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Finding help and facing up to the challenges presented by any
confrontation with addictive processes is of itself a huge
challenge. There is so much information 'out there' that it is
sometimes difficult to begin and the very nature of the challenges,
despite all the information, can feel lonely and alienating.This
little book is designed to help you simply START the process, by
presenting perspectives and ways of exploring that don't make you
feel as if you need an academic background to participate. It is a
book to provide you with ways of reflecting on the challenges that
encourage further exploration; further research and ultimately
engagement with living- in a better, healthier way. Although
written in simple words, I have done so in a way that hopefully
encourages deep reflection;as the language may be simple, but each
phrase could be a chapter, or indeed a book in itself.I thought
deeply how best to convey my insights of over 25 years, in both
terms of highs and lows and was tempted by many approaches.To offer
something a little different required a trust in the value of the
heart in explaining the gut-wrenching reality and descriptions of
experience in this area of life. It was hard to not honour all my
clients and fellow travellers by including descriptions of each and
every one of their personal epiphanies and struggles. I hope that
my distillation of what they taught me and now offer to you,
honours them in the wider sphere and that their journeys signified
help simplify and inform yours. The reflections are my subjective
distillation of millions of words, rivers of tears and gales of
laughter lived and worked during this period of my life. May it
give someone the hope and motivation necessary to allow miracles to
occur; such as I have witnessed and now share with you. I also
write about a fundemental change that I believe (and many others do
too), that has to occur if Western society is to mature and not
continually degrade and decay. That change necessary, is for
society to "own" its collusion in the continuing development and
maintenance of addictive processes.we need to step away from the
'blame game' and consider our societal relationships with all forms
of addictive processes, before we end up, like un- conscious
addicts, in a bondage from which escape becomes increasingly
problematic. Then who will we blame and scapegoat? When all is said
and done, ASK is about the power and scope of hope. I hope it helps
you.
This landmark Collected Poems from one of Britain's major post-war
poets, gathers together work from over four decades, and includes
previously unpublished material that has remained outside the scope
of Chaloner's major collections. In drawing the book together,
Chaloner has updated and revised poems into a thematic whole, a
decision supported by the remarkable consistency of vision, inquiry
and purpose in his work. What we have is a magnum opus, a
chronological sweep through Britain's dynamic and troubled
reinvention from the Sixties to the present day extending his range
from the intimate and local to the social and global. Chaloner's
personal battleground is the truth, but his writing is a triumph of
poise and tone. His is primarily a poetry of sensibility, and we
are accompanied rather than addressed, encouraged rather than
admonished. From the early ruralist poems of wry, intimate
observation to the recent critical visions of the Twenty-first
Century world, Chaloner's focus remains undaunted, locating us in
the here and now, with our eyes faced forward on to the future, a
future we are all responsible for and into which we must all
travel.
This major international anthology provides students and the
general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary
modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a
powerful vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement:
international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in
imaginative vision and practice. It celebrates risk, resistance,
protest and diversity within poetry, reaching across national and
cultural boundaries. Vanishing Points provides students of Creative
Writing, Cultural Studies, English and American Studies, as well as
the general reader, with an important survey of modernist poetry at
the start of the new millennium. * A unique introduction to the
wide range of modernist experiment in contemporary poetry * Ideal
study aid for students of poetry and poetics * Broad, international
selection of acclaimed modernist poets * Substantial contributions
offer important insights into the range of each poet's work From
the Introduction: The vanishing point lies beyond the horizon
established by ruling conventions, it is where the imagination
takes over from the understanding. Most anthologies of contemporary
verse are filled with poems that do not cross that dividing-line,
but our contention is that many poems in this volume are situated
on the threshold of conventional sense-making. They go beyond the
perspective of accepted canons of taste and judgement and ask
questions about where they belong, and who they are meant for,
often combining the pathos of estrangement with the irascibility of
the refusenik. All anthologies enter the world fully aware of their
genealogy, of where they fit in, of how they relate to certain
traditions of writing by affiliation or rejection. This combination
of dependent and independent gestures is inevitable, particularly
in the case of selections of work aligned with national or regional
versions of literary history. The present anthology does not fall
into that category; its international reach does not, however,
bring exemption from the dilemma of wanting to stand apart from
conditions of rivalry while also needing to claim a special value
in comparison with publications already available.
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