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Wrecking Ball Press Drawing On Previous Learning
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£9.00
Wrecking Ball Press The Things I Learnt And The Things I Still Don't
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£9.50
Persephone Books Ltd Amours de Voyage
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£16.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC As You Like it
Book SynopsisIn a period during which a play previously staged very traditionally was represented in a variety of original ways, Robert Smallwood looks at what we could call the 'Seven Ages of As You Like It' by considering just what directors, designers and actors did differently to make their vision original. How are the environments of the court and the Forest of Arden presented; bleak and chilling or welcoming and celebratory? What does each actress bring to the crucial role of Rosalind that will help show the journey from her relationship with Celia to that with Orlando? How are the anti-romantic Touchstone and Jaques portrayed? How successfully is Hymen, the god of marriage, brought to the stage? This engaging volume celebrates the rich performance history of an always popular play. In a period during which a play previously staged very traditionally was represented in a variety of original ways, Robert Smallwood looks at what we could call the 'Seven Ages of As You Like It' by considering just what directors, designers and actors did differently to make their vision original. How are the environments of the court and the Forest of Arden presented; bleak and chilling or welcoming and celebratory? What does each actress bring to the crucial role of Rosalind that will help show the journey from her relationship with Celia to that with Orlando? How are the anti-romantic Touchstone and Jaques portrayed? How successfully is Hymen, the god of marriage, brought to the stage? This engaging volume celebrates the rich performance history of an always popular play.
£30.39
Arlen House Belongings
Book SynopsisThis joint collection, Belongings, is an absolute joy to read and represents some of Kate Newmann and Joan Newmann's finest work to date. One of the most interesting aspects of the poetry is its distinctiveness from and, at the same time, its connectedness to the other, both in terms of theme and style. In other words, it is very evident that the poetry is written by two quite separate and individual poets with very different interests and modes of expression, and, yet, there is a relationship between the two that, though difficult to pinpoint, remains remarkably complementary.Trade ReviewThis joint collection from Joan Newmann and Kate Newmann, two of Ireland's finest women poets, is an absolute joy to read and represents some of their finest work to date.
£17.95
Dedalus Press The Noise of Masonry Settling
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Arc Publications The Night Fountain: Selected Early Poems
Book Synopsis'Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. Sonzogni and Dawe have captured the singular strength of Quasimodo and heard the penetrating voices of humanity. Their translations of this particular poet are a beautiful work of rendering history in rhyme and do more than justice to the art and the feelings of Salvatore Quasimodo. "The Night Fountain" should be read and re-read, learned and re-learned, and must be at hand to every reader who can only gain from its penetrating elegy' - Allen Mandelbaum, Kenan Professor of Humanities, Wake Forest University, USA.'"The Night Fountain" discloses a great poet in the making, now veering into Expressionism, now surreal, but always with an imaginative prosody and a voice that admits us into its intimacy. There is at once abundance and refinement here, and many of the elements that go into his great work. The translations are resourceful and inventive, keeping faith with the movement of the originals' - Michael Schmidt, Professor of Poetry, University of Glasgow.Table of ContentsForeword. Introduction. L'aurore / Dawn, Primule / Wild flowers, Sfioritura / Withering, Il colore del desiderio / The colour of desire, Nascere / Birth, Candida foce / Innocent mouth, Preghiera / Prayer, L'offerta divina / Divine offer, Il silenzio degli schiavi / The silence of slaves, L'elegia dello sperduto / The elegy of the lost, Il fiore del silenzio / The flower of silence, Profanazione / Profanation, Eliosismo / Souls, La luce del sole / The light of the sun, La serenita / Serenity, La porta chiusa / The locked door, Nei giardini della luce / In the gardens of light, Nuvolette nel vespero / Little evening clouds, La rondine di luce / The swallow of light, La musica degli angioli / The music of angels, Oro su la neve / Gold on snow, La fontana notturna / The night fountain, I semi della luce / The seeds of light, La purezza / Purity, Mentre brucia la mirra / The burning myrrh.Notes. Appendix. Biographical notes.
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Arc Publications Fishermen Sleep
Book Synopsis Translated from the German by Jenny Williams. Introduced by Mary O'Donnell. THE FISHERMEN The fishermen sleep.In their sou'westers sea foam evaporates from their eyes the scales fall onto the pale bodies of the fish who dream that the fishermen sleep. "I'm not a political poet… I'm more interested in the landscape of the soul ['Seelenlandschaft']". Sabine Lange "Jenny Williams' utterly respectful translations … reaveal the rhythms and tones of the originator's distinctive voice and convey these with enromous skill. The poems are accessible, yet complex and foreign, in the very best sense of that word." Mary O'Donnell. Sabine Lange has been in print in Germany since 1987 and this, her first full collection, appeared in 1994 under the title Immer zu Fuß. Her poetry explores the human – particularly the female – condition in the light of her personal experiences as a musician and poet, and is set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mecklenburg countryside in which she has spent most of her life. Written in deceptively simple language with short lines and striking images, her poems – often about love, music, the seasons, the landscape – are full of a meditative beauty which is sometimes peaceful, sometimes dark. But she can be upbeat too, funny, whimsical, exultant. The Fishermen Sleep is the first English translation of Lange's poetry, and the English-language reader is the richer for it. SABINE LANGE was born in 1953 in Stralsund , then in the German Democratic Republic. A trained musician, she has worked most of her life as an archivisit, since 1984 at the Fallada Archive in Feldberg. JENNY WILLIAMS teaches at the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University and is author of a biography about Hans Fallada. This is her first published volume of translation. MARY O'DONNELL is a poet, novelist, translator, critic and broadcaster, based in Co. Kildare, Ireland. She is a member of Aosdaná.Trade Review"I'm not a political poet... I'm more interested in the landscape of the soul ['Seelenlandschaft']". Sabine Lange "Jenny Williams' utterly respectful translations... reaveal the rhythms and tones of the originator's distinctive voice and convey these with enromous skill. The poems are accessible, yet complex and foreign, in the very best sense of that word." Mary O'Donnell"
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Arc Publications Book of the Snow
Book SynopsisAn intriguing set of short, deceptively simple poems, "The Book of the Snow" meditates on our relation to the austere beauty and elemental power of the midwinter scene. It is also a subtle, witty, occasionally savage critique of our philosophical and artistic complacency. While pretending to literary defeatism, Francois Jacqmin captivates us with the deft touch of an accomplished poet. Philip Mosley's beautifully modulated translation of the last collection to be published in the poet's lifetime, only two years before his death in 1992, makes available to English-language readers for the first time the work of one of Belgium's foremost francophone poets of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Note, Translator's Preface, Introduction. Snow, The time comes, To return, The landscape is fixed, When we follow, Gentlefolk, What you hear, Hounded by the night, I close my eyes, If we have, In poetry, We raise our eyes, For an inexhaustible instant, The cherries are packed tight, Night, The fog, You suspect, NuNo one gets by with his speech, The snow is everywhere, He who lives, Frozen in its icy crypt, It is midnight, My ruin, I am delighted, It is not the aptness, Night is old, All of a sudden, There has to be a handy slander, Who will make sense of, The role, Literary practice, Beautiful, Heads lowered, We understood that, There is nothing as pointless, What hope is there, The snow was going nowhere, The tendency, We begin a verse, When the snow stopped falling, By dint of, What lesson, The rectilinear distress, He who had a single clear thought, Sometimes, in the night, The fountain, Beneath the snow, Where the snow falls, Being detaches itself from the night, The small scenes, Moved, The boundless is sealed, The mast of nothingness, I no longer stand, Some use the sled,You suffer a little, He who listens, Nothing stifles me too, We await, I cross the enamel, It is not dying, There are men, I open the book, Being, That to which all is given, Night exploits, Nostalgia, Only the dimwitted seraphim, The only thing, We cannot carry on, Let us talk no more, In the clinking, A ferocious blast, We have gone beyond, The contradiction, We see nothing, A first snowfall, There comes an age, There is nothing left, The snow came close, The repose of firs, When I no longer saw anything, Perceptive is he, The forest's low wings, In the white clamour, Everything proven, Since silence, Evening draws in, I can no longer, The impossible, With the snow, We conjugate, What begins, IThere was no landmark, It is eloquent, Being tilts, There is neither forest nor thought, The moon has revealed, After it had snowed, There were several moments, I make myself scarce, The noise, NI am not an author, Cold consumed, Since the frost, JI have had to muster, I do not connect with the world anymore, It is not enough, Day's end, What would be that triumph, In early evening, Biographical Notes.
£10.44
Arc Publications And Silk and Love and Flame
Book SynopsisBirhan Keskin's (b. Kirklareli, Turkey, 1963) poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and repeat. Fluid and elusive, her poems inhabit a space between cognition and remembering, testimony and invention. This book selects work from six of Keskin's books, including her prize-winning collection Ba, and George Messo's outstanding translation enables us to appreciate to the full the work of this exceptional poet.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's note , Translator's preface , Introduction , from Ba (2005) Torment, Melody, Fig, Dense Water, Africa, Rite of Ferah, Fan, Ankara, River View, Fjord, State of Affair, High Density, Sun - Star // from States of the Earth (2002), Phoenix, Fish, Mountain, Plain, Glacier, Lake, Sea, Desert, Fig, Door, Traveler // from 20 Polished Tablets (1999), Instrumental, Penguin, Pomegranate Dream, Leaf, Tranquility, Tunnel , Water, The Traveler's Black Suitcase, //from Winter of Murder (1996), Prayer, Honeydrop, Time, Winter of Murder, Cactus and Texas I & II & III, Cave Flower // from I May Return Unhappily (1994), & Silk & Love & Flame // from Crazy Lyrics (1991), Crazy Lyrics I, Crazy Lyrics II, Apollo I, Apollo II, Biography, Biographical notes /
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Arc Publications Days Full of Caves & Tigers
Book SynopsisThis selection is drawn from six collections which span Pusterla's poetic career from 1985 to 2011. Pusterla's themes are many and varied, and there is a spareness and austerity about his poetry - which one feels is more 'Alpine' than Swiss - born of the age-old struggle with a harsh natural environment.Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface / 10 , Introduction / 13, FROM Concession to Winter, Parentheses / 21,Paradiso, Cavallino / 21, The Dodo / 23, from Bocksten, The Eel of the Rhine / 25, from Things with no Past , Claudia and Nina Sleeping / 27, Buried in the Garden / 27, Notice to Quit: Three Fragments / 33, Landscape / 35, Snowing (or Writing in Winter) / 39, Crocuses at Evolene / 39, The Drowned Woman / 39, Crespi d'Adda / 41, Landscape with Moira Writing / 43, The Blackbird / 45, Breaking Surface / 45, Vatel / 49 from Pietra sangue :The Two Adversaries / 53, Drainage Canal / 55, The Spendthrift Takes Stock / 57, To Those Who Come After / 57, Bois de la folie / 58, Descending and Ascending: the Stairways of Albogasio / 63, Tremor / 67 from Submerged Multitude :Untitled / 73, Two Herons / 73, Submerged Multitude / 77, First Strawberries / 79, Without Images / 81, Letter from Nikolajevka / 81, Deposition / 83, Last Judgement / 85 , Displaced Swarm / 85, Concomitances / 87, Days Full of Caves and Tigers / 89, Thirty Years On / 91, Moving On / 93 from Corpo stellare: On Tiny Wings / 97, April 2006. Postcards of Italy / 97, Letters from Babel / 105, Prospect Hill / 109, Stories of the Armadillo / 111, Notes / 124, Biographical Notes / 127
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Enitharmon Press Supreme Being
Book SynopsisFollowing her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere - graver here than in her previous collection. "Supreme Being" is both a huge hymn of praise for 'life', for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss - the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of the coming loss of the poet's own 'experiencing': themes as grave and profound as can be imagined. These are the substance of religious feeling and - without overt religious referencing - "Supreme Being" earns its bold title.Trade ReviewFrom Reviews of My Nights in Cupid's Palace:Almost every poem here makes another myth, a new cosmologyA...exerts an unsettling, enlivening, revelatory effect. Her poems seek revelation, they are the act of seeking it; they are, as Lowell said poems should be - the event, not the record of an event. - David ConstantineHere is a richly imaginative new voiceA...An intuitive and lyric sensibility is allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this a distinctive and assured debut collection. - Poetry Book Society BulletinThe best debut of the year: a true collection of poems rather than just an assortment of ones she made earlier, and each of them is perfect. - Books of the Year: The Independent on Sunday
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Rockingham Press A Shoal of Powan
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Paper Doll
Book SynopsisProudly staking a landmark for the UK's Latinx community, Katherine Lockton's début pamphlet, Paper Doll, strikes the poetry landscape as disruptively as a meteor scars earth with its impact. Documenting a shape-shifting existence between activist and survivor, immigrant and alien, lover and loner, this is a tract of the unseen made visible and given a striking, defiant vocabulary. Having fallen from a building as a child in Bolivia, Katherine seems to have retained an ability to stack images that zip along, only leaving an imprint of their meaning as the poem descends to its conclusion. This quality, combined with a contrasting directness makes reading Paper Doll a profoundly affecting experience. There is no smooth ride to be had here. As the poet puts it in the poem The Paper Doll Chain, “she will defy me; time after time/ teaching me how to live when she does.”
£6.29
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited First Rain
Book SynopsisWritten originally in Me'phaa, First Rain is a selection of poems that emerged from the poet responding to the death of his grandmother who declared to him in 2005: I will die in the days when the first rains come. The work mourns both the loss of a grandmother, and the fading away (like her sight in later life) of a culture and language that hold so much history and pride. In this way, they address social, racial and gender inequalities, environmental abuses and injustices faced by native peoples in Latin America - issues that have resonance globally. As the poet recounts: In the face of the wind, grab the stones that are falling upon us, one of his grandmother's phrases, refers to people standing up to injustice. This collection, Hubert Matiuwaa's first ever in English, is a gathering of stones.
£7.05
University of Chester Press Still Life: Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2010
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£9.75
Fantom Films Limited Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train
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Luath Press Ltd 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems
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
£7.59
Seagull Books London Ltd Wanderers: And Other Israeli Plays
Book SynopsisThis is an anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays, written by established and emerging Israeli playwrights and theatre creators. The collection offers a look into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of identity in Israeli society. The anthology will include a substantive introduction discussing the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues that Israeli society deals with nowadays, an overview of the dramatic and theatrical work of the playwrights and an analysis of the plays.Joshua Sobol's "Wanderers" is a reconstruction of the life story of an Israeli double agent who goes through an identity crisis; Hanoch Levin's "Walking in the Dark" is an existentialist play about the Walking Man who takes a late-night walk in the city, unable to decide whether to visit his sick mother or not (the city and the night turn into the endless space of the mind; and, Yossefa Even-Shoshan's "The Maiden of Ludmir" examines the place of women within orthodox texts and social structures.Taher Najib's "In Spitting Distance" tells the story of an actor who lives in the West Bank but holds an Israeli passport and tries to fly from Paris to Tel Aviv one year after 9/11; Tamir Greenberg's "Hebron" depicts the mythic scale of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Ruth Kanner's "Disgust" is a documentary performance and search into the personal and social concept of 'disgust' and is based on interviews with passersby; and Tamar Raban and Guy Gutman's "Old Wives' Tales" is a performance piece that takes place in a real yet fictional patisserie. Hanoch Levin (d.1999) is one of Israel's most worldly renown and influential playwrights, Joshua Sobol is one of Israel's world-acclaimed and senior playwrights, Tamir Greenberg is a well-known poet, Yossefa Even-Shoshan is an innovative feminist playwright, Taher Najib is an actor and a playwright, Ruth Kanner is one of Israel's leading experimental stage directors, Tamar Raban is leading performance artist and theatre creator, and Guy Gutman is a director and sound and stage designer.Table of ContentsI. Identities In/SidesJoshua Sobol, Wanderers Yossefa Even Shoshan, The Maiden of Ludmir Taher Najib, In Spitting Distance II. Mythic LandscapesHanoch Levin, Walking in the Dark Tamir Greenberg, Hebron III. Inside Out: Performance on the ThresholdRuth Kanner, Disgust Tamar Raban and Guy Gutman, Old Wives' Tales
£71.25
Halsgrove Rustic Rhymes from Somerset
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£12.34
Arc Publications The Autumn Myth
Book SynopsisLane's third collection attempts a reality check on the myths and dreams that permeate our world. It attacks the culture of political and corporate mendacity in Britain today and considers the more ambiguous myths that sustain our personal lives. It also explores the human experience of time, the lessons of grief and the evocative power of music
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Arc Publications Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisRainer Maria Rilke's work spans the divide between turn-of-the-century Europe's decadence and its post First World War revolutionary modernism, always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself. This selection of poems from throughout Rilke's creative output is arranged chronologically, placing poems of similar themes and / or modes of expression close to one another, making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together. Each poem is to a greater or lesser extent conscious of others. The aim is to illuminate the underlying themes which Rilke said he had arrived at very early in his life. In his powerful new translation, skilfully shaped into current English, Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching, while his comprehensive introduction and notes to this selection are both informative and enlightening.Table of ContentsIntroduction / 9, The Ribbon / 23, I Love my Nature's Darkest Hours / 23, Entrance / 25, Early Apollo / 25, The Fountain / 27, A Tree Rises! - O Pure Transcendence! / 27, The Gazelle / 29, Spanish Dancer / 31, Birth of Venus / 31, Exposed on the Mountains of the Heart / 37, 'We must die because we know them' / 37, You, Whom I Knew Like a Flower / 39, Washing the Corpse / 41, Requiem for a Friend (extract) / 43, Death / 51, Lament / 53, And It Was a Girl, Almost / 53, Orpheus. Euridice. Hermes / 55, The Tower / 61, Encounter in the Chestnut Avenue / 63, O This is the Animal That Cannot Be / 65, You, Never-arriving One / 67, Love Song / 69, The Abduction / 69, Leda / 71, Parting / 73, The Convalescent / 73, Christ's Descent into Hell / 75, Duino Elegies: The First Elegy / 77, On the Verge of Night / 83, To Music / 83, Gong / 85, A God Can Do It. But You Tell Me How / 87, The Solitary / 89, You See, I Want a Lot / 89, Portrait / 91, Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy / 93, The Asylum Garden / 97, Look at the Flowers / 99, O Lacrimosa / 101, Be Ahead of All Parting / 103, The Red Scarf / 105, Notes / 106, iographical Notes / 112,
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Arc Publications Secret History
Book SynopsisAlmost painfully direct, the poems of 'The Secret History' testify to a new depth and a new tenderness in Michael Hulse's voice. The shadow of his dead father and the light of new love meet here in a collection that is impossible to put down and that lingers in the heart as much as in the memory.Table of ContentsAuthor's Note I: Caput Mortuum II: To my Father, All Saints' Day in Konz, White, The Tunic of Christ, Break of Day on Patmos III: Home Coming, The Kid, From Fatehpur Sikri, Ze Peixe, The Shadow of Death, Television, Winterreise IV: Photographs of K., Industry, New York, New York, Kiss / Bliss, Golbach, The Wind at Vinci, The Secret History, The Garden Biographical Note
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Arc Publications Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems
Book SynopsisThis extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the 'prophet' of the Surrealist movement by André Breton, Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time, and yet today his work is completely underrepresented in the English language. The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance, moving from youthful, light-hearted material to full-blown surrealism, from poems full of anguish and torment to delightful love poetry, and from whimsical, humorous verses to some of the great poem sequences of the Nazi Occupation period when Desnos was an active resistant.
£16.99
Arc Publications Six Finnish Poets
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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Aurora Metro Publications Classic Plays by Women: From 1600 - 2000
Book SynopsisStaged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource for students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides theatres with the opportunity to programme a range of theatrical classics by women. Plays from: 'Paphnutius' by Hroswitha (extract);'The Tragedy of Mariam' by Elizabeth Cary (extract); 'The Rover' by Aphra Behn; 'A Bold Stroke For A Wife' by Susanna Centlivre; 'De Montfort' by Joanna Baillie; 'Rutherford and Son' by Githa Sowerby; 'The Chalk Garden' by Enid Bagnold; 'Top Girls' by Caryl Churchill (extract); 'Stones in his Pockets' by Marie Jones.Table of ContentsIntroduction Susan Croft Paphnutius (circa 960) extract Hrotswitha The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) extract Elizabeth Cary The Rover (1677) Aphra Behn A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) Susanna Centlivre De Monfort (1800) Joanna Baillie Rutherford and Son (1912) Githa Sowerby The Chalk Garden (1955) Enid Bagnold Top Girls (1982) extract Caryl Churchill Stones in his Pockets (1996) Marie Jones Bibliography
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Smith|Doorstop Books Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined
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Smith|Doorstop Books Cast: The Poetry Business Book of New
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37
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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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Break in Case of Silence: New Writing Scotland 39
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Dog Horn Publishing TransBareAll
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£18.74
Enitharmon Press New Collected Poems
Book SynopsisWhen David Gascoyne celebrated his seventeenth birthday in Paris in 1933, he already had a poetry collection and a novel to his name. He spent much of the next few years in the French capital associating with Eluard, Dali, Ernst, Breton, Peret and other surrealists. By the age of 20 he had firmly established himself within the movement with the publication of his groundbreaking A Short Survey of Surrealism and the poems of Man's Life Is This Meat. In 1938 Holderlin's Madness marked his move away from surrealism in 'a renewal of vision', followed by his milestone collection, Poems 1937-1942 (1943). After the war Gascoyne revisited Paris, publishing A Vagrant and other poems in 1950 and Night Thoughts, the acclaimed BBC radiophonic poem for voices and orchestra, in 1956. Despite several breakdowns he continued to write, particularly during the latter years of his long life, producing few poems, but many translations, reviews and literary criticism, memoirs and obituaries. Even so it was his contention that he was 'a poet who wrote himself out when young and then went mad'. This self-deprecating judgement could not be further from the opinion of those who knew him and valued his achievement. As his fellow poet and lifelong friend, Kathleen Raine, wrote on Gascoyne's 80th birthday: You are the chosen one To speak the words of blessing In this time. This New Collected Poems, compiled by Gascoyne's friend and editor Roger Scott, comprises work that the poet chose to preserve, together with uncollected and unpublished material; all meticulously researched from notebooks and manuscripts held in the British Library and internationally in academic institutions. It falls to present-day readers of Gascoyne's poems to experience the impact of his work, to recognize its significance in twentieth-century literature, and its continuing relevance.Trade Review'A monument to his considerable achievement.' Poetry Book Society ---------'It is time for Gascoyne to be claimed and read as an English poet ... the current undervaluation of Gascoyne's work amounts to a dereliction of duty.' TLS leader---------- 'Self-taught, restlessly inventive and extravagantly gifted ... Gascoyne's milestone collection, Poems 1937-42, established him for some readers as the poet of the age. ... [we hope for] the beginning of a belated posthumous rehabilitation.' Robert McCrum, Guardian
£23.75
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about History
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Penned in the Margins Forms of Protest
Book SynopsisForms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of Hannah Silva, a poet known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense, meaning and music, deconstructing traditional discourse and always testing the limits of language to represent the lived world.Ranging in form from sound poems to collaged spam email, from monologues to lists of insults, and embracing subjects as diverse as war, sexuality and giant squid, Silva's poetry is like nothing else you've read.Hannah Silva is a poet and playwright. She has performed internationally and throughout the UK, including at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and on Radio 3. Her solo show Opposition toured in 2011-12 and was described in a five-star review by What's on Stage as "radical, political, courageous". Her writing has been published in the anthologies Adventures in Form (Penned in the Margins, 2012; ISBN 9781908058010) and Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe Books, 2013; ISBN 9781852249496). She lives in Plymouth.
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Penned in the Margins Marginalia
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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Penned in the Margins Speculatrix
Book SynopsisIn his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.Taking its name from the term for a female spy, Speculatrix is at once the voyeur and the observed. Fame and death are McCabe's subjects, sifted and strained through his poems' urgent rhythms. At the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears at the corpus of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre to conjure a visceral landscape of decay and financial collapse. Extending the collection beyond his trademark urban locale are startling poems for the loved and departed: from the artist Francis Bacon to the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Barry MacSweeney. In Speculatrix, McCabe has pulled out all the stops, showing why he is considered one of British poetry's most arresting and pioneering spirits.Trade Review'Speculatrix, [McCabe's] blazing, breakthrough fourth collection, explores the sleepless metropolis by Jacobean torchlight. Breathtaking verse combusts in dark Thames pubs where revenge-tragedy dramatists drink with hedge-fund managers.' SUNDAY TIMES; 'Deliriously anachronistic, Speculatrix is an act of witness as much to modern London as the early modern plays that inspire it ... One of the most original contributions to British poetry in quite some time.' AMBIT; 'This is a book of mirroring, of artful repetitions and binary reversals: life and death, men and women, dark and light, fecundity and decay ... McCabe approaches the actualities of love, death and loss with a steady, unflinching eye.' POETRY LONDON; 'In this haunted work, history, tragedy and comedy roil in energised and dynamic engagement with language of the early modern period, bringing it confrontingly into the here and now through a lens of gender, the gaze fixed on the stage of the poem, intrigue, injustice and the city of London.' JOHN KINSELLA
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Penned in the Margins The Girl Who Forgets How To Walk
Book Synopsis"The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk captures the precariousness and fragility of life" LUKE KENNARD; Kate Davis writes magical realist poems born of the hills, marshes and coastal edgelands of south Cumbria. In this remarkable first collection, tarns, limekilns and abandoned pits become portals into a dark, interior world. A woman levitates above a building site; earth slips and fault-lines open up beneath the town; the sea hides ‘a gob of virus’. The moving title sequence tells the story of a young girl with polio who struggles to find her feet — and her voice — in an unforgiving landscape where ‘the ground cannot be trusted’. Alive to geology, memory and myth, The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk is a brave, uncompromising and unmissable debut.Trade ReviewThe Girl Who Forgets How to Walk captures the precariousness and fragility of life while reminding us of its tenacity and force – “so strong are the anchors”. Davis accomplishes this through palpable physicality: the body, its members, the landscape, its geology. The poems are personal and deeply affecting, always curious and outward looking, even when negotiating a fraught life of the mind and a very real struggle with disability. Strong company as we pick our own way across the rocks. Luke KennardA personal quest to re-learn how to walk through cherished, northern landscapes introduces a gifted new voice. Gathering fragments from memory, myth, archaeology and geology, Kate Davis’s debut is a nimble exploration of what it means not only to exist, but to persist. Jake Morris-Campbell, The Poetry SchoolThis playful collection from Kate Davis is full of innocence and wisdom and wonder. The title sequence tells the story of a young girl with polio and her attempts to find ‘the footpaths of herself’ - but the whole of the book is open to the joys and complexities of landscape and the body. Poignant details - the smell of nettles, a woman reaching for a handrail in Debenhams - add weight to larger concerns - bodily autonomy, the science of sinkholes. A sparkling debut. National Poetry LibraryVery much enjoyed reading Kate Davis's The Girl Who Forgets to Walk today: a woozy, vivid sequence of poems about polio that somehow manages to avoid ever naming the disease. Tristram Fane SaundersThis is a remarkably self-assured debut by a poet who knows what she wishes to achieve and accomplishes her aims, both in terms of theme and form. The title is taken from the book’s long central section, which follows the experiences of a young girl who contracts polio, a subject that Davis treats with a mixture of scientific knowledge, emotional poignancy and the beauty of art applied to unexpected subjects. Adele Ward, London Grip
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Penned in the Margins Reckless Paper Birds
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Costa 2019 Poetry Award. . Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize. Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough. These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of 'vomit and blossom' where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga, a 'fractal coast' full of see-through things: water, mirrors, glass pebbles. With a magpie's eye for hidden charms, McCullough ranges across birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony while also addressing social issues from homelessness to homophobia.Trade ReviewJohn McCullough has a reputation for crafting lyric poems of the everyday with a surreal twist. In Reckless Paper Birds, the familiar yet strange is rarely more than a stanza away. As if Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems jumped headlong into our 21st century, McCullough's lines sing of Lady Gaga, Instagram and house music.; Ben Wilkinson, The Guardian; A celebration of abundace ... a secular litany of life in its fullness and fragility.; Rob Mackenzie, Poetry London; The vitality of the poems, their nimbleness, their wit and their music combine to mark Reckless Paper Birds as a rare literary phenomenon. The book, for all its undercurrents and complexities, is a frank and militant declaration of joy – gay in a double sense of the word – and should be taken very seriously.; Christopher Reid, Judge of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize
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Eibonvale Press Humanagerie
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Cowry Publishing Write it OUT: New LGBTQ+ writing from Ceredigion
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£5.63
University of Chester Press More Bagpipe Music: Poems from Scotland
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Tommies Guides Last Man Standing A Great War Play
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Arc Publications Europe in Poems: The Versopolis Anthology
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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Valley Press Gifts the Mole Gave Me
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Burning Eye Books Opposite the Tourbus
Book SynopsisHaving been advised to 'Always travel in the direction opposite the tourbus' Sophia Walker set out to get away from the big noise, big tourist attraction, tick box bucket list experiences of life and find out what was happening quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) on the other side of the street or the less visited part of town.
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Arachne Press Noon: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts
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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Lapwing Publications Conversations in the Dark
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The Choir Press Arctic journal
Book SynopsisArctic Journal grew out of twelve months of fieldwork, living in a remote corner of the Arctic in the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. It is a response to an alluring polar environment and different way of life whose appeal leaves an indelible mark on the mind, changing forever one's perspective on the world. Written in large part during the dark period when there is no sun at all for over three months of the year, the poem is the product of extraordinary circumstances which allowed certain privileged insights into what is happening hamani 'down there' in the urbanised world of megacities and environmental destruction. Battling bitter cold, solitude, a wall of mistrust and the winter darkness, Arctic Journal is a chronological poem of introspection and marks the arrival of an important poet.
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