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CARCANET POETRY
Scale
Mina Gorji ISBN 9781800172142 FORMAT Paperback
‘Gorji constructs intricate, considered poems which encourage us to democratise our attention and empathy’ THE GUARDIAN
RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 56pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry
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Her debut collection, Art of Escape, was a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (Jan 2020)
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Scale builds on the considerable achievement of her first book, transitioning from ‘escape’ to ‘shelter’
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These poems build a place of safety for herself, her family, her readers, and all those who are wandering and uprooted
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A collection full of creatures and their habitats, Gorji evokes and explores the multiple protective measures they adopt - nests, camouflage, mimicry, display
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Feeds into current ecological concerns without being conventional or clichéd, and delighting in the sometimes strange and darker side of nature
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mina Gorji was born in Tehran and grew up in London. She lives in Cambridge where she is a lecturer in the English Faculty, Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. Her debut poetry collection, Art of Escape, was published by Carcanet in 2020. Her other published work includes a study of John Clare, and essays on awkwardness, mess, weeds and rudeness. Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Magma, PN Review, London Magazine and The International Literary Quarterly.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784108823 Art of Escape Mina Gorji January 2020 £9.99
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CARCANET POETRY
Invitation to View
Peter Scupham ISBN 9781800172104 FORMAT Paperback RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 88pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry
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A new collection from the co-founder of The Mandeville Press and the legendary second-hand book business Mermaid Books in Norfolk
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Scupham is writing at age 88 with all his poetic energy and trademark wit
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This collection considers possible visitors to the poet’s 400 year-old house long after he and his partner have left it behind
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Delights in the efforts these visitors make to bring the house and garden alive, from poetry picnics to productions of Shakespeare
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Poems respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED) Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933. Since 1972 he published over ten collections of poetry. With John Mole he founded The Mandeville Press and ran Mermaid Books, a second-hand book business in Norfolk. He received a Cholmondely Award in 1996 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His 2022 Collected Poems was followed by Borrowed Landscapes in 2011. His final collection, Invitation to View, is published by Carcanet in July 2022. He passed away in June 2022 at the age of 88.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847770806 Borrowed Landscapes Peter Scupham August 2011 £9.95
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LIVES AND LETTERS
Zest:
Essays on the Art of Living
Iain Bamforth
‘To read him makes the patterns of our minds richer’
ISBN 9781800172050 FORMAT Paperback
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RRP £19.99 PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 304pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DNF Literary Essays
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A sensuous, richly nuanced collection of essays for intellectual and emotional survival in this fractious age
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Takes us by way of writers, artists, philosophers, travellers, and photographers into the world of Zest – how we can find it and what its discovery does to us
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Explores the impact of science on literature; globalisation and travel; work, leisure and the notion of the “good life”
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Bamforth has received an Eric Gregory Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and has written for the TLS, LRB, Quadrant, and the New York Times Book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 and grew up in Glasgow. He has worked as a hospital doctor in the American Hospital of Paris and the Australian outback, as urban and rural general practitioner, and more recently on community health projects in south-east Asia. He has also been a scientific translator and editor, literary journalist and lecturer in comparative literature. He has published five collections of poetry, a history of modern medicine as told through literature (The Body in the Library, Verso), and a collection of essays on European intellectual history (The Good European, Carcanet).
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784100568 A Doctor’s Dictionary Iain Bamforth August 2015 £16.99
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CARCANET POETRY
It Must Be a Misunderstanding: New and Selected Poems
translated by Forre st Gan der
Coral Bracho ISBN 9781800171978 FORMAT Paperback RRP £15.99 PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 320pp
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada BIC CODE DCF Poetry, CFP Translation, 1KLCM Mexico
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The first time Bracho - one of the most significant Mexican writers since Octavio Paz - has been extensively published in the UK
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Bracho’s most personal and emotionally expressive collection of poems to date
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Dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer’s, these poems find humor, tenderness and joy in her mother’s struggle while gradually revealing her inimitably strong, quirky character
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Bracho’s layered, wide-lined poetry has been compared to Jorie Graham’s, and her influence on Mexican poetry compared to John Ashbery’s influence on American verse
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Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet-translator Forrest Gander
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City, where she still lives and teaches. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ese espacio, ese jardín (2003) which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. Her poetry was translated for the Poetry Translation Center’s 2005 World Poets’ Tour by Tom Boll and poet Katherine Pierpoint. Bracho’s honors include the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. Gander is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784108618 Impossible Loves Dario Jaramillo October 2019 £12.99