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What makes Nicolas Bouvier such a well?loved travel writer is his
exquisite sensitivity to the beauties of life, and his ability to
capture those elusive moments in a style that is light, yet
pregnant with wonder. Whether he s delirious in the wintery Aran
Isles, where the air `unites the virtues of champagne, cocaine,
caffeine, and the ecstasy of love or singing the praises of his
Chinese tour guide, this collection of his shorter travel pieces
brims with his particular joie de vivre.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Edmund Blunden; Edited by Robyn Marsack
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R521
R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
Save R34 (7%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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To mark the centenary of the First World War, a Selected Poems of
Edmund Blunden brings back into print the work of a major war poet
and author of the classic memoir Undertones of War. Edmund Blunden
joined the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1915, and served in France and
Flanders. This selection of his poems includes a substantial
sampler of his war verse (the last poem he wrote was on revisiting
the battlefields of the Somme). And yet, it is not easy to draw a
line between the poems on war and those on other subjects, so
deeply did his wartime experience suffuse and haunt his writing.
Memories of what was `shrieking, dumb, defiled’ constantly test a
vision of `faith, life, virtue in the sun’. Here is a poet of
range and depth deserving of rediscovery.
A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse
into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period
of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's fifty
years is marked by an exchange of letters - handwritten, typed, and
now emailed - between an author and the editor. Beginning in 1969
with the response to an invitation to subscribe to Carcanet for two
guineas, the book traces Carcanet's progress and offers insight
into the nature of literary editing. At its heart is the personal
relationship of author and editor/publisher, the conflicts,
friendships and vicissitudes that occur at the nexus between the
work, its creator, publisher and reader. Poets are central, but
fiction writers, translators, biographers and critics also
contribute to the Carcanet ferment and firmament. Fifty Fifty
celebrates the writers', readers' and editor's risks, passions and
pleasures.
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