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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Wood's lively translations grasp the irrepressible sense of freedom which is the poet's hallmark ... Pushkin is lucky in Antony Wood. Pleasure is to be found on every page of this book' * The Times Literary Supplement *This Selected Poetry by Antony Wood supersedes all previous translations ... Wood's 'The Bronze Horseman' gives us Pushkin at his most tragic. 'Count Nulin' shows him at his most light-hearted. 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' bounces along with delightful vitality. Even with the delicately musical short lyrics - still harder to translate - Wood's success rate is remarkable ... The result is a more rounded picture of Pushkin - in many ways the most universal of poets -- Robert Chandler * The Financial Times *This Selected Poetry deserves a wealth of praise . . . a truly valuable edition both for its scrupulous and often magnificent versions of individual poems and as a worthy general introduction to this poet, who is such a treasure for Russia and for the world * Los Angeles Review of Books *Everybody knows how difficult Pushkin's poems are to translate. Antony Wood has succeeded, within the limits of the possible -- John BayleyRe-creating Pushkin requires skills approaching magic. Antony Wood is one of the two or three best translators of Russia's greatest poet in the Anglophone world, because his Pushkin moves: you watch him dance as well as hear him sing -- Caryl EmersonAntony Wood's translations show an unusual grace and a deep knowledge of Pushkin's poetry -- Elaine FeinsteinPushkin's poetry is lyrical, beautifully simple, vivid, and endlessly emotive. It can be enjoyed by all readers, regardless of their background in poetry. And there is now one definitive book of Alexander Pushkin's poetry, the one book you need to read in order to fully appreciate Alexander Pushkin's poems: Alexander Pushkin Selected Poetry, translated with complete command and majesty by Antony Wood * Books and Bao *A volume to keep within easy reach at most times * East-West Review *Anthony Wood is to be congratulated on this suburb collection, which renders Pushkin in all his matchless grace, wit and musicality * The Tablet *
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems
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Penguin Books Ltd It Never Rains
Book SynopsisIt Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation''s favourite poetWhile up at MagdalenSpent the time dagdalen.Moved on to CaiusBecame the baius knaius.''Oxford Blues'' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised edition of The State of Poetry, Roger McGough''s book of short humorous verse which was published in 2005 as part of Penguin''s 70s series celebrating its 70th anniversary. From a poem commissioned to commemorate Dylan Thomas in just 140 characters, which unfortunately comes to an end mid-word, to a pre-emptive erratum notice, these poems show McGough at his inventive, hilarious best - and there are also new line drawings by the author offered at no extra cost.''The patron saint of poetry'' Carol Ann DuffyRoger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since
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Little, Brown & Company BestLoved Poems
Book SynopsisThis highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War and Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals and Nature and Poems of Magic and Mystery.The anthology includes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robert Burns, T S Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats and many, many more. The poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip and the volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders and decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent, glowing with her trademark gold leaf.
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Little, Brown Book Group Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Book SynopsisBy the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil''s last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction. Amid the flight and re-enslavement of the inhabitants, their narrative emerges.Two powerful, epic poems give voice to the lovers: Almeyda''s passionate lament for Anninho, whom she believes has been killed, is combined with his response as he searches for her. Their story is one of longing - for each other, for freedom - and for revolution.''I want to stay here, Anninho.''''There won''t be any wayyou can stay here.When they catch us,they''ll take you back.''''The men they kill,the women they take back.''
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Theatre Communications Group Ransacking Troy
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WW Norton & Co Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama
Book SynopsisModern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD BY KEATLEY
Book SynopsisKeatley's play is about three generations of women in one family. It is widely studied for A level and this volume is equipped with a substantial introduction by the author, featuring the background and a discussion of themes and character
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modern Drama Plays of the 80s and 90s Top Girls
Book SynopsisA collection of the most important plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume, the first in a series of anthologies celebrating landmarks of world drama. It is aimed at structuring college and university coursesTrade Review"Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' Guardian Hysteria 'One of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years' Sunday Times Blasted 'Her dialogue is both sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but then they said that about Strindberg' Mail on Sunday Shopping and F***ing 'A real coup de theatre' Evening Standard The Beauty Queen of Leenane 'The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist... a born storyteller' New York Times"Table of ContentsTop Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping & F***ing; The Beauty Queen...
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Oleanna
Book SynopsisOleanna is Mamet's most celebrated and performed play, exploring male-female conflicts. This Student Edition is annotated, with a chronology of David Mamet's life and work, a discussion of various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text as well as questions for study.Trade ReviewJohn and Carol go to it with hand-to hand combat that amounts to a primal struggle for power. As usual with Mamet, the vehicle for that combat is crackling, highly distilled dialogue unencumbered by literary frills or phony theatrical ones. Frank Rich, International Herald Tribune An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of male-female conflicts begun with Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974. Oleanna cogently demonstrates that when free thought and dialogue are imperilled, nobody wins. Michael Wise, Independent
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Orion Publishing Co Edward Thomas EVERYMAN POETRY
Book SynopsisEdward Thomas wrote most of his poems during active service in World War I - poems which search for the true self, and affirm the oneness of all experience.
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Dover Publications Inc. Hedda Gabler Dover Thrift Editions
Book SynopsisThis dark psychological drama depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine. Readers will discover an exploration of the nature of evil and the tragedy that lies in human frailty.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Guards Guards The Play
Book SynopsisTerry Pratchett''s infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen.Defending Ank-Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch - a drunken and world-weary Captain, a cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal of dubious parentage...and their newest recruit, Lance Constable Carrot, who is upright, literal, law-abiding and keen. Aiding them in their fight for truth, justice and the Ankh-Morporkian way are a small swamp dragon and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be an orang-utan).Trade Review'Alle Thee Dysk's a Stage'
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Faber & Faber Comedians
Book Synopsis''The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent''s man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round. But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.'' Financial Times ''Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.'' Daily Telegraph
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Faber & Faber The Family Reunion Faber Papercovered Editions
Book SynopsisEliot''s haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.''What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the flowering of meaning, which makes the play an account of a spiritual experience. There are passages of great poetic beauty, and statements which are the fruits of a lifetime devoted to poetry.'' Listener
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Faber & Faber The Confidential Clerk
Book SynopsisThe Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.''The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.'' Times Literary Supplement''A triumph of dramatic skill: the handling of the two levels of the play is masterly and Eliot''s verse registers its greatest achievement on the stage - passages of great lyrical beauty are incorporated into the dialogue.'' Spectator
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Faber & Faber A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Book Synopsis''This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...''Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)''Joe Egg is unlike any play I''ve seen; concerns about whether it''s dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It''s in the collisions between pious and rogue thoughts that the play''s energy lies. We don''t know what to feel. Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won''t go away.''Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday (1993)
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Faber & Faber The Man With Night Sweats
Book SynopsisThom Gunn''s The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease.
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Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 2 Fanshen A Map of the World
Book SynopsisThis second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese Revolution with Brechtian subtlety, his screenplay for Saigon: Year of the Cat, The Secret Rapture, his biting portrait of a family in crisis, and the plays A Map of the World and The Bay at Nice. The collection is introduced by the author.
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Faber & Faber Steven Berkoff Plays 1
Book SynopsisSteven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful. This first collection of his plays includes East, described by Berkoff as ''an outburst or revolt against the sloth of my youth and a desire to turn a welter of undirected passion and frustration into a positive form''. Also included in this collection are the plays West and Sink the Belgrano!
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Faber & Faber Moy Sand and Gravel
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Paul Muldoon''s ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr and Mrs Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats''s ''A Prayer for My Daughter'' with which the book concludes, wher
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Faber & Faber John Berryman
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.John Berryman (1914-72) was a poet from an immensely gifted generation of American poets that included Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop. His long sequence The Dream Songs has become an enduring landmark in American poetry and a tribute to Berryman''s own endurance in the face of alcoholism, depression and mental instability. In 1972 he leaped to his death from a bridge above the Mississippi River.
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Faber & Faber Dylan Thomas Poems Selected by Derek Mahon Poet
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.Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea and educated at Swansea Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and screenwriter in Swansea and London, contributing frequently to BBC Radio. His publications included The Map of Love (1939), Deaths and Entrances (1946) and Collected Poems (1952). Under Milk Wood, ''a play for voices'', appeared posthumously.
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Faber & Faber Sylvia Plath
Book SynopsisThe response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a poet selects and introduces another poet whom they have particularly admired. Ted Hughes''s classic selection of Sylvia Plath''s poetry provides the perfect introduction to a major body of work in twentieth-century poetry. Hughes draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and from Sylvia Plath''s Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems.
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Faber & Faber Old Times
Book SynopsisOld Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.''Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.'' New York Times''What am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet . . . I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.'' Harold Pinter
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Faber & Faber Alan Ayckbourn Plays 3 Haunting Julia Sugar
Book SynopsisThis third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting Julia''A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and parenting, on media pressure and overdoses. Kurt Cobain comes to mind. More universally, Haunting Julia mourns how in adolescence and adulthood, we do our loves wrong.'' Financial TimesSugar Daddies''A timely warning about the dangers of role-playing and pretence . . . But the real fascination lies in watching Ayckbourn''s own transformation from social observer to impassioned moralist.'' GuardianDrowning on Dry Land''Ayckbourn at the top of his game.'' Guardian''A coruscatingly acid and funny play.'' The TimesPrivate Fears in Public Places''Ayckbourn''s construction has a masterly clarity; his writing coTrade Review"Haunting Julia 'Ayckbourn's gif for characterisation at its oblique best.' Financial Times; Sugar Daddies 'A timely warning about the dangers of role-playing and pretence.' Guardian; Drowning on Dry Land 'Ayckbourn at his best.' Sunday Times; Private Fears in Public Places A tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood."
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Faber & Faber The Home Place
Book SynopsisThe year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher''s English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg. The Home Place premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in February 2005.
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Faber & Faber Moira Buffini Plays 1
Book SynopsisGabriel:''A richly themed, enthralling new play.'' The TimesSilence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award):''Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.'' Financial TimesLoveplay:''Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit if ever I saw one. Buffini has an appetite for history, and the most beguiling of dramatic voices.'' Daily TelegraphDinner:''A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy at its most heartless and macabre.'' Daily TelegraphBlavatsky''s Tower:''A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.'' Time Out ''A truly remarkable play. Buffini is a startingly original voice and an outstanding talent.'' What''s OnTrade Review"Blavatsky's Tower 'A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.' Time Out Gabriel 'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The Times Silence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award) 'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial Times Loveplay 'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit if ever I saw one. Buffini has an appetite for history, and the most beguiling of dramatic voices.' Daily Telegraph"
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Faber & Faber Gerard Manley Hopkins
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 of our literature.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was born in Stratford. He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he befriended the future Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. While at Balliol he converted to Catholicism and after graduating he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1877. Having burned his early poems on entering the Church, Hopkins eventually took up writing again but apart from a few poems that appeared in periodicals he was not published during his own lifetime. Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he has become one of the best known poets of the Victorian age and his are among the greatest poems written on the subject of faith an
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Faber & Faber Moortown Diary
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes''s acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either gardening or farming. The introduction and notes (added in 1989) sketch in the background from which these remarkable poems emerged as an improvised verse journal, sparely edited, coalescing spontaneously on the page. ''Moortown Diary keeps its eye firmly on the creatures behind the language. It''s written in the style of Hughes''s play translations: very swift and bright and urgent and speakable . . . Hughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact with anything outside ourselves. Right now, I can''t think of anything more important than that kind of poem. Because we''re not just here to think about literature. We''re here to try to wake up.'' Alice Oswald, The GuardiaTrade Review"'Revitalises the stagnant tradition of the English nature poem.' Martin Dodsworth, Guardian 'It grips your heart, and your intestines, like a vice from the first page. He makes language as physical as a bruise, and in these poems beauty and tenderness blend with violence.' John Carey, Sunday Times"
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Faber & Faber The Haw Lantern
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1978, this work contains poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.
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Faber & Faber Stuff Happens Faber Plays
Book SynopsisStuff happens... And it''s untidy, and freedom''s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.''The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in 2003 provides the title for David Hare''s play about the extraordinary process leading up to the invasion of Iraq.Stuff Happens premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and has subsequently been performed around the world.''Stuff Happens may make you openly boo, hiss, cheer or even cry, but it will also remind you why this 2,500 year-old art form remains the best way for human beings to collectively experience and contemplate the effects of war.'' Los Angeles Times''A totally compelling play that ruthlessly exposes the dubious premises on which the Iraq war was fought... One comes out enriched, informed and moved by Hare''s ability to turn recent politics into
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
Book SynopsisWhen Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as ''a mirror of England'' (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas''s manuscripts and typescripts as well as from his published works, offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant - and relevant - of poets.''In his lifetime, he was known and loved by a very, loving few. Now, since his death, he is known and loved by very many, and yearly this is more so. There is in his poems an unassumingly profound sense of permanence. A war came and ditched him, but his poems stay with no other wounds than those which caused them.'' Dylan Thomas ''A very fine poet. And a poet all in his own right. The accent is absolutely his own.'' Robert Frost''The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracl
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Faber & Faber On Purpose
Book SynopsisLaird''s debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, ''doing more, in its range and ambition,'' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, ''than any first collection I can think of in at least the last ten years.'' On Purpose confirms the promise of that first book and shows the author hitting new and yet more athletic strides. Blending tones of assurance and delicacy, of confidence and vulnerability, On Purpose is a collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, The Art of War.Trade Review"'Nick Laird's To a Fault watches the weight and measure of every word with a mixture of irony and tender loving care' Observer"
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Faber & Faber The Striped World
Book SynopsisWith their tidal imagination, the poems in this debut collection sweep between old worlds and new, seeking the lost and recovering the found among shipwrecks, underwater zoos and discovered lands. Emma Jones brings her inventive worlds dramatically to life in a series of vividly distilled meetings - of settlers and indigenous peoples, of seawaters and shore, of humanity and the wilds of nature. Here, tigers stalk the captive and the free, while Death encounters his own double and Daphne tells of her new leaves, ''They sing, and make the world.'' The same might be said of the poems themselves in this restless and memorable search for belonging.
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Faber & Faber Marina Carr Plays 2 On Rafterys Hill Ariel Woman
Book SynopsisOn Raftery''s Hill''This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.'' Sunday IndependentAriel''An astonishing piece of theatre. Interweaving themes drawn from Irish, Greek and biblical myth, she spins a tale of power that is honest, emotional, dark and true . . . Die to see it.'' Irish ExaminerWoman and Scarecrow''Drama doesn''t come much richer or stranger than this death-bed lament. Ravishing in its dense, literary language, it is as visceral as it is intellectual. It lingers not only in the ear and brain, but in the imagination and the gut. An extraordinary brew, bittersweet and totally intoxicating.'' The TimesThe Cordelia Dream''A brave piece and clearly charged with deep feeling. . . This is certainly unsettling territory and Carr boldly goes for it.'' Financial TimesMarble''An extraordinary play that lures us in with a promise of
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Faber & Faber Eigengrau
Book SynopsisEigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. Across London, Mark believes in the power of marketing. His flatmate Tim Muffin is engaged in a fervent struggle against his own waistline. In a city where Gumtree can feel like your closest friend, looking for the right person can lead you all the wrong places.Penelope Skinner''s Eigengrau premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in March 2010 in a Strawberry Vale production.
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Faber & Faber The Casual Perfect
Book SynopsisIf Lavinia Greenlaw''s Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, ''the circle round our house'', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell''s to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book''s presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw''s explorations of light and the borders of vision, which include a journey to the four corners of Britain to observe the solstices and equinoxes, and a cycle about the East Anglian landscape which is nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel hover around many of these poems, or questions which need to be ''travelled fully'' rather than answered -- and which involve the overheard and the glimpsed, what is gleaned from traces and external signs. The result is a collection that is under-stated, spare but inclusive, wh
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Faber & Faber Farmers Cross
Book SynopsisThe book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. In a series of poems that frequently recall the south-west Ireland of the author''s childhood, Farmers Cross shows the author writing at his visionary and lyrical best.
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Faber & Faber Maggot
Book SynopsisIn his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn''t your father''s poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats''s remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are ''sex and the dead'', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It''s no accident that the centerpiece of Maggot is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its ''subject'' the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents. The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title-sequence but many of the round-songs that characterize Maggot and has led Angela Leighton, writing in the TLS, to see these new
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Faber & Faber Family Values
Book SynopsisFrom a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.
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Faber & Faber Collected Longer Poems
Book SynopsisIncludes such poetic works as: "Paid on Both Sides", "Letter to Lord Byron", "For the Time Being", "The Sea and the Mirror", and "The Age of Anxiety".
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Faber & Faber The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1
Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poetcritic of modern times, the twentieth century's Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.This first volume covers the years 19051928, a time of dramatic development for Eliot as both a poet and critic that saw the publication of Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land and Journey of the Magi, and a gathering his seminal early essays
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Faber & Faber 1914 Poetry Remembers
Book SynopsisThe First World War holds a unique place in the nation''s history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation''s hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly: their choices are here in this powerful and moving assembly. But this anthology is more than a record of war writing. Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned these same poets of the present to look back across the past and write a poem of their own in response to the war to end all wars. Whether as a reader your interest is in the Great War or the great war poets, or whether it is in the poetry of today, this anthology will hold a special place in your affections, as it remembers and recalls - a and through its commissioned work, renews and honours - the engagement between poetry and this terrible, unworldly of world conflicts.
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Faber & Faber New Selected Poems of Tom Paulin
Book SynopsisSince his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene. This selection of his work draws on nearly four decades of poetry and translation, updating and expanding upon the Selected Poems 1972-1990, and showcasing the microscopic detail and reinvention of the ordinary with which Paulin writes of place, culture and memory. The Ireland of Paulin''s childhood is explored both from a personal and a historical perspective to form a complex picture of a country in turmoil and in recovery. But Paulin''s concerns are as international as they are local, as reflected in his long-standing appetite for European writers, histories and languages. Dialectic and lyrical, original and exploratory, ambitious and provocative, Tom Paulin is one of the defining voices of his generation: brilliantly varied and utterly compelling, as apparent from this New Selected
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Faber & Faber Ramayana
Book SynopsisThe Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama''s quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted readers and audiences across the Eastern world for thousands of years. Daljit Nagra was captivated by his grandparents'' Punjabi version as a child, and has chosen to rejuvenate the story for a new generation of multicultural, multi-faith readers. By drawing on scenes originating in versions such as those from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, as well as the better-known Indian Ramayanas, and by incorporating elements of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and secular versions, Nagra creates a consciously multicultural Ramayana. This dazzling version is both accessible and engaging, written in Nagra''s typically vibrant and eclectic language, and bursting with energy, pathos and humour.
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Faber & Faber The Ariel Poems Illustrated poems for Christmas
Book SynopsisA cherished part of his oeuvre, the ''Ariel Poems'' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. (''Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,'' said Eliot of the series, ''so I kept it for myself.'') That pamphlet series inventively paired an unpublished poem by a leading writer of the day with new artwork from an eminent artist. Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon, Barnett Freedman and John Nash were among the contributors to the first set, which broadly carried a Christmas theme and which sold for one shilling. The publisher''s hope was that the pamphlets might double-up as greeting cards, and Eliot himself sent them as festive gifts to the writers on Faber''s poetry list. This handsome new publication brings together, for the first time in a single edition, the six poems that T. S. Eliot wrote for the series, and in so doing restores them to the company of the artworks that origina
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Faber & Faber Incognito
Book SynopsisThe brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. There is no me, there is no you, and there is certainly no self.Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy on Albert Einstein - and then steals his brain.Bath, England. 1953. Henry undergoes pioneering brain surgery. The surgery changes Henry''s life, and the history of neuroscience.London, England. The Present. Martha is a clinical neuropsychologist. When her marriage breaks down she starts to make radically different choices.Three interwoven stories exploring the nature of identity and how we are defined by what we remember, Incognito is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be human.Nick Payne''s Incognito premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle, in April 2014 in a co-production with nabokov and HighTide Festival Theatre.
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