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I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781602234499, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and t...
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£12,00
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Poetry in a Global Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226730141, ISBN: HB: 9780226730004, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-nati...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Angular Desire Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109257, Carcanet, March 2020
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.
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£16,99
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New Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109066, Carcanet, March 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new and thoroughly revised selection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with an introduction from Rachel Mann.
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Against Heidegger
ISBN: PB: 9781632430793, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as L. M. Rivera shows, an addiction. "Against Heidegger" is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion...
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Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781946724267, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, February 2020
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth's devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic,...
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£13,00
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Smart Devices 52 Poems from the Guardian "Poem of the Week"
ISBN: PB: 9781784107796, Carcanet, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Carol Rumens has been contributing "Poem of the Week" to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with th...
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£14,99
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Running to Stand Still
ISBN: PB: 9781632430724, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Histories, stories, lyrics, aspirations, dreams, pressures, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn dow...
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£14,00
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Silences
ISBN: PB: 9781632430755, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just o...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300240184, ISBN: HB: 9780300190588, Yale University Press, March 2019
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O. Riordain, among others. O. Riordain's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's Irish readers and writers. This...
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£11,99
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£18,99
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