Sandpiper
The Journals of Elizabeth Bishop
ISBN: PB: 9781800173514,
Carcanet,
November 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This is a fascinating window giving on the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. It follows on Carcanet's publication of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments", edited by...
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25.00 GBP
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Dr Work's Leopard
Life with Appa
ISBN: PB: 9781784108038,
Carcanet,
March 2025
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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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800173330,
Carcanet,
November 2024
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This "Collected Poems" spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.
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18.99 GBP
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Invisible Dog
ISBN: PB: 9781800174511,
Carcanet,
November 2024
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Fabio Morabito is one of Mexico's best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. Some of his poems...
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12.99 GBP
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One Little Room
ISBN: PB: 9781800174498,
Carcanet,
November 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
The poems in "One Little Room" enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limit...
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11.99 GBP
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Billy "Nibs" Buckshot
The Complete Works
ISBN: PB: 9781800174436,
Carcanet,
October 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of 31-syllable sparkles, probably set off by accident, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered & enjoy...
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12.99 GBP
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Dante's Purgatorio
ISBN: PB: 9781800174450,
Carcanet,
October 2024
220 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
220 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
A sequel to Philip Terry's "Dante's Inferno" (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still. Dante's Virgil is substituted with Ted Berrigan as guide....
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16.99 GBP
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Emotional Support Horse
ISBN: PB: 9781800174474,
Carcanet,
October 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This tragi-comic, or comi-tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. "Emotional Support Horse" tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco-stress. But wit is not only an elem...
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11.99 GBP
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Conjurors
Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800174559,
Carcanet,
September 2024
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
In "Conjurors", a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917-1974) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid-century, Apocalypse (2020), but this is her first collecti...
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14.99 GBP
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Library Lives
A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands
ISBN: PB: 9781800174375,
Carcanet,
September 2024
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
"Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects From the Rylands" plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and me...
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16.99 GBP
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