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Dad the Donkey's on Fire
ISBN: PB: 9780856358067, Carcanet, November 1994
144 pp., 21.5x13.6 cm
A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine equally or often on all and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but kee...
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£9,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857541199, Carcanet, November 1994
220 pp., 19.8x13 cm
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was one of the most popular English poets of his time. "He must always", said Dryden, "be thought a great poet". His work was held in high esteem by Milton, Johnson (who wrote one of the greatest of his Lives about him), Po...
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£6,95
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Ends and Beginnings
ISBN: PB: 9781857540932, Carcanet, October 1994
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Ends and Beginnings" is Iain Crichton Smith's most ambitious collection for years. It begins in elegy, with the exiles and deaths about which he writes so memorably, and progresses through place, history and positive change. After a trip to the Gol...
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Moo Pak
ISBN: HB: 9781857540901, Carcanet, September 1994
144 pp., 22.4x14.5 cm
Jack Tolenado, a Sephardic Jew from Egypt and ex-University lecturer in English is writing a history of Moor Park which is also a history of himself and his times, of the Jews and the English. The themes in this book have preoccupied the author for t...
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£14,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857540970, Carcanet, September 1994
64 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss, jealousy, the fear of abandonment. Her powerful rhy...
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Complete Poems, Volume II
ISBN: HB: 9781857540628, Carcanet, August 1994
768 pp., 22.4x14.5 cm
This volume concludes the corrected text of the almost 1500 pages of "Hugh MacDiarmid's Complete Poems", with a volume including the full texts of "In Memoriam James Joyce" (1955), "Three Hymns to Lenin" (1957), "The Kind of Poetry I Want" (1961) and...
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£40,00
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City and the Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9781857541021, Carcanet, August 1994
224 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
Artur Corvelo inherits a legacy, quits his provincial home town and sets out for the capital. Armed with some poems and a heroic play, he seeks literary renown and entry into fashionable intellectual and social circles. Disillusion follows and he ret...
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£29,95
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Coming to Terms
ISBN: PB: 9780856462580, Carcanet, July 1994
120 pp., 21.4x13.6 cm
This rich and varied collection, his first in ten years, gathers Harry Guest's poems from 1983 to 1990. Intelligence, compassion, formal inventiveness and a gift for evocation both of landscape and things remembered blend to give his poetry its attra...
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£8,95
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Rags of Time
ISBN: PB: 9780856462351, Carcanet, July 1994
96 pp., 21.4x13.6 cm
"The Rags of Time" adds recent poems written on the deaths of two poets, Nikos Gatsos and Constantine Trypanis, and the sculptor Elisabeth Frink to the six laments included in "The Echoing Green" (1983) and "Shakespeare's Birthday" (1985). These sust...
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Everything Is Strange
ISBN: PB: 9781857540710, Carcanet, July 1994
32 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Everything is always strange in the poetry of Frank Kuppner. His first Carcanet book was a single poem, "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty" (1984, Scottish Arts Council Book Award), running to 511 Oriental Quatrains, a kind of Procrustean Bed of Ware ac...
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