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Diamond Cutters names the tradition of Visionary Poetry from the early 20th century with Kathleen Raine and David Gascoyne through to contemporary poets in the early 21st in both Britain and America as well as Australia at a time when spiritual consciousness is more important for us than ever; not simply as an inward or private language, but as a way of actively seeing and reading what is going on in our world today at a time of critical personal and political transition. This unique anthology (400pp), co-edited with Andrew Harvey, names and celebrates this impulse and focus, taking poetry beyond social realism towards the Source which is both our origin and transformation as human beings. At the same time, it is deeply political and ecological, critiquing the restrictive ideologies that limit our minds, our freedom, and our compassion. Poets include William Stafford, Robert Bly (now 90), Jeni Couzyn, Andrew Harvey, Dorothy Walters, Janine Canan, Gabriel Bradford Millar, Aidan Andrew Dun, Thanissara, Niall McDevitt, Rose Flint, Thomas R. Smith, Irina Kuzminsky, John Fox, and Philip Wells. It has global reach and emphasis towards what it means to realize ourselves as 'One World People'.The contributors of Diamond Cutters are poets famous and obscure, living and dead, who have come together from points across the globe to present this work, which is being hailed as “Neo-Metaphysical Verse” for our times. “Neo-Metaphysical Verse,” is that which opposes directly the bathetic, the ugly, and the trivial, that have manifested so broadly across our world. Diamond Cutters provides a move to end that regime, clothed simply with the truth and beauty. (Andrew Harvey and Jay Ramsay Diamond Cutters)

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9780997019612 | Sew edition (Smooth Stones Pr, June 3, 2016), cover price $24.99

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9781944505394 | Reprint edition (Smooth Stones Pr, June 1, 2016), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Diamond Cutters names the tradition of Visionary Poetry from the early 20th century with Kathleen Raine and David Gascoyne through to contemporary poets in the early 21st in both Britain and America as well as Australia at a time when spiritual consciousness is more important for us than ever; not simply as an inward or private language, but as a way of actively seeing and reading what is going on in our world today at a time of critical personal and political transition.

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9780374227128 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 13, 2015, cover price $24.00

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9780374536688 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 12, 2016), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish.In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner landscapes of the poet's universe, seamlessly fusing reflections on language, science, and literature, with the loamy environments of the natural worlds around her...read more

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9780802124630 | Reissue edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, February 2, 2016), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish.

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Product Description: Off the Beaten Track presents new work by twelve writers taking part in a unique collaborative project. Each of them was invited to compose one haiku per day for a month, thus contributing towards the total of 365 haiku for a full calendar year...read more

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9781911052012 | Boatwhistle Books, December 27, 2015, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Off the Beaten Track presents new work by twelve writers taking part in a unique collaborative project.

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9780534203467, titled "Methods Toward a Science of Behavior and Experience" | Wadsworth Pub Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $87.95 | also contains Methods Toward a Science of Behavior and Experience

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9781910701126 | Random House Uk Ltd, December 1, 2015, cover price $19.95

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9780856464522 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, October 13, 2015, cover price $16.95

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Galileo's wife, a woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery and a Russian boy whose adventures are limited by the immature powers of his inventor, are among the characters featured in this collection of poetry.

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9780571326341 | Gardners Books, September 3, 2015, cover price $18.30
9780571168941 | Faber & Faber, November 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Galileo's wife, a woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery and a Russian boy whose adventures are limited by the immature powers of his inventor, are among the characters featured in this collection of poetry.

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By Raving Beauties (corporate author)

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9780442315566, titled "A Slide Atlas of Endovascular Surgery: Interventional Techniques in Vascular Disease" | Van Nostrand Reinhold, February 1, 1992, cover price $595.00 | also contains A Slide Atlas of Endovascular Surgery: Interventional Techniques in Vascular Disease

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9781780371559 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2015, cover price $24.00

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J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips, and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since the late work of Ezra Pound and the Maximus series of Charles Olson have the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they are in the work of J.H. Prynne. Includes all of Prynne's work from 2004-2014, which was previously unpublished, uncollected, or only available in limited editions, as well as the rest of his oeuvre.

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9781780371535 | 3 expanded edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2015), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: J.
9781852246556 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, January 15, 2006, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Poetry from the United Kingdom.
9781852244910 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, April 1, 1999, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Offers the collected poems of Great Britain's leading experimental poet

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9781780371542 | Expanded edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2015), cover price $57.00
9781852246563 | 2 edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, January 15, 2006), cover price $41.95
9781852244927 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Offers the collected poems of Great Britain's leading experimental poet

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9780030560101 | Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1968, cover price $8.95 | also contains Kicking Sawdust

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9780486789989 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, January 14, 2015), cover price $14.95

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9781780371108 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, October 5, 2014, cover price $26.00

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Product Description: The poems that Kelly Grovier’s third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in life’s everyday spaces—city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains. The title conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body...read more

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9781906188139 | Carcanet Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The poems that Kelly Grovier’s third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in life’s everyday spaces—city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains.

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9781781721599 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, June 15, 2014, cover price $17.99

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9781852249847 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, March 15, 2014, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: “Hollie McNish is breaking boundaries and showing that poetry has a place and a role in the 21st century.”  ―James McMahon, CBS Tennessee Celebrate the ride–its joy, its labor, its freedom. In our world of fossil fuel dependence, insisting on the value and beauty of riding a bicycle is a subversive  and necessary act...read more

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9780989310482 | Green Writers Pr, June 3, 2016, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “Hollie McNish is breaking boundaries and showing that poetry has a place and a role in the 21st century.

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9781909844063 | Parthian Books, March 1, 2014, cover price $12.00

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Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading. As Twiddy outlines the development of the form, he identifies its characteristics and functions. But more importantly his study accounts for the enduring appeal of the pastoral elegy, why poets look to its conventions during times of personal distress and social disharmony, and how it allows them to recover from grief, loss and destruction. Informed by current debates and contemporary theories of mourning, Twiddy discusses themes of war and peace, social pastoral and environmental change, draws on the enduring influence of both Classical and Romantic poetics and explores poets' changing relationships with pastoral elegy throughout their careers. The result is a study that demonstrates why the pastoral elegy is still a flourishing and dynamic form in contemporary British and Irish poetry.

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9781441139412 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 17, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading.

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9781472523792 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 16, 2014, cover price $39.95

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Combines bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on '18' certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages.

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9781447241621 | Pan Macmillan, May 23, 2013, cover price $25.35
9780330440035 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, September 1, 2006), cover price $13.80 | About this edition: Combines bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on '18' certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages.
9780307275691 | Vintage Books, April 11, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry presents an array of love lyrics, new versions of classical odes, lullabies, and comic set-pieces that demonstrate a versatility of voice and imagination.

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By Nathan Hamilton (editor)

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9781852249496, titled "Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK" | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, September 15, 2013, cover price $29.95

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9781742757834 | Random House Australia, May 1, 2013, cover price $12.95

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