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Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 "Rime"
ISBN: PB: 9781649590145, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
206 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates
Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of th...
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£34,00
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Pelted By Flowers Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880860, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had "a well-developed sense of beauty and can skip with both feet". This proved prophetic for a life that has included a number of careers and passions – Lightfoot has earned a master's...
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£15,00
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Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...
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£20,00
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Portulans
ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...
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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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£19,00
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Privy Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9780857428424, ISBN: HB: 9780857421661, Seagull Books, March 2021
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's "Privy Portrait" has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possess...
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£11,99
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£18,00
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Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow Safeguarded Notes, 1952-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780857427915, Seagull Books, December 2020
342 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...
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£21,99
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Parasite
ISBN: HB: 9780857427403, Seagull Books, November 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Marked by powerful and evocative prose, Ferenc Barnas's novel tells the fascinating story of a young man's journey through his strange obsessions towards possible recovery. The unnamed narrator is the parasite, feeding off others' ailments, but he is...
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Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City
ISBN: HB: 9780857427816, Seagull Books, November 2020
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 5 halftones
"Porcelain" is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at...
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£12,99
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Persephone in the Late Anthropocene Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781946724328, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, October 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Persephone in the Late Anthropocene vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change. In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world. Mea...
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