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In Other Words: Comprehensive grammar practice for B2-C1 English language learners is an easy to use communicative grammar practice book. Together with accompanying online listening materials, the book can be used both for self-study and as supplementary...

The Dementia Care Training Library: A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches is an encyclopedia on delivering dementia care. The Starter Pack is a ring binder, containing two core modules on the lived experience of dementia...

Coaching is an emerging discipline that is continually exploring new frontiers. An area of particularly fertile ground is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Developed from behavioural roots by integrating cognitive models of behaviour, and since...

Ambulance Care Clinical Skills Clinical procedures are vital to delivering safe and effective patient care within the prehospital setting, but it is not always easy remembering each step accurately during a time-critical situation. Ambulance Care...

Jon Markss popular strip cartoon, Langwich Scool, made its first appearance back in October 1999 in Issue 13 of English Teaching professional. Jon has entertained us since then with his wry commentary on the state of English language teaching. All good...

The Dementia Care Training Library: A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches is an encyclopedia on delivering dementia care. The Starter Pack is a ring binder, containing two core modules on the lived experience of dementia...

Trauma Informed aims to create increased therapeutic and empathetic understanding of adolescents and their traumas. Part One addresses four types of trauma - acute, chronic, complex, and historic or transgenerational - through a series of case studies...

Designed to be used alongside Ambulance Care Clinical Skills, these easy-to-follow checklists support the development and performance of key clinical procedures in prehospital care. While Ambulance Care Clinical Skills provides the detailed rationale and...

Independent prescribing is a key development in paramedic practice, enabling advanced practitioners to deliver accessible, person-centred care. Since 2018, paramedics working at an advanced level have been able to qualify as independent prescribers,...

Starting work as a Newly Qualified Paramedic is exciting. You finally get to put into practice all the skills you have been developing throughout your degree. It can also be terrifying. Suddenly, as a new registrant, you become accountable for the...

If you work in health and social care, it is essential to be aware of the support and communication needs of people with a learning disability and autistic people. This is to ensure that the service you provide is inclusive and equitable for people with...

There are few resources and books for professionals within the patient safety sector that use case studies to model the practical application of theories of patient safety incident investigation. Exploring these theories, this text brings together...

"This book is too good for one profession. It needs to be read by those in all safety-critical industries." Martin Bromiley OBE FRCSEd (ad hom), Founder, Clinical Human Factors Group "I would highly recommend this book, not only to paramedics but also to...

Award-winning poet Matthew Welton's new collection continues his career-long playful, exploratory poetics as he tackles nature writing, drawing from a year's walking in a city's green spaces.

This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry's best-kept secrets.

Poems and translations from two decades of writing, exploring in restless, evolving forms, the experiment of being alive in a changing and turbulent world.

Jorie Graham's new collection seeks to guide us through the ecological, political and technological conditions that threaten our modern world.

Debris collects poems from Daniel Huws first two books, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), alongside a substantial selection of new poems and translations.

Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valerys definition of poetry as a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases...

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Praising Joe Carrick Vartys debut, the T.S. Eliot Prize judges observed that his work confronts fraught spaces of addiction and domestic violence [...its] lyricism shaped by a raw and fragmented reality. His...

An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner Dillon Jaxx Shortlistees Will Fleming Lucy Holme Jam Kraprayoon Adam Panichi

Stav Polegs second collection follows Dante’s Vita Nuova, Purgatorio and Convivio to explore the links between love, language and longing.

While the place and year of Steve Malmudes birth (Manhattan, 1940) nominally stamp him as a second-generation poet of the New York School, his hieratic, almost ideogrammatic poems, made slowly and carefully - sometimes over many years - are utterly...

'If difference, then resistance.' Hal Coase has a gift for catching the rhythms of speech and exchange, and an eye for a telling image. His book's Italian title, Eccolo, meaning 'Here he is', or 'Here it is', captures his work's immediacy, and the poems'...

How the noise in my head grows and grows, splinters into phantoms and shapes, graceless muses for her cot-mobile. How I terror. Moving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations...

Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state. So begins Lorna Goodisons astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as uncompromising as an Old Testament prophet, stern as a...

Northern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Sinead Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR. Set against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism...

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. The days have no names. The day they count the dead, the day they closed the doors, turned off the lights. Were still here in the silence, hearing tree-talk, the winds secrets, the company of birds. (The...

In her first Carcanet collection, Lesley Harrison looks North to the sea, with the heat of the land at her back. In her striking inventive arrangements of sound and page, Harrison bring us meditations on whale hunts and lost children, on cities seen and...

Angela Leightons sixth book of poems turns on the curious arts of remembering and forgetting. A poem will be written, James Longenbach writes, if in the grip of memory we are able to forget. A poem may be read in the same spirit, of remembering, to...

Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this books occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful...

Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the authors first collection (2018), praised as showing some of the best technical skills of any living poet, the work of one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze...

Ned Dennys startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says – in his essay on Hölderlin – about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the "worlds night," consist? In the fact that the gods have...

The Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evanss first: she has become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic, abundant. She has been justly acclaimed by, among others, Colm Toibin. He says of her inimitable narrative...

During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021, finally surrendered...

Last Poems brings together the poems of Thomas Kinsella from his five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a substantial selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before...

For the Unnamed was originally entitled For the Unnamed Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Picos Sarco and Sepulvedas Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852. That title provided the full narrative in a nutshell: we know the names of...

In poems and translations, The Grid tells a highly unusual set of stories about the end of the world, ancient and modern.

When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self-examining, sometimes funny and often...

Joey Connolly's second book of poems focuses on dissolution and aftermath. It roams across forms and history, grieves for a relationship that broke down, and it is haunted by climate anxiety. The Recycling asks if the specific occasions of this...

Jorie Graham's latest collection continues her urgent attention to climate change, an open letter to the future where 2040 is both the future and event-horizon.

Michael Edwards' new collection consists of 92 poems forming a single long poem that recounts the finding of another world in moments, often dramatic, sometimes everyday, which become doorstones, thresholds.

In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistically, formally and visually to process the news of a sudden illness and the threat of mortality, set against the larger chaos of his beloved city Hong Kong...

This second collection is a plea for a broader understanding of how we communicate and embrace diversity, exploring how oppression of those considered 'other' has parallels with rising fascism.

To mark the centenary of Donald Davies birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems drawn from the full trajectory of his poetry and showing his skills as lyric, satirical, elegiac, epistolary and philosophical poet. He was, par excellence, the engaged...

[To] the Last [Be] Human collects the four remarkable books Jorie Graham has published with Carcanet since 2008, Sea Change, Place, fast and Runaway, a tetralogy in which her signature line and attention to our Anthropocene moment emerge, uniquely,...

Debut collection So Many Rooms won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2020 and the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. This highly anticipated second collection tells stories, many of them with powerful historical resonance, drawing on lived...

David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. His friend Edwin Morgan admired his sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness; and Douglas Messerli declared, David Kinloch is surely one of the most...