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Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets
of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally
curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal
imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our
senses against the limits of sense. Boldly inventive, prayers
appear alongside recipes, dance lessons next to definitions. Her
playful, witty lyricism offers a glimpse of the eternal in the
everyday. The poems in this selection have been collaboratively
translated into English by the award-winning British poet Jean
Sprackland and leading Georgian translator Natalia Bukia-Peters. A
chapbook selection of their translations of Anphimiadi's work,
Beginning to Speak, was published in 2018 and praised by Adham
Smart in Modern Poetry in Translation for capturing the
'electricity of Anphimiadi's language' which 'crackles from one
poem to the next in Bukia-Peters and Sprackland's fine
translation'. Georgian-English dual language edition. Co-published
with the Poetry Translation Centre.
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Beginning to Speak (Paperback)
Diana Anphimiadi; Translated by Jean Sprackland, Natalia Bukia-Peters
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R167
Discovery Miles 1 670
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Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems.
Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world
we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by
Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey
Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christina Rossetti to Benjamin
Zephaniah, all carefully chosen for their suitability for learning
and reciting. This is an anthology which celebrates the age-old
pleasure of reciting poems - an anthology for all ages to treasure.
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach:
inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's
purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars,
beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a
series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial
beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands
is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the
things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and
jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.
'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it
myself' Literary Review Graveyards are oases: places of escape,
peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the
past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living
community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are
losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the
prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her
life, revisiting her once local graveyards. In seeking out the
stories of those who lived and died there, remembered and
forgotten, she unearths what has been lost.
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Green Noise (Paperback)
Jean Sprackland
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R433
R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative
poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic
other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper
frequencies. 'Green noise' is the mid-frequency component of white
noise - what some have called the background noise of the world -
and these poems listen for what is audible, and available to be
known and understood, and what is not. Each poem is an attempt at
location - in time, in place, in language. Some enquire into the
natural world and our human place in it, by investigating hidden
worlds within worlds: oak-apples, aphid-farms, firewood teeming
with small life. Others go in search of fragments of a mythic and
often brutal past: the lost haunts of childhood, abandoned
villages, scraps of shared history which are only ever partially
remembered. A physical relic or a mark on the landscape seems
briefly to offer a portal, where a sounding is taken from present
to past and back again. Deeply engaged with the flux of the world,
these poems are alert, precise and vividly memorable - listening to
the 'machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max',
'hearing the long bones of the trees stretch and crack'.
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