This is a book of poems with a specific aim: to analyze the power of illusion. It shows how the power of illusion is generated not from "cultural forces" but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance, and considers the Christian guarantee of salvation.
This collection, published for John Clare's bicentenary, comprises the tales he wished to include in his third collection, "The Shepherd's Calendar" (1827), previously unpublished poems, Clare's own description of local customs and his draft essay on English pastoral poetry.
Gabriel Josipovici's acclaimed novel reissued in 2018.
Josipovici's novel is based on the life of Pierre Bonnard, the painter of enchanting domestic interiors and innocently unsensual nudes. A thoughtful and deeply felt piece told in three parts from the perspectives of Bonnard's wife, daughter, and the painter himself.
Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section. It celebrates how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death.
These essays, first published between 1925 and 1927, propose a radical overhaul and a new construction of Scotland's cultural identity. MacDiarmid focuses on poetry and the novel, on theatre, art, music, history and education, and also on writing by women in Scotland.
This second collection by an acclaimed poet and editor is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world.
Conscious and Verbal is Les Murray's first book since his celebrated verse novel Fredy Neptune, described by Peter Porter in the Independent as, 'a true verse novel, not just a tour de force but a sustained piece of storytelling in poetry.' Conscious and Verbal is full of stories, too: political stories as in the harrowing 'At the Swamping of ......
In Conjurors, a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917-74) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid-century, Apocalypse (2020), but this is her first collection, presenting more than sixty poems, with a biographical and critical introduction. Orde's poetry was ......
R.F. Langley is known for his meticulous observation of the natural world and his highly original voice. This volume brings together his two previous Carcanet collections, Collected Poems (2000) and The Face of It (2007), along with his celebrated but uncollected late poems.
