Dr Work's Leopard
Life with Appa
ISBN: PB: 9781784108038,
Carcanet,
August 2026
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...
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12.99 GBP
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Poppies in Translation
ISBN: PB: 9781847770202,
Carcanet,
March 2015
146 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
146 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua – many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal and the allegorical, certainties are undone in an open...
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9.99 GBP
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857549973,
Carcanet,
September 2013
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This book gathers four decades of writing, published in collections from Brunizem in 1988 to Pure Lizard in 2008. It maps the poet's trajectory, following her exile from her homeland, India, and her mother tongue, Gujarati, to the landscapes and lang...
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19.95 GBP
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Pure Lizard
ISBN: PB: 9781857548334,
Carcanet,
February 2008
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Transformation is the underlying theme of Sujata Bhatt's new collection, the title deriving from a mystical being with skin that is "pure lizard". The natural world is ever present in these poems; monkeys, crickets and bats reappear in new incarnatio...
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9.95 GBP
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Colour for Solitude
ISBN: PB: 9781857545890,
Carcanet,
April 2002
112 pp., 21,7x13,5 cm
112 pp., 21,7x13,5 cm
Revolving around the public and private lives of the great modern painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, this collection explores the artist's relationship with her craft and her friendship with poet Rainer Maria Rilke and his wife, sculptor Clara Westhoff....
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11.99 GBP
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Augatora
ISBN: PB: 9781857543810,
Carcanet,
February 2000
96 pp., 21,6x13,7 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,7 cm
"Augatora" is not a new word: it is a word lost from language a millennium ago. In Old High German it meant, more or less, "eye gate" ('window' with an inbuilt etymology).
The windows in this book open on real and imagined land- and cityscapes. Indi...
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8.95 GBP
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Point No Point
Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857543063,
Carcanet,
July 1997
144 pp., 21,5x13,2 cm
144 pp., 21,5x13,2 cm
Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning "Brunizem", appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (...
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9.95 GBP
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Stinking Rose
ISBN: PB: 9781857540482,
Carcanet,
February 1995
144 pp., 23,2x15,0 cm
144 pp., 23,2x15,0 cm
The Stinking Rose is one of the names for a plant that arouses strong feelings: garlic. No one is neutral about it. Sujata Bhatt explores the various mythologies and the magical and practical aspects of garlic in a sequence of twenty-five parts, is a...
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8.95 GBP
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