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Sound of Light
ISBN: PB: 9781857543537, Carcanet, November 1999
128 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
In "The Sound of Light" John Heath-Stubbs, now in his eighties, gives us a coherent, shaped, celebratory volume on an antique model and scale, revealing once more how inexhaustible and adaptable forms – traditional and free verse – can be when handle...
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£7,95
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After Pushkin
ISBN: PB: 9781857544442, Carcanet, November 1999
128 pp., 24.4x15.3 cm
"How do you convince the English-speaking public that Pushkin's genius is as great as the Russians claim?" This question, arising at the bicentenary of Pushkin's birth, is the catalyst for a collection of new translations, versions of and responses t...
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£9,95
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Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays
ISBN: HB: 9781857542721, Carcanet, November 1999
320 pp., 22.5x14 cm
Annals of the Five Senses (1923) was the first book to be published by C. M. Grieve, the man who became known as Hugh MacDiarmid. It is a collection of intense psychological studies which put us in mind of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. Written...
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£30,00
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Vineyard Above the Sea
ISBN: PB: 9781903039014, Carcanet, November 1999
64 pp., 22.5x14 cm
The title poem of Charles Tomlinson's new volume describes the vineyards of an area of Italy which has been the subject of many poems since his earliest work. In the Cinque Terre vines are cultivated along the cliffs, within precarious sight of the s...
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£6,95
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Music's Bride
ISBN: PB: 9780856463181, Carcanet, November 1999
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Music is the motif which underlies the poems in Marius Kociejowski's second book. In "Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin's Sonata in B minor", a musical theme illustrates the solitude of a troubled woman "who is no man's, only music's bride"; elsewhere, music...
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History of Gay Literature The Male Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300080889, Yale University Press, November 1999
466 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Gre...
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£30,00
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Weather Permitting
ISBN: PB: 9780856463150, Carcanet, November 1999
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Dennis O'Driscoll's fifth collection contains poems in which his cool and unflinching vision lends a pungent originality to his treatment of love and death as well as to subjects as diverse – and improbable – as economic boom, business travel and Alz...
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£9,99
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Night Watch
ISBN: PB: 9780856463198, Carcanet, November 1999
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Peter Scupham's eleventh collection brings his customary elegance and skill to bear on themes as diverse as the Battle of Arras, Kilvert's Diary, and an unexpected encounter with his parents on holiday from the underworld. These parables and truthful...
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Nightfisherman Selected Letters
ISBN: PB: 9781857544459, Carcanet, November 1999
220 pp., 21.5x13 cm
William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, "beside the sugar house quays" – a setting open to the sea. He remained a Celt, moving from Scotland to Cornwall where he found seascapes without urban clutter, just an occasional ruin...
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£18,95
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Ostraca
ISBN: PB: 9780856463174, Carcanet, November 1999
72 pp., 21.5x13.4 cm
Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of "fire and as" desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sens...
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