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Faber & Faber Wilfred Owen Poems Selected by Jon Stallworthy
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.
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Faber & Faber If I Dont Know
Book SynopsisWendy Cope''s most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life (''the way we have been, the way we sometimes are''), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the golden age of five minutes ago, or weigh the ''out there'' of the present moment, where what is in sight is also out of reach. These are poems of well-tempered yearning, conditional idylls which sing in praise of lying fallow, the creativity of daydream, the yeast of boredom, the truths of intermediacy. Wendy Cope''s formal tact is alertly present - in triolets, rondeaux, villanelles, squibs, epigrams - small forms whose power to disarm goes hand in hand with her characteristically tart ripostes to the way things (usually) are. This collection extends the variousness of her occasions.
£11.69
Faber & Faber Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He was educated at Christ''s Hospital School, London where he began his friendship with Charles Lamb, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He first met Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association developed between them, issuing in their groundbreaking joint-publication, Lyrical Ballads, in 1799. Coleridge subsequently settled in the Lake District, and thereafter in London, where he lectured on Shakespeare and published his literary and philosophical theories in the Biographia Literaria (1817). He died in 1834 ha
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Faber & Faber The Shape of Things
Book SynopsisHow far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay?Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends'' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath.The world première of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.
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Faber & Faber Collected Poems
Book SynopsisIn gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams''s Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a Slide (1990) and including Writing Home (1985), described by Mick Imlah in the Independent on Sunday as ''a classic of creative autobiography''. The edition is brought up to date with his most recent work: Dock Leaves, a PBS Choice of 1994, and Billy''s Rain, winner of the 1999 T. S. Eliot Award.''This year''s best collection of works by a single poet. Intimate, charming and often funny, sometimes wistful, slightly sceptical, full of insight, the poems are a monument to 40 years of talent.'' Times''In their seemingly artless way, these poems look with candour at feebleness, messy love affairs, squirming memories, and emerge triumphantly, often with a rueful grin.'' Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph
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Faber & Faber The Universal Home Doctor
Book SynopsisThe Universal Home Doctor is Simon Armitage's most personal collection of poems yet. The poems journey across the globe but are ultimately set against the most intimate of landscapes - the human body.
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Faber & Faber Outlying Islands Faber Plays
Book SynopsisIn 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish island, sent by the government to survey the island''s birds. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young woman in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they observe each other.Poetic, intense and gripping, Outlying Islands is a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever.Outlying Islands was premièred at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in July 2002 and transferred to the Royal Court, London in Autumn 2002.
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Faber & Faber The Faber Book of Monologues Women
Book SynopsisWhether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student in need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights.With 25 speeches, ranging in age from 20 to 65, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women contains a rich variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by the best new playwrights, as well as brand new pieces from more established names. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance.Jane Edwardes, Theatre Editor at Time Out magazine, also provides a general introduction with helpful hints for the audition process.The companion volume, The Faber Book of Monologues for Men, is also available.
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Faber & Faber Minsk
Book SynopsisA POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONMinsk, Lavinia Greenlaw''s third collection, was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. From London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores questions of place - the childhood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel towards, and those like ''Minsk'' which we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw''s restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation.
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Faber & Faber To a Fault
Book SynopsisIn this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, he balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remain outside. Formally deft, rhetorically fresh, these poems never shy from difficult choices, exploring cruelty and vengeance wherever they may be found: in love, in work and against political backdrops. But these are brave, resolute writings that resist despair at all times, affirming instead the need to rebuild and to right oneself, to dust down and carry on.
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Faber & Faber Ashes for Breakfast Selected Poems
Book SynopsisBorn in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, ''the best refuge was a closed mouth.'' In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images reflect his deep love for and connection with the visual arts, Grünbein is reinventing German poetry and taking on the most pressing moral concerns of his generation. Brilliantly edited and translated by Michael Hofmann, The Selected Poems of Durs Grünbein introduces Germany''s most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to a British audience.''Grünbein is a truly cosmopolitan poet . . . creating poetry which, however subtly, participates in and facilitates Germany''s sustained attempts to reconfigurating and redefining itself in post-Cold War Europe.'' Michael Eskin, Times Literary Supplement
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Faber & Faber Her Book Poems 19881998
Book SynopsisPoems 1988-1998 is a compendium from Jo Shapcott''s award-winning books Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep. It reveals her to be a writer of ingenious, politically acute and provocative imagination and justifies her reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.Trade Review"'Shapcott is gifted and original, and it is in work such as hers that the future health of poetry needs to be sought.' Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times"
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Faber & Faber John DonnePoems
Book SynopsisJohn Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul''s. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633.In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
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Faber & Faber Heroes Le Vent des Peupliers
Book SynopsisOne must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It''s 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers'' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the hill...Gérald Sibleyras''s Le Vent des Peupliers premiered at the Wyndham''s Theatre, London, in October 2005 as Heroes, an English-language version by Tom Stoppard. It received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.
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Faber & Faber Selected Plays 19992009
Book SynopsisDavid Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as ''one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation''. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world. The collection also includes a trilogy of short
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Faber & Faber Ni Chuilleanain E Selected Poems Eilean Ni
Book SynopsisA renowned Irish poet, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has published 7 collections of poetry. Born in Cork City in 1942, her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), The Brazen Serpent (1994) and The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001). This new selection brings together some of her most distinctive work, published for the first time in the UK.
£13.49
Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 3
Book SynopsisThis is a new collection of some of David Hare''s finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy''s View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.
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Faber & Faber The Lost Leader
Book Synopsis''No poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people''s songs, the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie,'' proposed Edwin Muir. Yet many of the poems in Mick Imlah''s new collection do take the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points, spanning the Wallace and the Bruce; the Bonnie Prince (pivotal Lost Leader of the title), Robert Burns and Walter Scott; whisky, Clydeside and football. Imlah''s approach to this folklore is brilliantly fresh, a modern, sardonic but strongly-felt rendering of Scotland: from AD 500, by way of a guided tour of Iona, to yesterday at a Dumfries bus depot. And, as the chronicle reaches the twentieth century, the poems turn to friends and family - childhood reminiscences, elegies and celebrations - influenced still by sporting and military fantasy, the charm of history and the power of anachronism.
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Faber & Faber OogaBooga
Book Synopsis''Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.'' Calvin Bedient, Poetry''He is scary, but funny, but scary. You would have go back to confessional masters like Lowell and Berryman to find poetry as daringly self-revealing, as risky and compelling, as the best of Frederick Seidel''s.'' Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun''The moral thrills of his poetry can be as daunting as the moral spills, the cruel intelligence of glamour as alluring as the mystical stillness that is somewhere also at the heart of his poetry.'' Adam Phillips, Raritan''The poems in Ooga-Booga are the richest yet and read like no one else''s: they''re surreal, utterly unpretentious, and suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one.'' Alex Halberstadt, N
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Faber & Faber The Habit of Art
Book SynopsisAuden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn''t otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play.Alan Bennett''s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion''s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. <
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Faber & Faber The North Ship Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisThe North Ship, Philip Larkin''s earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its content.This is the first thingI have understood:Time is the echo of an axeWithin a wood.
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Faber & Faber Tippoo Sultans Incredible WhiteManEating Tiger
Book SynopsisLook We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the same verve and excitement that made his first book an unmissable event. Tippoo Sultan''s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! takes its cue from the eighteenth-century automaton (a tiger savaging a British soldier) in a series of poems that begin at the throat of the old British Empire. In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where Shakespeare meets the Subcontinent in a range of forms from English sonnets to spectacular displays of ''bollyverse'' or the tender love songs of the monsoon. The poems take their bearings from cornershops and classrooms, the strange, part-arcadian, part-hellish streets of ''Londonstan'' and the places wher
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Faber & Faber Notes to Future Self
Book SynopsisSophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham - a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are replaced with maths homework and TV and the grandmother they have never met. And it''s against this bewildering new backdrop - the normality she''s always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms with her mortality.Lucy Caldwell''s Notes to Future Self opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February 2011.
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Faber & Faber Short and Sweet
Book SynopsisShort and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writing. In his witty and instructive introduction, Simon Armitage, pace-setting poet of his generation, encourages us to consider how poets over five centuries have used brevity.
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Faber & Faber A Double Sorrow
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award.When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw''s new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs.Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility o
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Faber & Faber 81 Austerities
Book SynopsisAll three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering substantial debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being all things at once. Initially conceived as a response to the ''austerity measures'' implemented by the coalition government in 2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: ''cutting'' themselves on levels of sentiment, structure and even subject matter. Not content to merely build a series of freethinking poems, these remarkable pieces seem eagerly and mischievously to analyze their moment of creation, then weigh their worth, then consign their excess to the recycling bin thereafter. Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will inevitably be running to catch up - often arriving at a scene the moment after the moment has gone. The effect is as funny and it is startling, beguiling as it is surprising, and makes Austerities a vivid reminder that deprivation, as Leonard Cohen put it, can be the mother of poetry.
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Faber & Faber Uncle Vanya
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov''s play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.''It''s often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one you''ve seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesn''t have a suicide, like The Seagull, or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less indistinguishable from murder, like Three Sisters; nor does it seem to announce the end of an era, like The Cherry Orchard: all it has is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which, possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or out of place.'' - From the author''s introduction.
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Faber & Faber A Ted Hughes Bestiary Selected Poems Faber Poetry
Book SynopsisOriginally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes''s poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald''s selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals - all concentratedly coming about their business.The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes''s achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to ''those that have the wildest tunes.''
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Faber & Faber The Water Stealer
Book SynopsisThese poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan''s poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to what he hauntingly describes as ''the unwonted quiet''. There are tributes to the departed and the living, the befriended and the estranged; there are also conversations with poets, in memory and in translation, from the Spanish and from the Irish. The collection concludes with ''The Pilgrim'' - that hovers eerily ''in patrol of the edges'', wherever they may be located. But just as these poems can be sage, they are also mischievous, fun-loving, gregarious creatures who like nothing better than to sing or to joke at your ear. The Water Stealer is a book full of invention and deligh
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Faber & Faber People
Book SynopsisA sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It''s a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world... a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover.People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one''s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution.
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Faber & Faber A Small Family Business
Book SynopsisWell, that''s one down, isn''t it? Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let''s have a crack at that one next, shall we?Jack McCracken is a man of principle until, moments after taking over his father-in-law''s business, he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, operating a network of racketeering from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest and comic hysteria take over as Jack succumbs.A Small Family Business premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1987, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.This play offers a devastating assault on the way the entrepreneurial values we were taught to admire in the eighties lead ultimately to fraud, theft, self-deceit, even homicide. It is the modern equivalent of An Inspector Calls only, being Ayckbourn, far funnier. It argues just as passionately as the work of more overtly political writers that there is such a thing as so
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Faber & Faber Fire Songs
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry''A writer we should treasure.'' Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph''With every book [Harsent''s] stature as a truly significant writer becomes more undeniable.'' Fiona Sampson, IndependentThe poems in David Harsent''s new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that ''belong to one another'', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Throughout the book - in the stark biography of ''Songs from the Same Earth'', the troubling fractured narrative of ''A Dream Book'', the harrowing lines of connection in four poems each titled ''Fire'', or the cheek-by-jowl shudder of ''Sang the Rat'' - Harsent writes, as always, with passion and a sureness of touch.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisThe British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers.
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Faber & Faber Skylight Faber Drama
Book SynopsisHe's not like what you'd call rational-articulate. He doesn't want argument. For Christ's sake, Kyra, you teach. Language belongs to the past. This is the world of Super Mario. Bang! Splat! Spit out your venom and go. It's not like, you know . . . when we were together. You and me talking. Talking down the stars from the sky.Skylight premiered at the National Theatre, London, 1995. It won an Olivier Award for Play of the Year; and an Evening Standard Award for Revival of the Year, 2014.There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of salvation. David Hare's Skylight is punctuated by such moments. They are the signs that a dramatist of the first rank is writing at full stretch, in complete
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Faber & Faber Martin Crimp Plays 3
Book SynopsisA mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... the approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling.
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Faber & Faber Night Photograph
Book SynopsisGalileo''s wife, a young woman dying of radium poisoning, the first dog in space, a strangely obsessed concert pianist, an early beneficiary of plastic surgery, and a Russian boy whose adventures are sadly limited by the immature powers of the child who has conjured him up are just some of the figures encompassed by Lavinia Greenlaw''s imagination.The poet''s level gaze as she contemplates the more bizarre aspects of science and of human behaviour lends further distinction to this, her first collection.
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Faber & Faber Go Giants
Book SynopsisTo a Fault, Nick Laird''s debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. In Go Giants, his third and most ambitious volume, Nick Laird''s poetry travels yet further afield, connecting the shores of his native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast where he spends increasing time. The result is an almost trans-Atlantic fusion, an inventive melding of Ulster lyricism with proto-Beat rhythms and phrase. The author''s gaze appears longer and more penetrative than before, casting back across the ocean to find a fresh perspective on older questions while vividly capturing the vibrancy of the new. Nick Laird writes with wit and candour, with polemic and persuasion, with no subject seemingly too large or too small: weapons of mass destruction, sectarian violence, reli
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Faber & Faber Marina Carr Plays 3 Sixteen Possible Glimpses
Book SynopsisThis third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company''s premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015.Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov''s short life and work. Phaedra Backwards retells the Phaedra myth to discover what shaped her. The Map of Argentina offers a meditation on love and what happens when it is denied, or pursued and hunted down. Hecuba was written in reaction to the bad press this Trojan queen receives, and reimagines how she may have suffered and reacted. Indigo is a dark and passionate romance amongst fairies, demons, ghouls and every sort of fantastic creature out of folklore and myth.
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Faber & Faber Cuttin It Faber Drama
Book SynopsisWe''re opposites, even though we came from the same, she''s nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret. Tracking the urgent issue of FGM in Britain, this devastating play reveals the price some girls pay to become women. Cuttin'' It premiered at the Young Vic, London, in May 2016. Charlene James is the winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play.
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Faber & Faber Meeting the British
Book SynopsisMeeting the British is Paul Muldoon''s fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ warfare, through a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of ''7, Middagh Street'', New York, on Thanksgiving Day, 1940.
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Faber & Faber The Seasons of Cullen Church
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O''Donoghue movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork. The mythologies of family are here: the relative who maybe emigrated to America to be ''set upon at his arrival / for the few pounds sewn inside his coat''; the memory of ''Barty, a hopeless speller'', caned so hard he dances; the big top come to the town park; the stolen apples raided from the orchard near the old school. Here too are the collective myths, the groundwater of older texts - Virgil''s Aeneid, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, Dante''s Purgatorio, the lives of the ancients and the gods - all of which in O''Donoghue''s dexterous and discerning care reach forward from their long-ago origins to echo down our own lives.Many of these poems speak in elegy: for Connolly''s Bookshop closed down and mourned or for lost friends; for th
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Faber & Faber Martinez de las Rivas T Black Sun
Book SynopsisToby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern-day William Blake. The Guardian described Terror, his first book, as visionary' and exciting', the New Statesman as remarkable', and all combined to praise its brave and lucid intensity. Black Sun is a sequel of poise and clarity that is, if anything, more open and accessible than its predecessor. Beginning where Terror left off, it pursues that book's fascination with history and with theology, with the physical body and the body of the State, with preservation and redemption. Black Sun confronts the dark dreams and hidden powers of this world, and, through the poet's attentive watching and wondering, offers its readers a way to know & still to resist a last despair'.''A lucid and spontaneous lyricism . . . how unlike most of his contemporaries Martinez de las Rivas seems to be.'' New Statesman
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Faber & Faber The Unaccompanied
Book SynopsisThe most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this multi-textured and moving volume are set against a backdrop of economic recession and social division, where mass media, the mass market and globalisation have made alienation a commonplace experience and where the solitary imagination drifts and conjures. The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire, and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard. Looking for certainty the mind gravitates to recollections of upbringing and family, only t
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Faber & Faber The Fall of a Sparrow Vivien Eliots Life and
Book SynopsisThe Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and deliberate distortions that have circulated around one of Bloomsbury's most gossiped-about, enigmatic couples, while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners. For the first time, too, immaculate texts of Vivien's own writing are presented, carefully distinguished from Eliot's input, which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own.
£28.00
Faber & Faber Old Toffers Book of Consequential Dogs
Book SynopsisI've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you find themAnd, at the very least, not mind them.T. S. Eliot''s best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world.For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer''s Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot''s cats.
£13.49
Faber & Faber Old Toffers Book of Consequential Dogs
Book SynopsisI've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you find themAnd, at the very least, not mind them.T. S. Eliot''s best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world.For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer''s Book of Consequential Dog poems are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot''s cats.
£8.54
Faber & Faber The Entertainer
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne''s The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, the play has become a classic of twentieth-century drama.
£9.49
Faber & Faber New and Selected Poems 19772022
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss by wars, by accidents, by the erosion of time and by grief. Motion is an energetic and protean spirit, a listener and a watcher, and while his poems mostly develop his themes by using intimate and lyric forms, they also sometimes adapt from direct speech and documentary sources. In every case, and especially movingly in the long poem Essex Clay', Motion uses acts of personal witness to reflect the vulnerabilities of the world at large.These are extraordinary poems of and for our times, enlarging our sense of the cost of human experience even as they refine those sensibi
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