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Doves (Paperback)
Lachlan Mackinnon
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Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2010. Formally dexterous and inventive, these inclusive, approachable poems welcome all-comers in their broad-minded address: refugees, reality television, detective shows, number-theory, Shakespeare's brothers, ecology, a marriage.
Wherever it turns, the poetry remains courageously sociable and moral, ever concerned with honouring lives and good deeds, and asking what can be saved from the ruins of what is lost by individuals, cultures and civilisations. But for all its outward gaze, its cares speak privately too - of crises in personal action and belief, of friends and intimacies disturbed and renewed - and, underpinning it all, an urging to account for our behaviour and 'to start to answer / to ourselves for what we have made of life.'
Doves is an uplifting account of recovery that makes no stranger of despair. But with each moment of despondency comes a tough-minded - even humorous - response that tempers grief, and bolsters our equipment for living, and in so doing extends a timeless ring around the heart of this thoughtful, inspiriting and memorable book.
Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus
afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying
with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing
cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of
friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from
the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a
four-year-old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her.
Familiar objects - a park bench, stones, grass, stars, windows -
are reanimated. This poetry of imaginative journeying
'stretches/Banks on a slope of air and turns' like the heron it
watches. Between the crackle of radio signals and rain, the Russian
poet Osip Mandelstam and the American singer Miranda Lambert, here
is a poet in search of points of reference, the 'bright fresh
leaves' of sunlight among the ruins.
Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of
lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies,
wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their
patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or
meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with
their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with
contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of
Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose,
which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem
laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic
conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 27th British National Conference on Databases,
BNCOD 27, held in Dundee, UK, in June 2010. The 10 revised full
papers and 6 short papers, presented together with 3 invited
papers, 1 best paper of the associated event on Teaching, Learning
and Assessment of Databases (TLAD), and 2 PhD forum best papers
were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Special
focus of the conference has been "Data Security and Security Data"
and so the papers cover a wide range of topics such as data
security, privacy and trust, security data, data integration and
interoperability, data management for ubiquitous and mobile
computing, data mining and information extraction, data modelling
and architectures, data provenance, dataspaces, data streaming,
databases and the grid, distributed information systems, electronic
commerce, enterprise systems, heterogeneous databases, industrial
applications, infrastructures and systems, intermittently connected
data, file access methods and index structures, managing legacy
data, new applications and processes, parallel and distributed
databases, peer-to-peer data management, performance modelling of
ubiquitous data use, personal data management, query and
manipulation languages, query processing and optimisation,
scientific applications, semantic Web and ontologies,
semi-structured data, metadata and xml, user interfaces and data
visualisation, Web data management and deep Web, Web services, and
workflow support systems.
This year marked the coming of age of the British National
Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004. To mark the
occasion the general theme of the conference was "When Data Is
Key," reflecting not only the traditional key awarded on a 21st
birthday, but also the ev- growing importance of electronic data
management in every aspect of our modern lives. The conference was
run as part of DAMMS (Data Analysis, Manipulation, Management and
Storage) Week, which included a number of co-located and
complementary conferences and workshops, including the 2nd Workshop
on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Databases (TLAD2), the
BNCOD BioInformatics Workshop, and the 1st International Conference
on the Future of Consumer Insight Developments in Retail Banking.
The aim of this co-location was to develop synergies between the
teaching, research and commercial communities involved in all
aspects of database activities, and to use BNCOD as a focus for
future synergies and developments within these communities.
Although this is entitled the British National Conference on
Databases, BNCOD has always had an international focus, and this
year more than most, with the majority of the papers submitted and
accepted coming from outwith the UK.
An eye-opening exploration of a unique region of Italy that bridges the
Alps and the Adriatic Sea, featuring 80 recipes and wine pairings from
a master sommelier and James Beard Award-winning chef.
"An exhilarating journey, no passport required."--Thomas Keller,
chef/proprietor, The French Laundry
Bordered by Austria, Slovenia, and the Adriatic Sea, the northeastern
Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia is an area of immense cultural
blending, geographical diversity, and idyllic beauty. This tiny sliver
of land is home to one of the most refined food and wine cultures in
the world and yet remains off the grid. The unique cuisine of Friuli is
what inspires the menu at Frasca, a James Beard Award-winning
restaurant in Boulder, Colorado, helmed by master sommelier Bobby
Stuckey and chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson.
Meaning "branch" or "bough," the word frasca refers to the Friulian
tradition of hanging a branch outside the family farm as a sign that
new wine was available for sale. Friuli Food and Wine celebrates this
practice and the wine and cuisine of the Friulian region through eighty
recipes and wine pairings. Dishes such as Wild Mushroom and Montasio
Fonduta, Chicken Marcundela with Cherry Mostarda and Potato Puree,
Squash Gnocchi with Smoked Ricotta Sauce, and Whole Branzino in a Salt
Crust are organized by Land, Sea, and Mountains, while profiles of
local winemakers and wines, including Tocai, Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia
Istriana, and Verduzzo, open up new pairing possibilities. Showcasing
the best Friulian wines you can buy outside of Italy as well as
restaurant and winery recommendations, this beautifully photographed
cookbook, wine guide, and travelogue brings the delicious secrets of
this untouched part of Italy into your home kitchen.
The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist
industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long
twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window on the
lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail
end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story
of Cape Breton Island presents an opportunity to reflect on how
industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human
experiences. Covering the period between 1860 and the early 2000s,
this volume looks at trade unionism, state and cultural responses
to deindustrialization, including the more recent pivot towards the
tourist industry, and the lived experiences of Indigenous and Black
people. Rather than focusing on the separate or distinct nature of
Cape Breton, contributors place the island within broad
transnational networks such as the financial world of the
Anglo-Atlantic, the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora,
Canadian development programs, and more. In capturing the vital
elements of a region on the rural resource frontier that was
battered by deindustrialization, the histories included here show
how the interplay of the state, cultures, and transnational
connections shaped how people navigated these heavy pressures, both
individually and collectively.
Lachlan Mackinnon's third collection opens with a
characteristically exact account of something ungraspable: a
distant episode in cosmology. This is the starting point for a
series of investigations into the uncertainty and flux, in which
poem after poem brings home its cargo in precisely shaped but
oblique and surprising ways. The collection is as various in its
concerns as it is unified in its search for the close naming of
things. One of the paradoxes of these poems is to start from
spareness and reserve, and to end by establishing an intensely
personal voice, whatever the subject almost casually to hand -
American scences, foreign places, the remembered present of the
1960s, the lives within paintings, and the potentiality of prime
numbers. "The Jupiter Collisions" includes two subtle and
intriguingly constructed sequences of linked poems, in which the
canvas of personal matter (loss, love, contingency) is stretched
across a frame of philosophical concerns, in a poetry which is as
unafraid of thinking - "the heaven of ideas" - as it is firmly
vested in the "pointillisme of what is". We come to recognize a
tone, quietly distinctive, addressing the world in poems which are
cool b
Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and
working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between
1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this
story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton's larger coal
operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the
multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics
of the steelworkers' union; the successful efforts to nationalize
the mill in 1967; the years in transition under public ownership;
and the confrontations over health, safety, and environmental
degradation in the 1990s and 2000s. Closing Sysco moves beyond the
moment of closure to trace the cultural, historical, and political
ramifications of deindustrialization that continue to play out in
post-industrial Cape Breton Island. A significant intervention into
the international literature on deindustrialization, this study
pushes scholarship beyond the bounds of political economy and
cultural change to begin tackling issues of bodily health,
environment, and historical memory in post-industrial places. The
experiences of the men and women who were displaced by the decline
and closure of Sydney Steel are central to this book. Featuring
interviews with former steelworkers, office employees, managers,
politicians, and community activists, these one-on-one
conversations reveal both the human cost of industrial closure and
the lingering after-effects of deindustrialization.
Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and
working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between
1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this
story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton's larger coal
operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the
multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics
of the steelworkers' union; the successful efforts to nationalize
the mill in 1967; the years in transition under public ownership;
and the confrontations over health, safety, and environmental
degradation in the 1990s and 2000s. Closing Sysco moves beyond the
moment of closure to trace the cultural, historical, and political
ramifications of deindustrialization that continue to play out in
post-industrial Cape Breton Island. A significant intervention into
the international literature on deindustrialization, this study
pushes scholarship beyond the bounds of political economy and
cultural change to begin tackling issues of bodily health,
environment, and historical memory in post-industrial places. The
experiences of the men and women who were displaced by the decline
and closure of Sydney Steel are central to this book. Featuring
interviews with former steelworkers, office employees, managers,
politicians, and community activists, these one-on-one
conversations reveal both the human cost of industrial closure and
the lingering after-effects of deindustrialization.
Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has
marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World
interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first
impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and
single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward,
affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond. Scholars from five
nations share personal stories of ruin and ruination and ask others
what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world.
Together, they open a window on the lived experiences of people
living at ground zero of deindustrialization, revealing its layered
impacts and examining how workers, environmentalists, activists,
and the state have responded to its challenges.
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