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Soul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a
further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the
spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. This
book’s inspiration – Soul Food – achieved its wide popularity
by word of mouth. For many thousands of readers feeling adrift in
the early years of the 21st century, the poems in that book offered
support and sustenance. What followed has been even more
destructive and disorientating: wars, pandemic, oppression,
persecution of peoples and minorities, mass migration, dishonest
government, financial meltdown, and looming environmental
catastrophe. Yet amidst all this there are voices of hope and
healing, of love and tolerance, kindness and compassion, sanity and
solace, to be heard and felt in the poems of Soul Feast. This new
compilation shows how poetry can help sustain our search for
meaning in times of spiritual starvation. All these poems are
universal illuminations of the meaning of life, speaking to readers
of all faiths as well as to seekers and non-believers. Drawn from
many traditions, Soul Feast includes work by poets ranging from Lal
Ded and Tukaram to Pessoa, Borges, Cummings and Langston Hughes, as
well as poems by celebrated contemporary poets such as Ellen Bass,
Imtiaz Dharker, Jane Hirshfield and Naomi Shihab Nye. This is a
book to keep by the bedside or to keep with you when travelling.
"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and
feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi,
Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this
wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by
celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise
Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many
lesser-known writers from all periods and places. The anthology
opens with a series of poems on human life and spiritual
sustenance, starting with Rumi: 'This being human is a guest
house./Each morning a new arrival...'. The poems which follow
explore many ways of keeping body and soul together, offering food
for thought on knowing yourself, living with nature, who or what is
God...All are universal illuminations of the meaning of life,
speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to searchers and
non-believers. "Soul Food" shows how poetry can help feed our
hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation.
Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid Me is both a Selected Poems by
Benjamin Zephaniah and a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by
Pamela Robertson-Pearce drawing on both live performances and
informal interviews. The film shows him performing his poetry for
different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs and
much else. You see him live on stage at Ledbury Poetry Festival,
Newcastle's Live Theatre, Hexham's Queen's Hall and Brunel
University, and engaging with school children at Keats House in
London, where he was writer-in-residence. As well as the main film,
the DVD also has a bonus feature: music videos made by Zephaniah
with the Beta Brothers. This is a new concept in poetry publishing:
not a book with a DVD but a DVD-book. The book supplements the film
and includes the texts of all the poems and songs from the film and
videos. (But because the DVD is a free giveaway inside the book, it
is classed as a book not a DVD so you don't have to pay VAT, hence
the great price.) The DVD is PAL format compatible with DVD players
in most countries apart from Canada, Japan, Mexico, Philippines,
Taiwan and the United States but playable on laptops produced for
those countries.
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the
past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn
all our expectations. "Alternative Anthem" is a live album of poems
from books published over three decades, including "John Agard
Live!", a DVD of filmed highlights from recent performances made by
filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. It includes poetry from "We
Brits" in which the Guyanese-born word magician gives an
outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge
and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions;
"Weblines" that contains three powerful Caribbean myths of
transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the
spider trickster god; and, "From the Devil's Pulpit" that is a
Devil's eye view of the world, sweeping from Genesis across time;
and, other collections including "Mangoes and Bullets" and
"Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady", as well his children's books,
featuring some of Agard's best-known poems - "Listen Mr Oxford
don", "Palm Tree King", "Half-Caste", and "English Girl Eats Her
First Mango".
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In Person: World Poets (Paperback)
Neil Astley, Pamela Robertson-Pearce; Photographs by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Neil Astley
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In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world's first DVD-anthology, In
Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in publishing: readings by 30 poets
published by Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with
all the poems included in the footage printed in the book of the
films. Its sequel, In Person: World Poets, is another international
collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and award-winning film-maker
Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Her style of filming combines directness
and simplicity, sensitivity and warmth - the perfect combination
for these intimate readings. It is as if the poet were sitting in
the room with you, reading just to you, and sometimes saying a few
things about the poems. This new compilation on DVD with
accompanying anthology covers a wide range of poets from many parts
of the world, including America, Australia, Canada, Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Guyana, India, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Malawi, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland and Sweden, as
well as from Britain and Ireland. Most of the films present
informal, one-to-one readings, with the poets reading to you in
person. They enhance your appreciation of the poetry.You hear how
the poems sound; you see how the poets read and present their work.
Poets writing in other languages read in the original with the
English translations read by themselves or by their translators.
Some poets are also captured in live performance. T.S. Eliot once
described poetry as 'one person talking to another', while W.H.
Auden believed it was essential to hear poetry read aloud, for 'no
poem, which when mastered, is not better heard than read is good
poetry'. In Person: World Poets presents the oral art of poetry in
that spirit. There are over 14 hours of readings on four DVDs
packaged with the book, and all the poems included in the films are
printed in the book, with poems written in other languages
alongside the translations, enabling you to follow either language
as they are read on the film. Like the original In Person: 30
Poets, this new compilation gives readers a personal festival of
poetry in DVD and book form for viewing at home on laptop or TV. It
is also a unique educational resource for the teaching and
appreciation of poetry. In Person: World Poets includes: Robert
Adamson, Moniza Alvi, Antonella Anedda, Simon Armitage, Ana
Blandiana, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Dan Chiasson, Polly Clark, Stewart
Conn, Peter Didsbury, Katie Donovan, Tishani Doshi, Ruth Fainlight,
Roy Fisher, Carolyn Forche, Tua Forsstroem, Tess Gallagher, Deborah
Garrison, Jane Griffiths, Philip Gross, Choman Hardi, Robert Hass,
John Hegley, Rita Ann Higgins, Tony Hoagland, Matthew Hollis,
Esther Jansma, Jenny Joseph, Jaan Kaplinski, Ko Un, Luljeta
Lleshanaku, Thomas Lux, Nikola Madzirov, Jennifer Maiden, Jack
Mapanje, Samuel Menashe, Esther Morgan, Julie O'Callaghan, Leanne
O'Sullivan, Clare Pollard, Adelia Prado, Sally Read, Lawrence Sail,
Carole Satyamurti, Karen Solie, Piotr Sommer, Ruth Stone,
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Matthew Sweeney, Pia Tafdrup, Tomas
Transtroemer, Brian Turner, Chase Twichell, Priscila Uppal, Tomas
Venclova, Mark Waldron, Susan Wicks and Robert Wrigley. None of
these poets was included in In Person: 30 Poets.
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In Person: 30 Poets (Paperback)
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Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a
new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival
brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten
minutes - up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of
their work. "In Person" is a collaboration between Bloodaxe Books
and award-winning film-maker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Her style of
filming combines directness and simplicity, sensitivity and warmth
- the perfect combination for these intimate readings. It is as if
the poet were sitting in the room with you, reading just to you,
and sometimes saying a few things about the poems. Apart from one
recording taken from a live public performance, all the films
present informal, one-to-one readings. They enhance your
appreciation of the poetry. You hear how the poems sound; you see
how the poets read and present their work. T.S. Eliot once
described poetry as 'one person talking to another', while W.H.
Auden believed it was essential to hear poetry read aloud, for 'no
poem, which when mastered, is not better heard than read is good
poetry'. "In Person" presents the oral art of poetry in that
spirit. There are four hours of readings on two DVDs pouched inside
the back cover, and all the poems are printed in this book. "In
Person" celebrates 30 years of poetry from a pioneering press.
Founded in 1978, Bloodaxe has published nearly a thousand titles by
three hundred writers. Until now you wouldn't be able to see or
hear readings by many of Bloodaxe's international range of poets.
"In Person" makes that possible for the first time, presenting
readings by 30 essential voices from Britain, Ireland, America,
Spain, Hungary, Palestine, Pakistan, China, New Zealand and the
Caribbean. Four out of the 30 short films present the poets' work
bilingually. Menna Elfyn's reading alternates between her Welsh
poems and their English translations. Joan Margarit reads in
Catalan in tandem with his translator Anna Crowe reading her
English translations. Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali reads in
Arabic and then re-inhabits each poem as it is read in English by
his translator Peter Cole. Yang Lian introduces his work in
English, and reads the poems in Chinese. This anthology presents
all their poems in both languages in a parallel-text format,
enabling you to follow either language as the poems are read on the
film. All the other readings are in English only, and in many
varieties of English which will add greatly to your enjoyment and
appreciation of the poetry: not just poems read in Scottish, Welsh
and Irish English by Jackie Kay, W.N. Herbert, Gwyneth Lewis,
Brendan Kennelly and Micheal O'Siadhail, but also George Szirtes'
Hungarian-inflected English, Benjamin Zephaniah's melding of
Jamaican and Birmingham, and the Caribbean lilt of John Agard and
James Berry. The musical range of American voices is just as
diverse, ranging from urban Detroit (Philip Levine) to the Ozark
Mountains (C.D. Wright). There's also a 'bonus track': a short film
of Bloodaxe's first poet, Ken Smith, made by Ivor Bowen just before
Ken's untimely death.
Jean 'Binta' Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller
whose performances wee so powerful she was called a 'one-woman
festival'. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and
experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stories and
historical narratives to explore social injustice and the
psychological dimensions of black women's experience. Striking
evocations of childhood in the hills of Jamaica give way to
explorations of the perils and delights of growth and change -
through sex, emigration, motherhood and age. Introduced by renowned
critic Colin MacCabe, the book brings together new poems with
poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections: Riddym
Ravings, Spring Cleaning, On the Edge of an Island and The Arrival
of Brighteye. Many of the poems are included on the accompanying
DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela
Robertson-Pearce at Leicester's Y Theatre, plus an interview with
Jane Dowson.
Samuel Menashe's poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual
intensity and a lingering emotional force. For over 50 years he
practised his art of 'compression and crystallisation' (in Derek
Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but profound in
their engagement with ultimate questions. As Stephen Spender wrote,
Menashe 'compresses thought into language intense and clear as
diamonds'. Intensely musical and rigorously constructed, Menashe's
work stands apart in its solitary meditative power, but it is
equally a poetry of the everyday. The humblest of objects, the
minutest of natural forms, here become powerfully suggestive, and
even the shortest of the poems are spacious in the perspectives
they open. Expanded from its original Library of America
compilation, this edition covers the full range of his work, from
the early collections to very recent work, and includes a DVD of
Life Is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe, a film by Pamela
Robertson-Pearce. This features a visit to Menashe in the tiny
apartment in New York's Greenwich Village where he lived from the
1950s until 2009. Even in his 80s, Menashe still knew all his poems
by heart, and between engaging digressions on poetry, life and
death, recites numerous examples with engaging humour, warmth and
zest.
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