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An Occasional Lean-to

Ian Pople

An Occasional Lean-to

In this new collection, Ian Pople explores the boundaries of religious and linguistic certainty.

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In Waterlight: Poems New, Selected and Revised

Donald Atkinson

In Waterlight: Poems New, Selected and Revised

Of these new poems, Mimi Khalvati writes:"I like the warmth, the melancholy, and the colours of this sequence; and how even the harsh brutalities are filtered through a celebratory tenderness."

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Apology for Absence

Julia Darling

Apology for Absence

Julia Darling's second collection was completed a little over a year after Sudden Collapses in Public Places, and looks at the world beyond the hospital, although still from the view-point of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness.

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Dog

C. K. Stead

Dog

In this new collection, C. K. Stead shows himself still in full charge of a talent which has surprised, delighted and challenged readers of poetry since it first declared itself in the 1950s.

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Women and Days

Gabriel Ferrater

Women and Days

The Catalan poet, Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972) is a poet of personal experience — he once suggested that his poetry had an affinity with Hardy's, a poet he greatly admired. He succeeds like no other poet in capturing the feeling of Catalan society both during and since the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).

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A Question of Gravity: Selected Poems

Elizabeth Smither

A Question of Gravity: Selected Poems

Regarded as New Zealand's leading female poet, Elizabeth Smither has had to wait until now for this, her first full-length UK publication, which is an extensive selection from five of her most recent collections, including Red Shoes (Godwit, 2003), the result of her now concluded two-year term as Te Mata New Zealand poet laureate.

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peeled

Subhadassi

peeled

Subhadassi is a practising Buddhist and much of his poetry is imbued with the texture of Buddhism although the poet rarely confronts it head on. There is a compassion, honesty, humour, tenderness and sensuousness about these poems which makes them both eminently readable and strikingly memorable.

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The Unmapped Page: Selected Poems

Andrew Sant

The Unmapped Page: Selected Poems

The poems selected for this book are the distillation of the work of a poet who began to receive significant attention in Australia during the 1980s and whose reputation continues to grow. Described variously by critics as "an important, innovative poet" with "a penetrating eye for the hidden geometries of meaning", Sant reveals himself in this volume as a vibrant, witty and sensuous writer with a gift for narrative exploration and an eye for intrinsic and off-beat detail.

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In the Temple of a Patient God

Bejan Matur

In the Temple of a Patient God

To read Bejan Matur is to walk into a windswept desert strewn with bones and broken bodies and stones stained red by absent gods. Nothing is whole; nothing explains itself; nothing lasts. Horsemen gallop out of the night only to fade into the mountains on the horizon. Gravestones line the roads. Ruined houses howl with wind while shepherds sing dirges about a shattered, scattered tribe left to wander in the dark. It is a haunted, desolate and fragmented landscape in which every stone glows with a grief beyond words...

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Jeff Nuttall - A Celebration

ed. Bank and Ward

Jeff Nuttall - A Celebration

Painter, sculptor, poet, essayist, caricaturist, jazz musician and performance artist, he was a seminal figure as a teacher of fine art in schools and polytechnics from the 1960s until the late '80s.

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