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My Father the Dog

  • ISBN-13: 9781800175747
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Andrew Fitzsimons
  • Price: AUD $31.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 25/11/2026
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The debut Carcanet collection by a celebrated translator of Basho, who now turns his hand to composing original English-language haiku concerning the brutal murders that took place in an isolated mountain village in Japan not so long ago.
Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Dublin, and is a poet, translator and academic. He has published three volumes of poetry, What the Sky Arranges (2013), A Fire in the Head (2014), and The Sunken Keep (2017), all from Isobar Press. His translation Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho was published by the University of California Press in 2022, and received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Work of Literary Translation (Honorable Mention) from the MLA in 2023. His study of Thomas Kinsella, The Sea of Disappointment, was published by UCD Press (2008), and he edited Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009). He is a Professor of English at Gakushuin University, Tokyo.
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