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Take Nothing
ISBN: PB: 9780887486562, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
The poems of "Take Nothing" are embedded in connections to family and landscape, to memory and possibility. They especially explore and distill those indelible, sometimes small, moments that cumulatively shape the arc of a life. These can be as surpr...
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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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The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: PB: 9781784108694, Carcanet, November 2019
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the c...
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Tripping Over Clouds
ISBN: PB: 9781784107437, Carcanet, June 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Tripping Over Clouds" issues a bold challenge to Ezra Pound's maxim to 'go in fear of abstractions'. Underpinning this is a re-imagining of abstraction as a prior state of possibility from which the world and ourselves are constantly re-emerging – a...
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Tribunal
ISBN: PB: 9781632430663, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The three works of poetry that constitute "Tribunal" were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and – especially in the United States – reassertions of white suprem...
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£14,00
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Thousandfold
ISBN: PB: 9781784106393, Carcanet, January 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Nina Bogin's Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments – the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends....
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Third Mandarin
ISBN: PB: 9781784104009, Carcanet, August 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.
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Translations from Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781784106065, Carcanet, July 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar's poetry has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His new book wonderfully recreates moments of his and our wider history, making inclusions where exclusions have occurred before.
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Together Still
ISBN: HB: 9780857424242, Seagull Books, August 2017
80 pp., 19.6x14 cm
The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and publish...
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Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
ISBN: PB: 9781784103804, Carcanet, July 2017
84 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following her 2013 debut "This is Yarrow" (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, "The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx". The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monol...
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