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The Distance, The Shadows Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463457, Carcanet, November 2002
256 pp., 21.8x13.9 cm
Victor Hugo, the most prolific and versatile of the French Romantics, is one of the greatest nineteenth-century writers. Partly because of its enormous range and variety, his poetry has remained comparatively little known outside France. In this new...
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£14,95
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Revolutionary Sonnets
ISBN: PB: 9781857546163, Carcanet, November 2002
130 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
"Revolutionary Sonnets" is as daring, original and inventive as the name suggest. The work explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering, and hysterically funny. For the first time the full range and...
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Exemplary Damages
ISBN: PB: 9780856463501, Carcanet, November 2002
88 pp., 21.7x13.9 cm
"Exemplary Damages" is as fine and varied a collection as its five predecessors. It captures contemporary attitudes towards life, love and God with unfaltering accuracy in styles which range from the richly sensuous to the mercilessly mordant. Whethe...
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From a Diary of Non-events
ISBN: PB: 9780856463433, Carcanet, November 2002
64 pp., 21.8x13.9 cm
"From a Diary of Non-Events" captures a year in the life of Michael Hamburger, from December 2000 to November 2001, observing changes in the natural world alongside the preoccupations and ruminations of the poet in and around his home in a Suffolk vi...
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£7,95
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Cathures
ISBN: PB: 9781857546170, Carcanet, November 2002
118 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mi...
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Goldberg Variations
ISBN: PB: 9781857545975, Carcanet, November 2002
180 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the "Goldberg Variations", Gabriel Josipovici imagines an English writer, a Jew, at the turn of the eighteenth century, who is invited to the house of a country gentleman in orde...
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Puzzling Harvest Collected Poems 1955-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780856463549, Carcanet, October 2002
528 pp., 23.6x15.4 cm
"A Puzzling Harvest" includes Harry Guest's six previous collections, a group of new poems and a generous selection of his versions from French, German, Italian and Japanese. This substantial book demonstrates the scope of Guest's achievement in near...
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£18,00
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Letters to Ted
ISBN: PB: 9780856463419, Carcanet, October 2002
112 pp., 21.7x13.9 cm
"Letters to Ted" is a remarkable collection of poems in memory of the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, with whom Daniel Weissbort struck up a friendship, both literary and personal, during their student days in 1950s Cambridge. Swift-moving, by turns...
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To the Capital
ISBN: PB: 9781857546873, Carcanet, October 2002
18 pp., 21.8x14 cm
This is the seventh volume in the Carcanet's Eca de Queiros programme which includes "The Maias, Cousin Basilio", "The Illustrious House of Ramires", "The City and the Mountains", "The Sin of Father Amaro", "The Yellow Sofa & Three Portraits". Artu...
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Boning Hall
ISBN: PB: 9781857545982, ISBN: HB: 9781857546279, Carcanet, October 2002
116 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Mary O'Malley is a natural musician. Her poetry alludes to music – the music of Ireland, the Iberian peninsula, the America of jazz and spiritual – and shares forms with it. Music is spiritual and political at the same time. Her themes embrace the ch...
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