a selection from his book "The Passionate Measure".
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£3,95
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At the Window
ISBN: PB: 9780856460715, Carcanet, May 1987
56 pp., 22x14 cm
"At the Window" is Heather Buck's first full-length collection of poems, many of which have appeared in magazines over the past ten years. A clear personal voice speaks from these poems, which recount an inward journey through pain, loss, fear and th...
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Chiltern Hundred
ISBN: PB: 9780856461767, ISBN: HB: 9780856461750, Carcanet, May 1987
144 pp., 22x14 cm
A hundred was "a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court" (OED); the Chiltern Hundreds were the three subdivisions of South Bucks – from west to east, Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last, named after Stoke Poges, is today shared w...
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Mrs. Carmichael
ISBN: PB: 9780856461798, Carcanet, February 1987
88 pp., 22x14 cm
A first collection with a strong atmosphere and a distinctive voice. "Mrs. Carmichael" brings together poems written over the past twenty years. A house collapsing in the night, the wives of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, social misfits of several ki...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856357084, Carcanet, January 1987
128 pp., 22x13 cm
"And you are from surf-rattled skerries. From the heaths where, burying a warrior, they broke his bones so he would not haunt the living. From the sea-night which you forefathers pulled over themselves, without a word. Above your head, no face, neith...
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£9,99
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Selected Writings
ISBN: PB: 9780856356254, Carcanet, January 1987
180 pp., 19x13 cm
Sir Philip Sidney is the first major poet-critic. His biographer, Fulke Greville, portrayed him as a model of correctness, noble bearing and heroism. Sidney was a considerable figure in his day and is still renowned for his three major literary works...
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