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Overwinter
ISBN: PB: 9781602232532, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A debut collection from an exciting new voice in Alaska poetry, "Overwinter" reconciles the natural quiet of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Jeremy Pataky's migration between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park inspires t...
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Ozone Journal
ISBN: PB: 9780226207032, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
from "Ozone Journal" Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette, we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference between an oboe and a bassoon at the river's edge under cover...
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Otherwise
ISBN: PB: 9781847774996, Carcanet, February 2015
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poems in this first collection by New Zealand poet John Dennison are concerned, above all, with love, and with the strange, unlooked-for manner of its appearances among us. Marked by emotional acuity and formal deftness, "Otherwise" draws us into...
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Openwork Poetry and Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780300197631, Yale University Press, October 2014
328 pp., 21x14 cm
Andre du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume sets out to remedy the oversight, introducing a selection of Du Bouchet's poetry and pros...
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Other Mountain
ISBN: PB: 9781847774491, Carcanet, August 2014
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "The Other Mountain" Rowan Williams relives moments of intense trial, when women and men are transformed in spirit, and sometimes in body also. He not only reads the signs as they appear in nature and history: he lives them through language. Imagi...
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On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight Surrealist Poetry in Britain
ISBN: PB: 9781847771094, Carcanet, October 2013
262 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the "Surrealist Poems and Objects" exhibition at the London Gallery at midnight on 24 November 1937. Within a few years th...
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Oracabessa
ISBN: PB: 9781847772428, Carcanet, October 2013
157 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Oracabessa" is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ("Winter has landed") and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica...
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Open Door One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
ISBN: PB: 9780226104010, ISBN: HB: 9780226750705, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm
When Harriet Monroe founded "Poetry" magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door".May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!" For a century, the most important and endurin...
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Otherwise Unchanged
ISBN: PB: 9781847772008, Carcanet, December 2012
120 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating elements from English, Welsh, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese...
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Overwintering
ISBN: PB: 9781906188061, Carcanet, October 2012
80 pp., 21.1x13.5 cm
"Overwintering" is coming through, emerging into the light of a new season. Pippa Little's book explores what survives and grows from the dark energies of winter, night and loss, from the buried past and the imagination's depths. Landscapes speak of...
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