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Paperback. Who are the invisible kings? Why do two bears follow them round Britain? And what happens when a gypsy's curse comes miraculously to life? This book reveals extraordinary worlds where the real and imagined converge in stories and charms, just this side of science and magic. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549058
- ISBN
- 9781857549058
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.67
€ 19.99
€ 17.67
Paperback. A poetry collection that travels through emotions and places, unfolding to the rhythms of discovery and memory. Divided into parts, it glimpses an elusive pattern in fragments: a plane climbs into a clear evening sky, the year turns to spring, a father's voice is remembered after his death. The second part is marked by meticulous observation. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 93
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548778
- ISBN
- 9781857548778
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.93
€ 18.99
€ 16.93
Paperback. Beginning with his departure from New York to Istanbul, the author discusses a journey, not so much between contrasting cities as 'between different versions of the same city', to a place that is exotic and familiar, spanning West and East, past and present, where cultures and histories intersect. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548723
- ISBN
- 9781857548723
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.69
€ 19.99
€ 17.69
Paperback. Taking as its subject the natural world and the arbitrary nature of things, this collection includes poems, rhymed lyrics and epigrams, discursive philosophical discourse and free verse. It demonstrates an Augustan preference for substantial content. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548389
- ISBN
- 9781857548389
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.30
€ 20.99
€ 18.30
Hardback. Collection of poetry of well known poets including Harold Pinter, Dylan Thomas and Lawrence Durrell, selected by their family members. Editor(s): Astbury, Anthony. Num Pages: 180 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548365
- ISBN
- 9781857548365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 34.83
€ 42.99
€ 34.83
Paperback. Presents a collection that meditates on personal and natural history, nation states and mental states, violence, religion and poetry. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548280
- ISBN
- 9781857548280
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.29
€ 20.99
€ 18.29
Paperback. A collection of poems exploring the interdependence of earthly things and heavenly mystery. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857548242
- ISBN
- 9781857548242
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Condition: New
€ 15.19
€ 15.19
Paperback. The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners. This book contains extended selections from the work of four writers from the convict era. Editor(s): Murray, Les. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547856
- ISBN
- 9781857547856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.18
€ 32.99
€ 26.18
Paperback. A Place in the World, Iain Bamforth's fourth collection, is his most lyrical, challenging and considered work to date. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547603
- ISBN
- 9781857547603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.17
€ 21.99
€ 19.17
Paperback. Ballads are memorable. This book was finished when the poet was 50, with too much to remember: bulldozers down the street tearing through a Victorian school. Ballads are bare and brief; tried by time. They salvage but they sing, stubbornly. Their stories are sure. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547511
- ISBN
- 9781857547511
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.22
€ 20.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. From the author of 'Practical Anarchy' and 'Resistance is Futile', this latest collection of poetry is two books in one. 'The Coalville Divan' builds on Gallas' fascination with Eastern literature, and 'Excellent Men' puts Beckett before Oort and Fellini next to the Unknown Soldier. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABU; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547436
- ISBN
- 9781857547436
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.48
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€ 18.48
Paperback. Richard Dutton's introduction illuminates the structure and context of Jonson's "Epigrams" and "The Forest". Dutton shows them to be carefully structured poem sequences that display Jonson's command of poetic forms and involve the reader in evaluating a range of shifting perspectives. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Num Pages: 121 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 197.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 121
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547054
- ISBN
- 9781857547054
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.62
€ 20.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857546590
- ISBN
- 9781857546590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.08
€ 20.99
€ 18.08
Paperback. The surface of many poems in this work draw on life in the Middle East and Middle Europe, but their interior is a tension between the allurements of the strange and a repulsion against its brutalities. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857546415
- ISBN
- 9781857546415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.57
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€ 18.57
Paperback. "Book Of Stones" is very much made out of the things around the author - living in the new South Africa, being part of a continent and its life and history and processes. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 59
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857546408
- ISBN
- 9781857546408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.10
€ 20.99
€ 18.10
Hardback. This sequence of poems takes the reader into the early 20th century, to Northern Germany where a group of artists founded a colony in Worpswede, a rural community near Bremen. Fascinated by the number of self-portraits, Sujata Bhatt imagines the painters' inner and outer worlds. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Library ed
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545944
- ISBN
- 9781857545944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.55
€ 23.99
€ 20.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 269.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545869
- ISBN
- 9781857545869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.99
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€ 21.99
Paperback. Sidney Keyes was killed in action in Tunisia in 1943. He was 20 years old. With Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis he is one of the oustanding poets of World War II. His dramatic monologues, his poems of landscape, of the weird and macabre, his mastery of blank verse, set him apart. Series: Poetry Pleiade. Num Pages: 180 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545807
- ISBN
- 9781857545807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.03
€ 26.99
€ 23.03
paperback. A collection of poems produced by Brian Cox since his retirement as a Manchester professor, which portray scenes from his own life and convey a sense of ending and losing a role. Num Pages: 55 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 55
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545449
- ISBN
- 9781857545449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.05
€ 20.99
€ 18.05
Paperback. A collection of New Zealander Alan Curnow's works from 1997-2001, looking at places, lifetimes, personal accidents and infinite spaces. Num Pages: 62 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 62
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545388
- ISBN
- 9781857545388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.36
€ 13.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857544985
- ISBN
- 9781857544985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.21
€ 30.99
€ 25.21
Paperback. Peter Sansom was the Marks and Spencer Poet in Residence during 1999. This collection includes his poetic "diary" of that year, alongside a range of poems which cover the spectrum of family experience from young babies learning to speak to the death of a parent. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 123.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857544848
- ISBN
- 9781857544848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.68
€ 16.99
€ 14.68
Paperback. This collection brings together work from 1990-1995, the poems which Karen Press regards as "exploratory tools along two axes of what it means to have a home". The axes are time and space; Press draws on the history of a particular place at a particular time. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857544787
- ISBN
- 9781857544787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.55
€ 16.99
€ 14.55
Paperback. Number 20 in Thomas Kinsella's series, "The Familiar" is a sequence of poems concerning the solitary but connected passions of lovers. It includes several prints of Celtic engravings. Series: Peppercanister S. Num Pages: 24 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 240. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 24
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857544404
- ISBN
- 9781857544404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.48
€ 16.99
€ 14.48