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This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can move from the Australian desert to an English coal mine, from the interior world of Grace Darling to the mythic world of the Ramayana, from earthquakes in New Zealand to gardens in France. A common thread is migration, in many senses; another is the beguilements and betrayals of memory. The poets’ own reflections on their writing provide insight into the cultural and personal contexts of work that expands the vocabulary of poetry in English.

The Oxford Poets Anthology 2013 includes:
Gregor Addison
David Attwooll
Emily Ballou
Paul Batchelor
Christy Ducker
Lynn Jenner
Riina Katajavuori
David Krump
Frances Leviston
Peter Mackay
Ádám Nádasdy
André Naffis-Sahely
Vivek Narayanan
Leonie Rushforth
Kerrin P. Sharpe
Ian Stephen
Toh Hsien Min
Jan Wagner
Karen McCarthy Woolf

Introduction

Gregor Addison

Denny’s Shipyard, Dumbarton, 1959

United Turkey Red

Bespoke (Loch Sloy Hydro Dam, 1948)

Slant

Stamford Hill

Pte 1091 Allison, aged 19

Past tense

Clydeside, March 2011

Till

David Attwooll

March for the Alternative

‘SPEEDER CLAIMED CAR WAS DRIVEN BY HER DEAD MOTHER’

Message from an agnostic angel

Wiggy in Cornwall

Banner for Bid

Hyperlinks in Mesopotamia, Oxford

Morning in Chapultepec

The sound ladder

Flags in East Dulwich

Resurrection

Milvus Milvus

Emily Ballou

The Importance of Tea

Twenty-three pictures of the desert

I, Lizard, performance artist

Paul Batchelor

Brother Coal

Pit Ponies

from The Orchards (after Rilke)

Christy Ducker

from Grace Darling’s ABC

from Grace Darling’s Journal

Lynn Jenner

The Russian Point of View

I have a feeling with no name

For Maisie Brown

The hot early universe

Ten rules to guide me in my research

Six New Zealand Jews Share Their Impressions of Oświęcim

I’m not sure what to call what I have done

‘In the voice of Paul Celan’

Riina Katajavuori

Elin

‘I eat a pepper that’s not’

Superimpositions

Fathers and sons

Ninety-One

‘morning tree’

Beslan

Crow Grabs Poet’s Scalp

In the forest, Hansel tells Gretel about owls

Self-portrait 18.3.2009, 1.20 p.m.

‘From the windowed veranda’

‘A boy reaches the monster island’

‘I listened to the soundscape’

‘The bewilderment that to other people’

David Krump

Notes from a Journey

An Ample Tree

Failed Sidekick’s Dilemma

Prometheus at the Checkpoint

Love Song for Rural Idiots

Ophelia Soft

Poem Written in Realtime

One Crow

A Stream

Old Geometry

Frances Leviston

GPS

IUD

Kassandra

Bishop in Louisiana

Sulis

Woodland Burial

Peter Mackay

The Log Roller

Logorrhoea (Logorrhoea)

Na Dorsan (The Doors)

Bàta Taigh Bàta (Boat House Boat)

Ball-sampaill (Specimen)

An Tobar (The Well)

Ádám Nádasdy

Creation

Family Photo Album

Angel in the Next Underground Coach

On the Big Dipper

Take Down his Particulars

Better Staying Put

Silent Interval

Swaying Chandelier

One of My Paintings

Some Sort of Mirror at the End of the Room

Adam and Eve

Just Go!

Self-Portrait

André Naffis-Sahely

Blood and Proverbs

Augury

N16 8EA

Family Business

Auroville

Professional Vagabonds

An Island of Strangers

The Journalist Speaks of the Dictator

The Return

Forward March

Exile, Italian Style

Vivek Narayanan

Rama

Tataka

Rama’s Servants

What the People Said

Chitrakuta

The Jewelled Deer

Leonie Rushforth

How to Get There

On the Ource

Janus Fleuri at the Freud Museum

Kairos

Fontenay

Mist Lifting on Mount Caburn

Gorky Park

Song for Carmen

You With Work To Do (after Pushkin)

Kerrin P. Sharpe

a possible journey

sewing the world

six lies for an orthopaedic surgeon

The Alchemy of Snow

three days in a wishing well

world without maps

because my father

In the cart

the rice planters 1953

the whistler

their faces turn pages

there are few sightings

Ian Stephen

In Breton

In Brest

Che Perig et Anna

Conversation on Ouessant

Blue Woman, Brittany

Crossing the Minch

A way of putting things aside

Sailmaker’s whipping

Cape Farewell – Scottish islands voyage

Toh Hsien Min

At night’s border with the next day

Quince

Airborne

Jan Wagner

anomalies

columbus

december 1914

tea bag

from ‘eighteen pastries’

the west

the man from the sea

staniszów

blues in august

dobermann

chameleon

hops

meteorite

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Thirteen Names for the Moon

André Naffis-Sahely

André Naffis-Sahely’s debut collection of poetry, The Promised Land, will be published by Penguin in 2017. He has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedra, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Abdellatif Laâbi, among various others. ... read more

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship from Royal Holloway, where she is a PhD candidate. Described in The Poetry Review as ‘extraordinarily moving and ... read more

Iain Galbraith

Iain Galbraith, born in Glasgow in 1956, grew up in the west of Scotland and studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement ... read more

Robyn Marsack

Robyn Marsack began her long association with Carcanet Press by editing the first edition of Edmund Blunden’s Selected Poems in 1982, and worked as a publishers’ editor until she became Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000–2016. She was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow 2016–2018. ... read more

Awards won by Karen McCarthy Woolf Winner, 2020 The Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry, Second Place (Seasonal Disturbances ) Commended, 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. (Seasonal Disturbances ) Short-listed, 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
(An Aviary of Small Birds) Short-listed, 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
(An Aviary of Small Birds)

Praise for Karen McCarthy Woolf   'This is a book which goes beyond invention to intervention, offering hybrid forms through which to apprehend the world. Consider its 'couplings', which lineate and striate 'pre-existing prose' with response lines to 'create a new lyric narrative' (as the notes elucidate). This is true to how our minds reverberate with information, with the assimilated otherness of alien texts. It does not rest at passive record or academic critique of such an internal state. It makes music, love, and rapture'
Vahni Capildeo in The Compass Magazine
'Witty, provocative and lyrically accomplished.'
Poetry London
  'For all its internationalism, McCarthy Woolf's poetry engages with the local and the personal. Reading Seasonal Disturbances is like picking up a London A-Z and finding it's a new map of the world.'
Karen's poem 'Outside' from Seasonal Disturbances was Guardian Poem of the Week, 25th December 2017
'Seasonal Disturbances is an unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement that should give the selectors of major poetry prize lists cold sweats for neglecting it. It will break you, in a good way. Truth hurts.'
The Poetry School Books of the Year 2017
'A fine antidote to Brexit delusions and certainties: London-watching and form-reshaping, unpredictable and casually intense.'
Carol Rumens, Best Poetry Books of 2017, The Guardian
'A masterclass in structure.'
Magma Poetry
'Seasonal Disturbances might be strange, but it's also a brilliant selection of poems [...] It's a collection that teaches you something about human beings as well as yourself.'
The Poetry School   'Formally ambitious...big-idea poems made up of bite-size insights and ironies that establish political anger and ecological anxiety.'
The Sunday Times
'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak'
Maggie Gee, The Observer - The New Review, 29.11.2015. '[McCarthy Woolf has] a powerful command of form and rhythm.'
Alan Brownjohn, Poetry Review
Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.'

Kevin Gardner, Wild Court

'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet'
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph
'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.'
The Bookseller

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Oxford Poets 2013 An Anthology André Naffis-Sahely and Karen McCarthy Woolf Edited by Iain Galbraith and Robyn Marsack 10% off eBook (EPUB) Categories: 21st Century, Anthologies Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jun 2013) 9781847777812 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Authors Contents Awards Reviews This anthology brings together the work of nineteen poets from a dozen different countries, with translations from at least seven languages, to provide a rich mix of contemporary voices. Here you can move from the Australian desert to an English coal mine, from the interior world of Grace Darling to the mythic world of the Ramayana, from earthquakes in New Zealand to gardens in France. A common thread is migration, in many senses; another is the beguilements and betrayals of memory. The poets’ own reflections on their writing provide insight into the cultural and personal contexts of work that expands the vocabulary of poetry in English. *The Oxford Poets Anthology 2013* includes:** Gregor Addison David Attwooll Emily Ballou Paul Batchelor Christy Ducker Lynn Jenner Riina Katajavuori David Krump Frances Leviston Peter Mackay Ádám Nádasdy André Naffis-Sahely Vivek Narayanan Leonie Rushforth Kerrin P. Sharpe Ian Stephen Toh Hsien Min Jan Wagner Karen McCarthy Woolf Introduction Gregor Addison Denny’s Shipyard, Dumbarton, 1959 United Turkey Red Bespoke (Loch Sloy Hydro Dam, 1948) Slant Stamford Hill Pte 1091 Allison, aged 19 Past tense Clydeside, March 2011 Till David Attwooll March for the Alternative ‘SPEEDER CLAIMED CAR WAS DRIVEN BY HER DEAD MOTHER’ Message from an agnostic angel Wiggy in Cornwall Banner for Bid Hyperlinks in Mesopotamia, Oxford Morning in Chapultepec The sound ladder Flags in East Dulwich Resurrection Milvus Milvus Emily Ballou The Importance of Tea Twenty-three pictures of the desert I, Lizard, performance artist Paul Batchelor Brother Coal Pit Ponies from The Orchards (after Rilke) Christy Ducker from Grace Darling’s ABC from Grace Darling’s Journal Lynn Jenner The Russian Point of View I have a feeling with no name For Maisie Brown The hot early universe Ten rules to guide me in my research Six New Zealand Jews Share Their Impressions of Oświęcim I’m not sure what to call what I have done ‘In the voice of Paul Celan’ Riina Katajavuori Elin ‘I eat a pepper that’s not’ Superimpositions Fathers and sons Ninety-One ‘morning tree’ Beslan Crow Grabs Poet’s Scalp In the forest, Hansel tells Gretel about owls Self-portrait 18.3.2009, 1.20 p.m. ‘From the windowed veranda’ ‘A boy reaches the monster island’ ‘I listened to the soundscape’ ‘The bewilderment that to other people’ David Krump Notes from a Journey An Ample Tree Failed Sidekick’s Dilemma Prometheus at the Checkpoint Love Song for Rural Idiots Ophelia Soft Poem Written in Realtime One Crow A Stream Old Geometry Frances Leviston GPS IUD Kassandra Bishop in Louisiana Sulis Woodland Burial Peter Mackay The Log Roller Logorrhoea (Logorrhoea) Na Dorsan (The Doors) Bàta Taigh Bàta (Boat House Boat) Ball-sampaill (Specimen) An Tobar (The Well) Ádám Nádasdy Creation Family Photo Album Angel in the Next Underground Coach On the Big Dipper Take Down his Particulars Better Staying Put Silent Interval Swaying Chandelier One of My Paintings Some Sort of Mirror at the End of the Room Adam and Eve Just Go! Self-Portrait André Naffis-Sahely Blood and Proverbs Augury N16 8EA Family Business Auroville Professional Vagabonds An Island of Strangers The Journalist Speaks of the Dictator The Return Forward March Exile, Italian Style Vivek Narayanan Rama Tataka Rama’s Servants What the People Said Chitrakuta The Jewelled Deer Leonie Rushforth How to Get There On the Ource Janus Fleuri at the Freud Museum Kairos Fontenay Mist Lifting on Mount Caburn Gorky Park Song for Carmen You With Work To Do (after Pushkin) Kerrin P. Sharpe a possible journey sewing the world six lies for an orthopaedic surgeon The Alchemy of Snow three days in a wishing well world without maps because my father In the cart the rice planters 1953 the whistler their faces turn pages there are few sightings Ian Stephen In Breton In Brest Che Perig et Anna Conversation on Ouessant Blue Woman, Brittany Crossing the Minch A way of putting things aside Sailmaker’s whipping Cape Farewell – Scottish islands voyage Toh Hsien Min At night’s border with the next day Quince Airborne Jan Wagner anomalies columbus december 1914 tea bag from ‘eighteen pastries’ the west the man from the sea staniszów blues in august dobermann chameleon hops meteorite Karen McCarthy Woolf Thirteen Names for the Moon André Naffis-Sahely André Naffis-Sahely’s debut collection of poetry, The Promised Land, will be published by Penguin in 2017. He has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedra, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Abdellatif Laâbi, among various others. ... read more Karen McCarthy Woolf Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship from Royal Holloway, where she is a PhD candidate. Described in The Poetry Review as ‘extraordinarily moving and ... read more Iain Galbraith Iain Galbraith, born in Glasgow in 1956, grew up in the west of Scotland and studied Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg and Mainz. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement ... read more Robyn Marsack Robyn Marsack began her long association with Carcanet Press by editing the first edition of Edmund Blunden’s Selected Poems in 1982, and worked as a publishers’ editor until she became Director of the Scottish Poetry Library 2000–2016. She was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow 2016–2018. ... read more Awards won by Karen McCarthy Woolf Winner, 2020 The Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry, Second Place (Seasonal Disturbances ) Commended, 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. (Seasonal Disturbances ) Short-listed, 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (An Aviary of Small Birds) Short-listed, 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (An Aviary of Small Birds) Praise for Karen McCarthy Woolf 'This is a book which goes beyond invention to intervention, offering hybrid forms through which to apprehend the world. Consider its 'couplings', which lineate and striate 'pre-existing prose' with response lines to 'create a new lyric narrative' (as the notes elucidate). This is true to how our minds reverberate with information, with the assimilated otherness of alien texts. It does not rest at passive record or academic critique of such an internal state. It makes music, love, and rapture' Vahni Capildeo in The Compass Magazine 'Witty, provocative and lyrically accomplished.' Poetry London 'For all its internationalism, McCarthy Woolf's poetry engages with the local and the personal. Reading Seasonal Disturbances is like picking up a London A-Z and finding it's a new map of the world.' *Karen's poem 'Outside' from Seasonal Disturbances* was Guardian Poem of the Week, 25th December 2017 'Seasonal Disturbances is an unclassifiable book, revolutionary in its engagement with form, stunning in its intersectional politics, and an extraordinary achievement that should give the selectors of major poetry prize lists cold sweats for neglecting it. It will break you, in a good way. Truth hurts.' The Poetry School Books of the Year 2017** 'A fine antidote to Brexit delusions and certainties: London-watching and form-reshaping, unpredictable and casually intense.' Carol Rumens, Best Poetry Books of 2017, The Guardian 'A masterclass in structure.' Magma Poetry 'Seasonal Disturbances might be strange, but it's also a brilliant selection of poems [...] It's a collection that teaches you something about human beings as well as yourself.' The Poetry School 'Formally ambitious...big-idea poems made up of bite-size insights and ironies that establish political anger and ecological anxiety.' The Sunday Times 'I loved Karen McCarthy Woolf's technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' Maggie Gee, The Observer - The New Review, 29.11.2015. '[McCarthy Woolf has] a powerful command of form and rhythm.' Alan Brownjohn, Poetry Review Praise for Robyn Marsack 'Readers will be drawn to this book for the poets' letters, but what really dominates is the personality of Schmidt; at the end we are left with a prevailing sense of his editorial vision and an appreciation of his influence and accomplishment in the world of contemporary poetry publishing and criticism... Fifty Fifty is full of energy and play, and not a few crossed swords.' Kevin Gardner, Wild Court 'A window into the award-winning world of Carcanet' Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph 'In celebration of the Manchester-based press' 50th anniversary, a fascinating collection of letters... tracing the eventful history of this small, ambitious and excellent press.' *The Bookseller* You might also be interested in: New Poetries V Edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth The New York Poets: an anthology John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler, Edited by Mark Ford	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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Oxford Poets 2013

An Anthology

André Naffis-Sahely and Karen McCarthy Woolf

Edited by Iain Galbraith and Robyn Marsack