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Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. A Map
Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words,
the power they impart, the power their absence withholds.
Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the
imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of
fluency interests me - and whether we can ever claim fluency in any
language.' Her mother speaking Danish - which she cannot herself
understand - is familiar and yet alienating: how Danish can she
herself be when she cannot hear her mother's tongue with
understanding? Her own attempts with British Sign Language are
another challenge, a form of translation of sense in the absence of
sound. `I have to work hard to listen and this requires me to place
you to my right side, to watch your lips, to watch your hands, to
watch your gestures. How ca form not matter?' The poems touch on
these themes in various ways, not least in what they do with form.
A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2023 This, Lisa Kelly's
second collection, responds to the repression of British Sign
Language (BSL) as its occasion and inspiration. Kelly develops the
subject through extended sequences which attend to mushrooms and
fungi, lifeforms that develop in secret, unnoticed, unappreciated,
yet whose existence enriches everyday life. What can such hidden
others teach us – if we attune all our senses?
Elysse is an inquisitive little girl who finds herself in an
enchanted forest, learning valuable teachings from a fairy named
Safia. Safia teaches Elysse about the importance of being connected
to all life on the planet. Journey with Elysse as she begins to
understand her own connectedness to all things. Included in this
book is a journal page along with a meditation exercise for both
you and your children to engage in.
Blissfully happy in her own universe Allegra (Ally) Johnson is the
sweet best friend everyone wants to have. Quietly and independently
wealthy she runs a charming second-hand bookshop in beachside
Manly. Heck, sometimes she even goes downstairs from her flat to
run the shop in her Chinese silk pyjamas. It sounds like bliss. But
is it enough? When dog-phobic Allegra is rescued from an exuberant
canine by the chivalrous Teddy Green, Australia's hottest TV
celebrity and garden make-over guru, her life begins to change.
Dramatically Unaware of Teddy's fame Allegra finds herself falling
for him, despite her best attempts to resist his charm. Supported
by her eccentric family and her fabulous gay friend Justin, Allegra
embarks on an on-again off-again romance with Teddy, complicated by
his jealous ex-girlfriend, fashionista Louisa and her own
narcissistic hippy mother Moonbeam. Will Ally be able to overcome
her insecurities and find happiness with this possible Mr Right or
will Teddy's celebrity lifestyle prove to be too much? Mr Right and
Other Mongrels is a light-hearted story about how one chance
encounter can change your life.
Drawing on interviews with leading film executives, politicians and
industry stakeholders including all of the UKFC's chairs (Alan
Parker, Stewart Till and Tim Bevan) and its CEO John Woodward, this
book provides an empirically grounded analysis of the rise and
unexpected fall of the UK Film Council, the key strategic body
responsible for supporting film in the UK for over a decade. As
well as offering a critical overview of the political, policy and
technological contexts which framed the organisation's creation,
existence and eventual demise, the book provides a probing analysis
of the tensions between national and global interests in an
increasingly transnational film industry, not least underlining how
both US and EU interests and pressures have played themselves out.
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