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Poetry

Paperback. Addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 101.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463174
ISBN
9780856463174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Presents a selection of Justo Jorge Padron's (one of the representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s) works. This book offers a wide selection from Padron's thirteen Spanish volumes since 1989 including his last English collection, "On the Cutting Edge". Translator(s): Bourne, Louis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463464
ISBN
9780856463464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. Includes poems which celebrate active life, vigorous sexuality, and the subtle steps of the tango. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 207.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463648
ISBN
9780856463648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.23

paperback. A collection of poems where triolets, quatrains and villanelles are interspersed with finely modulated free verse, with echoes of the modern masters and their obsessive focus on uncomfortable truths. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780856463655
ISBN
9780856463655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.21

Paperback. A collection of poems that feature ordinary and mythical lives, and the political and the personal. Here, God and Death are not matters for detached speculation but constant and vivid presences, whether centre-stage or waiting in the wings. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463662
ISBN
9780856463662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.95

Paperback. A collection of poems that focus on the lives of ordinary people - children, vicars, orphans, nurses, grannies, social workers at a dance, and old people in residential homes. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463839
ISBN
9780856463839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.84

Paperback. A collection of poems ranging over nearly half a century. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463853
ISBN
9780856463853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.72

Paperback. A homage to a Neapolitan poet which presents a selection of fresh versions from his collection. It explores the background to his work and the qualities, literary and human. Translator(s): Shepherd, Bill; Howell, Anthony. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463877
ISBN
9780856463877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.69

Paperback. Features poems that focus on the question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in faith or the rain, by doing a puzzle or watching TV. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464119
ISBN
9780856464119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.99

paperback. A selection of poems from the author's previous books. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464140
ISBN
9780856464140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. A collection of poetry. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464171
ISBN
9780856464171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.47

Paperback. A sequence of poems in three voices that introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464188
ISBN
9780856464188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. Offers a selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. Editor(s): Popa, Vasko. Translator(s): Harvey, Andrew; Pennington, Anne. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGS; DCQ; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464195
ISBN
9780856464195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.46

Paperback. A collection of poems by Anthony Howell. It chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464225
ISBN
9780856464225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. This title gives us echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, and the epics of myth and legend. Translator(s): Kissam, Edward; Schmidt, Michael. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2JNN; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464232
ISBN
9780856464232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.92

Paperback. Deals with memory, including the tricks it plays. This book features the poems that seek to revive happy, confusing, sad and celebratory times over the years, from affairs in distant youth to the credit crunch. It also includes translations of some favourite modern poems. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464256
ISBN
9780856464256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.35

Paperback. A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert. Editor(s): Raitt, A. W. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 83 pages, bibliography, colour frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
83
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894418
ISBN
9780859894418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.42

Hardback. Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade, authors responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre. Editor(s): Freeman, E. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894852
ISBN
9780859894852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.80

Paperback. Remy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 104 pages, 80pp colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DCF; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895354
ISBN
9780859895354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.62

Paperback. This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poemes heroique, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transformed into gallantry. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 51 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
51
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896429
ISBN
9780859896429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.64

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