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Cheval 11 (Paperback): Michael Muia, Katya Johnson, Thomas Tyrrell Cheval 11 (Paperback)
Michael Muia, Katya Johnson, Thomas Tyrrell; Edited by Aida Birch
R236 R205 Discovery Miles 2 050 Save R31 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A music scholar makes an unlikely friend in a retired sea captain. In the trenches in WW1 France, a soldier befriends a young Tommy before they both go over the top. A poet uses sumptuous imagery to take us on a journey from summer to autumn. For eleven years the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award has provided a platform for emerging young writers from and living in Wales. In this skillful and diverse collection of stories and poems, we celebrate the very best entries to this year's award.

Hellfire Crossroads - Introducing... (Paperback): Erin Moxam, Colin Gardiner, Thomas Tyrrell Hellfire Crossroads - Introducing... (Paperback)
Erin Moxam, Colin Gardiner, Thomas Tyrrell
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Poor Rogues Hang (Paperback): Thomas Tyrrell The Poor Rogues Hang (Paperback)
Thomas Tyrrell
R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now gather round and lend an ear, For there's a ballad I would sing, Of famous Captain Avery And how he went a-pirating. Brave, anarchic folk heroes or cruel, black-hearted villains? In the long violent history of piracy, the men and women who roamed the oceans under the black flag have been both of these and all shades of chivalry and chicanery in between. Now Thomas Tyrrell's debut collection, The Poor Rogues Hang, written with the rhythmic swagger of the ballad and the shanty, retells the stories of the intrigues, robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates, freebooters, sea rovers, corsairs, buccaneers, marauders and all-round bad eggs from the 'golden age' of piracy and beyond. You may have heard of Blackbeard or Captain Kidd, but did you know about Grainne Mhaol, the Irish pirate queen? Did you know pirates once kidnapped Julius Caesar? Tyrrell illuminates their savage, surprising and little-known careers using a pleasing variety of poetic forms, numbering among them ballads, ballades, blank verse, fourteeners, quatrains, sapphics, sonnets, syllabics, and even free verse. So splice the mainbrace, set sail and join him as he delves into the sour history of piracy's entanglement with the slave trade, the surprisingly democratic way a pirate ship was run and the social injustices and human failings that drove men to a life from which there was no turning back until the inevitable violent end. Drink up me hearties, yo ho!

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