NEWBOOKS 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 e t t e r f r o m t h e E d i t o r 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 (, 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 u d i t h 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 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. The resulting images miraculously combine Royal Academy of Arts. Simon Schama detachment and intensity... Charles Tomlinson MARK FEENEY, BOSTON GLOBE, ON A 2006 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 o u i s e A Village Life G l Ü c k 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. Or for the mothers, who need to keep their children diverted. so unsparingly portrayed in both the anguish and the humor with which In good weather, a few old people linger at the tables. Life is simple now: one day cognac, one day coffee and a cigarette. it confronts its profound solitude... To the couples, it’s clear who’s on the outskirts of life, who’s at the center. Glück deals with powerful emotions, from ‘Tributaries’ expressed in a language of surpassing A Village Life begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of clarity and sparseness, full of passion no definite moment or place. Around the fountain, concentric circles of figures are organised by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river and, like and devoid of sentiment. the fountain’s opposite, a mountain: human time superimposed on geological JUDGES’ CITATION, time. Renowned as a lyrical and dramatic poet of austere intensity, Glück BOLLINGEN PRIZE, 2001 focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2010 LOUISE GLÜCK is the author of eleven books of poems and a collection of essays. Her ISBN 978 184777 0592 many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, for Averno (Carcanet, 2006) and the Wallace Stevens 80 pp PAPER £9.95 Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 2009 she delivered the Blashfield Foundation address at the American Academy. A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Louise Glück World excl. US & Canada teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

POETRY 6 F i o n a Rough Music Sampson ‘Rough music’ is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. Something was broken – This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals like milk not rising from the floor of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and to resume the shape of a jug, belonging. Fiona Sampson’s characteristic lyric intensity fuses metaphysics and politics with the vernacular of daily life. the stone splashed with creamy stars – From reviews of Common Prayer: from 'The Betrayal' Urgent, acrobatically alert poems alternate with the comparative stillness of a series of love sonnets. Here, too, the imagination is always at work, demonstrating that curiosity is a form of passion. SEAN O’BRIEN, THE SUNDAY TIMES

A very fine poet indeed...Sampson’s free verse soon surprises by its seductive ease and its vivid rendition of the ordinary, material world. ADAM THORPE, GUARDIAN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MAY 2010 FIONA SAMPSON began working as a concert violinist, then studied at the Universities ISBN 978 184777 0455 of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen, where she received a PhD in the philosophy of language. She has published seventeen books, of which the 64 pp PAPER £9.95 most recent are Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007; shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize) and A Century of Poetry Review (Carcanet, 2009). Fiona Sampson is the editor of Poetry World Review and contributes regularly to and the Irish Times.

POETRY 7 L u c i e Soul Keeping Company POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION B r o c k - Selected Poems B r o i d o My father calls me Wolf. Something in Brock-Broido likes He says that I will see things other people will not see stealth, toxicity, wildness, neon...The poems leap off the page. at night... from ‘Birdie Africa’ HELEN VENDLER, NEW YORKER

Lucie Brock-Broido’s poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of This is a poet who cultivates experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. The familiar world elegant nerviness and a riveting becomes disquieting, edged with danger: mute conjoined twins creating a poetic clairvoyance...We witness the imagination’s virtuosity, distilled in violent secret world; Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic letters to her ‘Master’; a the alembic of the poet’s radical, self-portrait of the poet ‘with Her Hair on Fire’. brilliantly inventive diction. LOS ANGELES TIMES Soul Keeping Company introduces Brock-Broido’s poetry to British readers BOOK REVIEW with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: A Hunger, The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUNE 2010 LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO is the author of three books of poetry, A Hunger, The Master Letters ISBN 978 185754 8402 and Trouble in Mind. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and has taught previously at Harvard and Princeton. She has recieved awards from the John 168 pp PAPER £9.95 Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. World excl. US & Canada

POETRY 8 E l a i n e Cities Feinstein Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tbilisi – and In the messy flat of Janos Pilinszky from the child in wartime Leicester to a London garden seven decades later. his most loved records lie In ‘Migrations’, the opening poem, Feinstein celebrates the recurring ‘filigree without sleeves, horizontal of migration, symbiosis, assimilation’. In simple, intense lyrics, she explores on his bookshelves. See, the haunted landscape between past and present, history and memory. his parchment face is bloodless, lit like a lamp from within, Elaine Feinstein praises the good fortune of having lived richly in the sphere of his bones fine, his lips literature and having travelled widely among remarkable people... The book is lit shrewdly curved, humorous. with unusual clarity and solidity. SEAN O’BRIEN from ‘Budapest’ The strangeness of visited cities, with their fearful histories, transmuted by the responses of a truly gifted poet. DANNIE ABSE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUNE 2010 Elaine Feinstein's career as a writer, translator, critic and lecturer spans over five ISBN 978 184777 0615 decades. She has written fourteen novels, many radio plays and television dramas and five biographies. Elaine Feinstein's Collected Poems and Translations, her poetry 64 pp PAPER £9.95 collections and her translations of Marina Tsvetaeva are published by Carcanet. Her honours include a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and an Honorary D.Litt from the World University of Leicester. Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

POETRY 9 T o m Windmills in Flames Raworth Old and New Poems sometimes a fragment of language These poems will help the illuminates a world not consistently round reader lose weight, have an breathing its air attractive smile, be at ease with

from ‘Baggage Claim’ members of the opposite (or their own) sex, have relief from Tom Raworth’s Collected Poems (2003) was acclaimed by the Times Literary constipation, speak in tongues, Supplement as a milestone: forty years’ work by a major poet of English fillet herrings and ultimately modernism gathered for the first time. Raworth moves on, radical, inventive boost the Nation's economy. and politically engaged. Windmills in Flames takes a vertiginous ride through TOM RAWORTH the language landscape we inhabit. Poems fragment and distort, veer in unexpected directions, reconfigure. Playful, often funny, Windmills in Flames is fuelled by anger at the use of language as an instrument of political deceit and military aggression.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JUNE 2010 TOM RAWORTH was born in London in 1938. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books of poetry, prose and translations. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy and ISBN 978 184777 0820 the United States, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians, painters and other 92 pp PAPER £9.95 poets. In 1991 he was invited to teach at the University of Cape Town, the first European writer thus distinguished for thirty years. Carcanet published his Collected Poems in 2003. World

POETRY 10 A Field of Large Desires Published in association with the Greville Press A Greville press anthology 1975-2010 Edited by Anthony Astbury with a preface by Grey Gowrie INCLUDES POEMS BY Man’s youth it is a field of large desires, Which pleas’d within, doth all without them please, Guillame Apollinaire For in this love of men live those sweet fires, Charles Baudelaire That kindle worth and kindness unto praise, Robert Bridges And where self-love most from her selfness gives, Catullus Hart Crane Man greatest in himself, and others lives. Elizabeth Daryush Fulke Greville John Donne Founded in 1975 by Anthony Astbury and Geoffrey Godbert, with the W.S. Graham support of , the Greville Press has quietly established itself as Robert Graves indispensable to those who love poetry. Its pamphlets have built a reputation George Herbert for discoveries of the new and recoveries of the neglected; for championing John Masefield translations of great world poets and delighting in the classics of English Edna O’Brien literature. A Field of Large Desires offers a sampler of poems that have been Harold Pinter published by the Greville Press: it is both a treasure trove and a celebration of Henry Reed Stevie Smith a remarkable venture.

ABOUT THE EDITORS JULY 2010 ANTHONY ASTBURY has published four collections of poems, edited anthologies including The Tenth Muse ISBN 978 184777 0509 (Carcanet, 2005), and written memoirs of his friends George Barker, W.S. Graham, John Heath-Stubbs, Harold Pinter and David Wright. 208 pp PAPER £14.95 GREY GOWRIE's Third Day: New and Selected Poems (2008) is published by Carcanet. He has been an academic, a company chairman, a Cabinet minister and Chairman of the Arts Council of England. World

POETRY ANTHOLOGY 11 J o h n Forty Lies With illustrations by Sarah Kirby G a l l a s It is the poet’s job to And all the buildings dance the Partyquake, invent beautiful the skirty carpets waving in the heat, falsehoods. the golden cotton scarletsilken shake of careless stuffit rocking manmade concrete hulaloola cando bedo beat on faith on hope on physics strength and dreams.

from ‘Askhabad earthquake’ John Gallas’s forty lies are beautiful, ribald and audacious. Made from found language liberated from books, walls, the internet and radio, his forty lies construct an extravagant alternative reality of Russian assassins and magical shirts, Babylonian gardens, flying monks and the mathematics of Omar Khayyam. From Inner Mongolia to outer space, in tanka and sonnet and villanelle, Viking haiku and musical staves, Gallas collaborates with the print-maker Sarah Kirby to beguile the reader with stories and puzzles, and with pictures that create visual false memories of facts that never were.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR JULY 2010 JOHN GALLAS was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, and came to England in 1972. He has been a teacher of children with special needs for twenty years. Gallas has ISBN 978 184777 0493 published six earlier books of poetry with Carcanet. 84 pp PAPER £12.95 SARAH KIRBY has exhibited as an artist for over twenty years. Primarily a printmaker, she also paints and makes books, and undertakes teaching and curating. World

POETRY 12 K e i A Light Song of Light M i l l e r Kei Miller’s work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer as ‘some of the most exciting poetry I’ve read in years... An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace.’ A Light Song of Light continues to sing in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times.

The book is in two parts: Day Time and Night Time. Behind the daylight world of community lies another, disordered, landscape: stories of ghosts and bandits, a darkness violent and seductive. At the heart of the collection is the Singerman, a member of ’s road gangs in the 1930s, whose job was to sing while the others broke stones. He is a presence both mundane and shamanic. Kei Miller’s poems celebrate ‘our incredible and abundant lives’.

Notes for a Light Song offrom ‘Twelve Light’ One of the finest Caribbean poetic talents to have appeared in recent decades.

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE swells dark up in the A light song oflight and knife time, in wolftimes, time times; it blooms and blood in knuckle a Chinese flower, nocturnally, like the midnight. bright against

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JULY 2010 KEI MILLER was born in Jamaica in 1978. He teaches Creative Writing at the . His fiction books include the short story collection The Fear ISBN 978 184777 1032 of Stones (2006, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize) and the novels The Same Earth (2008) and The Last Warner Woman (2010). His previous 64 pp PAPER £9.95 poetry collections are Kingdom of Empty Bellies (2006) and There Is an Anger That Moves (Carcanet, 2007). He edited the Carcanet anthology New Caribbean Poetry (2007). World

POETRY 13 Environment at the Crossroads Aiming for a sustainable future With a foreword by Emílio Rui Vilar

Environment at the Crossroads addresses the crucial issues of our time, from Contributors include the current international economic malaise to the state of our global Emílio Rui Vilar environment. Inspired by the themes of the 2009 United Nations Viriato Soromenho-Marques Conference, these critical essays engage with climate change, biodiversity, Sir David King environmental policy and the ethics of consumption. Crossing five Miguel Bastos Araújo continents, the writers are leaders in the fields of science, politics, economics, Susana Fonseca environmental and social studies. Incorporating a range of disciplines and Pedro Arrojo-Agudo perspectives, this is a unique and ambitious survey of the state of our planet Allan Larson today. Malini Mehra José Manuel Durão Barroso, This is the latest collection of international conference papers from the President of the European Commission Portuguese Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, published in English for the first time.

ABOUT THE FOREWORD AUTHOR AUGUST 2010 EMÍLIO RUI VILAR was born in Oporto in 1939. He studied law at Coimbra University and has been President of the ISBN 978 184777 1193 Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2002. He has served as Portugal’s Secretary of State for External Trade and Tourism (1974), Minister of the Economy (1974-75), and Minister of Transport and Communications 206 pp PAPER £18.95 (1976-78). World

NON-FICTION 14 Northern House nthony o h n A Zig Zag J Waterloo Teeth R u d o l f Whale Zigzag consists of five new Waterloo Teeth explores our capacity sequences by Anthony Rudolf, a to articulate the pain and pleasure of poet whose craft has been enriched lived experience – our own, and that by his experiences as a translator of of others distant from us – across French and Russian literature. different locations in history, culture, Poems about memory, time and and in the difference of species. loss are complicated by humour, lyricism and a light touch.

AUGUST 2010 AUGUST 2010 ISBN 978 184777 1100 ISBN 978 184777 1117 80 pp PAPER £9.95 64 pp PAPER £9.95 World World

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE AUTHOR ANTONY RUDOLF was born in London in 1942. He is the author of JOHN WHALE was born in Liverpool in 1956 and studied at the books of literary and art criticism, translation, autobiography and poetry. University of before moving to a post at University College Cardiff. Rudolf is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the founder of He returned to Leeds University in 1984, where he is now Professor Menard Press. In 2004 he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts of Romantic Literature and from where he co-edits the international et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. literary quarterly Stand.

POETRY 15 R o b e r t Hesiod's Calendar OxfordPoets Saxton A Version of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days The ancient Greek poet Hesiod is best known for two poems, the Theogony

and Works and Days. The Theogony gives an account of the creation of the , XXXIV universe and the war between the Titans and Olympians, while Works and Days offers plain-speaking advice on everything from harvesting to banqueting. Hesiod’s Calendar brings each poem to life in two robustly colloquial sonnet sequences. Saxton’s fresh and witty treatment re-imagines the original texts for modern readers, in poetry that is faithful to the mythic and Days Works power of the ancient works. Saxton’s introduction and notes enhance a fascinating dialogue between two poets across the centuries. from It’s a bold deed to summon up Hesiod in eighty sonnets. The form, both familiar and odd, may shock us into a wakeful reading. For this is not at all an antiquarian version of two ancient texts. On the contrary, Robert Saxton addresses us here and now in the Age of Iron and makes us wonder how much longer Earth will endure our stay. DAVID CONSTANTINE You need to sow on soil that’s still quite light, on soil that’s need to sow You the earthwith a memory turns cold, of summer – before land will extend Fallow damp and heavy. right, and serveour lives, and children our wives of gold, Seekers too. extending their lives dividend. set your who’ll appeal to Zeus,

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2010 ROBERT SAXTON was born in Nottingham in 1952 and now lives in north London, ISBN 978 190618 8030 where he is the editorial director of an illustrated book publishing company. His first collection of poetry The Promise Clinic was published by Enitharmon Press in 1994. His 96 pp PAPER £9.95 subsequent collections, Manganese (2003) and Local Honey (2007), are published by World Carcanet/OxfordPoets.

POETRY 16 J u d i t h A Human Pattern r i g h t Selected Poems W With an introduction by John Kinsella I was born into a coloured country: Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia’s best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and spider-webs in dew on feathered grass, its inhabitants. As John Kinsella writes in his introduction, ‘she looked inwards into Australia, and in doing so made the local...universal’. A Human Pattern, a mountains blue as wrens, selected poems she prepared after she had abandoned writing poetry in order to valleys cupping sky in like a cradle... devote her time to fighting for Aboriginal rights and conservation, presents her best work from 1946 to her last collection, Phantom Dwelling (1986). Australia, from ‘Reminiscence’ alive with human and natural history, is vibrant in this selection. She is, John Kinsella writes, ‘a poet of human contact with the land’. She speaks directly to our perennial concerns.

Judith Wright seems to belong to the two generations that followed hers, her own work changing and leading the changes in Australian writing and opening a way for the new poetry of the older people. MICHAEL SCHMIDT, LIVES OF THE POETS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AUGUST 2010 JUDITH WRIGHT (1915-2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner ISBN 978 184777 0516 for human rights. Born in Armidale, New South Wales, she published many books of poems and books of prose, including The Generations of Men and (in 1991) Born of the Conquerors. 256 pp PAPER £14.95 Her Collected Poems (1994) and A Human Pattern: Selected Poems (1992) were published by Carcanet. Wright was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. World

POETRY 17 J o h n Collected Poems 1956-1987 Ashbery Edited by Mark Ford This landmark Collected Poems gathers together in one volume the first three This major book offers a view of decades of the work of America’s preeminent living poet. Here are the Ashbery's artistic development complete texts of his first twelve books – including Some Trees (1956, chosen over many decades.... He is, by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize) and the Pulitzer-winning according to both his admirers Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) – along with a selection of more than and his critics, the towering sixty previously uncollected poems written over four decades. From the figuring in contemporary beginning John Ashbery has been an extraordinary presence in American and American poetry. world poetry, with an immeasurable impact on subsequent generations; yet PUBLISHERS WEEKLY his own work has constantly evolved in surprising ways. At once exuberantly Praised as a magical genius, curious and unnervingly funny, dreamlike and steeped in everyday realities, cursed as an obscure joker, John alive to every nuance of American speech, these are poems that constantly Ashbery writes poetry like no one discover new worlds within language and its unexpected permutations. else. INDEPENDENT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR SEPTEMBER 2010 JOHN ASHBERY was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He is the author of over ISBN 978 184777 0585 twenty books of poetry. Widely honoured internationally, he has received the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, the Wallace Stevens Award from 1,058 pp PAPER £19.95 the Academy of American Poets and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2002 he was named Officier de la Légion d’Honneur World excl. US & Canada by the French government.

POETRY 18 Close to the Next Moment Interviews from a Changing Ireland

Edited by Jody Allen Randolph Contributors include

In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed Gerry Adams twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to Bisi Adigun create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved Eavan Boland into a new era. Her exploration was shadowed by intimations of unease; as Theo Dorgan economic collapse gathered pace, recurrent concerns gained a new urgency. Roddy Doyle What are Irish values? How have they changed? How do new cultural realities Anne Enright affect the old arts of language and image which have been so important in Seamus Heaney Irish culture? Michael Longley Conor McPherson In journeys across political divides and between languages, from Seamus Paula Meehan Heaney and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, deeply rooted in Irish inheritance, to African-Irish Joyce Akpotor; from Gerry Adams for whom ‘when our future Paul Muldoon is settled, we will agree on our history’, to the artist Dorothy Cross who Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill brings an international perspective to her redefinitions of Irish imagery,Close Mary O’Malley to the Next Moment captures the conversations that are remaking a culture. Colm Tóibín

ABOUT THE EDITOR SEPTEMBER 2010 JODY ALLEN RANDOLPH was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at University College Dublin before earning her PhD ISBN 978 184777 0486 in British and American Literature from the University of California. She has taught at the Universities of Oxford and California and at University College Dublin. She researches twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, Irish literature 302 pp PAPER £18.95 and Anglophone poetry. Her essays and interviews have appeared regularly on both sides of the Atlantic. World

NON-FICTION 19 P e t e r Selected Poems S a n s o m ...witty, realistic and imaginative. The stationary train that pulls out of the station. Auden, Haydn and Uccello live A harbour and island getting underway in his pages as happily as snooker across an estuary and out to open sea. stars, Tesco and Extra Strong A church moving, as you walk, on the horizon. Mints. The ceiling turning round a single, drunken lightbulb; or from a spin in an office chair PETER PORTER, OBSERVER watching the room like a rubber band unwind to bring the world back to where you were. ...a mature assurance which from ‘What the Eye Doesn’t See’ results in poems that are always entertaining and frequently some- Selected Poems gathers twenty years of quintessential Peter Sansom, a poet who has thing more. made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts CAROL ANN DUFFY, matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern GUARDIAN life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness. Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom’s four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR SEPTEMBER 2010 PETER SANSOM was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Now living in Sheffield, he ISBN 978 184777 0646 is co-director of the Poetry Business and editor of The North magazine and Smith/ Doorstop Books. Carcanet publish his four previous collections, Everything You’ve 72pp PAPER £9.95 Heard is True (1990,), January (1994), Point of Sale (2000, documenting the year he spent as Marks and Spencer’s poet-in-residence), and The Last Place on Earth (2006). World

POETRY 20 Philip Shakespeare's Sonnets T e r ry Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, by the language of journalism and spam emails, Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare’s themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality and death find their contemporary responses in the world of celebrity gossip, consumer products and the credit crunch. The results spark with energy, as disrespectful and anarchic as a cartoon – and as assured in their control of line. Philip Terry, an acclaimed translator of Raymond Queneau, plays language games by the rules of Oulipo in his creation of a Shakespearean chimaera, the hybrid that takes on a life of its own. from Sonnet 112 (‘Your love and pity doth th’impression fill’) th’impression doth pity and love (‘Your 112 Sonnet from Your fibreglass doth th’impression fill doth th’impression fibreglass Your stamped upon my bonnet; Which vulgar vandals I for smart cars, What care in my carburettor. The hamster is happy my Silverstone, are You fruitful Bernie, My else to me, nor I none alive, None place on the starting take your grid. Can

ABOUT THE AUTHOR SEPTEMBER 2010 PHILIP TERRY was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, ISBN 978 184777 0721 Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books 160 pp PAPER £9.95 include the anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), Oulipoems (2006) and Oulipoems 2 (2009). He is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality (2007). World

POETRY 21 Cold Eye Published in association with Marlborough Fine Art

Images by Paul Hodgson Poems by Dan Burt

Cold Eye is a creative collaboration between an artist and a poet. The ten images Taken all together, Paul explore ten poems, which in turn focus in on and explore the images. Things are Hodgson’s pictures make a fragmented, things are restored, and the restoration enhances our sense of the powerful address to perennial visible world and the world of language. This unusual collaboration has resulted questions about the self and in a wholly unique volume, large in scale and compelling in design and its ability to articulate an production. We read pictures and see poetry in quite new ways. identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits. Dan Burt’s poems are strikingly ambitious. His language is terse to the point of ANDREW MOTION brutality; the verbs ferocious, often monosyllabic; his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of ‘the curtain falling on the Enlightenment’. ELAINE FEINSTEIN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST DAN BURT was born in Philadelphia in 1942. He read English at Cambridge before SEPTEMBER 2010 graduating from Yale Law School and practicing law in the United States, and ISBN 978 184777 1056 Saudi Arabia. He is an honorary Fellow of St. John’s College Cambridge and lives in London. PAUL HODGSON was born in Shrewsbury in 1972. He studied fine art at the University 112pp CASED £49.95 of Newcastle upon Tyne and at the Royal College of Art, where he began to combine photography, printmaking and digital media. Hodgson is represented by Marlborough Fine Art. World

POETRY & ART 22 F o r d Parade's End M a d o x Some Do Not . . . Edited with an introduction by Max Saunders F o r d SOME DO NOT . . . INCLUDES For the first time, the four novels that make up Ford Madox Ford’s First • the first reliable text, based on the World War masterpiece Parade’s End are published in fully annotated manuscript and first editions editions, with authoritative corrected texts. Each novel is edited by a leading • a major critical introduction by Ford expert. Max Saunders, Ford’s acclaimed biographer Some Do Not . . ., the first volume of Parade’s End, introduces the central • an account of the novel’s characters: Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician; composition and reception his dazzling but unfaithful wife Sylvia; and the young Suffragette Valentine • a reconstruction of Ford’s original Wannop. It starts with the cataclysmic meeting of Tietjens and Valentine: a ending, published complete for the weekend whose violence prefigures the coming war. It ends in 1917 as the two first time are on the verge of becoming lovers, before Tietjens prepares to return to the • annotations explaining historical references, military terms, literary Front and probable death. and topical allusions Some Do Not . . . is an unforgettable exploration of the tensions of a society • a full textual apparatus including facing catastrophe, as the energies of sexuality and power erupt in madness transcriptions of deletions and revisions and violence. • a bibliography of further reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR OCTOBER 2010 FORD MADOX FORD was a great novelist, poet, editor, essayist, critic and advocate. Born in Surrey in 1873, his ISBN 978 184777 0127 mother was the daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown. His experience in the First World War furnished him with material for his many novels. He died in France in 1939. 720 pp PAPER £18.95 MAX SAUNDERS is Professor of English at King’s College London. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, (2 vols.,1996) and the editor of Ford’s Selected Poems, War Prose and (with Richard Stang) Critical Essays (all for Carcanet). World

FICTION 23 G a b r i e l Heart's Wings Josipovici and other stories There are no objects any more. There were never any objects. Now you know. Don’t The mysteries of Gabriel look for me. By the time you read this I will be far away. You will never find me. Josipovici’s brief, elliptical forms embody a disquieting Gabriel Josipovici’s stories play hide and seek with the reader. Whether they take place in a seedy London nightclub in the sixties, in a brothel in and moving sensibility that Hamburg during the First World War, in the fevered world of Shakespeare’s rewards patient rereading. mind as he writes Twelfth Night or in that of the dying Borges as he dreams TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT of Finland and the Kalevala, in an airport outside Berlin, in Bukovina in 1942... one thing is certain: you are never quite where you think you are and what is happening is never quite what you think is happening. No Josipovici is one of the best matter how short the story – and many are no more than two or three pages living writers in English. long – by the time you have finished reading you will have travelled an ROBERT NYE, GUARDIAN unimaginable distance, and will never be quite the same again.

Heart’s Wings gathers twenty-three stories written over the last fifteen years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OCTOBER 2010 GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI was born in Nice in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at Oxford and ISBN 978 184777 0066 from 1963-1996 he taught at the University of Sussex, where he is now a Research Professor. 112 pp PAPER £14.95 He has published over a dozen novels, three volumes of short stories, several plays and a number of critical books, including the collection of essays The Singer on the Shore (Carcanet). World His work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.

FICTION 24 Oxford Poets 2010 OxfordPoets An Anthology

Edited by David Constantine, Robyn Marsack & Bernard O'Donoghue INCLUDES Robert Black In the first OxfordPoets anthology, published in 2000, the editors wrote that they had ‘no editorial programme or ideology beyond a desire to represent the Jim Carruth best’, what they found ‘most compelling in terms of formal and rhythmic Ellen Cranitch invention’. The principle remains in place in this, the sixth addition to the series. All the poems here are marked by a keen intelligence of purpose and Philip Hancock design, however various those purposes are and however experimental or Pippa Little traditional the design. New writers, and writers who are already becoming Kathryn Maris recognised, are making compelling new poetry. All share the candour and invention that are hallmarks of the OxfordPoets imprint. M R Peacocke David Shook Ryan Van Winkle

ABOUT THE EDITORS OCTOBER 2010 DAVID CONSTANTINE taught German Literature at Oxford. A poet and translator, he is the editor of the journal Modern Poetry in Translation. His Collected Poems were published in 2004. ISBN 978 190303 9984 ROBYN MARSACK was born in New Zealand and now lives in Scotland, where she is Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. She has worked as an editor, critic and translator and has published studies of Louis MacNeice and Sylvia Plath. 160 pp PAPER £12.95 BERNARD O'DONOGHUE teaches Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford and has published four books of World poems. His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin in 2006.

POETRY ANTHOLOGY 25 D a v i d Enchantment M o r l e y How does a blacksmith make fresh life from fire? How do you ride a

Camargue horse through time? And what powers does a hedgehog have to 'Spinning' from challenge a king? David Morley's new collection reclaims the story-making powers of poetry. The tales and charms of Enchantment take their imaginative energies from Romani life and lore. Partly Romani himself, David Morley explores lives lived intensely on the margins of reality, creating a fresh language for poetry. Opening with a celebration of the friendship between the poet and the late Nicholas Hughes, the story-poems enter and evoke strange new worlds, reawakening us to the oral tradition of poetry as a form of magic and marvel. Enchantment concludes an ambitious cycle of poems that began with David Morley’s Scientific Papers and continued with The Invisible Kings, a collection which the Times Literary Supplement compared to Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns. It also contains specially-commissioned

illustrations by the cult American artist Peter Blegvad. you you, so my stories should show They say language shows in— breathed I’ve whose voices wound through, I’ve what worlds smoke their mouths; the fire’s that smoke spooling from a ghost them make an understood utterance, above swirling and what might be watching pass through see, what we of what we waiting. us watching ourselves

ABOUT THE AUTHOR NOVEMBER 2010 DAVID MORLEY read Zoology at Bristol University. He co-founded the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, where he develops new practices in ISBN 978 184777 0622 scientific as well as creative writing. His awards include a Hawthornden Fellowship and an Arts Council Writers Award. His collections Scientific Papers (2002) and The 78 pp PAPER £9.95 Invisible Kings (2007) are published by Carcanet. He is the author of numerous critical World books, including the bestselling Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing.

POETRY 26 Modern Canadian Poetry An Anthology Edited with an introduction by Evan Jones and Todd Swift INCLUDING Modern Canadian Poetry: An Anthology charts a nation's poetic history from Modernism to the present day. Here are 34 cosmopolitan poets whose work A.M. Klein deserves recognition beyond national boundaries. The editors – themselves Anne Wilkinson expatriate Canadian poets – have taken an ‘away’ angle, redefining the Irving Layton connections between Canadian poetry and the poetries of the United George Johnston Kingdom and elsewhere. International in outlook, the anthology encompasses Margaret Avison those Canadian by birth and by choice, and those who have engaged with the David Wevill Native, Anglo-Irish and American traditions. First Nations poetry is Eric Ormsby represented, as is work from both English and French Canada (Anne Carson’s Norm Sibum translations of Emile Nelligan, for example). This is an inclusive gathering of Marius Kociejowski individuals and mavericks, of established and emerging voices, of hybrid Anne Carson poets whose work lives between cultures and reaches beyond borders. Dionne Brand Modern Canadian Poetry: An Anthology will surprise and delight readers both George Elliott Clarke new to and well-versed in Canadian literature. Steven Heighton

ABOUT THE EDITORS NOVEMBER 2010 EVAN JONES was born in Toronto and now lives in the UK. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at universities in Canada and the United Kingdom. His first ISBN 978 185754 9386 collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. 220 pp PAPER £18.95 TODD SWIFT was born in and grew up in , and is now based in the UK. He has published six poetry collections and has been UK Poet-in-Residence for since 2004. He is a lecturer in Creative World Writing and English Literature at .

POETRY 27 Les Taller When Prone M u r r ay Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray’s celebrations of the rural world Thinking up names in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, for a lofty farm: High Wallet, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories Cow Terraces, Fogsheep, and songs, fragments of conversations, memories and satire comprise this Rainside, Helmet Brush, varied, habitable world. In Murray’s vigorous and sinuous language, ‘song Tipcamber, Dingo Leap... and story are pixels / in a mirrorball’, reflecting back to us endless possibilities. from ‘the Cowladder Stanzas’ There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational. DEREK WALCOTT

He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives. JOSEPH BRODSKY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR NOVEMBER 2010 LES MURRAY, born in 1938, grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah, New South Wales. Since 1971 he has made poetry his full-time career, and he was the first Australian poet ISBN 978 184777 1230 to achieve international acclaim without expatriation. Carcanet publish his Collected Poems and his individual collections, including Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996, awarded 88 pp PAPER £9.95 the T.S. Eliot Prize), his prose writing in The Paperbark Tree (1992) and his verse novel World excl. Australia & NZ Fredy Neptune (1998). Les Murray received the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 1999.

POETRY 28 The Nazarene Gospel Restored Robert by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro Graves Edited with an introduction by John W. Presley The Nazarene Gospel Restored is Graves’s major scholarly work on the life of Jesus, and as important as The White Goddess to any understanding of the ideas in Robert Graves’s oeuvre. After five years' work on it, Graves wrote to T.S. Eliot saying that it ‘solved on sound historical lines, with every sentence documented, all the outstanding Gospel cruces.’ With the Hebrew scholar Joshua Podro, he examined all available Christian texts in the light of contemporary Jewish and Roman records, revealing the true story of what Jesus said and did. This collaborative book offered a fresh and detailed analysis of the Gospels, untangling the distortions and age-old problems of the original texts. The Nazarene Gospel Restored made a radical impact on New Testament criticism when it was first published in 1953.

This volume includes a foreword by Graves and Podro explaining the aims of the work and its chief historical, archaeological and linguistic bases, and an illuminating introduction and notes by the editor and leading Graves scholar John W. Presley.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITOR DECEMBER 2010 ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985), poet, classical scholar, novelist and critic, was one of the greatest writers of ISBN 978 185754 6675 the twentieth century. He produced over a hundred books, including I, Claudius (1934), The White Goddess (1948) and Greek Myths (1955). JOSHUA PODRO was an expert on the Hebrao-Aramaic aspects of primitive 1,060 pp CASED £50 Christianity. He also co-authored with Graves Jesus in Rome: a historical conjecture (1957). JOHN W. PRESLEY is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Illinois State University. He has published almost forty World pieces of scholarship on Robert Graves's poetry and prose.

NON-FICTION 29 SELECTED BACKLIST CHINUA ACHEBE EAVAN BOLAND Collected Poems New Collected Poems

Chinua Achebe's Collected Poems was easily the most This New Collected Poems is an important document: it powerful book I read in 2005: his poem 'A Mother in a is the finest evidence ever assembled of the escape from Refugee Camp' had me making a fool of myself on a train the grip of a tradition. between Charing Cross and Waterloo East. THOMAS MCCARTHY, IRISH TIMES MATTHEW SWEET, INDEPENDENT ISBN 978 185754 8433 ISBN 978 185754 8587 £9.95 £14.95

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE GILLIAN CLARKE Complete Poems Collected Poems ...one is grateful when the translator turns himself loose Gillian Clarke's poems ring with lucidity and power... and the English serves as a commentary on Baudelaire's her work is both personal and archetypal, built out of modernity. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT language as concrete as it is musical... THE TIMES

ISBN 978 185754 9393 ISBN 978 185754 3353 £18.95 £9.95

SUJATA BHATT THE NEW YORK POETS Point No Point: Selected Poems John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara & James Schuyler

...a substantial collection of poems, one that allows us to ...a quartet of sublime jokers who imagined a city into ex- travel, dream and learn, but one that ultimately moves us istence. Deceptively simple surfaces overlay an intellectual by the quietude of its stance and its impeccable and emotional exuberance of staggering daring. articulation. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

ISBN 978 185754 3063 ISBN 978 185754 8433 £9.95 £9.95

SELECTED BACKLIST 30 SELECTED BACKLIST SOPHIE HANNAH EDWIN MORGAN Pessimism for Beginners New Selected Poems Sophie Hannah is a poet of considerable skill... A shrewd Plangent, piquant, compassionate, mordant, tender - and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her [Edwin Morgan's] poetic palette is prodigiously varied and own life, she is often very funny. vivid and this collection spans the best of an incisive and humane talent. WENDY COPE SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

ISBN 978 185754 8785 ISBN 978 185754 4596 £9.95 £12.95

ELIZABETH JENNINGS RAINER MARIA RILKE Selected Poems Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet

[Her] clear-eyed, simple tenderness...reminds me of the The author wrote of his Sonnets to Orpheus: great 17th century poet, George Herbert. They are perhaps most mysterious, even to me...the most VERNON SCANNELL, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH puzzling dictation I have ever received and taken down. ISBN 978 085635 2829 £9.95 ISBN 978 185754 4565 £9.95

HUGH MACDIARMID CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Selected Poems Selected Poems Riach has done Scottish literature a great service in [Rossetti's poetry is] unequalled for its objective expres- masterminding the Carcanet edition of the works of Hugh sion of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely MacDiarmid... stoicism. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT PHILIP LARKIN

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