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An Accordion Book doesn’t open, it unfolds. One side is filled
with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in
motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text – poems,
descriptions, invocations – inspired by the same animal.Together
they work as spells to summon the animal’s spirit. Jackie Morris
has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which
hadn't been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber
with a single drop of water.Fox and Otter are the first two
Accordions in a series that will go on to include Hare,Owl,Hound
and Cat among many others.
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Zong!
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M. Nourbese Philip
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As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's
Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At
the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against
decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social
injustice. Marshallese poet and activist Kathy Jetn-il-Kijiner's
writing highlights the traumas of colonialism, racism, forced
migration, the legacy of American nuclear testing, and the
impending threats of climate change. Bearing witness at the front
lines of various activist movements inspires her work and has
propelled her poetry onto international stages, where she has
performed in front of audiences ranging from elementary school
students to more than a hundred world leaders at the United Nations
Climate Summit. The poet connects us to Marshallese daily life and
tradition, likening her poetry to a basket and its essential
materials. Her cultural roots and her family provides the thick
fiber, the structure of the basket. Her diasporic upbringing is the
material which wraps around the fiber, an essential layer to the
structure of her experiences. And her passion for justice and
change, the passion which brings her to the front lines of activist
movements-is the stitching that binds these two experiences
together. Iep Jaltok will make history as the first published book
of poetry written by a Marshallese author, and it ushers in an
important new voice for justice.
Haunting, distinctive, sophisticated and sensual, The Shape of a
Forest moves evocatively from the historical to the contemporary:
Genghis Kahn surveys his territory whilst Amelia Earhart disappears
into myth. The Belvedere Apollo is dug up heralding the onset of
The Renaissance as the Pendle witches are hung in Lancashire, and
in tsunami-struck Japanese gardens and New York hotel rooms, lives
are loosened like milk teeth. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas
Award, the Roland Mathias Award and the Welsh Book of the Year
Award, The Shape of a Forest is a powerful survey of life and of
human experience that spans centuries and the continents.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully
illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the
British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods,
water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen collection will
inspire you to explore nature through a poet's eye - the perfect
antidote to 'times when the world is too much with us', as
Wordsworth so beautifully put it. There are celebrated poems by the
greats - Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina
Rossetti, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, John Masefield, Robert
Burns, Dylan Thomas - as well as others by contemporary poets whose
work you will want to seek out and explore further, including Carol
Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland. Where poems have
links to National Trust sites, footnotes are included to explain
the connections.
The Guest Room, Diana Hendry's new collection of poems, continues
her always perceptive explorations of family, childhood and finding
oneself, encounters with people (whether neighbours or strangers)
and animals (pets or otherwise). Added to this is her embracing of
Seamus Heaney's notion of poetry paying attention to the world,
here including climate change, coronavirus, political prisoners,
Palestine and the health service, for example - never preachy,
telling it slant.There's pleasure to be found throughout, in her
craft and characteristic wry humour and in what U.A.Fanthorpe
called her 'remarkable eye for the truth and an ability to see the
otherness in the ordinary.'
With vibrant ribbons of color and joyous words, These Are My Big
Girl Pants depicts the complexities and nuances of being a woman in
this world. From award-winning artist Amber Vittoria comes These
Are My Big Girl Pants, a collection of poetry and artwork that
embraces womanhood and all of its inherent intricacies. Overarching
themes of enlightenment, analysis, and independence speak to young
adulthood, and adulthood in all of its many forms, as each poem and
accompanying piece of art helps women face these emotional and
physical changes. A celebration of femininity and the female body,
These Are My Big Girl Pants leverages naive artistic approaches,
like simple line and brush strokes, against deep and meaningful
poetry and prose, creating a true exploration of individuality,
female empowerment, and emotion.
With "School of the Arts," Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh
collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding
his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate
-- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this
is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which
we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a
world that constantly renews itself.
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Monochords
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Yannis Ritsos; As told to Chiara Ambrosio; Foreword by David Harsent; Afterword by Gareth Evans
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Winner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize The Sun is
Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials
related to the life and death of the author's father, who was
murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving
between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly
innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and,
with them, piece together a history and a life. 'Each page of The
Sun Is Open is rich with exquisite and surprising language, pain,
and wisdom.' - Maggie Nelson 'The Sun is Open employs a grammar in
which everything is significant, from Wendy Houses, to the very
hairs of your head, to the poetry of First Aid instructions, to
slaters. This is meticulous and painstaking - sometimes pain-making
work - making the words fit the columns, be they inches of
newsprint or entries in an Account Book, negotiating or nudging the
meanings into alternative senses. A series of ethical
considerations and transactions, credits and debits that sometimes
demand to be accounted for, or judged, or at least spoken of in the
light of whatever the forensics might or might never unfold.' -
Ciaran Carson Poetry book of the month - the Observer A TLS book of
the year
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall; A
steed full stiff to guide, In broidered bridle all He worthily
bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by an anonymous
writer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first translated and
published almost 200 years ago. Its epic nature has not been dimmed
by time: the classic story of a knight on a green steed challenging
Sir Gawain to a monumental wager, it is a strange tale full of
decapitations, seduction and magic. Soon to be brought to the big
screen, Sir Gawain is one of the earliest great stories of English
literature.
This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic. The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox of selfhood. They offer a complex, boldly colored self-portrait; their muscular lines argue fiercely with the fact of limit; they pulse with the drama of perception and the quest to forge meaning.
'A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm
and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language
of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the
page and live, but what sets it apart from it's contemporaries is
Abbs' outstanding prose' Santa Montefiore Eliza Acton, despite
having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world's most
successful cookery writers, revolutionizing cooking and cookbooks
around the world. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and truly
inspiring. Told in alternate voices by the award-winning author of
The Joyce Girl, and with recipes that leap to life from the page,
The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs is the most thought-provoking
and page-turning historical novel you'll read this year, exploring
the enduring struggle for female freedom, the power of female
friendship, the creativity and quiet joy of cooking and the poetry
of food, all while bringing Eliza Action out of the archives and
back into the public eye. 'I love Abbs's writing and the
extraordinary, hidden stories she unearths. Eliza Acton is her best
discovery yet' Clare Pooley 'A feast for the senses, rich with the
flavours of Victorian England, I prepared every dish with Eliza and
Ann and devoured every page. A literary - and culinary - triumph!'
Hazel Gaynor 'Exhilarating to read - thoughtful, heart-warming and
poignant, with a quiet intelligence and elegance that does its
heroine proud' Bridget Collins 'A sumptuous banquet of a book that
nourished me and satisfied me just as Eliza Acton's meals would
have... I adored it' Polly Crosby 'An effervescent novel, bursting
with delectable language and elegant details about cookbook writer,
Eliza Acton. Don't miss this intimate glimpse into the early
English kitchens and snapshot of food history' Sara Dahmen
'Wonderful... Abbs is such a good story teller. She catches period
atmosphere and character so well' Vanessa Nicolson 'Two of my
favourite topics in one elegantly written novel - women's lives and
food history. I absolutely loved it' Polly Russell 'A story of
courage, unlikely friendship and an exceptional character, told in
vibrant and immersive prose' Caroline Scott 'Richly imagined and
emotionally tender' Pen Vogler 'Characters that leap off the page,
a fascinating story and so much atmosphere, you feel you're in the
kitchen with Eliza - I loved it.' Frances Quinn 'I was inspired by
Eliza's passion, her independence, her bravery and ambition. Like a
cook's pantry, The Language of Food is full of wonderful
ingredients, exciting possibilities and secrets. Full of warmth and
as comforting as sitting by the kitchen range, I loved it' Jo
Thomas 'A delightful read' Nina Pottell 'Clever, unsentimental,
beautifully detailed and quietly riveting' Elizabeth Buchan, author
of Two Women in Rome 'A wonderful read' John Torode England 1835.
Eliza Acton is a poet who dreams of seeing her words in print. But
when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she's told that
'poetry is not the business of a lady'. Instead, they want her to
write a cookery book. That's what readers really want from women.
England is awash with exciting new ingredients, from spices to
exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them Eliza leaves the
offices appalled. But when her father is forced to flee the country
for bankruptcy, she has no choice but to consider the proposal.
Never having cooked before, she is determined to learn and to
discover, if she can, the poetry in recipe writing. To assist her,
she hires seventeen-year-old Ann Kirby, the impoverished daughter
of a war-crippled father and a mother with dementia. Over the
course of ten years, Eliza and Ann developed an unusual friendship
- one that crossed social classes and divides - and, together, they
broke the mould of traditional cookbooks and changed the course of
cookery writing forever.
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space
marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our
time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or
energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both
openings and closings, affirmations as well as losses. "Not soon,
as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, / I felt a door
opening in me and I entered / the clarity of early morning," he
writes in "Late Ripeness." Elsewhere he laments the loss of his
voracious vision -- "My wondrously quick eyes, you saw many things,
/ Lands and cities, islands and oceans" -- only to discover a new
light that defies the limits of physical sight: "Without eyes, my
gaze is fixed on one bright point, / That grows large and takes me
in."Second Space is typically capacious in the range of voices,
forms, and subjects it embraces. It moves seamlessly from dramatic
monologues to theological treatises, from philosophy and history to
epigrams, elegies, and metaphysical meditations. It is unified by
Milosz's ongoing quest to find the bond linking the things of this
world with the order of a "second space," shaped not by necessity,
but grace. Second Space invites us to accompany a self-proclaimed
"apprentice" on this extraordinary quest. In "Treatise on
Theology," Milosz calls himself "a one day's master." He is, of
course, far more than this. Second Space reveals an artist peerless
both in his capacity to confront the world's suffering and in his
eagerness to embrace its joys: "Sun. And sky. And in the sky white
clouds. / Only now everything cried to him: Eurydice! / How will I
live without you, my consoling one! / But there was a fragrant
scent of herbs, the low humming of bees, / And he fell asleep with
his cheek on the sun-warmed earth."
From award-winning author Giles Paley-Phillips, this haunting verse
novel follows Hobs, a young man struggling to navigate his own mind
and the increasingly mysterious affairs he encounters in his
supposedly idyllic suburban home town. When Jenni, the girl of his
dreams, suddenly disappears, Hobs finds himself on the trail of
Mike Bilk, a charismatic businessman-turned-politician whose
alleged role in a local tragedy points to greater questions of
political greed and corruption. As time begins to lose its shape,
Hobs is left to piece together his fragmented memories while
battling the disorienting anguish of adolescent love and
infatuation. With reality crumbling around him, Hobs must confront
the possibility that there's no one left he can trust - least of
all himself.
Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of
Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language and
diverse styles constitute great literature in itself, as well as a
rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set is the
masterpiece of Professor Lin Geng, one of China's most respected
literary historians, and reflects decades of active research into
Tang poetry, covering the "Golden Age" of Chinese poetry (618-907
CE). In the first volume, the author provides a general
understanding of poetry in the "High Tang" era from a range of
perspectives. Starting with an indepth discussion of the Romantic
tradition and historical context, the author focuses on poetic
language patterns, Youth Spirit, maturity symbols, and prototypes
of poetry. The author demonstrates that the most valuable part of
Tang poetry is how it can provide people with a new perspective on
every aspect of life. The second volume focuses on the prominent
Tang poets and poems. Beginning with an introduction to the "four
greatest poets"-Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, and Bai Juyi-the author
discusses their subjects, language, influence, and key works. The
volume also includes essays on a dozen masterpieces of Tang poetry,
categorized by topics such as love and friendship, aspirationsand
seclusion, as well as travelling and nostalgia. As the author
stresses, Tang poetry is worth rereading because it makes us
invigorate our mental wellbeing, leaving it powerful and full of
vitality. This book will appeal to researchers and students of
Chinese literature, especially of classical Chinese poetry. People
interested in Chinese culture will also benefit from the book.
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