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A Seven Months' Run
James Brooks
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Poems by 60 poets involved in The Practice of Poetry course(
students, tutors and visiting poets)at the University of Warwick
from 2000 to 2010; poems arranged alphabetically, with an
introduction by David Morley. Poems by Peter Belgvad, Zoe Brigley,
James Brookes, Phil Brown, Peter Carpenter, Swithun Cooper, Jane
Holland, Luke Kennard, Anna Lea, Michael McKimm,Glyn Maxwell, David
Morley, Jon Morley, Ruth Padel, Fiona Sampson, George Szirtes,
George Ttoouli, Simon Turner and others.
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Spoils (Hardcover)
James Brookes
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Limestone (Hardcover)
James Brooks
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The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and
Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was
released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in
Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in
which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on
network television and the world's most photographed woman died in
a car crash in Paris. Radical pop band The KLF burned a million
quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched programme on TV
was Baywatch. Anti-globalisation protestors in France attacked
McDonald's restaurants and American survivalists stockpiled guns
and tinned food in preparation for Y2K. For those who lived through
it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a mixture of proximity and
distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which
we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic
view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of
the era, James Brooke-Smith asks - what was the 1990s? A lost
golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin-de-siecle decadence?
Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?
This volume contains newly edited versions of two of Walton's
mature works for orchestra: the Partita for Orchestra, written in
1957 and one of ten works commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra,
and the Variations on a Theme by Hindemith, a work of great colour
from 1962-3 and taking as its inspiration a theme from his friend
Paul Hindemith.
This volume presents newly engraved and edited scores of all
Walton's popular film scores, including the various Shakespeare
suites and for the first time on sale his music for the film Battle
of Britain.
The British public school is an iconic institution, a training
ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and
tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen
playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual
dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into
the wilder shores of public-school life over the last three hundred
years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late
eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation,
dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on
masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s, and the salacious
tabloid scandals of the present day. Drawing on personal
experience, extensive research, and public school representations
in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels, and rock music,
Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in
Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth
culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired
a counterculture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals--from
Percy Shelley and George Orwell to Peter Gabriel and Richard
Branson--who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and
the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and
humor in the tradition of Owen Jones's The Establishment: And How
They Get Away With It, this highly original cultural history is an
eye-opening leap over the hallowed iron gates of privilege--and
perturbation.
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