Shark Nursery
ISBN: PB: 9781800174146,
Carcanet,
June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Eigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018
"The Shark Nursery" consists of three interlocking parts: poems arising directly from lockdown, poems about lives lived in an online reality, and animal poems. The animal poems draw on the rich tradition of...
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11.99 GBP
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Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
ISBN: PB: 9780300276763,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264173,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian.
Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only do...
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14.99 GBP
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Goddamned Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800174047,
Carcanet,
May 2024
220 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
220 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A collection of new and selected poems about life, love, and growing older.
A couple of years ago Stanley Moss renewed his driver's license. Now in his late 90s, his license runs to his 104th year. He has produced such an immense volume of work in h...
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16.99 GBP
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Still City
A Diary of an Invasion
ISBN: PB: 9781800174023,
Carcanet,
May 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Scaglione Prize 2023
American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize 2023
"Still City" includes some ninety poems. They register the changing sense of time, mortality, and responsibility in a world at war and reflect on the private and...
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12.99 GBP
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Strongbox
ISBN: PB: 9781800174085,
Carcanet,
May 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award 2017
SoA Cholmondeley Award 2017
Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016
"The Strongbox" opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa.
Drawing in elements of Greek m...
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Ward Toward
ISBN: PB: 9780300273922,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273915,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation.
In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces – from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to...
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30.00 GBP
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Coco Island
ISBN: PB: 9781800174009,
Carcanet,
April 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Christine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. "Coco Island" presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in c...
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Come Here to This Gate
ISBN: PB: 9781800173965,
Carcanet,
April 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collection 2019
Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award 2014
"Come Here to This Gate", Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and w...
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11.99 GBP
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Not a Moment Too Soon
ISBN: PB: 9781800173989,
Carcanet,
April 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1984, 1997
McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year 1995
Creative Scotland Award 2003
Frank Kuppner's new (eleventh) book consists of three long, hilarious, philosophical, existential sequences, "The Liberating Vertigo...
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That Which Appears
ISBN: PB: 9781800173859,
Carcanet,
April 2024
360 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Shortlisted for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021
Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017
"That Which Appears" gathers together four book-length sequences; "The Hundred Thousan...
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19.99 GBP
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