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Reading Women's Poetry
Laurence Lerner
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A book about reading women's poems, rather than forming theories about them. Beginning with Katherine Philips, the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to themselves.


Satiric Modernism
Kevin Rulo
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In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and the introduction of largely unknown ...


The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence
Benjamin D. Hagen
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Though the differences in style and politics between Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) are many, they both had formative experiences as teachers. Between 1905 and 1907, Woolf taught history and composition courses at Morley College while Lawrence spent nearly a decade in the field ...


The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Jesse McCarthy
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Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States ...


Wilder Winds
Bel Olid
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In Wilder Winds, Bel Olid presents a stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the outskirts of society, and inevitable differences.


A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays
Pedro Lemebel
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Extravagantly stylish, searingly critical dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'He speaks brilliantly for a difference that refuses to disappear' Garth Greenwell'Astonishing and tender and quite outrageous... What a powerful, mould-breaking voice' Tomasz ...


Behind Bars: On punishment, prison & release
Lady Unchained
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An extraordinary debut collection of poetry which tackles the criminal justice system.


Granta 166: Generations
Thomas Meaney
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Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction. Stories by Andrew ...


Why Are You Shouting?
James Womack
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This collection thinks about two main things: the efforts we make as individuals to find some form of connection between ourselves, and the efforts we make as a group to connect to the environment we live in.


Skeletons
Deborah Landau
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Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humour and intimacy.


The Shark Nursery
Mary O'Malley
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In Mary O'Malley's new collection, the world's at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril.


All Fours
Miranda July
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The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life


Come Here To This Gate
Rory Waterman
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Come Here to This Gate is a three-part collection, focusing variously on caring for an alcoholic father with dementia, the personal and global conflicts that shape our lives, and what happens when imps, ghosts and boggarts have to reckon with the modern world.


Echoes of the City
Lars Saabye Christensen
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By the author of The Half-Brother, a compelling portrait of post-war Oslo as the city recovers from the German Occupation.


Not a Moment Too Soon
Frank Kuppner
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Frank Kuppner's new book consists of three hilarious, philosophical, existential sequences: The Liberating Vertigo of a Final Passage of Meaning, Not Quite the Greatest Story Never Told, and Not Quite a False Fresh Start.


One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Roland Schimmelpfennig
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A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's most successful playwright


The Time in Between
Marcello Fois
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The continuation of an epic family saga set in mid-twentieth century Sardinia


Egg/Shell
Victoria Kennefick
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The highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.


Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past


Friday Black: 'an excitement and a wonder' George Saunders
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Friday Black heralds the arrival of a thrilling new American literary star

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