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Diderot's Cat Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857540215, Carcanet, December 1993
32 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"If the recent German Zeitgeist could speak, it might sound a good deal like Michael Kruger", Richard Dove writes in his introduction to Diderot's "Cat", the first comprehensive selection of Kruger's poems in English. The poems are drawn from thirtee...
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£9,95
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Inventing the Fishes
ISBN: PB: 9780856462481, Carcanet, November 1993
72 pp., 21x13.6 cm
Sue Stewart's first collection introduces a poet of lyric intensity who writes with a vivid aural and visual imagination. Her poems effortlessly bridge the real, the surreal and the mythic as they engage with both personal life and the natural world,...
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Doctor Honoris Causa
ISBN: PB: 9780856462511, Carcanet, November 1993
64 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
Two ambitious monologues form the core of Marius Kociejowski's first book: "Doctor Honoris Causa" and "Giacomo Leopardi in Naples". These and his shorter poems, including the sequence "The Wolf Month", reveal a poet with a fine lyrical and narrative...
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Time Signatures
ISBN: PB: 9781857540420, Carcanet, November 1993
64 pp., 21.4x13.5 cm
"Time Signatures" is Chris McCully's first book of poems. It reflects his fascination – as student, scholar and theorist with the procedures of writing verse, especially with rhythmical and metrical structures. The subject-matter here is drawn from t...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857540376, Carcanet, October 1993
160 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Robert Duncan's profound appeal as a writer, and as a mentor to very different kinds of poets, suggests the vigour, various charm and scope of his work. He is certainly a poet aware – in his themes and his expansive techniques – of his radical creati...
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In Laban's Field Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857540383, Carcanet, October 1993
96 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Norm's wry, expansive poems tell stories, and his characters, ancient and modern – prophets, emperors and cabbies -address the old, unanswered questions with their lives, their failures and losses, their unanticipated moments of love. He shares the s...
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Christian Century In Japan 1549-1650
ISBN: HB: 9781857540352, Carcanet, September 1993
552 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm
Four hundred and fifty years ago, on 23 September 1543, three Portuguese merchants travelling on a Chinese junk were blown by a storm onto the south-western tip of Japan. So at last was discovered to the West that fabled country which Marco Polo repo...
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£40,00
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Is There a Church of England?
ISBN: HB: 9781857540109, Carcanet, July 1993
180 pp., 22.4x14.2 cm
The worries many people have about the Church of England and its future are not confined to the matters most hotly debated in Synod. C. H. Sisson does not pretend to have answers. What he does, in pieces which range over more than four decades, is to...
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£25,00
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Cottage Tales
ISBN: PB: 9781857540321, Carcanet, July 1993
216 pp., 19.8x13.2 cm
John Clare (1793-1864): Born the son of a thresher at Helpston, Northamptonshire, John Clare is a rural poet and story teller. He is a poet of spiritual originality, as compelling at his best as Crabbe and Wordsworth as a story teller in verse. He wa...
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Long Story Short
ISBN: PB: 9780856462566, Carcanet, May 1993
88 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
Dennis O'Driscoll's third collection contains some of his most accomplished work to date, written with his characteristic blend of poignancy and dry wit. The book is notable for its engagement with contemporary life in both its benign and brutal aspe...
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