Tom Lowenstein: Ancestors and Species. New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry Click on covers for more information.
Published
2005. Paperback, 9x6ins, 152pp, £9.95
/ $17.
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Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns. Ancestors and Species makes it clear that Tom Lowenstein is one of Britain's most remarkable poetic voices, fascinating and impossible to categorise.
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David Miller: The Waters of Marah. Selected Prose 1973-1995
Published
2005. Paperback, 113pp, 8.5x5.5ins. £8.95. Not
for sale in North America.
ISBN 9780907562665
The Waters of Marah brings together the best of David Miller's non-poetic output. The prose here however does include work that would be classified as prose-poetry in most quarters, as well as the longer work Tesserae which could be better described as experimental fiction. These pieces tend also to have verse interludes, which further confuses the definition of what category they actually belong to. In the end however, categories are irrelevant, and the work can be read on its own terms, be it prose, be it prose-poetry, be it fiction, be it poetry. This is musical work that explores the parameters of the sayable in a manner that does not repel the reader but rather draws him/her in as a participant in a remarkable enterprise.
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John Muckle: Firewriting and other poems
Published
2005. Paperback, 130pp, 9x6ins, £9.95 / $17.
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This first collection of John Muckle's poetry, written 1998-2004, begins with a sequence about working in Care Homes, continues with poems whose literary subject matter ranges from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Coleridge and Philip K. Dick, reflections on life, love and politics, and closes with 'Firewriting', a long poem which imagines that German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin managed to escape over the Franco-Spanish border in 1940 and has ended up in contemporary London.
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Ouyang Yu: Moon over Melbourne & other poems
Published
2005. Paperback, 128pp, 8.5x 5.5ins, £9.95. Not
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Moon over Melbourne is a revised edition of the author's first English-language collection, published in Australia in 1995.
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Ilma Rakusa: A Farewell to Everything
Translated
by Andrew Shields & Andrew Winnard
Published 2005. Paperback, 100pp, 8x5ins, £9.95 / $16.
ISBN 9780907562771
A Farewell to Everything is a translation of the author's 1997 German collection Ein Strich durch alles (Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt): ninety nine-line poems written over a one-year period. The book is made available thanks to a translation grant from Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Culture Foundation. Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, to a Hungarian mother and a Slovenian father, and spent her childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. She lives in Zürich.
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Elaine Randell: Selected Poems 1970-2005
Published
2006. Paperback, 148pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95 / $17.
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This volume showcases over 30 years' work by Elaine Randell, a poet whose work has unaccountably drifted from public view these past several years. The Selected Poems demonstrates what we have been missing: a vibrant and original voice in an era too full of poetic clones, and a mixture of lyric poems and decidedly unsettling narative monologues, based on the author's experience of dealing with children at risk.
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Lisa Samuels: Paradise for Everyone
Published
2005. 96pp, paperback 9x6ins. £8.95 / $15.
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A first UK, and second full-length US collection for this talented young American writer, who teaches literature, poetic theory, and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to poetry, she has published work on modernist and contemporary writers, on intellectual property in the humanities, and on critical practices.
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John Seed: New and Collected Poems
Published
2005. 156pp, paperback, 8.5x5.5ins. £9.95 / $17.
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This major retrospective volume brings back into print the author's previous four collections of verse, and adds to them a large number of uncollected poems, written between 1990 and 2004. Published simultaneously with the extraordinary Pictures from Mayhew.
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John Seed: Pictures from Mayhew – London 1850
Published
2005. 171pp, paperback, 8.5x5.5ins. £10.95 / $18.50.
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Every word in this book by John Seed is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the Morning Chronicle from 1849 to 1850, then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, London Labour and the London Poor between December 1850 and February 1852, and then again in the four-volume work of the same title.
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