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Planisphere
ISBN: PB: 9781847770899, Carcanet, December 2009
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Even after half a century of amazing readers, John Ashbery continues to delight and challenge with his inventiveness. "Planisphere" takes the reader on a dizzying journey in the company of a virtuoso and sorcerer who makes the commonplace magical, di...
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£12,95
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Stone Sleeper
ISBN: PB: 9780856463976, Carcanet, November 2009
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar's rich and haunting poems in "Stone Sleeper", his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the...
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£9,95
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Curriculum Vitae A Volume of Autobiography
ISBN: PB: 9781847771025, Carcanet, November 2009
226 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her f...
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Looking Out, Looking In New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856464140, Carcanet, November 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as "a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment", E. A. Markham was a leading light in British Caribbean writing. He was a poet, novelist and short story writer, ess...
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£14,95
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Through the Square Window
ISBN: PB: 9781847770578, Carcanet, November 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its conseque...
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Unpacking My Library Architects and Their Books
ISBN: HB: 9780300158939, Yale University Press, November 2009
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 284 colour images, 24 black&white illus.
What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? "Unpacking...
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£16,00
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Watering Can
ISBN: PB: 9781847770882, Carcanet, November 2009
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Caroline Bird's two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion – "a bit of a Howl for a new generation", wrote the "Hudson Review". "Watering Can" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The p...
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£9,95
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Hundred Thousand Places
ISBN: PB: 9781847770059, Carcanet, November 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To walk through a landscape is to be part of a slow unfolding of time and distance, to commit yourself to an adventure. "The Hundred Thousand Places" is a single poem that travels across seasons, through a variety of Scottish highland and island land...
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£9,95
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Christmas Carol
ISBN: HB: 9781402766909, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2009
96 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Beloved in Christmases past and sure to remain a favourite in Christmases of the future, Dickens popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and magical events that transform the miserly, miserable...
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£8,99
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Last Geraldine Officer
ISBN: PB: 9780856464218, Carcanet, October 2009
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ("Geraldine") family that has tilled the...
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