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Snow's Wife
ISBN: PB: 9781933880815, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending with a spouse's death. It examines the daily minutiae of caregiving, both the tender and the distasteful, that lend startling poignancy to unbearable hards...
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£15,00
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Storage Unit for the Spirit House
ISBN: PB: 9781632430861, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt use...
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£15,00
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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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Solace Is Not the Lullaby
ISBN: PB: 9780300250343, ISBN: HB: 9780300250350, Yale University Press, May 2020
80 pp., 22.2x15.8 cm
The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osier's poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. In his foreword to the collection, award-winning poet Carl Phillips notes, "Ce...
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£14,99
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£30,00
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Songs We Learn from Trees An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781784109479, Carcanet, May 2020
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.
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£18,99
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Sweet Nothings
ISBN: PB: 9781784109394, Carcanet, May 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.
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£10,99
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Set in Stone
ISBN: PB: 9781933880792, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Set in Stone", Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an accessible and honest way. These poems tell stori...
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£13,00
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Squid Squad A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781784109356, Carcanet, April 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Squid Squad", award-winning poet Matthew Welton takes his first foray into fiction in verse form.
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£10,99
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Scraping Away
ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...
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£13,00
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Scatterplot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430779, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
"Scatterplot" navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through...
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£15,00
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