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Five Fields
ISBN: PB: 9781857544015, Carcanet, November 1998
220 pp., 21.5x13.6 cm
The poems in Gillian Clarke's "Five Fields" break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall,...
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£8,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857543926, Carcanet, November 1998
320 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm
Andrew Young's poetry came into its own in the mid-1930s. He was nearly fifty when he achieved the terse, individual style of his maturity. Despite changes of fashion he remains popular; his unusual nature poems are widely anthologised. "His works ar...
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I, Claudius and Claudius the God
ISBN: HB: 9781857542790, Carcanet, November 1998
356 pp., 22.4x14.8 cm
These novels depict one of the strangest and most terrifying epochs in the history of Europe, as the Roman empire fell into the hands of cruel, mad, incompetent emperors: Tiberius, Caligula, Nero. In these dangerous times, Graves's hero, the schola...
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Song of Songs
ISBN: PB: 9780856462863, Carcanet, October 1998
64 pp., 19.7x13 cm
The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of "The Song of Songs" lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual love. Perhaps the most famous and popular book of the Bible, it is usually – and yet mistakenly –...
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Spaces of Hope Poetry for Our Times and Places
ISBN: PB: 9780856463013, Carcanet, October 1998
224 pp., 21.5x13.7 cm
For thirty years Anvil has championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit of poet and reader alike. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the liveliest and most varied publishers of British and intern...
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Take My Word for It
ISBN: PB: 9780856463068, Carcanet, October 1998
96 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm
"Take My Word for It" is Nina Cassian's first collection of poems in English. Since being forced in 1985 to abandon her native Romania, where she had published more than 50 books, she has settled in New York. The American poet and critic Stanley Kuni...
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£7,95
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Rounding the Horn Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857541632, Carcanet, October 1998
256 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Jon Stallworthy, the son and grandson of New Zealanders, rounded the Horn en route to his birth in London. He began writing poems at seven, during – and about – the Second World War. The conflict and his colonial inheritance gave him a sense of "the...
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£14,95
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Waiting for the Ferry
ISBN: PB: 9780856463082, Carcanet, October 1998
56 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm
"Waiting for the Ferry" is Heather Buck's fourth and finest collection of poems. She has quietly built a reputation for the clarity, concentration and direct emotional weight of her poems. Whether writing about nature, faith, childhood, art, places o...
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With the Grain Essays on Thomas Hardy and British Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781857543940, Carcanet, October 1998
288 pp., 14x21.6 cm
In "Thomas Hardy and British Poetry" (1972) Donald David identified how deep and durable a mark the Dorset poet left on the English sensibility. Hardy's formal approach and his distinctive tonalities have – for better or worse – affected the choices...
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Landscape Over Zero
ISBN: PB: 9780856462887, Carcanet, September 1998
112 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
Often reported to be on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and recently elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Bei Dao is China's pre-eminent contemporary poet. The poems in "Landscape Over Zero" reach...
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