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The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an
intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and
consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the
objects and people who come to reside there. At either end of the
book are the disappearances of loved ones: a parent succumbing to
dementia, and a school friend lost to more voluntary forms of
forgetting. Elsewhere are poems of erotic love, big city
loneliness, and the boon and burden of family, poems of praise in
which the spiritual and the tangible are not remote but intimate.
From the ancient quarries of Naxos to the electronica of Aphex
Twin, these highly distinctive poems celebrate the unique wherever
they find it.
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Scoundrels (Paperback)
Duncan Crowe, James Peak; Victor Cornwall, James Peak
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R292
R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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ADVENTURE, DANGER, INTRIGUE, ESPIONAGE, VIOLENCE & SEX... JUST
ANOTHER DAY AT SCOUNDRELS CLUB. Spanning much of the 20th Century
and revolving around the infamous gentlemen's club of London,
Scoundrels is the jaw-dropping memoirs of disreputable spies Majors
Cornwall and Trevelyan. The Majors recount scandalous tales of
murder on Everest, panda hunting with the last Chinese Emperor and
the theft of a uniquely sordid item from the Nazi fortress
Klunghammer. But why have they been under house arrest for over
thirty years? Historically accurate, morally questionable and
absolutely true, Scoundrels is one part Flashman to two parts
Mordecai Trilogy, stirred vigorously and dashed in the face of Ian
Fleming. It will leave you with a nasty taste in your mouth and
horribly hungover
Have there always been places where the inner life and the outer
world can't be told apart? Do the cities we've so skilfully shaped
reciprocate in any way? If the meaning of a building or symbol is
lost can it be restored or only reinvented? In his carefully
meditated debut collection of poetry, James Peake explores the
imagination's material legacy - how our ideas have entered wood and
stone, celluloid and skin, metal and glass, and become restless in
the process. Reaction Time of Glass is a work of unusual clarity
and coherence. Like the cityscapes it relishes, it is home to
interiors - eerie or homely, dark as well as light, imaginative as
much as factual - akin to those we've inherited and inside of which
we perform our lives.
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
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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