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Anvil New Poets, Volume 1
ISBN: PB: 9780856462306, Carcanet, November 1990
144 pp., 21.8x14 cm
An introductory anthology of ten new poets who had previously only appeared in poetry magazines. Many have gone on to further publication and established reputations. Poets included: Shirley Bell Patricia Doubell Mimi Khalvati Felicity Napier Bibhu...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856359002, Carcanet, November 1990
144 pp., 21.4x13.5 cm
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Selected Poems of Tu Fu
ISBN: PB: 9780856462320, Carcanet, November 1990
192 pp., 20.2x13.4 cm
Tu Fu (AD 712-770) is China's greatest classical poet. He radically altered the poetry of the High T'ang period; in addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all asp...
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Hour of Sand Selected Poems 1969-1989
ISBN: PB: 9780856462405, Carcanet, October 1990
104 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's most admired and popular poets. Her delicate, subtle and pointed poetry has gained her a large readership at home, where she has received the highest literary awards. Her poetry is direct, personal and uncompromising...
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Outside History
ISBN: PB: 9780856358999, Carcanet, October 1990
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Outside History" was Eavan Boland's first collection of new poems since "The Journey" (1987). Here she explores private themes, but in ways which open out on the wider public sphere. Often the poems arise from the place in which womanhood and natio...
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In Two Minds Literary Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780856358777, Carcanet, September 1990
280 pp., 22.3x14.4 cm
"In Two Minds" advances a single argument: that reading and writing are collaborative ventures with past and future. Tradition is a living resource. Sisson considers literary vocation, the act of reading, the practice of real criticism and the comed...
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£18,95
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Poetry By English Women
ISBN: PB: 9780856358944, Carcanet, September 1990
272 pp., 19.9x13 cm
This comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christ...
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Midsummer Cushion
ISBN: PB: 9780856359408, Carcanet, July 1990
529 pp., 19.8x13 cm
Clare records that it was "a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stock a piece of greensward full of field flowers & place it a an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions". This "cottage custom" suggeste...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856358630, Carcanet, July 1990
216 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
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Howell's Law
ISBN: PB: 9780856462283, Carcanet, June 1990
80 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm
If the apparently didactic title of Anthony Howell's book belies the poems in it, that is to be expected of a writer for whom little is what it seems. The law adhered to in "Howell's Law" is the law of surprise. And from the start – a lengthy poem in...
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