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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856358159, Carcanet, November 1989
220 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
In this unusual selection, one of the great poet-critics of the twentieth century encounters and re-appraises the greatest poet-critic of the nineteenth. William Empson, assisted by David Pirie, chooses from Coleridge's vast and uneven ouevre the sal...
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Poetry World, Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9780856461842, Carcanet, July 1989
160 pp., 21.5x14 cm
"Poetry World" was the short-lived successor to the original series of "Modern Poetry in Translation". Contents: Stanislaw Baranczak: "Artificial Respiration" – translated by Chris Zielinski Sumerian Poems – Thorkild Jacobsen Amarusataka – Rahul Bon...
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Duino Elegies
ISBN: PB: 9780856358371, Carcanet, July 1989
240 pp., 21.5x13.6 cm
With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegies one of its great monuments. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are "modern" in almost every sense the word has...
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Intelligence of Clouds
ISBN: PB: 9780856462177, ISBN: HB: 9780856462160, Carcanet, May 1989
96 pp., 23x15 cm
"The Intelligence of Clouds" is Stanley Moss's third collection of poems. "We must be grateful to the Anvil Press for importing Stanley Moss", wrote John Fuller of his first, "The Wrong Angel" (1969). Reviewing "Skull of Adam" (1979) in Poetry Review...
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Desert of Love Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780856461774, Carcanet, May 1989
80 pp., 22x14 cm
Janos Pilinszky (1921-1981) was a unique and compelling voice among the generation of European poets whose work bore first-hand witness to the horrors of war. The distinction of his poetry, as Ted Hughes argues, is both spiritual and artistic: "the d...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856357411, Carcanet, May 1989
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This is a book not of memorable lines but of memorable poems. Eavan Boland's poetry is radically different in tone and texture from the work of her Irish contemporaries. Her concerns are never parochial. In 1979 she renounced "the evasion out of fear...
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Fish Magic Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856461927, Carcanet, May 1989
108 pp., 20x14 cm
"Fish Magic" introduces the fascinating and individual West German poet Elisabeth Borchers, whose poetry has attracted critical acclaim since its first appearance in 1961. Her poems have the elusive and haunting quality of magic charms. As in the art...
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Shadow and Bone Poems 1981-1988
ISBN: PB: 9780856462115, Carcanet, May 1989
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm
"Shadow and Bone" is Peter Levi's first collection of poems since "Private Ground" (1981), apart from two small books of "lamentations" – formal elegies for friends – "The Echoing Green" and "Shakespeare's Birthday". It is a rich and diverse collecti...
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Covenant Poems 1979-1983
ISBN: PB: 9780856461248, Carcanet, April 1989
64 pp., 22x14 cm
"The Covenant" contains Dick Davis's poems written since 1979. It is his third collection, following "In the Distance" (1975) and "Seeing the World" (1980), which received the Royal Society of Literature Award under the W. H. Heinemann Bequest in 198...
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Practical Anarchy Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856357466, Carcanet, April 1989
96 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm
John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He came to England in 1971 to study Old Icelandic at Oxford, and stayed. He has worked for many years as a teacher with the Leicestershire Behaviour Support Team. He has published ten collectio...
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