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Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology II ISBN 9781800172241 FORMAT Paperback RRP £12.99
judged by si mon ar m i tage ma li k a b o o ker stell a bu t l er za f fa r ku n i al & john wh al e
PUBLICATION DATE 31st March 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th May 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCQ Poetry Anthologies
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Anthology celebrating the winner, shortlistees & other contributors to the second Brotherton Poetry Prize, 2020-21 (presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre)
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Compelling introduction by UK Poet Laureate and prize judge Simon Armitage
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Other judges include Malika Booker and Zaffar Kunial
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Brotherton Library houses the archives of several outstanding contemporary poets and its Poetry Centre celebrates this rich heritage with a new generation of poets
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Prize is the Centre’s latest expression of commitment to poetry as a living art, supported by events and promotion in Leeds
ABOUT THE EDITOR Simon Armitage is a British poet, playwright and novelist. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and is the current UK Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include The Dead Sea Poems (1995), Killing Time (1999), Universal Home Doctor (2002), The Shout: Selected Poems (2005), Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (2006), The Not Dead (2008), Out of the Blue (2008) and Seeing Stars (2010).
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784109233 Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology I Ed. Simon Armitage et al March 2020 £12.99
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Citizen Poet:
edited by Jo dy Al l e n R an do l ph
New and Selected Essays
introduction by Colm Tó i b í n
Eavan Boland
‘one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century’
ISBN 9781800171701 FORMAT Paperback RRP £20.00
POETRY REVIEW
PUBLICATION DATE 27th April 2023 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 440pp TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada BIC CODE DNF Literary Essays, 1DBR Ireland
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Boland’s ground-breaking essays and interviews, first collected in Object Lessons (2006), are included and enhanced by essays and major later writings addressing the changing nature of poetry, the poet, and Ireland
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Includes renowned essays ‘In Search of a Nation’, ‘In Search of a Language’, ‘Outside History’ and ‘The Woman Poet: her dilemma’
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Boland’s posthumous collection of poems, The Historians, won the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and was a 2020 Book of the Year in the TLS, Guardian, Sunday Independent and Irish Times
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A great enabler of two generations of Irish poets drawn from the Republic and Northern Ireland, she also wrote some of the most iconic Irish poems of the last fifty years
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED) Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin, studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book appeared in 1967. She taught widely in Ireland and the United States. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, a key figure for a generation of female and male writers, her Carcanet books include The Journey and other poems (1987), a Collected and a New Collected Poems. The Historians, her posthumous collection was awarded the Costa Prize in 2020.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784109141 The Historians Eavan Boland October 2020 £10.99
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Rhapsodies 1831
translated by Jo h n Gal l as & Kurt Gän z l
Petrus Borel ISBN 9781800172203 FORMAT Paperback RRP £12.99 PUBLICATION DATE 24th February 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th April 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp TERRITORIES World
BIC CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDF France, 3JH 19th Century
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The radical, French Romantic poet finds his ideal translators in Gallas and Gänzl, bringing this important poet to the attention of a modern audience
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An intense, extravagant and eccentric individual, he assumed the name le Lycanthrope (the “Wolfman”)
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His work has flavours of horror and melodrama and would later inspire the Surrealists
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All the major poems are here, including Rhapsodies (1831) and selections from the later work
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At last Borel can be read for his many tones (hilarious, moving, melancholy, stentorian), his politics, and his sometimes bizarre vision
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECE A SED) Petrus Borel (26 June 1809 – 14 July 1859) was a French writer of the Romantic movement. Born Joseph-Pierre Borel dHauterive at Lyon, the 12 of 14 children of an ironmonger, he studied architecture in Paris but abandoned it for literature. Nicknamed le Lycanthrope (“wolfman”), and the center of the circle of Bohemians in Paris, he was noted for extravagant and eccentric writing, foreshadowing Surrealism. He was not commercially successful though, and eventually was found a minor civil service post by his friends, including Théophile Gautier. He died at Mostaganem in Algeria.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847771094 On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain Ed. Michel Remy October 2013 £18.95
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Thorpeness
‘Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.’
Alison Brackenbury ISBN 9781800172258 FORMAT Paperback
GILLIAN CL ARKE
RRP £12.99 PUBLICATION DATE 24th February 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th April 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 104pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets
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New collection from this widely-celebrated and much-loved poet, with a strong and passionate online fanbase
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Collection takes its name from the village on the Suffolk coast, just north of Aldeburgh (and of Benjamin Britten and George Crabbe fame) - a place the poet aims to reach
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On the journey there, the single lyric, topographical and nature poems in this book encounter warmth, warning and wonder
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Alison is a poet of nature and bird life, as well as English rural/village life with its still surviving communities and vocations
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953. She has published nine collections of poetry. Her work has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award by the Society of Authors. For over thirty years, her poems have appeared in Britain’s major poetry journals. She also reviews poetry for a wide range of publications. Her work has frequently been featured on BBC Radio, and she has written six full-length radio features, including ‘Singing in the Dark’, about the stubborn survival of traditional song, which was a ‘Radio Times’ Choice. She contributes regularly to Radio 4’s arts programme, ‘Front Row’, and has recently read her work live on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784106959 Gallop: Selected Poems Alison Brackenbury February 2019 £12.99
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Striking a Match in a Storm New and Collected Poems
‘McNeillie is a crucial member of a stellar generation of artists [...] devoted to the cause of the environment’
Andrew McNeillie ISBN 9781800172333 FORMAT Paperback RRP £18.99
BERNARD O’DONOGHUE
PUBLICATION DATE 31st March 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th May 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 320pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry
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McNeillie’s seven collections of poetry make up this timely New and Collected Poems
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McNeillie is a Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the ecoliterature magazine Archipelago
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He tackles ‘the unnameable archipelago’ of Britain and Ireland, at its wilder margins, with close observation of nature, place, community, and direct outdoor experience
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Work characterised by wit, word-play, and irony, by a poet devoted to the cause of the environment and the fate of the natural world
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Runs the Clutag Press, was previously literature editor at Oxford University Press, and also held a chair in English at Exeter University where he is now Emeritus Professor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew McNeillie runs the Clutag Press and is the founding editor of the literary magazine Archipelago. Making Ends Meet is his seventh collection. His memoir An Aran Keening was published in Dublin by the Lilliput Press in 2001. Born in North Wales in 1946 and brought up there, he went on to read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781800170780 Roots Home Gillian Clarke March 2021 £14.99
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Then the War And Selected Poems 2007-2020
Carl Phillips
‘The writing dazzles with transcendent metaphors, complex connections and linguistic flourishes’
ISBN 9781800172296 FORMAT Paperback RRP £14.99
WA SHINGTON POST
PUBLICATION DATE 24th February 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 224pp
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets
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First UK publication from an acclaimed US poet, one of the outstanding lyric poets of our time
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Includes a selection from earlier books this prolific poet has published over the past two decades, a selection from recent work in pamphlets, and a complete new book: And Then the War
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New poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, take another step of self-discovery for the poet
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He is Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carl Phillips is the author of 15 books of poetry, including the 2020 collection Pale Colors in a Tall Field, from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a professor of English at Washington University and served as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2010 to 2020. His many honours include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Lambda Literary Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets Prize.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781800170087 Letters to America Fred D’Aguiar November 2020 £10.99
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CARCANET POETRY (FIRST COLLECTION)
The City
‘I love how [her work] quietly shows what poetry can do that film can’t’
Stav Poleg
ISBN 9781800172371
RAMONA HERDMAN
FORMAT Paperback RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 31st March 2022 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th May 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 128pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry
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Highly anticipated debut collection from a contributor to Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology
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Her debut pamphlet, Lights, Camera, was published in 2017 and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry London, and Poetry Ireland Review
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Poems in constant motion: cinematic and sharply observant, while struggling to find different ways of seeing the world
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Regularly collaborates with fellow artists and poets - her graphic-novel installation, “Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning,” created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2014
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Serves on the editorial board of Magma Poetry and teaches for the Poetry School, London
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stav Poleg’s poetry has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, including in The New Yorker, Poetry London and Poetry Ireland Review. Her debut pamphlet, “Lights, Camera,” was published in 2017. A selection of her work is featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII. She lives in Cambridge, UK.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784109899 Growlery Katherine Horrex August 2020 £10.99
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CARCANET POETRY (FIRST COLLECTION)
Vinegar Hill
WINNER OF THE DAV ID COHEN P RIZ E F O R L ITE RATURE 2021
Colm Tóibín
‘Tóibín has an unequalled gift for mapping the interior of genius’
ISBN 9781800171619 FORMAT Paperback
BOOKLIST
RRP £12.99 PUBLICATION DATE 31st March 2022 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth (excluding Canada) BIC CODE DCF Poetry, 1DBR Ireland
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Highly anticipated first collection of poetry from award-winning Irish novelist and broadcaster Colm Tóibín
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Collection named after the site of a battle between Irish rebels and British forces in 1798 near the author’s native Enniscorthy, County Wexford
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Subjects include Dublin, life and death in pandemic times and gay marriage rights
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Many poems were written during Tóibín’s cancer treatment, when steroids affected his energy levels and concentration
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Wexford and Los Angeles, Spain and, most of all, Dublin, where he has lived for most of his adult life, emerge vividly and memorably
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.
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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781800171886 Naming of the Bones John F. Deane November 2021 £12.99