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The Trinity College VIII is a light-hearted account of how the 1977
Dublin University Boat Club raced the best university crews in the
world in an attempt to win the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal
Henley Regatta – almost exactly 100 years after their last win at
the prestigious event. Trinity College Dublin has a rich academic
and sporting history, and similarly has produced talented
undergraduates with mischievous minds and a healthy disregard for
establishment rules. In The Trinity College VIII the two fuse
together perfectly. Author and crew member David Hickey describes
their prowess on the water and misadventures on land, from his
awkward meeting with an Egyptian General who he told to f**k off on
the telephone, to the explosive results one gets when trying to
open a beer keg in the bath tub without the proper tools. But
Hickey also takes an in-depth look at the reality of competitive
rowing. He describes what actually happens in a race, what it feels
like in the boat, the tactics involved and choices that have to be
made. He also explains why he and his teammates were willing to
spend the many gruelling hours of training required in order to be
competitive. Above all, The Trinity College VIII is a story of
discipline, camaraderie, fitness, self-belief, teamwork, student
antics and hard work as seen by one Trinity College undergraduate
who joined the Boat Club to pursue the Ladies.
To mark the 100th anniversary of America's most storied baseball
franchise, authors David Hickey and Kerry Keene salute a very
special Yankees fraternity. The Proudest Yankees of All celebrates
the 39 players, managers, and team executives who have been elected
to Baseball's Hall of Fame for the baseball feats they achieved
during their tenure with this storied ball club and over their
careers. Ruth, Gehrig, Grove, Mantle, Jackson, McCarthy, Stengel,
MacPhail and more are gathered in this one-of-a kind blue and white
pinstriped reunion. It's an entertaining and informative reference
and tribute to the men who most define Yankees excellence.
David Hickey's second collection builds upon the myriad
strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and
covenants, Hickey's subjects range from art and astronomy to
snowflakes and suburbia. These poems "take their time / Covering
the roadside trees in forms of their careful willing . . .
gesturing down to earth, unveiling new shapes / for all that they
find."
David Hickey is a past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize, the
Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the
Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His
work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada and the
United States.
From "A Very Small Something"
Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and under
another sun, where favourite earrings find new ears
and missing marbles run, the hillsides made
their marvelous shapes for a town called Covington--
And a great pink factory as long as the breeze
weighed truckfuls and truckfuls of bubblegum.
Olivia Bezzlebee lives by the sea in a fantastic town with the
world's biggest bubblegum factory, where its citizens blow bubbles
all day. But Olivia can't blow a single one and feels as if
everyone looks down on her. Leaving Covington to find a place where
she might belong, she learns the true meanings of family and
home.
"A Very Small Something," beautifully illustrated by Alexander
Griggs-Burr, is a story to which all children--and any tuned-in
parent--will be able to relate. Blowing bubbles may indeed be a
very small something . . . but when you are a small child and it's
the thing you most want to do, a bubble can mean the whole
world.
David Hickey is one of the leading young poets in Canada, and
the author of two collections, including "Open Air Bindery ." He
has tested his children's poems in schools across the country for
the last seven years. He is finishing a PhD at the University of
Western in London, Ontario.
Alexander Griggs-Burr illustrated the Ontario Library
Association Red Maple-nominated "Nieve" in 2010. He lives and works
in Stratford, Ontario.
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David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, Kerry Keene
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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David Hickey
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The poems of David Hickey's first collection, In the Lights of a
Midnight Plow, glitter and startle. His is a writing deftly
musical, where every detail and image has been carefully weighed,
honed with a knife's edge and poet's ear to fit just so. The
subjects are diverse, though his aim, always, is true: whether
writing about nature, farming or domestic concerns, there is
intelligence, beauty, humour and originality. Most importantly,
there is language, the sparkle and sheen of it, the rhythm, all of
which tells us that a new and important voice is at work here.
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