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'The city of light' under German occupation: Paris, a place, a
people, their lives in flux. And in these uncertainties, these
compromised loyalties, these existences constantly under threat,
Marcel Petiot, a mass murderer. A doctor, a resistance fighter, a
collaborator: who can tell? Not even the people he kills.
This new book serves as his 'Selected War Poems', ranging from the
American Civil War to the present conflict in former Yugoslavia. In
between, he writes poems about both world wars, Suez, Northern
Ireland, the Russian Civil War, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Home
Front, and the concentration camps of Europe. An act of
commemoration, War Voices is a testimony to unsung heroism and a
questioning of the kind of power politics that lead to conflict.
The Real Series moves to west Wales with a new volume focused on
Tenby and its hinterland. Poet, past resident and frequent visitor
Tony Curtis roams south Pembrokeshire, from the coastal resorts of
Tenby and Saundersfoot, west to the surfers of Stackpole and
Barafundle and north to the Landsker, the cultural boundary between
English speaking south Pembs and the Welsh speaking north. In
keeping with the series Curtis view his area through the eyes of a
local and as a visitor, digging into his own Pembrokeshire
backstory - and deeper into is history but also observing keenly
the Pembrokeshire of the new century.
Tony Curtis' wide-ranging interests in visual art, the impact of
war and the nature of friendship coallese in his latest collection,
"Crossing Over". A number of the poems take their inspiration from
great artists, from early religious icons to expressionist
canvasses, from a 'buttery girl' in a Flemish Landscape to the
chainsaw sculptures of David Nash. This book includes two
thoughtful and beautiful war poems, including the title piece, a
moving tribute to World War Two Veterans on a D-Day memorial
excursion. There are also a series of sumptuous poems about
travelling, including "Postcards from Tuscany" where the lush
beauty of the landscape contrasts with the poet's mood, saddened by
the death of a friend. There are several succinct sonnets about
California, on subjects as various as vagrants in San Francisco and
the stunning cliff-face walls in Yosemite National Park. A sonnet
about his granddaughter opens this varied and striking collection
which shows a poet writing at the top of his game.
This anthology that reflects on how Wales played its part in
British battles over the past century, and critics consider how
amidst the turmoil and trauma, creativity flourished.
Ten leading artists from Wales, including David Nash, in
conversation with Tony Curtis about their art, its roots and
practise. This new collection of interviews with artists from wales
is further evidence of the current renaissance of the visual arts
in the country. The ten artists here vary in practice from
figurative and abstract painters, througha ceramicist to sculptors
in wood, stone and metal. Their work and words provide, at once, a
history of twentieth century art in Wales and a guide to making in
the twenty-first century. The book includes the final interview
given by Alfred janes, friend of Dylan Thomas, whose career spanned
sixty years. His contemporary Jonah Jones talks about the artists
as artisan, while at the other end of the age spectrum Brendan
Stuart Burns reflects on the influence of location on his work. The
book also includes David Nash, the internationally-acclaimed
sculptor, and artists such as Christine Jones and Robert harding,
whose reputations are beginning to burgeon. Like its predeccssor,
Welsh painters Talking, this new book explores the relationship
between art and place, identity, spirituality and the market place.
With their emphasis on working practice and historical context the
interviews are an invaluable record.
Tony Curtis's new collection of poems encompasses a wide variety of
forms and subjects in which he looks at the world with an ever
keener eye. Heaven's gate is the eagerly awaited new collection by
one of Britains's best poets. Though Curtis's themes and subject
matter are diverse, there is a persuasive clarity to his poems. His
style is seemingly casual, almost artless, but is actually
carefully composed. The sonnet sequence dedicated to a son studying
abroad, 'Letters to Gareth in Amherst', is characteristic. The
light newsy voice contrasts with the tight sonnet form while the
rhymes become the envelope containing and restraining the father's
emotions. Conversely, casual domestic encounters and incidents take
on a beguiling intimacy. In the title poem the hale Bopp comet is
glimpsed and consiered from the carpark of an Indian restaurant. As
ever, these well-crafted poems are grounded in the particular but
insinuated by the universal.
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OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies. OpenSHMEM in the Era of Exascale and Smart Networks - 8th Workshop on OpenSHMEM and Related Technologies, OpenSHMEM 2021, Virtual Event, September 14-16, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Stephen Poole, Oscar Hernandez, Matthew Baker, Tony Curtis
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th OpenSHMEM
Workshop, held in virtually in August 2021. The 11 full papers and
1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and
selected for inclusion in this volume from 18 submissions. The
papers are organized in the following topical sections:
Applications and Implementations, Tools and Benchmarks, and
Applications and Implementations.
Seamus Heaney is the foremost Irish poet since Yeats and one of the
most popular poets writing in English today. The poetry and
criticism of the Nobel Prize Winner are of indisputable importance
to contemporary literature, his influence growing with each new
work. This fourth edition of The Art
These poems range over a broad field, from Pembrokeshire buzzards
to summer in Bangkok, from Augustus John to golf at St Enodoc's.
Curtis' clear, concise, narrative style is free of verbal clutter
or obscurity. The poems point to his fascination with adventurous
characters, such as Reg who sailed the five oceans. The book also
features poems translated from colloquial Iraqi. Curtis has won
many prizes, including the National Poetry Competition. He is the
editor of three anthologies of poetry, as well as a number of
critical books, including "The Art of Seamus Heaney".
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The Arches, The (Hardcover)
Tony Curtis; Illustrated by John Digby; John Digby
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"Twenty-five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch
from the Albambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives, and
provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes
in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an
enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a
crazed Noah, are among the many intriguing images to which the poet
has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask
as many questions as they answer; but the combination of verse and
visual is, like many forms of art, a lie which enables its creator
to tell the truth. Certainly the works in this book challenge
artist, poet and reader alike about the nature of creativity and
the relationship between image, thought and reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Arches, The (Paperback)
Tony Curtis; Illustrated by John Digby; John Digby
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Twenty-five surreal colleges by Long Island artist John Digby, set
in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of
narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony
Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, wooly
mammoths, are among the many intriguing images to which the poet
has responded. The works in this book challenge artist, poet, and
reader alike about the nature of creativity There is also an
interactive CD of The Arches available. View the collages on
computer and create your own images from the templates and dip art
provided. Listen to the author reading his own poems, and write
your own response to the words, images, and specially commissioned
score.
I would like to introduce you to UNREST, Book One of Descendants of
the Ebony Path, a tale of the 12 Risen. It is a tale of a world
long since destroyed by technology, where the final gift of
knowledge is the magic of genetic enhancement, and gifted men and
women are are called the Anointed who stand as vanguards of free
nations and champions of empires. It is the tale of the Al-Kraal
Empire. A expanding regime built by a repudiated scholar turned
conqueror, whose ambitions are as brilliant as they are appalling.
It is the tale of the remarkable women of Venter's Hall, where
mastery of the female matrix has given women power to beggar the
gods. It is the tale of the 12 Risen. Twelve young men, some born
in, others condemned to, a life of slavery. Twelve men whose
rebellion reshaped a broken world. Lastly, it is the tale of the
Ebony Path, a rent in the fabric of the universe created by an
ancient clash of powers. A place where roads lead to the very heart
of creation and worlds known and unknown. A place where any who
descend can find themselves subject to possession by merciless
beings with angelic countenances. Book One takes place nineteen
years after the rebellion.
His children always looked forward to their bedtime story every
evening, and when his daughter died of cancer at the early age of
27, he remembered the good times, especially those few moments he
spent reading her favourite stories, to her every night. Those
times are special to every parent. A small sleepy village is
surprised when garden gnomes are brought to life by a remote star,
changing their dull little lives forever. Strange things begin to
happen in the village. The gnomes decide they are going to do
everything they can to help the villagers. There's Mustafa the
leader of the clan, Sam and Ella the tiny twins, Lofty, with his
wheelbarrow, Willy the Scottish gnome, Raymond the rabbit, Timmy
the tortoise, Dwain the train and many more; Although they work
hard, nothing stops them from having fun. Eventually, the gnomes
find that they can speak to their owners and the other villagers,
and confess their part in all the mysterious happenings. The
village of Genom will never be the same.
A Special Memoir for a Special Moment in Hollywood History . . .
"Some Like It Hot" occupies a unique place in American culture.
This beloved classic showcases five comic geniuses: Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon, I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, and Marilyn Monroe. It
has been honored by the American Film Institute as the ""Funniest
Film of All Time."" It has contributed quotes, styles, and stories
to film lore. Yet the full story of its making has never been
told--until now.
"Curtis's humour and charm, ability to turn a poem with the
seemingly simplest of images, and that understanding of how words
will play over the listener's ear, are hallmarks brought to the
fore on the page... His greatest skill is to make readers go 'yes,
of course'; he reminds us of what we've known all along." Michael
McKimm, The Warwick Review
"The Well in the Rain", Tony Curtis's second book from Arc, brings
together work from his six previous books. Bicycles, famine,
ghosts, grannies, Tibetan Buddhists, Beckettian sighs and Lucian
Freud's nudes are all revealed with a rare, and loving, simplicity.
His award-winning poetry has always been characterized by its
compassion and humour: full of gods but empty of forgiveness. In a
closing selection of new poems, gathered here as "Tossing the
Feathers", Curtis's wit and heartache surface in a long poem "The
Well in the Rain", that faces the loss of his father. This is
life-giving, life-affirming poetry, full of loss, love and longing.
John Tripp had a chameleon genius which enlivened the literary life
of Wales for nearly three decades. Poet, short story writer and
journalist, he was an outspoken and often controversial writer.
Charming, abrasive, lyrical and satirical, 'The Meaning of Apricot
Sponge' is essential reading for anyone concerned with Wales and
the roots of its contemporary identity. His wit and sharply
observed social and political comments enriched debate,
publications and broadcasts at that most crucial time in the
struggle for self- rule in Wales. 'The Meaning of Apricot Sponge'
is the first publication of Tripp's work to represent his poetry,
fiction, journalism and creative non-fiction. This is a generous,
fully annotated selection across these genres with an illuminating
Introduction by Tony Curtis and a Foreword by Peter Finch, two of
Tripp's friends and collaborators. Both writers also contribute
poems dedicated to John Tripp.
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