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Versions Of North
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /In this late-modern period of slackened meaning, G P Lainsbury's "Versions of North" attempts to locate poetic consciousness in the drifting concep...
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Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /One of the well-known topoi of medieval literature is that the inside and outside of the protagonists show a high degree of congruence. This congru...
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Vessels
SchifferOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /This is the first book to showcase the work of acclaimed ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy. Collectors and art enthusiasts will be delighted to gaze ...
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Vindication of Natural Society
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This is a new edition of Edmund Burke's first work, originally issued anonymously in 1756 as a letter attributed to 'a late noble writer'. In 1757 ...
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Vitality of the Arthurian Legend
Odense University Press (DK)Original price £17.10Current price £12.83| /Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Od...
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Voice Lessons
Sagging Shorts£10.99| /The voice of poet John Tynan has a natural beauty all its own that is both an innate gift and a moral, as well as technical, achievement: fresh, un...
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Voices, Places
Paul Dry Books (US)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /How are voices like places? They move through us as we move through them. Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography ...
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Voyagers
Interactive Press£20.00| /Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science...
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Waiting
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £21.99Current price £16.49| /The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.--"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of...
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Walden Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1...
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Walden Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £39.99Current price £25.99| /A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1...
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Walk About the Villages
Ariadne Press (US)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /This is the fourth part of Handke's "homecoming cycle", whose other three parts can be found under the American title "A Slow Homecoming". The unde...
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Walk Myself Home
Caitlin Press (CA)Original price £14.99Current price £12.99| /There is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the threat of such violence,...
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Walking to Jutland Street
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive frst book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Du...
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Walt Whitman & the Persian Poets
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £100.00Current price £65.00| /Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...
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Walter Moers' Zamonien-Romane
V & R Unipress GmbH£42.99| /In 2009 a Bernese zoologist discovered a new species of spider in the Alps, which he named "Zamonian dwarf spider". The literary fantasy work Walte...
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War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts
ibidemOriginal price £29.90Current price £19.44| /This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £33.99Current price £22.09| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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Water over Stone
Interactive Press£19.99| /"Shore's mind is awake, always, to the lyrical potential of an ordinary moment and the consolations of memory and old friendships, awake to the sat...
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We Are Better Than This
ATF PressOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian governments asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...
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We Fall Like Children
Laertes, a Press for Literary Translation, Inc£10.99| /How does a writer translate war? And when the war is over, how does the individual reconstruct his world from the ruins? Bajraj lives in Mexico, in...
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We Never Sleep
Ariadne Press (US)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /In this masterfully constructed docu-novel Kathrin Röggla ventures into the dysfunctional, self-contained and self-destructive universe of a New Ec...
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Weathers
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New an...
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Wee Girls
Spinifex PressOriginal price £14.95Current price £12.95| /This is a selection of writings by women from Ireland, Australia, England, Canada (and other countries) compiled and edited by Irish-Australian poe...
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the ...
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Wells
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form th...
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Were the Bees
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...
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Wharton Esherick's Illuminated & Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe
SchifferOriginal price £31.99Current price £20.79| /In 1922, Wharton Esherick showed a copy Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk, which he had illustrated with woodcut prints, to Harold Mason, owner of the Ce...
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What Can Be Proven
Interactive Press£18.99| /A strange and compelling world is revealed in What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O...
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What did I know? CD
Interactive Press£19.99| /In this audio book selected from BN Oakman's latest poetry collections, In Defense of Hawaiian Shirts and Second Thoughts, we have brilliant readin...
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What We're Left With
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £19.99Current price £14.99| /The poems in Ben Murray' s debut collection, What We' re Left With, reflect on disconnection as a feature of contemporary urban experience. Murray'...
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What You Used to Wear
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Charmaine Cadeau's intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wag...
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When Sleep Comes
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £22.99Current price £17.24| /In his new poetry collection, Jack Foley revels in a wild and varied display bringing together many styles and preoccupations, from the depths of g...
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When the bad bleeds
V & R Unipress GmbHOriginal price £75.99Current price £49.39| /The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...
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When They Broke Down the Door
Mage Publishers Inc (US)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforg...
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