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Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate
and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry...
After years of travelling and losing almost everything - his
country, his children, his wife, his farm - an Afghan man finds
unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger's home... A student
protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government
crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK
asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second
volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of
those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves
indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in
which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely
heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and
listening becomes an act of welcome.
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Digressions (Paperback)
Ian Duhig; Artworks by Philippa Troutman
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Ian Duhig's effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse
has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty
years. This eclectic gathering of Duhig's best work draws on
material from his acclaimed debut, The Bradford Count, to the
present day: the book collects a number of fine new pieces,
including an elegy for the late Ciaran Carson. Duhig is
contemporary poetry's social historian; he has wise and powerful
things to say about the relationship between community and family,
racism and justice, place and folklore, music and language. For
Duhig fans, the book will offer a mesmerising retrospective of the
career one of our most highly regarded poets; for those yet to
discover him, New and Selected Poems represents a marvellous
introduction to a radical social conscience, an archivist of
strange tales, and one of the most skilful writers now at work.
If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly
varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding
genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and
polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here celebrates, and
from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an
almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty,
determinism, social justice and the consolations of poetry and
music on a journey that takes in everything from a riotous
reimagining of Don Juan to the tragedy of Manuel Bravo (the Leeds
asylum seeker from Angola who was forced to defend himself in
court, and later took his own life). No poet today writes with such
a sense of political and social conscience, and The Blind Roadmaker
affirms Duhig's belief in poetry as a means of commemorating those
who least deserve to be forgotten.
Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud's
classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror
writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary
interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud's compelling theory
of "das unheimliche"--or, the uncanny. Specifically designed to
challenge the creative boundaries of some of the most famed and
respected horror writers working today--such as A. S. Byatt,
Christopher Priest, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matthew
Holness, and the indomitable Ramsey Campbell--this anatomically
precise experiment encapsulates what the uncanny represents in the
21st century. Masterfully narrated with the benefit of unique
perspectives on what exactly it is that goes bump in the night,
this chilling modern collective is not only an essential read for
fans of horror but also an insightful and intriguing introduction
to the greats of the genre at their gruesome best.
"By the time of his death at the age of 41, Riley had achieved a
poetry whose importance is not circumscribed by the concerns and
trends of its day. His finest poems are an embodiment of integrity
and vision: precise observation and wit co-exist with an
extraordinary beauty of image and rhythm. Riley's is an art that at
its best has a place in the enduring tradition of English
poetry."-Michael Grant
Ian Duhig has long inspired a fervent and devoted following. With
The Lammas Hireling - the title poem having already won both the
National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Poem -
Duhig has produced his most accessible and exciting volume to date,
and looks set to reach a whole new audience. A poet of lightning
wit and great erudition, Duhig is also a master balladeer and
storyteller who shows that poetry is still the most powerful way in
which our social history - our lives, loves and work - can be
celebrated and commemorated.
Ian Duhig's The Speed of Dark is structured around his astonishing
reworking of the text of Le Roman de Fauvel, a medieval text that
railed against the corruption of the 12th-century French court and
church. In Duhig's hands, however, the tale of the power-mad
horse-king Fauvel gains a terrifying and almost prophetic
contemporary relevance, and is identified with more recent
crusades, crazed ambitions and insatiable greeds. Elsewhere Duhig's
many admirers will be delighted by his new ballads and elegies, his
erudite high jinks and his low gags - with which he builds on the
new imaginative territory he staked out in The Lammas Hireling to
such universal acclaim. The Speed of Dark again shows Duhig as one
the most capacious and brilliant minds in contemporary poetry. 'The
most original poet of his generation' Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
'His poetry is learned, rude, elegant, sly and funny, mixing gilded
images, belly-laughs and esoteric lore about language (including
Irish), art, history, politics and children's word-games' Ruth
Padel, Independent on Sunday 'Duhig telescopes topical allusions,
scholarly references and coarse humour into tightly-shaped, surreal
poems which burst open with explosive moral force' Alan Brownjohn,
Sunday Times
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