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The
Salt Companion to Harold Bloom
Edited by Roy Sellars and Graham Allen
- Includes important essays on The Book
of J, The Western Canon, and a host of new perspectives on Bloom’s
influence on poetry, the novel, canon-formation, institutional
politics and political correctness, Biblical interpretation,
post-colonialism, criticism and evaluation, literary theory and
philosophy, and many other subjects.
Price: $34.95
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Don’t
Start Me Talking
Edited by Tim Allen and Andrew Duncan
- Discover the British avant-garde
- Sensational interviews with Kelvin Corcoran,
Simon Smith, Michael Haslam, David Chaloner, Elisabeth Bletsoe,
David Greenslade, Alexander Hutchison, Peter Manson, Harry Gilonis,
Andrew Crozier, Tim Allen, Out to Lunch, Tony Lopez, Sean Bonney,
David Miller, R.F. Langley, John Hall, Nick Johnson, Robert Sheppard,
and Eric Mottram.
Price: $26.95
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The
Salt of Companion to Carter Revard
Edited by Ellen L. Arnold
- The Salt Companion
to Carter Revard is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays on the poetry
and scholarship of one of Native America’s most loved and
respected poets.
Price: $21.95
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Baclground
Radiation
by Henry Hart
- “I’ve been reading Henry
Hart’s
poems with admiration for many years, always impressed by his
concreteness of language and by the hauntingly personal music
in his work: the poetry of a true artist and spiritual seeker.”
—Jay Parini
Price: $15.95
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Feral
by Janet McAdams
- “This is the work of a writer who
knows how to cross time in the present, to descend beneath the
surface layers and see what lies beneath. The poems are riddles
of human being and seem chained together, one to another, in
ways that carry a reader back to the source, to origins, to a
sensuous love of earth and to compassion.” —Linda Hogan
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My
Thieves
by Ethan Paquin
- “My Thieves both
confronts and attests beyond the wreckage of lyric expression
to renewed, revived musics that abide by their own ruins.” —Dean
Young
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A
Leaf About to Fall
by İlhan Berk
- A Leaf About To Fall — an
indispensable introduction to the work of Turkey’s greatest
living poet.
Price: $16.95
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Lake
Onega and Other Poems
by Leevi Lehto
- Lake Onega is a captivating
document of inter-lingual poetics mapping a future that will
increasingly be where poetry happens.
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Letters
from Aldenderry
by Philip Nikolayev
- Poetry has no precedent for the voice
in Letters from Aldenderry
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“Capacious, funny and provocative”
—Andrea Brady
Brian Kim Stefans: Before
Starting Over
Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several
important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties
and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry,
digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry’s “experimental” wing. Read
more …
Price: $24.95
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Bestselling new poetry from Tobias
Hill
“What Hill reveals to us in
this vital, luminous collection is that 200 years later, collision
is still the city's essential state. In a book-length love song
to the fabulousness and ragged beauty of his native London, he
considers the city through the lattice of physical and metaphorical
dialectics — nature and manufacture, wealth and poverty,
glamour and grime — that bring it to life. [...] It is rare
to come across a collection of poetry that you know with certainty
you will still be reading years from now, but for me, this is such
a book.” Sarah Crown The Guardian Read
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Price: $14.95
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“Cooperman’s poems tell
us that all may not be lost, there may in fact be a home, even
if we never get to open its door.”
—John Yau
Matthew Cooperman: Daze
The poems of Daze form a prospect on time—the passing
of literal days, the ephemerality of the body, frangible memory,
American speed, the crisis of late modernity. Daze charts
out the periods of our belief, blending personally-lived experiences
with wildly assimilative narratives which make up our blurred identities.
Written as a series of series, Daze works out the demands
of the diurnal by interlocking poems both discretely within sections
and across sections. Challenging the moral entropy of the 21st
century, Daze is as much a view of bewilderment and outrage
as it is the beautiful or true expression of poetry. Read
more …
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 Earthworks,
reflecting the range and diversity of contemporary Native American
writing, the Earthworks authors come from all over the U.S., from
the Pacific Northwest to Oklahoma to the Midwest, and they write
from a variety of tribal backgrounds – Cherokee, Osage, Choctaw,
Ojibwe, and Chumash/Esselen.
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“These poems bear witness
to a difficult age, an age built on a spiral of earthliness. They
make an honoring song for the earth. This honoring song carries
joy, sadness, fury and grief. We need this gift, these poems.”
—Joy
Harjo
This volume testifies to the need
to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American
city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded
tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced
in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the
sun and moon and multitudes of stars above. Read
more …
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“Phil Morgan is one who reveres
his heritage and his literary ancestors, and that reverence is
found throughout this first, glorious collection.”
—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
NATIVE WRITERS CIRCLE OF
THE AMERICAS FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The Fork-in-the-Road
Indian Poetry Store is the award-winning collection of Choctaw/Chickasaw
poet, Phillip Carroll Morgan. The poems range across physical
and spiritual geographies of the indidgenous Americas, translating
ancient mythos into contemporary poetics. They touch upon the
mysteries of creation and upon the creation of mysteries. Read
more …
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“This may be one of the best
literary depictions of New England to date, certainly the finest
one to challenge whatever is new and English about the place.”
—Craig S. Womack
Cheryl Savageau : Mother/Land
In Mother/Land, Savageau weaves traditional, personal
and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance,
revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich
in meaning for Abenaki people. Mother/Land is beaded with gems
from her mother’s jewel box—poems that tell stories of her mother’s
life and death, and the complexities of love and survival. Read
more …
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“Tricksters and Shadows. Bears
and Crows. Tribal memories and modern cities. Gerald Vizenor calls
upon a wondrous repertoire in Almost Ashore.”
—A. Robert Lee
Gerald Vizenor : Almost
Ashore
Almost Ashore is a selection of new imagistic poems, crucial
scenes and nurtured sentiments of survivance, and a section of
original haiku poems. Many of the selected poems are situated in
woodland landscapes, treelines and shorelines, a natural sense
of presence, and concentrate by chance, image and irony on the
experiences of Native American Indians. The haiku scenes are similar
to the images and tease of nature in Anishinaabe dreams songs.
Once, worlds apart in time and place, these imagistic practices
are the mythic connections of natural reason and aesthetic survivance
in Almost Ashore. Read
more …
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“‘—the grip/ of
the wheel, a licence to roam.’ Jane Holland’s poetry
smoulders and blazes. Take your deepest breath, and go with her.” —Alison
Brackenbury
Sensual and politically engaged, Boudicca & Co..
drives narrative poetry in new feminist directions. It creates
a cast of strong provocative female characters with complex agendas,
centred around a controversial sequence of poems in the voice of
Boudicca. A collection with a powerful sense of place and purpose. Read
more …
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“Vanity, paranoia, booze and
petty corruption: they are all here. As a warning to future poets.” —Iain
Sinclair
Poetry Wars describes the
battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between
radicals and conservatives, which had lasting effects on British
poetry. Myths and anecdotes about these events have long been circulated,
but this is the first detailed account of what happened, based
on archival sources, and told by a writer who knew many of those
involved. Read
more …
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Latest UK releases
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Fall
of the Rebel Angels
by Andy Brown
- New selected poems from one of the UK’s
best-loved poets
Price: $15.95
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Galatea
by Melanie Challenger
- By the author of Stolen Voices
Price: $14.95
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Capital
by Giles Goodland
- By the author of A Spy in the House
of Years
Price: $15.95
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New British poetry and short stories
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Sawn-Off
Tales
by Dave Gaffney
Fanstastic volume
of utra short stories
Price: $14.95
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Incognegro
by D.S. Marriott
By the author of On
Black Men
Price: $15.95
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Lake
Shore Drive
by John Wilkinson
Notre Dame Poet
in Residence
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Short listed for Best First Collection
in the UK’s Forward Prizes 2006
Ian Gregson teaches
at the University of Bangor, and has published poems and reviews
in the London Review of Books, the TLS and Poetry
Review, amongst others. His critical books have been concerned
with contemporary poetry, postmodernism, and representations of
masculinity. He is currently researching postcolonial issues in
contemporary poetry in Wales for a book called The New Poetry
In Wales, for the University Of Wales Press. Read
more …
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Magnificent selected poems from
John Tranter
“This new and selected poems
reminds us, if we needed reminding, just how powerful John Tranter’s
cumulated work is. There is a density, an intensity, and a many-sided
explorativeness that probably cannot be matched in Australian poetry.” Martin
Duwell Australian Book Review.
“Tranter has produced a body
of work remarkable for its intellectual vitality, formal versatility,
and powers of renewal over a long and formidable career.” Peter
Pierce The Melbourne Age. Read
more …
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“Ali Alizadeh's fast-moving
poetry holds us to today’s issues of identity and culture,
its dilemmas of allegiance and responsibility.”
—Judith Rodriguez
Ali Alizadeh: Eyes in
Times of War
This collection of poems speaks to an individual’s place
and emotions during war. The wars depicted in this volume – the ‘history
wars’, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, ‘the war against
terror’, ‘the clash of civilisations’, etc – form
the background against which the speaker’s language seethes
and writhes. These fractured lyrics – or ‘antiheroic
couplets’ – take place in a volatile space in the aftermath
of ancient conquests and prior to future atrocities. Read
more …
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