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how the gods pour tea
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish,...
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Human / Nature
Birch Brook Press (US)£17.99| /The breadth and depth of Lance Lee's poetry is evidenced here by its sharp-etched imagery and far-reaching perspectives: stunning poems about his p...
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Humor de género
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£18.99| /Fruto de la investigación de la autora a lo largo de los últimos 10 años sobre el humor verbal en español, presenta un análisis desde una doble per...
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Hungarian Literature
Boulevard Books (UK)£12.95| /The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature presents modern Hungarian literature that has been translated into English: novels, short story collections...
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Hungarian Sea
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /The theme 'all is connected' runs through these crisply crafted poems as the author explores the connections between the natural world, humanity, a...
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Hungry Ghosts
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /How do you lose that much money? How do you lose something that big? How many planes do you have to lose before people forget about the money you l...
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Hyem
Playdead Press£9.99| /"Everyone says Mick and Sylvs is dangerous. So why does Dummey feel its so much like home? Young Alan Dummey Dummett doesnt fit in. He lives on ...
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Hymnswitch
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizeStanding in the granite of his own voice.Remembering your gathering body.Hello, My Forever Ago, don't worr...
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I & I
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Shortlisted, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry and Dartmouth Book AwardIn the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover,...
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I Am Still Your Negro
University of Alberta Press (CA)£15.99| /Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her...
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I Dont Fly with the Flock
Be Bookhouse£39.99| /Stunningly elegant in its simplicity and directness, this book cuts through the fog and presents an honest look at the world around us. Combined wi...
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I You He She It
University of Huddersfield Press£12.00| /The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose and poetry today. It features five sect...
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If I Had My Life to Live Over -- Petite
Papier Mache Press (US)£7.99| /This companion volume to the award-winning anthology, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, illuminates the experiences of women, young and o...
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If There's Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain't Staying
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£30.99| /Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Losack, a woman farmer and water...
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If We Had the Word
Ariadne Press (US)£34.99| /Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the most significant post-war women writers in German language literature and remains one of the most impo...
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Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectfu...
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Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectfu...
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Imagined Geographies
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /In 1984 Czech writer Milan Kundera published his essay 'The Tragedy of Central Europe' in The New York Review of Books, which established the frame...
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Imagining Ancient Women
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fi...
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Imagining Peace
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /Sometimes playful but always passionate, Imagining Peace offers a glimpse into the private world of a quirky systems reformer. The great-granddaugh...
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Imperfect Penance
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Passion, obsession, addiction, vision, and despair -- these are just a few of the themes explored by Mitchell Parry in this poignant portrait of Au...
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Imprimir en Lima durante la colonia
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /Text in Spanish. Investigación sobre los textos impresos en Lima durante la colonia, sus géneros literariosy las condiciones políticas y materiales...
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In Bare Apple Boughs
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Tim Merrill's first collection of poetry uses plain language and the imagery of nature to express complex ideas.
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In Between the Dancing
Interactive Press£19.99| /Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Interactive Publications Picks Best First Book Award. This impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place w...
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In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts
Interactive Press£19.99| /B N Oakman's deceptively conversational tone and wry humour complement writing that is elegant, sometimes confronting, and which shuns obscurity in...
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In Defense of Freedom & Related Essays
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£13.95| /First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...
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In Defense of Freedom & Related Essays
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...
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In Dreams
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£15.99| /Elizabeth Grandbois is terminally ill with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Her fragile health caused her to reflect on her life with a sense of immedia...
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In Fine Form
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /In the decade since the publication of the first edition of IN FINE FORM, there has been a resurgence of Canadian poets writing in "form" ? in sonn...
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In Flux
NeWest Press (CA)£19.99| /The politics of difference, mired in the violence of colonial history, are a dominant force in the socio-economic development of contemporary socie...
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In Memoriam Einstein
Sagging Shorts£11.99| /By a singular ruse, the author of this account obtained entrance to the most exclusive party in the scientific world of the 20th century: The Einst...
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In Mirrors
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /Lyn Lifshin's mirror poems may be taken individually and as a suite. Few poets can extend a metaphor in so many directions. Lifshin's poetic power ...
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In My Days and In My Sleep
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /Rebecca Law's poems reflect her views as a practising Catholic while contemplating subjects ranging from nature and love to philosophy and social h...
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In My Head
Playdead Press£9.99| /"It's seen as a flaw, a weakness, people don't understand it, people are scared of what they can't see." Hurtling through twenty-two scenes, six a...
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In Search of Owen Roe
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /An unmarked grave containing the bodies of my great-grandfather, Owen Roe ONeill, and his young daughter. A little further away lie the graves of ...
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In the Beginning Was the Pun
Aalborg University Press£37.00| /"Tatiana Chemi's book is consistent in its argumentation and comprehensive in regards to the subject it deals with. It results in an original contr...
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In the Cinema
Playdead Press£7.99| /"A touching collection of poetry by Stephen Bone. "Your whispered words silently replay themselves - don't tell me how it ends, don't spoil it for ...
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In the Dragon's Claws
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£11.99| /The story of Rostam and Esfandiyar is one of the most moving tragedies in Ferdowsis epic Shahnameh. In this story, Esfandiyar, the designated heir ...
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In the Flesh
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are...
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In the Flight of Stars
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry and her first in more than a decade, is -- in her own words -- " a collection of l...
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In the Garden
Manor House Publishing Inc£11.99| /Its rare that a book can help you achieve a state of bliss and heightened consciousness. This innovative aide to enlightenment utilises guided med...
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In the Junk Shop & Other Stories
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /Anna O [Bertha Pappenheim] (1859-1936), a friend of Freud's wife in Vienna, is regarded as the first patient of psychoanalysis. It was she who inve...
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In The Lions' Den & The Panther
Ariadne Press (US)£24.99| /Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching social milieu in a ...
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In the Name of Luminosity and Transparency
Aiora Press£9.99| /The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, ...
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In the Scaffolding
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Readers and critics who warmed to the fine intelligence of his debut collection will be astonished and delighted to see how much Eric Miller has ma...
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In the Vicinity of Riches
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The richness of memory is a curse and a gift.Twisting and turning against the soul-sicknesses of late-capitalism, Chris Hutchinson's new collection...
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