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Forward Prizes Shortlists Announced
We're over the moon at this year's Forward Prizes shortlists, because Carcanet or PN Review appears in each category! read more
Robert Minhinnick Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year
We're absolutely delighted to announce that Robert Minhinnick 's Diary of the Last Man has been shortlisted in the Wales Book of the Year Awards 2018 for the The Roland Mathias Poetry Award! read more
Evelyn Schlag To Be Awarded Hay Festival Medal for Poetry 2018
Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Schlag and Jackie Morris have beennamed the recipients of this year’s Hay Festival Medals. read more
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Poetry Book Society Choice: Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo
The fantastic Poetry Book Society Summer Selections includes two Carcanet books: Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear, which is the PBS Choice, and Karen Leeder's exquisite translations of Evelyn Schlag's poems, All Under One Roof, is the Translation Recommendation.read more... |
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Gabriel Josipovici
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 St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He...read more |
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Who turned the page? When I went out
Last night, his Life was left wide-open,
Half-way through, in lamplight on my desk:
The Middle Years.
Now look at him. Who turned the page?
Taken from 'A Field of Large Desires'...Last night, his Life was left wide-open,
Half-way through, in lamplight on my desk:
The Middle Years.
Now look at him. Who turned the page?
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