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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Rowson, Martin (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Argentinean writer Borges once observed that the 'imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.' Terrace is a book about the meanings of perfume, light and colour, exploring the world in a series of striking images, and juxtaposing them in unexpected ways to reveal at the end the 'bigger picture' that was always there, only hidden.Richard Skinner is the author of three novels published by Faber The Red Dancer (translated into seven languages), The Velvet Gentleman (shortlisted for the Prix Livres & Musiques) and The Mirror. His poems have been shortlisted for the Charles Causley Competition, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and appeared in numerous publications including And Other Poems, The Interpreter's House and Magma. The Argentinean writer Borges once observed that the imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.' Terrace is a book of short-stories and short-films in verse, told through oblique glances, hints and understatements, landscapes and lists, ekphrasis and myth, cut-ups and haiku. It is a book about the meanings Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In language that is both precise and strange, Richard Skinners poems tip certainties on their heads, making familiar objects in the world unfamiliar: a mountain is not what it seems, a skull contains a universe. Alongside this process of making-strange lies a deep connection with sound, colour, temperature and scent that brings the poems fully to life. Questions of faith run through many of these poems, with subjects ranging from the Lollards and Buddhist Bardos to Saint Fabiola. There are personal poems too: a summer affair, family narratives about his grandmothers difficult marriage and his mothers time abroad as a young au pair. These poems engage with form the cento, the cinquain, the unrhymed sonnet, cut-ups and free verse in enigmatic, other-worldy ways that constantly surprise and please. A new pamphlet of poetry by an award-winning novelist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. For the past five years the poet Gordon Hodgeon has been confined to his bed. Following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is now unable to move his arms and legs, and cannot breathe without the help of a ventilator. In the last few months he has lost the power of speech. Today he can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen or by dictating to his carers, letter by letter. Condemned to painful silence, Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. The result is this extraordinary series of poems from the furthest edge of human endurance. These are the words of a man who cannot speak, the poems of a writer who cannot pick up a pen. Talking to the Dead is a book about disability and mortality, a painful study in helpless silence. But it is also, movingly, the defiant song of a personality still open to the world and its endless futures. Gordon Hodgeon is not sailing to Byzantium. Instead, he takes the hands of the anonymous and inarticulate dead in the glorious dance of the earth , talking to those who have gone before and those who will come after, reminding us how little changes in our lives, / the loves, the losses, hopes of song, / songs of despair. Today Gordon Hodgeon can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen. Yet Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. Confined to his bed for the past five years following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is u Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Anxious Corporals is a celebration of the lost world of the self-educating working-class, from Mr Kipps, Leonard Bast and the Age of Hooper to Workington Man. Taking its title from Arthur Koestler's idea of the culture-thirsty conscript, Morrison recalls the men and women who once sought 'self-improvement' through correspondence courses, adult education, political parties and Pelican paperbacks. Its an essay in verse about education and class, deference and independence, Reason and Reaction, the victory of shopkeeper values and the defeat of the post-war consensus. A book of poems about class and education. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What happens when the news gets into your dreams and unravels the work of the day? When you feel homesick, especially when you are at home? What happens when the future tracks you down and corners you? Who blinks first? The Infinite Town is a painful and playful mapping of public spaces and private places under assault. Exploring history, home, hurt, and hope in four interconnected sequences, Robinsons search for the infinite possibilities of the everyday, of empathy and solidarity, leads to his most intricately structured and musical collection yet. A book of poems about living in the post-industrial UK. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Durham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver when she was eight years-old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic. A book of poems in which the writer looks back on the years of her childhood before she was almost killed by a hit-and-run driver. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A collection of white-hot political satirical poems taking the piss out of some of the knaves and fools who parade their poisonous egos across the stage Tony Blair, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Keir Starmer and Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Shelley, Burns and Johnny Cash help put Neil Fulwood the boot in on sycophantic royalists, blue passports, Margaret Thatchers monument and the immortal heroes of Change UK. Funny, furious and profane, its a book of hit-and-run poems, take-no-prisoners, drive-by attacks in verse on the Ancient Regime. a book of satirical poems Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Peter Godfreys first collection is a book of reports from the front-line, messages sent from over the border, beyond the edge of the map Madrid 1939, Oradour 1944, Hiroshima 1945, Santiago 1973, San Carlos Bay 1982. Its a celebration of those who like Dom Helder Camara, Rene Magritte, Oscar Neimeyer, Wat Tyler and Jacques Brel have understood the glory of pedalling the wrong way on a one-way street. And its a hymn to the patient humility of those who believe that life does not have to be like this, and who imbue the world with grace. a book of poems about resistance to global capital Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 2013 the tercentenary of the birth of Laurence Sterne Philippa Troutman and Ian Duhig started digressing, getting lost in time and space around Shandy Hall. They chanced on riches from Viking ghost stories to Conceptual Poetry, in a meteorite-riddled topography of forgotten monuments, mazes, ruins and traps, sharing their discoveries and creations in texts, exhibitions and online. The results range from the humorous and moving to the fascinating and macabre, engaging and extending Sterne's legacy for the twenty-first century. In 2013 - the tercentenary of the birth of Laurence Sterne - Philippa Troutman and Ian Duhig started digressing, getting lost in time and space around Shandy Hall. They chanced on riches from Viking ghost stories to Conceptual Poetry, in a meteorite-riddled topography of forgotten monuments, mazes, ruins, and traps, sharing their discoveries and cr Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Troutman, Philippa (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. For over thirty years Keith Armstrong has been taking his poetry to what John Donne called "the round earth's imagined corners" - giving poetry readings in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Iceland, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United States, Jamaica, Kenya and Cuba. At the same time he has been exploring some of the imagined corners of his native North East of England, its sometimes heroic past and its post-industrial discontents.Imagined Corners brings together, for the first time, poems from all the corners of Keith Armstrong's imagination. It's a trumpet call to those who, in the words of John Donne, are the victims of:"war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,Despair, law."It is a manifesto for the public ownership of poetry. It's a hymn to a broken internationalism. And it's a beery love-poem for the North East."There are those who tell the terrible truth in all its loveliness. Keith Armstrong is one of them, a fine poet who refuses to turn his back on the wretched of the Earth. He is one of the best and I hope his voice will be heard more and more widely." - Adrian Mitchell"If you are old enough to remember Britain before it fell under the malicious spell of those who believe to catch a bus if you're over thirty is proof of failure, it will remind you of gentler, sweeter times. in place of the empty, near-manic, self-congratulatory but superficial and compensatory sensibility of modern culture, Armstrong gives us a sense of what we have lost, how we have gone wrong and reminds us of the dirt and darkness beneath the neon and glitz." - Penniless Press"rooted in the Tyneside music-hall tradition, closely behind which was the august balladry of the Borders. the authentic note of the Northern poet." - Michael Standen, Other Poetry"postcards from an alternative grand tour, journal entries from another, more innocent time, when the world spun more slowly and we had time to befriend strangers and notice things. celebrating people and places, a world of anecdote and adventure, strong drink and life itself." - Paul Summers, Dreamcatcher For over thirty years Keith Armstrong has been taking his poetry to what John Donne called 'the round earth's imagined corners' - giving poetry readings in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Iceland, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United States, Jamaica, Kenya and Cuba. At the same time h Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Selina Rodrigues much-anticipated first collection takes a long look at the invisible ecology of contemporary urban living and working call-centres, computer screens, night-shift cleaners, building sites and the competing structures of time and money, labour and desire. Its a book about online desires, migratory workers and childcare, and the flat-packed silences of alienation, all framed by city skylines. A book of poems about work in the modern city. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Town-boy meets Square-boy. The inner-city meets the suburbs. Town is an exploration of the conflicting mentalities of the country and the city. It's a compelling tale of love, ambition and class. It's a study in English suburban misery and an indictment of a divisive education system. It's an epic poem about failure in loving, failure in living."courageous, exciting and challenging" - Adrian Mitchell"a dark work which unflinchingly confronts the threat to our essential humanity posed by the society in which we live. Dent's language crackles with the rugged energy of the Anglo-Saxon scop, his unrhymed and largely unpunctuated verse heavily alliterative, dense and powerful. In our sound-bite culture, it is refreshing to read such a passionate, committed, yet controlled epic." - Oz Hardwick, Aesthetica"brave, unflinching and true" - Fred Voss"the voice of the concerned man adrift a hostile world" - Jim Burns"subtle intelligence in every line. every word counts" - John Murray"risk-taking excitement, with a sense of verbal energy" - Alexis Lykiard Town-boy meets Square-boy. The inner-city meets the suburbs. Town is an exploration of the conflicting mentalities of the country and the city. It's a compelling tale of love, ambition and class. It's a study in English suburban misery and an indictment of a divisive education system. It's an epic poem about failure in loving, failure in living. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tough is the bitter-sweet taste of urban romanticism, barbecued bear and the bright lights of Grangetown, from the biggest mouth on Teesside. Poet Andy Willoughby goes back to the estates where you have to be tough to survive. Sometimes he acts tough, sometimes he talks tough. Sometimes he is not so tough after all. Tough is his first full-length collection. If you don't like it - tough.".a poetical manifesto chronicling the hopes, fears, rituals, traditions and metamorphoses of a people proud of past achievements and apprehensive of future prospects, shot through with. wit, audacity and inventiveness." - Socialist Review"These poems often breathe a humility and tenderness that belies the title." - Dreamcatcher"Andy Willoughby is a power-house of creative energy, a renegade poet, a traveller, a performer, a ranter, a modern day shaman. His poems bring to life the hard-edged facts of life, loss and love; digging beneath the surface and drawing out the mythic and the epic qualities of everyday experience, to turn them on their heads." - Bob Beagrie"Andy Willoughby touches the political, and social, and with the precision of a surgeon flips it on its back, to expose the heartbeat inside. Poetry at its most honest, that fills you with a stillness and sadness at the intake of breath before every F word, at each microcosm carved of stone." - Angela Readman"Tough like meat. Not much gristle on these bones. Andy Willoughby is one of the meatiest poets I know, as loud on the page as on the stage." - Kevin Cadwallender Tough is the bitter-sweet taste of urban romanticism, barbecued bear and the bright lights of Grangetown, from the biggest mouth on Teesside. Poet Andy Willoughby goes back to the estates where you have to be tough to survive. Sometimes he acts tough, sometimes he talks tough. Sometimes he is not so tough after all. Tough is his first full-length c Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Fourth Quarter deals with the ageing that comes to all of us. Memory fades and yet memories become more vivid. People and birds, seas and mountains, friends, children and grandchildren are so vibrant that we want to live among them for good, although we know we cannot. Bitter-sweet, comic and tragic, lyrical and elegiac, stoical and anguished, The Fourth Quarter rejoices in the giddy contradictions of nature and laments its deadlier necessities as David Craig tells stories of his own and others' lives."David Craig's poems are strong, clear-eyed, stripped for action. They give the lie to those who believe that to be a socialist is to abandon individual vision." - Adrian Mitchell"A general kind of Scots hard-edge and dryness. Dunbar must sound far-fetched; but that line of poetic blood." - John Fowles"In a culture obsessed by youth, it is heartening to encounter a poet who treats the nature of ageing. In his fourth quarter, Craig is a better poet than ever." Penniless Press"Varied, scrupulously-crafted." The South The Fourth Quarter deals with the aging that comes to all of us. Memory fades and yet memories become more vivid. People and birds, seas and mountains, friends, children and grandchildren are so vibrant that we want to live among them for good, although we know we cannot. Bitter-sweet, comic and tragic, lyrical and elegiac, stoical and anguished, T Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1661 Charles II ordered Oliver Cromwells corpse to be exhumed and decapitated. The head was displayed for over twenty years on the roof of Westminster Hall as a warning to republicans everywhere. Cromwells Head looks at history through the eyes of Britains first and only republican leader, telling the story of a headless people forced to march to the top of the hill and marched back down again Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden, Iraq, Afghanistan, the violent end of empire, black shirts on the march again, the coronation of Charles III. A book of poems about English Republicanism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Written with characteristic craft and wit, many of the poems in Chagalls Moon reflect the changed world in which we find ourselves, as rockets rain nightly on Ukrainian cities, refugees drown in the channel, and post-Brexit chaos reigns. Chagalls Moon movingly creates a world of love and loss, identity and laughter, dreams and nightmares, where Beethoven and Picasso rub shoulders with Billie Holiday, Chagalls lovers still fly in a cloudless sky, the ghosts and horrors of recent Jewish history are never far away, friendship and childhood memories still stir, and love presides A book of poems by the London-Jewish poet, Jeremy Robson, now in his mid-eighties. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Like the donkey in the Aesop fable, the US-Scottish writer Deborah Moffatt speaks a language sharp and barbed. She knows it is better to eat thistles than to survive in a nation born of vanity. And that those who close borders, soon turn against their own, maddened by power, powered by madness.Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, Eating Thistles transplants, transforms and re-imagines contemporary and historical events through Aesopian language, slipping between history, myth and memory Syria, St Kilda, the Sudan, Latin American dictadura and the mass-executions by the SS of Soviet Jews, Roma and prisoners of war. Eating Thistles is a powerful and original study of guilt, denial, innocence and complicity. A book of poems about contemporary and historical events, transplanted, transformed and re-imagined using Gaelic and other literary and folk traditions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A book about what humans have done to the world and what we have done to ourselves. Specifically, it is a book about Mans best friends their origin-myths, and their place in the world before they were coopted into human society and ideas of pure breeding and dysgenics. The Dogs also imagines a future where dogs develop the power of speech; led by the non-violent UnderDogs and the more radical Der Uberhuend, the animals of the world begin demanding their rights. A book of poems about what humans have done to the world and what we have done to ourselves. Specifically, it is a book about Mans best friend their origin-myths, and their place in the world before they were enslaved by humans. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. For many poets there comes a point in their careers when a Selected Poems seems a logical step. Their style is now established, their subject-matter is their own, and their greatest hits lend themselves to a succinct introduction to their career. But for WN Herbert, that was never what it was all about. The idea that he has had a career, let alone that it was about anything, strikes him as extremely unlikely. Instead, he has always enjoyed the opportunity to head off in as many directions as possible. Usually at the same time. In addition to his main collections, WN Herbert has been involved in many collaborative side projects, arising from travel, dialogue, translation and the challenge of a new sequence or form. This book contains the best of his unselected poems, including On Your Nerve: A Wake for Frank OHara, Don Juans Pilgrimage and his award-winning pamphlet, Murder Bear. Unselected Poems is an invitation to consider the less-travelled tracks we might have taken and could yet follow, whether as writers or readers. Set off, if you would follow that bear! A book of poems by the distinguished Scottish poet WN Herbert. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson reboots Alexander Popes The Dunciad for the twenty-first century. A mock-heroic epic Whos Who of all the greedy mountebanks, liars, knaves, fools and cunts who have brought us to this pass. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Writing in northern time through lockdowns and into the meta-crises since, Stephen Sawyer asks urgent questions about what it is that makes us human in the face of so many threats to life and what sustains it.Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges is a forest of stories and voices, a portrait of the uprooted, unheard, locked in and locked out of place and time, a soulful, luminous meditation to reaffirm bonds and identities that cross borders and epochs, now more than ever under siege. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Born under the star sign Gemini, thrust into an adult secular world from an unquestioning faith background, Marilyn Longstaff lives somewhere between the miraculous, the magical and the everyday. Being Gemini is a book about the two sides of everything lockdowns, ageing, deafness, politics and bereavement and learning to be neither one thing nor the other. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An epic poem set in seventh-century Northumbria on the eve of the Synod of Whitby. Brother Oswin (who first appeared in Beagries Leasungspell) travels to Streanaeshealh across a wild landscape steeped in magic and folklore. There he is shunned as a boggart, elf-king, merman and the cursed puck responsible for spreading the pandemic that rages through the kingdom. Meanwhile the politics of faith, fealty, liberty and power play out through the lives of the people he encounters. Written in a hybrid of Old English and Northern vernaculars, the book conjures a sense of place that runs deep into the collective imagination. An epic poem set in seventh-century Northumbria on the eve of the Synod of Whitby. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Knucklebone Floor is partly a verse biography of Susan Davidson (1796-1877), who spent thirty years landscaping and developing the grounds of Allen Banks in Northumberland, including woodland, paths, rustic bridges and a summerhouse with a knucklebone floor. It is also a book about boundaries and wilderness, fragility and resilience, flora and fauna, people and places, then and now, women and men, the human world and the natural world. Richly and formally inventive, it offers a collective perspective of history, identity and ecology at a time of global fragmentation and ecological crisis. A book of poems by the National Poetry Prize-winning author. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Ross Wilsons long-awaited first full collection explores the fault lines between highbrow and lowbrow, highlands and lowlands, high and low culture. Drawing on his experiences as a low paid nurse and as a schoolboy boxing champion, Wilson takes a line for a walk between production lines, life lines, railway-lines, dirt lines, touch lines, sword-lines and the wafer-thin line between civilisation and barbarism. Line Drawing is a tough-mindedness book with a tender-hearted, moving from violence towards the possibilities of love and compassion. Debut collection by Scots poet about masculinity and violence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…