Cb Editions imprint: 4 books

by Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015

Shortlisted for the 2001 T. S. Eliot and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. A number of poems in this collection by Charles Boyle take their cue from Stendhal, whose characteristic blend of artfulness and candour - particularly evident in his unreliable memoirs - is sustained throughout the book. In material...
by Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015

Shortlisted for the 1996 Forward Prize. Candid and alert to the contemporary scene, the poems in Paleface render an immediately recognisable world, not least when ostensibly describing the rites and customs of a desert tribe. Many of the poems speak of the ways in which our lives surprise us: intimations...

No Particular Hurry

British Travellers in Finland 1830–1917

by Tony Lurcock
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock’s informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.The book includes a section on the Russian War of 1854–5,...

Not So Barren or Uncultivated

British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830

by Tony Lurcock
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world. It also presents the familiar figure of the Englishman Abroad in very unfamiliar terms. Lurcock’s book is informative,...
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