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Poetry

Crase Douglas

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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Donegal Tarantella

Cannon Moya

ISBN: PB: 9781784107871, Carcanet, September 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.

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Infusion of Violets

Carlson Nancy Naomi

ISBN: PB: 9780857426451, Seagull Books, September 2019
80 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm

Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in "An Infusion of Violets". The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's...

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Skin Can Hold

Capildeo Vahni

ISBN: PB: 9781784107314, Carcanet, May 2019
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Vahni Capildeo, author of "Measures of Expatriation" (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with her third Carcanet collection, "Skin Can Hold". The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied pr...

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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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Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Venus as a Bear

Capildeo Vahni

ISBN: PB: 9781784105549, Carcanet, April 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...

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Books of Catullus

Catullus Gaius Valerius

ISBN: PB: 9781784105501, Carcanet, March 2018
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

A new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age.

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Full Cone

Champion Miles

ISBN: PB: 9781784104405, Carcanet, February 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Surrealism comes of age in Champion's welcome return to British poetry.

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The India List

Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat And Other Poems

Chattopadhyay Shakti

ISBN: HB: 9780857424938, Seagull Books, February 2018
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder...

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