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In Nearby Bushes
ISBN: PB: 9781784108458, Carcanet, August 2019
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet – the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by m...
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£9,99
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God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107550, Carcanet, June 2019
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Death is a many-colored harlequin,' Stanley Moss addirmed on his ninety-second birthday. Rosanna Warren writes of his latest poems, 'Undaunted, outrageously alive, Moss flaunts more colors than the Grim Reaper ever dreamed of, laughs in his face, rhy...
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£19,99
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Prophecy Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784107277, Carcanet, April 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following his acclaimed "Pandemonium", Thomas McCarthy's "Prophecy" dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods a...
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£9,99
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Grimspound and Inhabiting Art
ISBN: PB: 9781784105907, Carcanet, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves, one is a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound, on Dartmoor) and the other is a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. 'Grimspound' is a four-p...
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£16,99
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Beowulf
ISBN: PB: 9781784106225, Carcanet, September 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody, and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotation.
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£14,99
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Anemos
ISBN: PB: 9781784106300, Carcanet, July 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Christine Marendon grew up in Bavaria with German and Italian as her languages; she is a significant translator as well as a radical eco-poet, keenly aware of social issues. This collection is translated into English by the leading UK translator Ken...
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£12,99
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Magic of What's There
ISBN: PB: 9781784104948, Carcanet, November 2017
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The Ted Hughes Award-winning poet David Morley explores the suffering and tragedy of his Romany childhood through fiercely personal poems. Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challeng...
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£9,99
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In Darkest Capital Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784104900, Carcanet, October 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
This" Collected Poems" spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle generation. In "Darkest Capital" engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.
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£20,00
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Seasonal Disturbances
ISBN: PB: 9781784103361, Carcanet, June 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut "An Aviary of Small Birds" ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence,...
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On Balance
ISBN: PB: 9781784103606, Carcanet, May 2017
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Teetering on the brink of various crises, Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering – ships, planes, robots – from our radically unstable perspective, struggling for poise. Poems become pliable; the dead speak.
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