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Book SynopsisThe book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are grouped into six, topical groupings that range widely: the growing need for moderate voices in policy debates; the nature of American exceptionalism; the challenge of civic discourse; the depredations of the Trump years; and policies concerning immigration, citizenship, and refugees.Trade Review“In this book, Peter Schuck demonstrates compellingly that being a ‘moderate’ need not mean being wishy-washy. He rejects cant from all quarters, demands disciplined examination of factual evidence, and comes to provocative conclusions. Ideologues of all stripes should be forewarned: this book exemplifies intellectual independence.” — Richard Fallon, Story Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.“In this welcome sequel to his superb ‘Meditations of a Militant Moderate,’ Peter Schuck gives an object lesson in the two traits which our intellectual discourse desperately needs: common sense and wise judgment. His verve and passion dispatch the myth that moderates are milquetoasts. Slaying shibboleths about everything from abortion and immigration to cancel culture and campus crybullies, Schuck shows again why his voice is unique and necessary.” — Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Suffering from low blood pressure? Peter Schuck’s More Meditations of a Militant Moderate is the perfect cure. Whether you are politically left, right, or center, you will find thrilling support for and infuriating refutation of positions you embrace. But most of all, you will revel in the pleasure of reading the muscular prose of a vigorous intellect wrestling honestly with issues that will surely matter deeply to you.” — Henry J. Aaron, Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Fellow, the Brookings Institution.Table of ContentsPart 1: Preface and Part 1; Part 2: American Exceptionalism; Part 3: Civic Discourse; Part 4: The Misbegotten Trump Presidency; Part 5: Campus Follies; Part 6: Immigrants, Citizens, and Refugees

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Book SynopsisEver since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. The text is divided into six sections. Russian poets constantly reflect on their art, so the first section is appropriately entitled 'The Muse'. Their other great topic is Russia herself, explored in parts two and three. Part four presents the inner world, parts five and six traditional themes of love and mortality. Poetry has often been a matter of life and death in Russia, where Mandelstam was not the only poet to perish in the Gulag. The comfortable private domain familiar to many English and American writers barely exists in a country where political realities are exigent - one reason for the fierce intensity found in so many of these poems.

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Book SynopsisFishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern masterpieces abound as well, by the likes of Federico García Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Audre Lorde, Richard Hugo, and Derek Walcott. In the hands of the poets collected here, fishing with a hook and line yields reflections both sparklingly light and awe-inspiringly deep. Filled with humour, nostalgia, adventure, celebrations of the beauties of nature, and metaphors for the art of living, The Art of Angling is sure to lure anglers and lovers of poetry alike.

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Book SynopsisThe Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the ghazal, which spoke eloquently of beauty, love, loss and separation. A major poet, Alshir Navayi (1441­-1501) fully established classical Turkic or Chagatai as a perfect vehicle for poetic expression. Some contemporary poets continue to find inspiration within the traditional forms, while others experiment with a freer style of verse.Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes where the Uyghurs have lived for two millennia - endless steppes, soaring mountain ranges and mysterious deserts, crossed by the historic Silk Road. It is also shaped by their turbulent past, caught between warring empires or marauding warlords - and their deeply troubled present.The Uyghurs form a minority in China, where the government is now making a systematic attempt to erase their language and culture. Many intellectuals have been imprisoned, and many poets are now writing from exile, including the editor and translator of this volume, Aziz Isa Elkun, who lives in London. Uyghur Poems is not only a celebration of an ancient and vibrant poetic tradition, but also a vital witness to a culture under threat.

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Book SynopsisThe first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021. Poetry by Charlotte Baldwin, Linda Black, Melissa Buckheit , Charlotte Baldwin, Susan Connolly, Harriet Cooper-Smithson, Claire Crowther, Amy Crutchfield, Jane Frank, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Christopher Gutkind, Mandy Haggith, Jeremy Hooker, David Johnson, Norman Jope, L Kiew, Peter Larkin, Mary Leader, Carola Luther , Robin Fulton Macpherson, Olivia McCannon, Peter Robinson, David Rushmer, Maurice Scully, Aidan Semmens, Lucy Sheerman, Hannah Cooper Smithson, Agnieszka Studzińska, Scott Thurston, Anannya Uberoi, John Welch, Petra White, Tamar Yoseloff & translations of Marta Agudo (by Lawrence Schimel), Kjell Espmark (by Robin Fulton Macpherson), Kinga Tóth (by Annie Rutherford) & Virgil (by David Hadbawnik). With this issue, Shearsman magazine marks 40 years of publication.

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Book SynopsisA beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship, of responsibility, hardship and care, of family and friends and lovers. Their words empower us with strength and courage, fill us with verve and spirit, and inspire creativity and imagination.Contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh join the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna Akhmatova and Emily Dickinson. Even the haunting voices of ancient Sappho, Venmaniputti and Li Qingzhao touch today's generation. Here are poems written by women, with women's lives in mind. As Gertrude Stein writes, 'such a sweet singing' is in the poetry that comes to us clear and lovely from out of the dark. Read these poems aloud. Remember them. Share them.Trade Review‘Lavishly and strikingly illustrated, this book of poems holds at least eight times its weight in thirst-slaking nourishment.’ Northwords Now

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Book SynopsisThe Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively “companion” commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the burden of poetry or art, what weighs us down and makes us do what we don’t really want to do as well as what pulls us back to our selves, the animal side which makes us bearable or human. The editors’ selection ranges from Wyatt, Ralegh and Shakespeare in the 16th century, to Donne, Milton and Marvell in the 17th, to Swift, Pope and Johnson in the 18th. It embraces the Romantic visions of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, as well as the later, darker outlook of Browning, Tennyson and Hardy, and seeks enlightenment in the shadowlands of Emily Dickinson, Wilde and Yeats. As well as journeying with the reader through some of the greatest poems in the English language, The Heavy Bear encounters many modern poets, not least Delmore Schwartz, whose sense of con?ict between self and society gave birth to this anthology’s title-poem, ‘The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me’. Others include some of the major figures in Irish poetry Brendan Kennelly knew personally as well as wrote about, including Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland. The poems keep each other company in this highly original compilation, questioning each other in a continuing thematic, imagistic debate which the editors seek to explore in their responses, trying at all times to de?ne their sense and vision of poetry as disturbing, questioning, enlightening companionship for the reader. Both editors are renowned communicators of poetry: Brendan Kennelly (1936-2021) as one of Ireland’s best-loved poets, as Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin, and as a popular cultural commentator on Irish television; Neil Astley as founder and editor of Bloodaxe Books and editor of the Staying Alive anthology series.Trade ReviewWe have chosen the title of Delmore Schwartz's poem as the anthology’s title, The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me, for several reasons. Poems are written because of various kinds of "withness"; the sense of mortality, failure in love, the challenge of history, the nature of consciousness, dreams, loneliness, prejudice, inexplicable hatreds, the urge to make sense of confusion, the seething need to protest against forms of injustice, to talk to somebody about things only partly grasped or understood, or not grasped or understood at all but hurtful and pressing, violating sleep, miscolouring daylight’s encounters and images, the sense of suffering an appetite that can never really be fed… Every poem is an act of faith in that imaginative momentum; every poem longs to connect with that energy whether it be pressingly immediate or blatently ignored. This is the connecting power that enables Schwartz, for example, to bring the heavy bear lumbering into our lives. Our dialogue with the gross, barging presence follows that moment of admission. Our hope, as editors, is that we have provided an anthology of poems marked by dialogue and connection, although these poems may be, usually are, born of the awareness of mortality, failure, inadequacy, loss, absurd or gross caricatures or perversions of what we take to be reality. Why not have it out, once and for all, with the heavy bear who goes with us? -- Brendan KennellyTable of ContentsNeil Astley 11 Preface: The Making of the Heavy Bear Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) 19 Introduction: The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) 25 ‘They flee from me that sometime did me seek’ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) 27 'Wyatt resteth here' Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) 30 ‘Thou blind man’s mark’ Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) 32 ‘One day I wrote her name upon the strand’ Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586) 34 Elegy for Himself Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) 36 Elegia VI Sir Walter Ralegh (1552–1618) 40 The Lie Robert Southwell (?1561–1595) 44 The Burning Babe Michael Drayton (1563–1631) 46 Since There’s No Help William Shakespeare (1564–1616) 48 Sonnet 73: ‘That time of year…’ Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) 50 ‘Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss’ Thomas Campion (1567–1620) 53 What if a Day John Donne (1572–1631) 55 The Flea Ben Jonson (1572–1637) 58 On My First Son Robert Herrick (1591–1674) 60 Gather Ye Rosebuds Henry King (1592–1669) 62 Exequy upon His Wife George Herbert (1593–1633) 67 Love III Edmund Waller (1606–1687) 69 Go, Lovely Rose Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1649) 71 The Flaming Heart Richard Lovelace (1618–1658) 74 To Althea from Prison Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) 76 A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) 79 They Are All Gone into the World of Light! Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) 82 To His Coy Mistress John Milton (1608–1674) 86 from Paradise Lost Thomas Traherne (1637–1674) 89 Dreams John Dryden (1631–1700) 93 from Absalom and Achitophel John Oldham (1653–1683) 95 from The Third Satire of Juvenal, imitated Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) 101 A Description of a City Shower Alexander Pope (1688–1744) 104 Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) 107 from London: A Poem Thomas Gray (1716–1771) 114 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard Christopher Smart (1722–1771) 120 from Jubilate Agno Oliver Goldsmith (c.1730–1774) 125 from The Deserted Village William Cowper (1731–1800) 129 The Poplar-Field William Blake (1757–1827) 131 The Tyger Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 134 Kubla Khan William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 138 Upon Westminster Bridge Lord Byron (1788–1824) 140 Darkness Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 146 Ode to the West Wind John Keats (1795–1821) 152 Ode to a Nightingale Thomas Hood (1799–1845) 158 I Remember, I Remember Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) 160 Tithonus John Clare (1793–1864) 163 I Am Robert Browning (1812–1889) 165 My Last Duchess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) 169 How do I love thee? Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) 171 Stanzas (attr.) Emily Brontë (1818–1848) 173 Remembrance Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) 176 Dover Beach Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) 180 Remember Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1892) 182 Sudden Light Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 184 Native Moments Emily Dickinson (1822–1888) 186 Because I could not Stop for Death Alice Meynell (1847–1922) 188 Renouncement Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1899) 190 The Windhover George Meredith (1828–1909) 200 Lucifer in Starlight Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) 202 Luke Havergal Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) 205 from The Ballad of Reading Gaol A.E. Housman (1859–1936) 215 Good creatures do you love your lives Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 217 The Voice Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) 219 Madeleine in Church Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) 227 The Listeners Robert Frost (1874–1963) 229 The Road Not Taken Edward Thomas (1878–1918) 232 Adlestrop Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) 234 Break of Day in the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) 236 Base Details Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) 238 Strange Meeting W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) 241 The Second Coming] 242 Leda and the Swan Hart Crane (1899–1932) 247 My Grandmother’s Love Letters D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 249 Snake Edna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950) 253 Sonnet: What my lips have kissed Langston Hughes (1902–1967) 255 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Marianne Moore (1887–1972) 257 A Grave Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) 259 The Snowman Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) 261 Full Moon E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) 262 ‘next to of course god america i’ Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) 264 Ars Poetica T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 267 The Journey of the Magi Patrick Kavanagh (1905–1967) 270 Shancoduff 270 Epic 276 Brendan Kennelly: ‘A Man I Knew’ Ruth Pitter (1897–1992) 277 The Coffin Worm Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977) 279 ‘Anger lay by me all night long’ Sheila Wingfield (1906–1992) 281 from Beat Drum, Beat Heart W.H. Auden (1907–1973) 286 In Memory of W.B. Yeats Keith Douglas (1920–1944) 289 How to Kill Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 291 Prayer Before Birth Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) 295 Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight Stevie Smith (1902–1971) 297 The River God Ted Hughes (1930–1998) 299 The Thought-Fox 300 from The Burnt Fox Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) 302 Morning Song Denise Levertov (1923–1997) 304 Living Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) 305 September Song Austin Clarke (1894–1974) 307 The Redemptorist W.S. Graham (1918–1986) 310 The Beast in the Space Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) 312 Diving into the Wreck Michael Longley (born 1939) 316 Wounds Derek Mahon (1941–2020) 319 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) 324 One Art Derek Walcott (1930–2017) 326 Love after Love Philip Larkin (1922–1985) 327 Aubade Anne Stevenson (1933–2020) 330 Poem for a Daughter Ken Smith (1938–2003) 332 Being the third song of Urias Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) 334 from Sweeney Astray Eavan Boland (1944–2020) 340 The Journey 348 References 352 Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive anthology celebrates four centuries of women’s poetry, covering over 100 poets from a wide range of social backgrounds across the English-speaking world. Familiar names – Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Brontë sisters, Emily Dickinson, and Christina Rossetti – appear alongside other writers from America, Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand as well as the UK. The poets range from queens and ladies of the court to a religious martyr, a spy, a young slave, a milkmaid, labourers, servants, activists, invalids, émigrées and pioneers, a daring actor, and the daughter of a Native American chief. Whether writing out of injustice, religious or sexual passion, humour, or to celebrate their sex, their different cultures, environments, personal beliefs and relationships, these women have strong, independent spirits and voices we cannot ignore. In 1652, speaking of the poems she had published as her ‘babes’, a woman we know only as ‘Eliza’, answered ‘a Lady that bragged of her children’: Thine at their birth did pain thee bring, When mine are born, I sit and sing. Robyn Bolam’s helpfully annotated selection is illustrated with informative biographies. The texts are based on early editions or manuscripts but with modern spelling.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology is the record of a revolution in Chinese poetry. As the Cultural Revolution gave way to the post-Mao era - years of political turmoil, economic boom and the return of Hong Kong - the present period has been one of extraordinary and deeply problematic growth. Chinese poets, driven by alienation, trauma and exile, have responded with one of the most thorough and exciting experiments in world poetry. Jade Ladder shows authoritatively for the first time in English the diversity of Chinese poetry as it renegotiates its relationship with Western modernist and postmodernist poetry, and re-engages with its Classical heritage. Misty, post-Misty, Fourth Generation; publication in samizdat, publication in exile, publication on the internet - in a nation of billions, it sometimes seems that there are a million ways to write poetry. This selection provides a concise series of perspectives on a proliferating scene. It focusses on key figures and key poems. It moves beyond the lyric to showcase an astonishing diversity of genres including narrative poetry, neo-Classical writing, the sequence, experimental poetry and the long poem. Through detailed introductions, it examines how contemporary poetry grew from both the fertile Classical tradition and the stony ground of the Communist period, only to rewrite that tradition, and resist that regime. Jade Ladder is the most comprehensive single volume guide to what has been happening and what is happening now in a culture of undeniably global significance. It is indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.Trade ReviewThe jade ladder itself is an image of the link between heaven and earth, translatable as the imagination. The atmosphere given off by the anthology is a heartening one, despite the grimness of some of the material, since what we read and hear testifies to the necessities of the imaginative life as embodied in poetry, whatever the political and economic climate. -- Sean O'Brien * The Guardian *This fascinating gathering of new and old voices is sure to please not only fans of Chinese culture but all who appreciate great poetry. * World Literature Today *

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Book SynopsisRelaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 includes substantial selections from the poetry of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. We move from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people, in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it Notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even *poetry*, and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time. AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry.Trade ReviewIt is said that we are in the middle of a poetry revolution in New Zealand: there is certainly a lot of production, an eager climate of reception, and a sense that new cultural confidences and anxieties are finding new expression. It is a pleasure, then, to find a carefully chosen selection of new poets and new poems that show the rich diversity of the contemporary scene: from Ben Kemp entering 'the arteries of Tokyo . . . with ears open', to Vanessa Crofskey's barbed attention to the deceptions and oddities of our try-hard but not really multicultural society, to Chris Stewart's patient observations of family and childbirth. - Mark Williams

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Book SynopsisWe became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and much much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

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Book SynopsisIn 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th century to the present day.Trade Review"It's refreshing to see an editor so engaged with his material...the result is a collection that successfully showcases remarkable variety within its narrow room."—Good Reports "Richly endowed with sonnets whose wordplay is more ornate, featuring work from such inventive phrasemakers as Margaret Avison, Don McKay and George Elliott Clarke. The list goes on."—Toronto Star "What Wells offers is a thematic survey on formalist grounds, a sort of sleight of hand that makes the collection immediately familiar and intelligible but also, as his insightful notes on each poem show, rigorous in its aesthetic evaluations and thoughtful in its attention to details of prosody. As an editor and commentator, Wells is incredibly perceptive and mercifully concise."—The Walrus

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Book SynopsisThis work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem excepting Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. These poems explore many different kinds of love: sexual, passionate, romantic, parental. In 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems traditional Scottish verse mixes with great literature as Bonny Barbara Allan and Jock o' Hazeldean rub shoulders with Byron and Hogg. Modern Scottish writing from some of the most inspiring poets of our time, MacCaig, MacDiarmid, Morgan and Carol Ann Duffy, contrasts with Gaelic poetry by Sorley MacLean, Derick Thomson and Meg Bateman. Poems of first love, yearning for love, love in absence and epernal love are not grouped thematically, as in so many other anthologies, but seamlessly so that contrasting poems can strike sparks off one another, across the page - often with wit and jollity - to demonstrate that we experience love in individual and inspiring ways.Trade ReviewFeaturing poems of first love, yearning for love, love in absence and eternal love, this vibrant selection spans the centuries from traditional verse to contemporary poetry in Gaelic, Scots and English. THE SCOTS MAGAZINEConn’s achievement is to have created a feelgood anthology in which doubt, loss, jealousy and impermanence are all given their due...Like the best dark chocolate, the contents of this slim volume linger ambiguously on the palate. THE SUNDAY TIMES

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Book SynopsisSix Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living, founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, from experimental prose to image-rich surrealism, and from sparse, stark minimalism to ironically melancholy pop-culture references.

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Book SynopsisNew Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from forty-one authors some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.

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Book SynopsisTom Chivers (editor) was born in south London in 1983. His publications include How to Build a City (Salt, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches, 2009), Flood Drain (Annexe, 2014) and, as editor, the anthologies City State: New London Poetry and Adventures in Form (Penned in the Margins, 2009 & 2012). He has made site-specific, perambulatory and audio work for Southbank Centre, Bishopsgate Institute, the Eden Project and LIFT. An award-winning independent arts producer, he is former co-Director of London Word Festival and currently runs Penned in the Margins from a small office in East London.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology showcases sixty poets writing in twenty-five languages from countries across Europe. A feat of European intercultural exchange, it is also a fitting celebration of the Versopolis ethos: an extraordinary variety of themes, styles, and subjects finding common ground in a shared idea of what poetry - and a poetry community - can be. This anthology is published in collaboration with Beletrina Academic Press, Slovenia, part of the Versopolis project.

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Book SynopsisEveryone thinks of noon as being a split second as the clock's hands draw together, the bell tolls twelve times - but there is so much more to it than that - Solar noon happens as much as half an hour either side of what the clock tells you, deadlines are met, or passed, shadows vanish, vampires hide - or do they? Stories and Poems from 2018's Solstice Shorts festival, read live in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Ynys Mon, Carlisle, London and Cork on the stroke of... or nearly, Noon. Featuring stories from Barbara Renel, Clare Shaw, Diana Powell, Elaine Hughes, Karen Ankers, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Liam Hogan, Lily Peters, Marka Rifat, Patience Mackarness, Roppotucha Greenberg, Su Yin Yap; and poems from Alison Gerhard, Alison Lock, Anne Elizabeth Bevan, Catriona Yule, Elinor Brooks, Gareth Culshaw, Graham Burchell, Ian Grosz, Jane Aldous, Laila Sumpton.

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Book SynopsisDistinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are presented with work written in the last thirty years by six talented and highly individual Galician poets. Two of them, Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo and Chus Pato, already have established literary careers, while the four younger writers are rapidly gaining recognition through recently published collections and prize awards. Having chosen six poets who are characterized by their constant examination of literary forms and exploration of new conceptual worlds, the editor, Manuela Palacios, has asked the poets themselves to make a choice from their own work for the anthology. The result is a collection of poems that grow from roots firmly planted in home soil but which reach out and flourish beyond the boundaries of a single literary tradition. Keith Payne's accomplished translation allows English-language readers access to this unfamiliar but infinitely exciting territory.

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Book SynopsisCuriadau is a pioneering and exciting LHDTQ+ anthology, the first of its type in the Welsh language. Skilful editor Gareth Evans-Jones brings together striking and diverse LHDTQ+ talents. This special collection comprises works by poets, writers and playwrights.

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Book SynopsisIn 2021, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a sixth time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Rishi Dastidar and Jane Commane as selecting editors. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Kym Deyn, Estelle Price and Fathima Zahra.Primers: Volume Six now brings together a showcase from each of the three poets. Startling, original and packed with flair, Deyn, Price and Zahra explore everything from magic and mourning, cross-examinations of power and patriarchy, and the intimate secrets and ‘Parent cuts’ of growing up. These are poems of becoming and being, of difference and defiance, of other worlds, hard lessons and leaps of faith. Primers is proud to present these bold and dynamic poems from three of contemporary poetry’s most exciting new voices.Praise for Primers: Volume Six“There is of course nothing more exciting in reading poetry than finding a voice new to you, and feeling that feeling – where the brain says ‘oh hello, what have we here?’, as the skin responds with a tingle and your face starts smiling as you realise, there is something special in these words. That, roughly described, was our initial sensation on seeing the work of Kym Deyn, Estelle Price and Fathima Zahra. Each, in their unique ways, have that uncanny ability to recast what you thought you knew, as they make you look then look again at who we are, how we live, and what we might be.” – Rishi Dastidar

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Book SynopsisThe fourth instalment of Prototype’s annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.Including contributions by ajw, Sascha Akhtar, Chiara Ambrosio, Charlie Baylis, Jack Barker-Clark, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Jo Burns, Nancy Campbell, J. R. Carpenter, Joe Carrick-Varty, Robert Casselton Clark, Rory Cook, Emily Cooper, Kate Crowcroft, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Alisha Dietzman, Edward Doegar, Nathan Dragon, Laura Elliott, Alan Fielden, Clare Fisher, Livia Franchini, Jay Gao, Honor Gareth Gavin, Emily Hasler, Grace Henes, Martha Kapos, Annie Katchinska, Victoria Manifold, Samra Mayanja, Jessa Mockridge, Helen Palmer, Yannis Ritsos (trans. Paul Merchant), Rochelle Roberts, Kimberly Reyes, fred spoliar, Scott Thurston, Hao Guang Tse, Ralf Webb, Sam Weselowski, Chrissy Williams and Xuela Zhang.

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