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Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
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£16,00
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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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Swale
ISBN: PB: 9781936970681, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collection is named for a "swale", a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the land...
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£13,00
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Growlery
ISBN: PB: 9781784109899, Carcanet, August 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's "New Poetries VII", Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housing, and our mental health crisis.
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£10,99
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La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living
ISBN: PB: 9781632430786, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imag...
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£15,00
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Field Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300246339, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm
The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, present sensations, and the impingements of th...
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£14,99
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Raghead
ISBN: PB: 9781936970636, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm
Deftly making use of historically specific events, "Raghead" examines the Gulf War, relaying untold narratives of occupation and warfare, as well as addressing the violence the war inflicted on the female body and on the land itself. In these poems,...
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£12,00
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HoodWitch
ISBN: PB: 9781946724243, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...
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£12,00
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Tribunal
ISBN: PB: 9781632430663, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The three works of poetry that constitute "Tribunal" were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and – especially in the United States – reassertions of white suprem...
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£14,00
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henceforce A Travel Poetic
ISBN: PB: 9781632430687, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm, 1 halftone
In "henceforce", Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard's poems explore air travel, transcontinental l...
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£11,00
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