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Paperback. Condizione: New. Kevin Jackson's versions (rather than literal translations) of the sonnet sequence written in exile between 1824 and 1829 by Poland's greatest poet, Adam Mickiewicz, are both urgent and memorable. The originals are poems of intense patriotism and nostalgia; Jackson's versions capture this and much more, including what he terms in his new companion essay, 'Mickiewicz's aching sense of loneliness and loss'. Jackson wrote in his introduction to Anthony Burgess's 'Revolutionary Sonnets' that 'pleasures both demotic and recondite abound in the pages': the same might be applied to this striking sequence. In the spirit of Robert Lowell's 'Imitations' he deliberately plays fast and loose with the literal sense of the poems, memorably revivifying diction and tone. In so doing, he shows himself to be an unassuming and masterful guide and host to Mickiewicz's original works.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. National competition winners ( Caroline Price, Jenny Morris, Anna Davis, Phil Powley, David Grubb, Julian Stannard, Kate Rhodes,etc.) alongside young writers from Kent and Sussex ( Jack Lindsay, Megan Snyders, Hariett Hughes, etc.)plus introduction from Ann and Peter Sansom.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Poems by Nell Keddie, Maggie Sullivan, Susan Utting, Allison McVety, Paul Merchant, Sam Riviere, Michael Swan, Siriol Troup and others in the adult section from a National Competition; young prize-winners from Kent and Sussex ( Sophie Goodall, Sam Green, Jennifer Leach, Katy Dye, Charles Hooper, Christian Mueller annd others).

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Martyn Crucefix's bold new sequence of poems, A Hatfield Mass, the sensuous shapes of Henry Moore's work interweave with the fluid, observant voices of the verse. From curves and spaces, words and silence, Crucefix constructs a secular Mass that explores a variety of forms of love, our relationships with people and the world around us. In part a journey from innocence to experience, these are poems marvellously open to the beauty of landscape, the shared intimacies of our bodies, the passage of time through which we are endlessly becoming: "if not more beautiful we grow more rich".

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Anthony Wilson's poems explore the borderline territory betweengrief and laughter, memory and forgetting, illness and health.His central subject is the way we live within family andcommunity, questioning the roles we construct, both alone andwith others. The Afterlife explores central themes: mortality, mental health,the relation between body and soul, and how to live fully in thepresent moment.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Evoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour, poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of England, Wales, France, and Greece. Another theme is the work of teaching and other professions seen from the vantage points of provider, recipient, and witness. There are salutes to writers like Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse and Jack Gilbert who, we are told, 'put his life into poetry.' Separate sequences celebrate years of occasional visits to Llandaff Cathedral and its surrounding landscape, and the delights and political revelations of a stay in Athens. This is a book diverse in its moods and subjects but unified by an infectious openness to the moment and to life's joys and sorrows, and an unfolding sense of accumulating experience and insight. It is illuminated by a recurrent sense of inspiration, of 'what possessed me.'.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Exurbia is the name of the urban fringe at the outer limits of suburbia. These poems begin here, characterised by edges, transition and change. In the assured lyric voice for which Andy Brown's poetry has become well known, they pay meticulous attention to where and how we make our homes. The poems of the book's central sequence are elegiac versions inspired by the Argentinian poet Borges, gazing over the city's blurred outskirts at dawn and sundown, while the book's final poems reach fully ex urbia, arriving at woodlands and moors, rivers and estuaries. Here, from the edge of the shoreline, they head out to sea before making a circular migration back home.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Over a period of several months poets were invited to write new poems in response to the 1217 Charter of the Forest, to trees or woodland of personal significance to them, or how trees have shaped our society, landscape and lives. They sent poems about trees in gardens and along the sides of roads, trees to climb and build dens in, favourite trees cut down. Poems about childhood, memory, history, motherhood, nationhood, law, mythology and death. Poems about turning into trees. Poems about getting lost in the woods. Poems about oak, ash, alder, pine, chestnut, birch and many more besides. They are a profound celebration of trees. A structure emerged which echoed the three branches of the Charter: Trees, Woods, People. Although many of the poems could find a home in any one of the three parts, in 'Trees' poems were gathered in which we encounter individual trees as species or organisms: their life cycles, the pleasure of standing in their presence, the act of taking them apart. In 'Woods' we meet trees en masse, go deeper into the forest and get lost in the beauty and otherworldliness of ancient woodland.A number of poems take inspiration from the original 1217 Charter, soaking up the language, giving us woods haunted by foresters, hunts and pageantry. In 'People' we come out of the woods and witness how trees shape our lives: our culture, our society and our psyche. The poems are at times dark, sometimes painfully sad, and often incredibly funny.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Guest Room, Diana Hendry's new collection of poems, continues her always perceptive explorations of family, childhood and finding oneself, encounters with people (whether neighbours or strangers) and animals (pets or otherwise). Added to this is her embracing of Seamus Heaney's notion of poetry paying attention to the world, here including climate change, coronavirus, political prisoners, Palestine and the health service, for example - never preachy, telling it slant.There's pleasure to be found throughout, in her craft and characteristic wry humour and in what U.A.Fanthorpe called her 'remarkable eye for the truth and an ability to see the otherness in the ordinary.'.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The poems in this anthology celebrate a map, a man, and a science. The science is geology. The man is William Smith (1769 - 1839), civil engineer and geologist. The map is Smith's masterpiece: A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, the first geological map of an entire country, published in 1815. 2 As a working engineer, not a gentleman, Smith was unable to become a member of the newly formed Geological Society. His contribution to the new science of geology was initially dismissed by the Society, which set out to produce its own rival map. Coupled with some imprudent investments, Smith's venture culminated in a stretch in debtor's prison. By the time of his death in 1839, however, Smith's achievements had been recognised; in 1831 he was awarded the Geological Society's first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his work, and honoured by the Society's President, Adam Sedgwick, as 'the father of English geology'. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of its publication, I invited a number of poets to respond to the map, Smith's life, and his legacy.I was thrilled by the generosity and enthusiasm with which they embraced this invitation and the different routes their poems took. It was a pleasure to introduce many of them to the Geological Society's map up close and to listen to their astute and creative observations. There are poems in this anthology that tell the story of Smith's genius and his misfortune; poems about fossil hunting and map making; poems about the drive of the Industrial Revolution and our continuing reliance on fossil fuels. When most of us look at a map we look for home, and the same is true of many of these poets. But Smith's alien cartography of colour makes us see home in a radically different light, and so the poets, representing the geographical reach of Smith's map, confront the reader with new ways of seeing the landscape and history of Britain. Their poems illustrate not only the vibrancy and variety of contemporary poetry but also poetry's unique ability to take on uncharted territory with vision, to make connections and find relevance: the poems here make Smith's map anew in moving and surprising ways.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Whether the poems recall a square of chocolate dropped by a brother, show compassion for the suffering of ill friends, or imagine the creative life of Monet, they always understand the special power of poetry to leap across the spaces between people, and connect us to each other in a way that nothing else can. The sum of all this is a collection which does nothing less than make us proud to be human, and privileged to share these poems with a writer who is using his extraordinary linguistic gifts for the most significant explorations of the human heart.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Accidental Fruit is about the almost seen, the half remembered and the not quite touched, the silent collisions of past and present and the perpetual interweaving of childhood and age. It registers death as the moment where lived experience is transformed into history. But it is equally preoccupied with the absurdities of the school run and the small satisfactions of village gossip, the way the trees move on a windy day, and its own impossible efforts to pin down the sea.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Poems by 60 poets involved in The Practice of Poetry course( students, tutors and visiting poets)at the University of Warwick from 2000 to 2010; poems arranged alphabetically, with an introduction by David Morley. Poems by Peter Belgvad, Zoe Brigley, James Brookes, Phil Brown, Peter Carpenter, Swithun Cooper, Jane Holland, Luke Kennard, Anna Lea, Michael McKimm,Glyn Maxwell, David Morley, Jon Morley, Ruth Padel, Fiona Sampson, George Szirtes, George Ttoouli, Simon Turner and others.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. In Bloodlines Andy Brown turns his attention to the subjects of medicine and the human body, treating them with the lyricism, imaginative range and formal agility for which his poetry has become widely known. The poems in part one, Shifting Shape, offer more personal narratives, while the poems of part two, Bloodlines, explore the longer lines of medical history, through medical paintings, sculptures and translated versions from Spanish. There are also several lively versions of medical scenes from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and a number of poems that focus on disease, hygiene and sanitation.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The poet's eleventh collection, marks a wholly unexpected development, prompted, as is evident throughout, by the fissures exported from a political party to an entire country, and beyond, by the 2016 referendum on membership of the EuropeanUnion. Its consequences cast crucial events for this poet, bothpersonal and public, into unforeseen fresh lights. Prompted by a televised debate to wonder in the title poem upon what impulse the founding European myth is based, Robinson's new poems search through his individual and cultural memory to offer, as the book unfolds, an answer.

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