Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2009
ISBN 10: 185754983X ISBN 13: 9781857549836
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2020
ISBN 10: 1800170084 ISBN 13: 9781800170087
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2007
ISBN 10: 1903039703 ISBN 13: 9781903039700
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The fifth OxfordPoets anthology continues the aim stated in the first of the series, 'a desire to represent the best' of the new work associated with the OxfordPoets imprint. This latest collection is as varied and thought-provoking as the earlier books. Here are poets from a diversity of backgrounds and traditions, spanning ages, experiences and purposes. What they share is a commitment to the truth of their experience and an excitement with the possibilities of poetry. They often write at the point where the private and public worlds collide, but such serious concerns never preclude wit, imagination, an inventive flair for language. New writers, and writers who are already becoming recognised, are making compelling new poetry. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857543777 ISBN 13: 9781857543773
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Blickling Hall, this book celebrates the skills of independent memorial makers and lettering artists. It contains photographs of all 54 works in the exhibition, along with essays on life, death, spirituality, the English tradition of memorials and the controversy over churchyard rules and regulations. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847771114 ISBN 13: 9781847771117
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Waterloo Teeth explores our capacity to articulate the pain and pleasure of lived experience - our own, and that of others distant from us - across different locations in history, culture, and in the difference of species. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2010
ISBN 10: 1847770703 ISBN 13: 9781847770707
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In 1979, Five American Poets helped to change our sense of American poetry, introducing the work of Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck and Robert Pinsky to British readers and writers. Now, in a much-changed landscape, this volume revisits that constellation of writers: what have they been up to since the 1970s; why have they become so important in energising the writing of their own country; and, what do they bring to us. They shared at Stanford University in California an apprenticeship in language as students of the poet-critic Yvor Winters. Associates since the 1960s, they never constituted a 'movement', but they have in common, in Clive Wilmer's words, 'a fundamental faith, tested to endurance by the politics of our era, that a common language implies a common society'. Five American Poets continues a conversation between these distinctive voices, from the colloquial ease of Robert Pinsky to the allusive discontinuities of John Matthias, from James McMichael's narratives to the meditative textures created by John Peck and the sensuous immediacy of Robert Hass. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857547861 ISBN 13: 9781857547863
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The Instruments of Art uses poetry to explore the lives and works of Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and others, the personal sacrifice involved, the singular vision and inspiration that set them in motion. God's creation, some argue, is a work of art, and Christ's life and death an expression of it. Deane follows this thread in a series of sonnets based on the Stations of the Cross. Another series of poems takes John the Evangelist, 'the one whom Christ loved', as the voice of a poet expressing the hard love and personal commitment demanded by Christ; Deane conducts this exploration experimentally, contrasting and complimenting it with his personal experience of faith through suffering and love. The Old Testament story of Jacob's search for meaning is retold through the poet's own memories of family and becomes an emblem of the universal search for truth and peace. This is a collection written by the light of faith yet shadowed by doubt; it develops an instinctive approach to art that offers an understanding in terms of the highest reaches of suffering humanity. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1993
ISBN 10: 1857540239 ISBN 13: 9781857540239
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The poems in this new collection are taken from a verse journal for the years 1985-1990, arranged chronologically to form three sections. The first considers loss and death, themes which have haunted literature since the Gilgamesh epic, and includes fragments of a conversation with the dead. The second is concerned with the world outside, which Weissbort describes as the world of dreams. The third reflects on politics, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire. The unity of the collection is in its style - a sophisticated and adaptable "vers libre" of great lucidity, answering the "journal" subject matter. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1989
ISBN 10: 0856357561 ISBN 13: 9780856357565
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Description currently unavailable. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2002
ISBN 10: 0856463523 ISBN 13: 9780856463525
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1995
ISBN 10: 0856462624 ISBN 13: 9780856462627
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The second volume of this occasional series introduces other nine talented newcomers. The variety of poetic voices and themes on display reflects backgrounds which range from Scotland to Bristol and from gardening to rock bands. Many have been published in magazines or have already won awards; all are passionately involved with poetry. Together they convey the excitement, skill and richness to be found in British poetry today. The poets included are Sean Boustead, Colette Bryce, Kate Clanchy, Oliver Comins, Christina Dunhill, Alice Oswald, Richard Price, Mike Venner and John Whale. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2009
ISBN 10: 1903039924 ISBN 13: 9781903039922
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections. She evokes the mirrors and doorways, dreams and night-time journeys that transform the familiar: entrances into a different reality. "Over" explores liminal places where ocean meets land, land drops to ravine, lives intersect in piazzas. The poems cross thresholds between what is finished and what is 'not over yet', between present and past and, in an extract from her new translation of the medieval dream-vision Pearl, between a sunlit garden and the mysterious landscape of the world to come. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2014
ISBN 10: 1847772498 ISBN 13: 9781847772497
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is a selection by "Poetry London" editors Tim Dooley and Martha Kapos of the very best poems, reviews, and features to mark the 25th anniversary of its publication. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1995
ISBN 10: 1857540670 ISBN 13: 9781857540673
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Building on the explorations and discoveries initiated in "A Journey" and pursued in "Outside History", the author brings her poems up more immediately than ever against the social and political realities of her Ireland. This book is a Poetry Book Society Choice. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2020
ISBN 10: 1784108359 ISBN 13: 9781784108359
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The November-December 2020 issue. Vahni Capildeos Letter from Quarantine and Andrew Fitzsimons poetry from Basho in Lockdown. Essays by David Rosenberg and Ricardo Nirnberg on the effect and implications of Lockdown for poetry, literature, and the human imagination. Michael Freemans reflections on Boethius writing his great philosophical poem The Consolation of Philosophy while in lockdown in ancient times. New poetry by Andrew Mears, Victoria Kennefick, Wong May, and Maryam Hessavi. New to PN Review this issue: Andrew Fitzsimons, Jennifer Wong, and Nilton Santiago. And more. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1997
ISBN 10: 0856462950 ISBN 13: 9780856462955
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she writes, Robert Nye remarked, 'as if she were the first to do so'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2006
ISBN 10: 1857548930 ISBN 13: 9781857548938
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In his first new volume of poems since "Poems the Size of Photographs" (2002), Les Murray celebrates the grace and variousness of the world with an unfailing abundance of imagination and linguistic energy. Here is a poet writing at the height of his powers, capturing the richness of life in story-poems, word-plays, history- and myth-makings, aphoristic fragments and domestic portraits, recollections of rural Australia and moments of urban experience. Houses - as home, landscape and metaphor - form a many-sided theme of the book, and as ever Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1985
ISBN 10: 0856355836 ISBN 13: 9780856355837
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'Vikram Seth's poems.should have an impact far beyond much noisier pieces; for when did we last see a volume in which the poet's eye is on what is objectively before him, rather than on the intricacies of his own sensibility? Seth knows (not as a tourist, but from the inside) four cultures: his native India; England; California; communist China. Here he inspects them all respectfully and eagerly, and without partisanship or facile ironies balances each of them against the others.' - Donald Davie. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847770746 ISBN 13: 9781847770745
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words. Kinloch's poems are portraits of artists and reflections on art through five centuries of the artistic bond between Scotland and France. John Acheson, Master of the Scottish Mint, takes Mary, Queen of Scots' portrait for the Scottish coinage; Esther Inglis paints the first self-portrait by a Scottish artist; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ticks off his portrait painter, Allan Ramsay, and Eugene Delacroix offers David Wilkie a brace of partridge for tea in Kensington. The Glasgow Boys, the Scottish Colourists and Charles Rennie Mackintosh bring the gallery into the twentieth century, where Kinloch considers the hybrid art of figures such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alison Watt and Douglas Gordon in analytical prose-poems. In the book's second part, a mini-epic of a seventeenth-century priest's Grand Tour offers a reflection on the nature of Collection itself, whether of paintings or poems, the composing of fragments into a whole. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2006
ISBN 10: 1857548876 ISBN 13: 9781857548877
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she strikes out again in new directions, taking nothing for granted. Her poems are ferociously vital, fantastical, sometimes violent, almost always savagely humorous and self-mocking. Caroline Bird's world is inhabited by failed and (less often) successful relationships, by the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, by leprechauns and spells and Miss Pringle's seven lovely daughters waiting to spring out of a cardboard cake, and the turnip. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2007
ISBN 10: 1857549031 ISBN 13: 9781857549034
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to political satire and social commentary. This representative selection of the poetry he has published from 1956 to 2006 invites readers to explore the range of his poetic world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784103284 ISBN 13: 9781784103286
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this .' In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet - in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy - keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the growing sequence, move away from what they intend to say in order at last, wittily, angrily, ironically, to swerve in and say it.Translation, too, is hard. There are often competing versions - of Lorca, for example, and Cavafy. ' The painter is frustrated to be always / painting onto something, to be / concealing precisely as he displays.' Words reveal and at the same time conceal, yet what they conceal is part of what they want to say.The poet throws the poem for someone who isn't always there to catch. The fortunate reader intercepts. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2019
ISBN 10: 1784109185 ISBN 13: 9781784109189
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fisher, Jeff (illustrator). Marie-Therese Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until the day on which she took her own life, three years after his death. The poems illuminate his love for a woman who was, as John Berger says, 'the sexually most important affair of his life'; they also, perhaps, make sense of Marie-Therese's love for him. Jeff Fisher's drawings animate the vivid voice of Marie-Therese, created with great immediacy by Julia Blackburn. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1997
ISBN 10: 1857543009 ISBN 13: 9781857543001
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1999
ISBN 10: 1857544536 ISBN 13: 9781857544534
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Les Murray writes of his New South Wales landscapes, of the cities of Australia, and of the lands and peoples he has travelled and lived among. He has a vision of how things are and a sense of how they ought to be. His is a poetry of incommensurables: of the sacred, and also of this world. He is like an early Romantic, vigorous and unsentimental. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2010
ISBN 10: 1847770614 ISBN 13: 9781847770615
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi - and from the child in wartime Leicester to a 'fortune beyond any deserving / to be still here' in a London garden, eight decades later. 'Migrations', the book's opening poem, celebrates the recurring 'filigree of migration, symbiosis, assimilation'. Inheriting 'a long history of crossing borders', Feinstein explores the haunted landscape between past and present, public history and personal memory, in simple intense lyrics. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1997
ISBN 10: 0856355941 ISBN 13: 9780856355943
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784104868 ISBN 13: 9781784104863
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. stack is a book-length poem, and the debut Carcanet title of one of the UKs rising poetry talents. Described by its author as a document of `minimalist interventions, the small descriptions that make up stack capture seemingly and actually everyday scenes, `found images from walks, tabletops, cafes, bus stops, and the conveyor belt of still-lives that is the poets imagination. Following in the footsteps of minimalists such as Aram Saroyan, Robert Grenier and Robert Lax, Davies has dedicated much of his life as a writer so far to finding innovative ways of saying less. Resisting the poetic trend of showing why ordinary things are magical, his writing shows why ordinary things are ordinary: a packet of beef, the roof of a shed, computer stuff in a computer bag. Yet there is a philosophical aspect to stack. The uncanny precision of its images, the tiny disruptions in grammar and syntax, feel like symptoms of languages attempt, and failure, to reflect the world. Each time words move in to capture it, reality slips: something is added, or something is lost. stack can be read as a list of discrete compositions, a series of connected images, or a set of modular combinations. What binds the poem is Daviess flair for slow, disinterested inspection. The result is a poem that invites its readers to linger, to dally a welcome curative for our rapid-fire world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 2019
ISBN 10: 1784108073 ISBN 13: 9781784108076
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. Vital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 - a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings had eventually set up home together in the Lake District, where they were to remain for the rest of their lives. After two years in Grasmere, William became engaged to Mary Hutchinson. There followed an intense period of re-adjustment for all three, and for his former lover Annette Vallon, who had borne him a daughter he had never met. During 1802 the Wordsworth siblings wrote some of their most beautiful work; these were their last months of living alone, and their writing has an elegiac quality. Their journey to see Annette Vallon and meet William's daughter for the first time took them through London to Calais during the brief Peace of Amiens, involving a careful dissociation from his past. Other complications coloured their lives, to do with Coleridge and his failing marriage. Lucy Newlyn draws all this material into the vital stream of her sequence. with a preface by Richard Holmes PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORDSWORTH TRUST. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Manchester, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857544013 ISBN 13: 9781857544015
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, she came into close touch with another kind of music, and with the different spaces it occupies, the different demands it makes on performers and audiences. There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean coast, and poems from the landscape we most readily associate with this best-loved of Welsh poets: Wales, its people and its creatures. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.