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The Years (Pamphlet)
Jamie McKendrick
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With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name,
this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and
beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an
illustration by the poet who reveals himself as an accomplished
artist. This will undoubtedly be a collector's piece.
New collection of poems from prizewinning poet and translator.
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Poems (Pamphlet)
David Huerta; Edited by Boll Tom; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading
Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has
published in Italy. Her poetry has a searing, disruptive quality,
an honesty that is hard won. Her words have the air of breaking the
silence reluctantly, and they keep the silence with them. This
stringent, ferrous element sets her at odds with the eloquence and
lyricism characteristic of the Italian poetic tradition, and may
owe something to an alternative nationality, a different landscape.
Though born in Rome, she comes from a Sardinian family and has
passed a great deal of her life between the capital and a small
island, La Maddalena, off the coast of Sardinia, and the languages
she was brought up hearing were Logudorese, Catalan from Alghero,
and Corsican French mixed with the dialect of La Maddalena - and of
late she has found herself also writing a number of poems in
Logudorese. While her poems have a geographical sweep, there is
also an insistence on domestic detail - balconies, crockery,
sewing, cooking: elements often considered too humble to warrant
poetic attention. But even here they are often set against a
backdrop of war and insecurity, and a poem in these surroundings,
such as her 'Kitchen', is as likely to be the site of a haunting.
Her first book, Winter Residences, already posited an elsewhere,
that of St Petersburg, and an elective affinity with another
culture. With time, and with the emergence of her next four books
of poetry, this sense of apartness has increased, as has the force
and particularity of her language - and has made her, along with
Valerio Magrelli, one of the most valued and original poets of her
generation.
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives.
Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit
into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon
crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the
young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him publicly. As
anti-Semitism spreads across Italy, the Jewish narrator of the tale
begins to feel pity for the ostracized doctor, as the fickle nature
of a community changing under political forces becomes clear. The
Gold-Rimmed Spectacles is a gripping and tragic study of how lives
can be destroyed by those we consider our neighbours.
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and
atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers
of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving
imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book
into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film in 1974.
Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet
himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed
collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The
Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden
Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize
for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S.
Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. Sky Nails, his
selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of
his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in
Italy. Throughout, McKendrick has been concerned with the charting
of space, of the distances between homeland and edgeland, the
far-flung and the near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar
and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject
matter and return with wry, unsettling observations. There is
remembrance, here, and salvage, a bringing to light of that which
is obscured or lost, not only the ink stones in Chinese riverbeds,
but extinct species, spacecraft and flooded houses, as well as
historical figures, including a 10th-century physicist from Basra,
Irish activist Roger Casement, and artists Gaudi, Hoech and
Piranesi.
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Vanishing Points (Paperback)
Valerio Magrelli; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique
approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of
perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, "the exact
degree / of deviation." His poems are histories of the inner life
that turn into X-rays of the urban and the global, and press the
intelligence into the service of the senses. Magrelli's poems
condense the abstract and the intensely physical, subjecting modern
experience to a minute and naked scrutiny. Not since Eugenio
Montale has a poet brought together in one voice so many strands of
the Italian lyric tradition and handled them with such
originality.
Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards
for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio
(1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002)
and the Cetona Prize (2007). A lecturer on French literature at the
University of Cassino, he has also published critical works on
Dadaism, on Paul Valery and Joseph Joubert, as well as notable
translations of Mallarme, Valery, Jarry, Char and Ponge. He is also
the author of two plays and one collection of short prose pieces,
Nel condominio della carne, a poignant, often witty meditation on
his own body and the ills it is heir and host to. He is currently
working on a critical study of Baudelaire. Jamie McKendrick was
born in Liverpool in 1955. He taught at the University of Salerno
in Italy and is the author of five collections of poetry: The
Sirocco Room (1991); The Kiosk on the Brink (1993); The Marble Fly
(1997), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection
of the Year) and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003),
which was shortlisted for the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003
Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks, shortlisted
for the Forward Prize. A selection of his poems was published as
Sky Nails (2000), and he is editor of The Faber Book of
20th-Century Italian Poems (2004).
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The Heron (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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R244
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'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It
struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it
suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many
pieces' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo
Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside
surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates
his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the
birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone
for the final coup de grace. Then he sees a way out. The fifth book
in Bassani's Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The
Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning
with his life.
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Behind the Door (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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R219
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'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door
behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.' School
is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young
teenage boy growing up in the provincial town of Ferrara. But as
the everyday classroom and playground dramas are played out, they
begin to reflect the disturbing undertones of 1930s Italy, and the
narrator realizes that being Jewish means he will always be
excluded. The fourth book in Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara cycle,
Behind the Door is a luminous portrayal of childhood friendship and
the loss of innocence. A new translation by Jamie McKendrick
'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . .
Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut
uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
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The Smell of Hay (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short
stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali
Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these
memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s
Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a
faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates
of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots
build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the
sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels,
The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate,
ironic, elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two
pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have
never appeared in English before. 'Powerful new translations . . .
Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut
uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists' Guardian Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was
an Italian poet, novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last
in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di
Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis, which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an
Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The
Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Within the Walls (originally published
as Five Stories of Ferrara), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie
McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani's
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are
already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the
process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle
anew.
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Within the Walls (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of
novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her
bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established
classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from
the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the
only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second
World War. In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life
to the characters that would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his
suite of novels depicting life in the city. Moving, poetic,
atmospheric and artfully observed, this collection is a
distillation of Bassani's genius. It won the Strega Prize on first
publication as Cinque Storie Ferraresi in 1956, and established
Bassani as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth
century. 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this
century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'The most
uncompromising, merciful and merciless writer' Ali Smith
Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in
Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of
power and range from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain to the
Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and British
empires. But 'crocodiles' and 'obelisks' are also terms used for
newspaper obituaries - for tributes which either monumentalize the
dead or shed false tears for them. Crocodiles & Obelisks is
McKendrick's most individual work to date, and experiments with
different ways of remembering, offering conclusions that are both
cunning and drole.
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