'The city of light' under German occupation: Paris, a place, a people, their lives in flux. And in these uncertainties, these compromised loyalties, these existences constantly under threat, Marcel Petiot, a mass murderer. A doctor, a resistance fighter, a collaborator: who can tell? Not even the people he kills.

This new book serves as his 'Selected War Poems', ranging from the American Civil War to the present conflict in former Yugoslavia. In between, he writes poems about both world wars, Suez, Northern Ireland, the Russian Civil War, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Home Front, and the concentration camps of Europe. An act of commemoration, War Voices is a testimony to unsung heroism and a questioning of the kind of power politics that lead to conflict.

This anthology that reflects on how Wales played its part in British battles over the past century, and critics consider how amidst the turmoil and trauma, creativity flourished.

The Real Series moves to west Wales with a new volume focused on Tenby and its hinterland. Poet, past resident and frequent visitor Tony Curtis roams south Pembrokeshire, from the coastal resorts of Tenby and Saundersfoot, west to the surfers of Stackpole and Barafundle and north to the Landsker, the cultural boundary between English speaking south Pembs and the Welsh speaking north. In keeping with the series Curtis view his area through the eyes of a local and as a visitor, digging into his own Pembrokeshire backstory - and deeper into is history but also observing keenly the Pembrokeshire of the new century.

Tony Curtis's new collection of poems encompasses a wide variety of forms and subjects in which he looks at the world with an ever keener eye. Heaven's gate is the eagerly awaited new collection by one of Britains's best poets. Though Curtis's themes and subject matter are diverse, there is a persuasive clarity to his poems. His style is seemingly casual, almost artless, but is actually carefully composed. The sonnet sequence dedicated to a son studying abroad, 'Letters to Gareth in Amherst', is characteristic. The light newsy voice contrasts with the tight sonnet form while the rhymes become the envelope containing and restraining the father's emotions. Conversely, casual domestic encounters and incidents take on a beguiling intimacy. In the title poem the hale Bopp comet is glimpsed and consiered from the carpark of an Indian restaurant. As ever, these well-crafted poems are grounded in the particular but insinuated by the universal.

Tony Curtis' wide-ranging interests in visual art, the impact of war and the nature of friendship coallese in his latest collection, "Crossing Over". A number of the poems take their inspiration from great artists, from early religious icons to expressionist canvasses, from a 'buttery girl' in a Flemish Landscape to the chainsaw sculptures of David Nash. This book includes two thoughtful and beautiful war poems, including the title piece, a moving tribute to World War Two Veterans on a D-Day memorial excursion. There are also a series of sumptuous poems about travelling, including "Postcards from Tuscany" where the lush beauty of the landscape contrasts with the poet's mood, saddened by the death of a friend. There are several succinct sonnets about California, on subjects as various as vagrants in San Francisco and the stunning cliff-face walls in Yosemite National Park. A sonnet about his granddaughter opens this varied and striking collection which shows a poet writing at the top of his game.

Seamus Heaney is the foremost Irish poet since Yeats and one of the most popular poets writing in English today. The poetry and criticism of the Nobel Prize Winner are of indisputable importance to contemporary literature, his influence growing with each new work. This fourth edition of The Art

Ten leading artists from Wales, including David Nash, in conversation with Tony Curtis about their art, its roots and practise. This new collection of interviews with artists from wales is further evidence of the current renaissance of the visual arts in the country. The ten artists here vary in practice from figurative and abstract painters, througha ceramicist to sculptors in wood, stone and metal. Their work and words provide, at once, a history of twentieth century art in Wales and a guide to making in the twenty-first century. The book includes the final interview given by Alfred janes, friend of Dylan Thomas, whose career spanned sixty years. His contemporary Jonah Jones talks about the artists as artisan, while at the other end of the age spectrum Brendan Stuart Burns reflects on the influence of location on his work. The book also includes David Nash, the internationally-acclaimed sculptor, and artists such as Christine Jones and Robert harding, whose reputations are beginning to burgeon. Like its predeccssor, Welsh painters Talking, this new book explores the relationship between art and place, identity, spirituality and the market place. With their emphasis on working practice and historical context the interviews are an invaluable record.

These poems range over a broad field, from Pembrokeshire buzzards to summer in Bangkok, from Augustus John to golf at St Enodoc's. Curtis' clear, concise, narrative style is free of verbal clutter or obscurity. The poems point to his fascination with adventurous characters, such as Reg who sailed the five oceans. The book also features poems translated from colloquial Iraqi. Curtis has won many prizes, including the National Poetry Competition. He is the editor of three anthologies of poetry, as well as a number of critical books, including "The Art of Seamus Heaney".

"Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Albambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives, and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a crazed Noah, are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask as many questions as they answer; but the combination of verse and visual is, like many forms of art, a lie which enables its creator to tell the truth. Certainly the works in this book challenge artist, poet and reader alike about the nature of creativity and the relationship between image, thought and reality."--BOOK JACKET.

Twenty-five surreal colleges by Long Island artist John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, wooly mammoths, are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded. The works in this book challenge artist, poet, and reader alike about the nature of creativity There is also an interactive CD of The Arches available. View the collages on computer and create your own images from the templates and dip art provided. Listen to the author reading his own poems, and write your own response to the words, images, and specially commissioned score.

I would like to introduce you to UNREST, Book One of Descendants of the Ebony Path, a tale of the 12 Risen. It is a tale of a world long since destroyed by technology, where the final gift of knowledge is the magic of genetic enhancement, and gifted men and women are are called the Anointed who stand as vanguards of free nations and champions of empires. It is the tale of the Al-Kraal Empire. A expanding regime built by a repudiated scholar turned conqueror, whose ambitions are as brilliant as they are appalling. It is the tale of the remarkable women of Venter's Hall, where mastery of the female matrix has given women power to beggar the gods. It is the tale of the 12 Risen. Twelve young men, some born in, others condemned to, a life of slavery. Twelve men whose rebellion reshaped a broken world. Lastly, it is the tale of the Ebony Path, a rent in the fabric of the universe created by an ancient clash of powers. A place where roads lead to the very heart of creation and worlds known and unknown. A place where any who descend can find themselves subject to possession by merciless beings with angelic countenances. Book One takes place nineteen years after the rebellion.

His children always looked forward to their bedtime story every evening, and when his daughter died of cancer at the early age of 27, he remembered the good times, especially those few moments he spent reading her favourite stories, to her every night. Those times are special to every parent. A small sleepy village is surprised when garden gnomes are brought to life by a remote star, changing their dull little lives forever. Strange things begin to happen in the village. The gnomes decide they are going to do everything they can to help the villagers. There's Mustafa the leader of the clan, Sam and Ella the tiny twins, Lofty, with his wheelbarrow, Willy the Scottish gnome, Raymond the rabbit, Timmy the tortoise, Dwain the train and many more; Although they work hard, nothing stops them from having fun. Eventually, the gnomes find that they can speak to their owners and the other villagers, and confess their part in all the mysterious happenings. The village of Genom will never be the same.

A Special Memoir for a Special Moment in Hollywood History . . .

"Some Like It Hot" occupies a unique place in American culture. This beloved classic showcases five comic geniuses: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, and Marilyn Monroe. It has been honored by the American Film Institute as the ""Funniest Film of All Time."" It has contributed quotes, styles, and stories to film lore. Yet the full story of its making has never been told--until now.

"Curtis's humour and charm, ability to turn a poem with the seemingly simplest of images, and that understanding of how words will play over the listener's ear, are hallmarks brought to the fore on the page... His greatest skill is to make readers go 'yes, of course'; he reminds us of what we've known all along." Michael McKimm, The Warwick Review

"The Well in the Rain", Tony Curtis's second book from Arc, brings together work from his six previous books. Bicycles, famine, ghosts, grannies, Tibetan Buddhists, Beckettian sighs and Lucian Freud's nudes are all revealed with a rare, and loving, simplicity. His award-winning poetry has always been characterized by its compassion and humour: full of gods but empty of forgiveness. In a closing selection of new poems, gathered here as "Tossing the Feathers", Curtis's wit and heartache surface in a long poem "The Well in the Rain", that faces the loss of his father. This is life-giving, life-affirming poetry, full of loss, love and longing.

John Tripp had a chameleon genius which enlivened the literary life of Wales for nearly three decades. Poet, short story writer and journalist, he was an outspoken and often controversial writer. Charming, abrasive, lyrical and satirical, 'The Meaning of Apricot Sponge' is essential reading for anyone concerned with Wales and the roots of its contemporary identity. His wit and sharply observed social and political comments enriched debate, publications and broadcasts at that most crucial time in the struggle for self- rule in Wales. 'The Meaning of Apricot Sponge' is the first publication of Tripp's work to represent his poetry, fiction, journalism and creative non-fiction. This is a generous, fully annotated selection across these genres with an illuminating Introduction by Tony Curtis and a Foreword by Peter Finch, two of Tripp's friends and collaborators. Both writers also contribute poems dedicated to John Tripp.

The poems in the Irish poet Tony Curtis's new collection are woven out of his fascination with the everyday, the quirky, the downright extraordinary, poems wrapped up in love and death, friendship and memory, madness and music - from the blind man singing in a field, to his three Cistercian uncles singing plainchant. There are folk at the heart of everything Tony Curtis writes. He is a born storyteller, and these are poems crafted by a poet with a wonderful ability to express great depth of feeling with deceptive simplicity.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th OpenSHMEM Workshop, held in virtually in August 2021. The 11 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume from 18 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Applications and Implementations, Tools and Benchmarks, and Applications and Implementations.