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Blue Divide Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781936970728, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
74 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience – whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weavin...
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£13,00
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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B After Dante
ISBN: PB: 9781784109592, Carcanet, March 2021
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After seven centuries, the "Divine Comedy" reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut "Unearthly Toys", Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
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£16,99
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Beforeland A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...
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£16,00
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Breathing Place
ISBN: PB: 9781632430823, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient's fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before turning to raging social concerns, the poems finally come...
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£15,00
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Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018
ISBN: PB: 9780887486586, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Build Me a Boat" gathers a selection of the words that poet Michael Dennis Browne has written for music over the past fifty years. Working with a number of different composers, Browne has ranged widely across forms; what we discover here are lyrics,...
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£16,00
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Barbarians Arrive Today Poems & Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109943, Carcanet, September 2020
352 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
With "The Barbarians Arrive Today", Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering uniqu...
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£19,99
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Birdsong on Mars
ISBN: PB: 9781784109752, Carcanet, August 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The fifth Carcanet collection from the man behind Stand magazine and Northern House books explores displacement and growing older.
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£11,99
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Book of Collateral Damage
ISBN: PB: 9780300251753, ISBN: HB: 9780300228946, Yale University Press, June 2020
312 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Widely praised in the Arab world, renowned author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his Ph.D. at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion...
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BEIT
ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm
Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...
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£13,00
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