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Instruments of Art
ISBN: PB: 9781857547863, Carcanet, November 2005
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Instruments of Art" uses poetry to explore the lives and works of Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and others, the personal sacrifice involved, the singular vision and inspiration that set them in motion. God's creation, some argue, is a work of a...
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£8,95
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Play of Gilgamesh
ISBN: PB: 9781857548419, Carcanet, November 2005
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Edwin Morgan's verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily between ritual, comedy and moments of intense beauty. Here a god-king, a great city builder, learns...
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£9,95
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New Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857548587, Carcanet, November 2005
280 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Ten years ago Carcanet published Eavan Boland's first Collected Poems, a book which confirmed her place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. "The New Collected Poems" brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding "The Lost Land" (1998)...
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£19,95
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Othello
ISBN: PB: 9780300108071, Yale University Press, November 2005
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona h...
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£6,99
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857548426, Carcanet, November 2005
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The work of an original, haunting and experimental woman modernist poet is made available again, for the first in 50 years. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in warti...
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£12,95
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Taming of the Shrew
ISBN: PB: 9780300109825, Yale University Press, November 2005
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In one of Shakespeare's bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry.
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£4,50
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Tenth Muse An Anthology
ISBN: HB: 9781857548365, Carcanet, October 2005
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
There are nine muses in Greek mythology: this anthology celebrates the tenth, the figure in a poet's life who inspires, criticises, interprets and supports. First published as pamphlets by Anthony Astbury's legendary Greville Press, each selection he...
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£14,95
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The Sea! The Sea! An Anthology of Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856463792, Carcanet, October 2005
176 pp., 19.7x13 cm
This anthology celebrates the sea as an elemental force with deep resonances for people everywhere. As such, it has always had a place of honour in poetry. Poets from time immemorial have written of sea adventures, voyages, explorations, battles, dro...
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£7,95
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Lost Notebook
ISBN: PB: 9780856463815, Carcanet, October 2005
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
These visually arresting and subtly musical poems range from Scotland and the Hebrides to Paris, the Mediterranean and Israel, capturing resonant details and moments and shaping them into a quizzical coherence. Like the small ghost that circles into...
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£7,95
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Anti-Basilisk
ISBN: PB: 9781857547894, Carcanet, October 2005
164 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "The Anti-Basilisk" Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write "The Masque of Anarchy", reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a clarity that dazzles. Bruno Schulz in 1937 made...
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£12,95
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