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New Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784108656, Carcanet, November 2019
210 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century'sbest-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almostfifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, during her lifetime shereceived numerous awards, including the W. H. Sm...
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£12,99
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Smart Devices 52 Poems from the Guardian "Poem of the Week"
ISBN: PB: 9781784107796, Carcanet, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Carol Rumens has been contributing "Poem of the Week" to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with th...
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£14,99
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The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: PB: 9781784108694, Carcanet, November 2019
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the c...
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Vital Stream
ISBN: PB: 9781784108076, Carcanet, November 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Vital Stream" takes the form of 133 sonnets that revisit six extraordinary months in 1802, a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings eventually set up home together in the Lake District, wher...
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£12,99
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Dregs of the Day
ISBN: PB: 9780300242775, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
The final published work by the renowned Mairtin O Cadhain, this novella follows a widower as he attempts to plan his wife's funeral arrangements without money, direction, or whiskey. Thrown into a desert of unknowing, he knows not where to turn or w...
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£9,99
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Family Record
ISBN: PB: 9780300238310, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of candor, mystery, and bewitching elusiveness, Patrick Modiano weaves toget...
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Greek Ballad Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300233346, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exi...
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£30,00
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Inadvertent
ISBN: PB: 9780300248517, Yale University Press, November 2019
104 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm
"Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinkin...
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£7,95
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Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
ISBN: HB: 9780300226621, Yale University Press, November 2019
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Award-winning author Antonio Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty?seven months in Angola...
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Sanskrit Treasury A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851245314, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.
This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas, and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the pass...
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£50,00
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