Poetry / Poems
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Flowers for the Dying Moon
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Olympia Publishers Tiny Passages to Pass the Time
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Olympia Publishers Naked: Pieces from Beginnings
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of poetry, which takes the reader on a journey through the many aspects of life. Love, loss, sacrifice, triumph, turmoil: these are just a few of the many emotions, which are penned within these pages. Each turn of the page, takes one down many roads. The scenery is vast- it can be beautiful, and dark. Simple, and complex. Each line, dives deeper into the mind, and swims amongst the complexities of the human experience. Each work stands alone, and creates its own mosaic. So, experience the journey. Take a ride through the cosmos, and skirt the very edges of our universe.
£999.99
Seagull Books London Ltd The Poems
Book SynopsisThe first complete publication of Robert Walser’s poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) remains one of the most influential authors of modern literature. Walser left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and novels. In 1933, he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of his life. “I am not here to write,” Walser said, “but to be mad.” This first collection of Walser’s poems in English translation allows English-speaking readers to experience the author as he saw himself at the beginning and the end of his literary career––as a poet. The book also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions of the printed poems, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers. Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Walser has seen in recent years, and this collection of his poems will help readers discover a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era. Table of ContentsEARLY POEMS (1897–1912)Poems (Gedichte, 1909)String and Desire (Saite und Sehnsucht)Further SelectionsPOEMS WRITTEN IN BIEL (1919–1920)POEMS WRITTEN IN BERNE (1924–1933)Can It Wish Me Anything Other than HappinessThe Child PondersWomenLiteratureSelf-ReflectionWho May Say He Knows Existence!DELETED EARLY POEMSDELETED LATE POEMSAFTERWORDREFERENCESINDEX OF TITLES
£24.69
Seagull Books London Ltd Porcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City
Book SynopsisA book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein’s hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein’s hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city’s destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Musical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, Porcelain is controversial, too, in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the “myth” of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory. Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein’s own reflections, and an additional canto—an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for the fractured remains of Dresden’s memory. Trade Review"Grünbein’s polyphonic collection Porcelain addresses Dresden’s thorny history through the leitmotif of porcelain, the “white gold” of Meissen whose discovery catapulted Saxony and its capital to considerable prestige in the 18th century — although much of it suffered considerable damage in the Allied bombing. The 50 poems that make up the cycle probe deeply the history of Dresden, adopting then discarding allusive threads to explore the ruin of the city. . . . Here, porcelain represents the fragility of past glory; it also offers Grünbein a model for the presence of the past, and for his collection itself. In light of this multivalent symbol, the poems can be read as shards of language, splinters of speech; each evokes a whole that it will never reconstruct." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The forty-nine (plus one) poems that comprise Porcelain explore the complex layers of loss, meaning and memory and together form a rich meditation on war, destruction and the question of who owns suffering. It is not a dirge but a human reckoning. The presentation of this anniversary edition is both handsome and sombre, while Karen Leeder’s translation gives the poetry an immediate, grounded feel and the detailed glossary and notes provide context, as required, to enhance the reading experience." * Rough Ghosts *
£13.99
Seagull Books London Ltd Bending into the Light
Book SynopsisA beautiful and timely collection of poems written during the pandemic. The poems in Alice Attie’s new volume, Bending into the Light, are poised on an ever-shifting threshold where words “up and down, side to side” appear as “figures in the distance approaching, each a declaration, each persisting”. Beings, things, ideas, present or vanishing, flow through the vessel of language wherein each exudes “its own aura, its own being, its own disappearance.” Attie’s voice is intricate and intimate, shaping and reshaping the space of being and the space of non-being. These contemplative poems, interspersed with a few haunting photographs and artworks, extol, and mourn, melding the quotidian with the philosophical where we are formed and transformed in the profound knowledge that “the voice has no center.”
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Archaeopress Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon: A Cultural and
Book SynopsisWroxeter: Ashes under Uricon offers a perspective on how people over time have viewed the abandoned Roman city of Wroxeter in Shropshire. It responds to three main artistic outputs relating to the site: poetry, images and texts. The poets include Wilfred Owen, A.E. Housman and Mary Webb. The writers cover a range of interests relating to the site but include Darwin, Dickens, Rosemary Sutcliff and John Buchan. The artists are perhaps less well-known but include watercolours by Thomas Girtin, archaeological reconstructions by Alan Sorrell and Amedée Forrestier, and paintings by Wroxeter’s own resident artist, Thomas Prytherch. Photographs are represented by the work of Francis Bedford and others more closely associated with aerial archaeology such as J.K. St Joseph and Arnold Baker. While the famous names have their value, The book also investigates what locals and visitors thought of the site over time – how they perceived it and have responded to it. It reflects in particular upon how the public and locals responded to the archaeological discoveries on the site and perceived the narratives that were created by the archaeologists working on it. It contends that archaeologists are just as much story-tellers as the writers, poets or artists, although their work is more filtered or controlled, and through these narratives, they inspire others. A further strand to the book is to explore the increasing focus over the past century on the democratisation of access to and understanding of the site, alongside increasing state intervention in its running. This too has had its impact on who visits and what is understood about the site. A short concluding section offers a vision of how the site might develop in the near-future, and how its cultural side might flourish once again.Trade Review'Roger White's love of the Roman town at Wroxeter in Shropshire shines through the pages of this book. He first worked there as a digger in 1976 and has been involved with it in various capacities almost ever since.' – Neil Holbrook (2023): Current Archaeology Issue 396Table of ContentsMy Wroxeter ; Introduction ; Archaeologists and their stories ; Poetic visions ; Wroxeter depicted ; Writing and visiting Wroxeter ; Archaeology for all ; Wroxeter’s people ; Coda: Wroxeter in the 21st century ; References
£24.70
Olympia Publishers Around the Year in 365 Haikus
Book SynopsisLaura Owen-Onsea is a woman of many talents - a manager at work, a mother, a wife and now an author of this wonderful collection of Haikus that were written, one a day, over the course of an entire year. Through this process we are transported into her world in all its ups and downs throughout a very important year in her life in which she has to deal with relationship problems, friendship dilemmas, and of course figuring out how to be the best mother she can be. Though written from the perspective of one person, this heart-warming and affirming collection of poems has something in it for everyone - in poetry she finds all of the beauty and inspiration that falls around us and shows us that we all have it in us to create something wonderful.
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Olympia Publishers Thus Says The Bird
Book SynopsisIn a lyrical wonder of deep musings and a conversation with a bird, Kamal Shlbei delves into the recesses of the human mind and perception to see the unseen and to acknowledge what his own being is made of and how beautiful it is to be a moment in the history of beings.
£999.99
Olympia Publishers A Piece of Me
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Olympia Publishers Amavinatone
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Olympia Publishers Diary of a Nobody... Musings and Prose of an Emergency Nurse
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Olympia Publishers The Muse of Manifestations
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Olympia Publishers Mahlers Cigarettes
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£6.23
Olympia Publishers Language of the Soul
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Olympia Publishers Hundred Golden Leaves Collection of Poems
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Olympia Publishers heart based
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Olympia Publishers A Person Abbreviated
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Olympia Publishers Faded Words of Lifelong Stories
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Olympia Publishers Peace of Mind
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Olympia Publishers Secrets We Dont Keep
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£10.44
Signature Book Representation Sensitise
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Jenny Hu Gloaming Reveries: Poetry Collection
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£999.99
Olympia Publishers Becoming
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Olympia Publishers One Hundred Plus Musings of Pride Peace Pain
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Olympia Publishers The Whisper of Nature in Lifes Dream
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£5.99
Olympia Publishers In Pursuit of Me Exploring Self Reflection
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Olympia Publishers Life Through Her Eyes
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Olympia Publishers A Collection
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Olympia Publishers How to Keep the Candle Burning Through the Storm
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£9.71
Olympia Publishers The Musings of Stars and Dust
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Olympia Publishers Inside the Belly of the Primordial Walking Whale
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Olympia Publishers Loves Bittersweet Symphony
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Olympia Publishers Meditations and Manifestations An Anthology of
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Olympia Publishers All Four Seasons
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Malady of Reverie
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Magic of the Mind
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Thinking of You
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£5.99
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers An Ode to Life in Poetry
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers All the Words I Wish You Said
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Mans Eye View
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Catching a Ride on Creation
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers We Should Be So Lucky
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Ugly Truth
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The NineTailed Fox
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£15.99
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Through My Eyes
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Tenement Press El saltamarti / The Tumbler
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£17.46
Mole Publishing UK Cappuccino, Cake and Chat: Uplifting, witty,
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£999.99
