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Poetry

Third Mandarin

Kuppner Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781784104009, Carcanet, August 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.

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Poetry

Rondo

Wallace-Crabbe Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781784106430, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in "Rondo" a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to "troubling the stubborn world for meaning".

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Poetry

Errant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781784106348, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Errant" is Israeli poet Gabriel Levin's sixth collection. It is a book of riddles by an imagination whose fate is that of the wanderer who keeps waking up and watching the dream vanish just before he can quite grasp it.

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Poetry

Hotel Eden

Brahic Beverley Bie

ISBN: PB: 9781784106102, Carcanet, August 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

In the spirit of a flaneur, the poet goes about her daily life in and around Paris, with an eye for the diversity of human experience in a great city. A new collection from award-winning Canadian poet Beverley Bie Brahic.

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Fiction

Desirable Body

Haddad Hubert, Waters Alyson

ISBN: PB: 9780300224368, Yale University Press, August 2018
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A contemporary "Frankenstein" that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cedric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidat...

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Poetry

Spill

Smith Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226570419, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

"There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like water that seeks to saturate, erode, and boil... It ruins everything you have ever saved". "Spill" is a...

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Literary Criticism

Worldmakers Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe

Ramachandran Ayesha

ISBN: PB: 9780226598871, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, excitin...

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Poetry

My Bishop and Other Poems

Collier Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226570860, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Think of a time when you've feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most? The poems of this collection expl...

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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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