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Complete Poems Volume II: 1939-1962
ISBN: PB: 9781784108441, Carcanet, June 2019
576 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
After 1939, William Carlos Williams had embarked on the great original experiment that led to his magnificent, faulted master-work "Paterson", and the work in the second volume of "The Complete Poems" provides a luminous record of his developing stra...
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My Reef My Manifest Array
ISBN: PB: 9781784106911, Carcanet, January 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for th...
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Complete Poems Volume I: 1909-1939
ISBN: PB: 9781784106713, Carcanet, September 2018
600 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Described by Thom Gunn as "an ideal edition", this first volume of William Carlos Williams' "Collected Poems" is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite...
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Rondo
ISBN: PB: 9781784106430, Carcanet, August 2018
96 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, one of Australia's best-loved poets, writes in "Rondo" a book that distils his life-long themes of nature, time and love; he is civilised but also relentless in his dedication to "troubling the stubborn world for meaning".
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Naming the Dawn
ISBN: HB: 9780857425461, Seagull Books, May 2018
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond – with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up....
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Multiverse
ISBN: PB: 9781784105624, Carcanet, April 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"The Multiverse" sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way into memory not only as sense but also as sound...
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On Trust A Book of Lies
ISBN: PB: 9781784104160, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"On Trust" is a collection of poems organised around the idea of telling the truth. Inspired by the idea that poetry is often seen as being a vehicle for the articulation of individual truths, or as a medium for unvarnished and unprocessed confession...
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President of Planet Earth
ISBN: PB: 9781784104207, Carcanet, October 2017
124 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Inspired by the Russian futurist Khlebnikov, Wheatley provides a riveting poetic vision of world culture. This collection imagines futuristic social states from the South American nation of "Oblivia" to post-independence referendum present-day Scotla...
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Crossing the Mirror Line
ISBN: PB: 9781784104993, Carcanet, October 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Challenging debut from a mature new poet exploring the ways in which the past travels with us across landscapes. Crossing the Mirror Line explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections and the relationship between the viewer a...
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Sarajevo Roses Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104085, Carcanet, September 2017
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Sarajevo Roses" is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move . On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to...
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