NEW BOOKS APRIL – DECEMBER 2010 Chinua Achebe John Ashbery Sujata Bhatt Eavan Boland Joseph Brodsky Paul Celan Inger Christensen Gillian Clarke Donald Davie Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Forty years of great poetry Iain Crichton Smith Elaine Feinstein Carcanet Celebrates 40 Years...from Carcanet... Louise Glück Jorie Graham W.S. Graham Robert Graves Ivor Gurney Marilyn Hacker Sophie Hannah John Heath-Stubbs Elizabeth Jennings Brigit Pegeen Kelly Mimi Khalvati Thomas Kinsella R. F. Langley Hugh MacDiarmid L ETTER FROM THE E DITOR The connections and disconnections between British and American poetry have been the subject of recent debate, and Carcanet does its bit to keep the channels of transatlantic dialogue open. British poet Tom Raworth is as current in America as here; and American poetry continues to find British readers. John Ashbery for over three decades has been our cynosure; this catalogue features books by Louise Glück and Lucie Brock-Broido too. Canada appears on the Carcanet map, and the Antipodes, long a major concern, are everywhere to be found: Les Murray’s powerful new collection Taller When Prone, Judith Wright’s legendary Selected Poems with a new introduction by John Kinsella, and John Gallas’s Forty Lies re-mark the spot. The Caribbean is voiced in the poems of Kei Miller. Among our British writers, Fiona Sampson’s Rough Music and Elaine Feinstein’s Cities explore new territories, while Robert Saxton brings the ancient world of Hesiod before us. Elsewhere, Philip Terry detonates Shakespeare’s sonnets, disclosing their hitherto secret Oulipian affinities. Peter Sansom is essentialised and Selected; David Morley Enchants. A major anthology celebrates thirty-five years of Anthony Astbury’s Greville Press. The classic fiction of Ford Madox Ford is complemented by Gabriel Josipovici’s stories of this and other worlds. A poet and a visual artist enter into a rare collaboration in Cold Eye, the title evoking the older Yeats. The younger Yeats is revealed in a new edition by Edward Larrissy; and viewed literally are great contemporary writers in the brilliant portraits of Judith Aronson. Jody Allen Randolph’s radical interviews in Close to the Next Moment will revise the way we think and talk about modern Ireland. And after twenty years, The Nazarene Gospel Restored completes Carcanet’s programme of bringing the collected writings of Robert Graves into circulation. Please keep in touch with us by subscribing to our weekly e-letter, joining us on Facebook and Twitter, and enjoying the rich resources of text and sound available at www.carcanet.co.uk. As always we welcome your comments and suggestions. Michael Schmidt, Editorial & Managing Director Contents October April 23 Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End: Some Do Not . 3 W.B. Yeats, The First Yeats 24 Gabriel Josipovici, Heart's Wings and other stories 4 Nigel Forde, The Choir Outing 25 David Constantine et al. (eds.), Oxford Poets 2010: An Anthology May 5 Judith Aronson, Likenesses November 6 Louise Glück, A Village Life 26 David Morley, Enchantment 7 Fiona Sampson, Rough Music 27 Todd Swift and Evan Jones (eds.), Modern Canadian Poetry: An Anthology June 28 Les Murray, Taller When Prone 8 Lucie Brock-Broido, Soul Keeping Company: Selected Poems 9 Elaine Feinstein, Cities December 10 Tom Raworth, Windmills in Flames: Old and New Poems 29 Robert Graves and Joshua Podro, The Nazarene Gospel Restored July Information 11 Anthony Astbury (ed.), A Greville Press Anthology 30-31 Selected Backlist 12 John Gallas, Forty Lies 32-33 Trade Information 13 Kei Miller, A Light Song of Light 34 Online with Carcanet 35 Order forms August 36 PN Review 14 Environment at the Crossroads 15 Anthony Rudolf, Zig Zag & John Whale, Waterloo Teeth 16 Robert Saxton, Hesiod's Calendar 17 Judith Wright, A Human Pattern: Selected Poems September 18 John Ashbery, Collected Poems 1956-1987 19 Jody Allen Randolph (ed.), Interviews from a Changing Ireland 20 Peter Sansom, Selected Poems 21 Philip Terry, Shakespeare's Sonnets 22 Paul Hodgson and Dan Burt, Cold Eye The First Yeats Poems by W.B. Yeats 1889-1899 W. B. YEATS Edited with an introduction by Edward Larrissy W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) began writing poetry as a devotee of Blake, Shelley, INCLUDING THE the pre-Raphaelites, and of nineteenth-century Irish poets including James UNREVISED TEXTS OF Clarence Mangan and Samuel Ferguson. By the end of his life, he had, as T.S. Eliot said, created a poetic language for the twentieth century. The First The Wanderings of Oisin and Yeats deepens our understanding of the making of that poetic imagination, Other Poems (1899) reprinting the original texts of Yeats’s three early collections. The poems were subsequently heavily revised or discarded. Among them are some of The Countess Kathleen and the best-loved lyrics in English – ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘He Wishes for Various Legends and Lyrics the Cloths of Heaven’ – fresh and unfamiliar here in their original contexts, together with Yeats’s lengthy notes which were drastically cut in the (1892) collected editions. The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) This illuminating edition by Edward Larrissy includes an introduction that clarifies the literary, historical and intellectual contexts of the poems, detailed notes, and a bibliography. It offers essential material for reading – and revaluing – one of the great modern poets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR APRIL 2010 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) was one of the greatest poets and dramatists of the twentieth century. Educated in London and in Dublin, the young Yeats was at the centre of fin de siècle London’s literary society and his friends ISBN 978 185754 9959 included George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. His first volume of verse appeared in 1886. He returned to Ireland 216 pp PAPER £18.95 in 1891 and was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1895 he achieved poetic recognition with Poems. EDWARD LARRISSY is Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of Yeats the Poet: The Measures World of Difference (Harvester, 1994) and the editor of W.B. Yeats, The Major Works (Oxford University Press, 2000). POETRY 3 NIGEL The Choir Outing OxfordPoets FORDE Even if you love maps, leave them behind; Nigel Forde’s poetry is full of Try to be helpless and inquisitive. Eschew signposts, landmarks. Take grace, ghosts and good music... His The unassuming path, always; cross poetry is elegiac, a kind of pastoral The unpromising field: it will take you Out of your own reach into something to the empty sky and the warm That becomes you. dark spaces of nature, but there from ‘To Go for a Walk’ is wit too. The Choir Outing is a deeply English book, like a late Shakespearean romance: a Forest Nigel Forde’s poems explore those feelings, memories and landscapes, of Arden complete with the para- glimpsed and momentary, that haunt us with an insistent need to be phernalia of the modern mind but questioned or commemorated. In monologues and elegies, reflections on art, filled with its own elegant, nostalgic intimate domestic lyrics, love poems and jokes, The Choir Outing meditates but living music. on surfaces and depths with technical assurance and a delight in the moment’s GEORGE SZIRTES gift. ABOUT THE AUTHOR APRIL 2010 NIGEL FORDE began his career as an actor at York Theatre Royal, and has remained in the ISBN 978 190303 9977 area ever since. He co-founded Riding Lights Theatre Co. and has provided voice-overs for television documentaries. He has been a regular contributor to BBC radio programmes and 96 pp PAPER £9.95 is best known for presenting Radio 4’s Bookshelf. He has published eight books, including four poetry collections. He is also a playwright and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. World POETRY 4 J UDITH Likenesses ARONSON Likenesses consists of both photographic portraits and SUBJECTS INCLUDE reflections, vividly capturing the cultural life of the age. Saul Bellow The pictures, taken over the course of thirty years in Britain William Empson and America, bring together Aronson's work as a Alice Goodman photojournalist and graphic designer. What makes Seamus Heaney Likenesses unique is that the sitters observe and comment on Geoffrey Hill one another – memories, assessments, elegies, tributes. A Robert Lowell historian calls up a poet who figures elsewhere in the book; Norman Mailer a poet summons up memories of her mother, a distinguished Jonathan Miller woman of letters, alongside her in the photo. The gallery Joan Plowright opens its doors with a welcoming foreword from one of the Anne Ridler sitters, Charles Saumarez Smith, the Chief Executive of the All photographers should click so well. Salman Rushdie The resulting images miraculously combine Royal Academy of Arts. Simon Schama detachment and intensity... Charles Tomlinson MARK FEENEY, BOSTON GLOBE, ON A 2006 Derek Walcott EXHIBITION OF ARONSON'S WORK ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2010 JUDITH ARONSON has a BA in American Studies from the University of Michigan and ISBN 978 185754 9942 an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale. During the 1970s she travelled and worked in Southeast Asia, and then for twelve years she lived in England, where she worked as a 152 pp PAPER £19.95 graphic designer and photojournalist. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Times, the Boston Globe, the Telegraph and other places. It has been widely exhibited. She teaches World graphic design at Simmons College in Boston. PHOTOGRAPHY 5 POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION L OUISE A Village Life G L Ü CK Around the fountain, there are clusters of metal tables. In the work of no other contemporary This is where you sit when you’re old, beyond the intensities of the fountain. American poet is the individual psyche The fountain is for the young, who still want to look at themselves.