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Prophecy Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107277, Carcanet, April 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following his acclaimed "Pandemonium", Thomas McCarthy's "Prophecy" dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods a...
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£9,99
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water / tongue
ISBN: PB: 9781632430656, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Grappling with the shock of her grandmother's suicide, mai c. doan undertook a writing project that might give voice to her loss as well as to grapple with memory, and the challenge of articulation and of documentation, in all of their contradictions...
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£14,00
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Ransom Street
ISBN: PB: 9781940939902, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Ransom Street" is Claire Millikin's third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for t...
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£13,00
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Grimspound and Inhabiting Art
ISBN: PB: 9781784105907, Carcanet, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves, one is a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound, on Dartmoor) and the other is a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. 'Grimspound' is a four-p...
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£16,99
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Beowulf
ISBN: PB: 9781784106225, Carcanet, September 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody, and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotation.
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£14,99
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Book
ISBN: PB: 9781878972422, DAP, Exact Change, September 2018
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up...
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£13,99
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Anemos
ISBN: PB: 9781784106300, Carcanet, July 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Christine Marendon grew up in Bavaria with German and Italian as her languages; she is a significant translator as well as a radical eco-poet, keenly aware of social issues. This collection is translated into English by the leading UK translator Ken...
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£12,99
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Blow of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance A Poem
ISBN: PB: 9780999652237, DAP, Lucia - Marquand, June 2018
64 pp., 38x27.9 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Among the most influential works of the French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), "Un Coup de des jamais n'abolira le Hasard" feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of...
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£35,00
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Just Between Us
ISBN: PB: 9781602233508, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Just Between Us" is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the world's most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot in the far north, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural...
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£11,50
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Requiem for Ernst Jandl
ISBN: HB: 9780857424754, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker – and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker immediately began attempting to come to terms wit...
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£14,50
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