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The Broken Word
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 16.00The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family's farm, rapidly becomes caught up in the intensifying... more...
The Darwin Poems
The University of Western Australia Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99A verse-portrait on the inner and family life of Charles Darwin; covering Darwin's dramatic personal life and experience with loss; his inner turmoil regarding the knowledge he possessed, his spiritual beliefs, and the trepidation surrounding his twenty years of work nearly being eclipsed by a younger man; more...
Cries Of An Irish Caveman
Random House 2011; US$ 20.00Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love, loss, life and death. The first section describes an experience in Australia which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves.... more...
Farmers Cross
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57The fifth collection of poems from Bernard O'Donoghue, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. more...
Ink Stone
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 13.11The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the particles will be and the denser the ink.' These new poems by Jamie McKendrick have a remarkable density of ink. They explore the grain, or 'tooth',... more...
City of Possibilities
IP (Interactive Publications) 2011; US$ 8.99City of Possibilities is her fourth poetry collection. Her first book Outside Temple Boundaries received the Anne Elder Award in 1998. Other awards include the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, the Bruce Dawe Poetry prize, writer residencies and grants from state and federal arts bodies. more...
If I Don't Know
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the golden age of five minutes ago, or weigh the 'out there'... more...
New Weather
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 10.19New Weather was Paul Muldoon's first book of poems. When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years.' While... more...









