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Archipelago Anthology (Paperback)
Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Sinead Morrisey, Andrew McNeillie, …
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Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary
magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it
was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance
later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to
reimagine the relationships between the islands of Ireland and
Britain. Archipelago has brought together established and emerging
artists in creative conversations that have transformed the study
of islands, coasts and waterways. It journeys from the Shetlands to
Cornwall, from the Aran Islands to the coast of Yorkshire, tracing
the cultures of diverse zones through some of the best in
contemporary writing about place and people. This collection
gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the
Irish and British archipelago, with contributions from an array of
significant artists. With fifty contributors, Archipelago: A Reader
includes: Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with seven published
collections, the most recent being Collected Poems (2021). Deirdre
Ni Chonghaile is a graduate of the University of Oxford and
University College Cork. She is associated with NUI, Galway, and
the University of Notre Dame, and is known for her work in music
studies. Tim Dee is a naturalist, BBC radio producer and author of
The Running Sky (2018). Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was born in
Northern Ireland. His career included teaching at Harvard and
Oxford. He received many awards including the Nobel Prize in
Literature, 1995. Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish writer whose work
has appeared internationally. She has taught poetry at the
University of Stirling since 2010. Michael Longley is a Northern
Irish poet, and winner of the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the
Hawthornden Prize, and the PEN Pinter Prize in 2017. Robert
Macfarlane is a Writing Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He
has won the EM Forster Award for Literature. Derek Mahon
(1941-2020) was a Northern Irish poet. He won the David Cohen Prize
for Literature and the Poetry Now Award. Andrew McNeillie is a
Welsh poet and current Literature Editor at Oxford University
Press. His memoir An Aran Keening was published by The Lilliput
Press, and he is founder of the Clutag Press and publisher of the
Archipelago series. Sinead Morrisey is a Northern Irish winner of
the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize. She has taught
in Belfast and Newcastle. 'Archipelago met and extended my own
strong sense that there was a need to turn the compass-rose of some
storytelling and art in Britain and Ireland away from the south and
east and towards the north and west; away from the metropolis and
towards the margins.' -Robert Macfarlane
Poverty alleviation is a major objective of development. More than
a fifth of the world's population lives in absolute poverty, and
the majority of the poor live in rural areas. This volume studies
what can be done for alleviating rural poverty. Four chapters
address the measurement of poverty and inequality, including the
use of household expenditure surveys and intra-household income
distribution. Evidence is presented for India, Mauritania, Cte
d'Ivoire and China. Other chapters present case studies on
strategies for rural development: provision of rural credit in
Bangladesh and India; technical change in Philippine agriculture;
contract farming in Thailand; and banana growers in the Windwards.
The contributions introduce the problems of rural development and
show that effective rural development is assisted by investment in
education and secure access to credit; that equity is important for
incentives but not directly related to poverty; and that technical
and institutional reform are essential, but require careful design
and implementation.
Poverty alleviation is a major objective of development. More than
a fifth of the world's population lives in absolute poverty, and
the majority of the poor live in rural areas. This volume studies
what can be done for alleviating rural poverty. Four chapters
address the measurement of poverty and inequality, including the
use of household expenditure surveys and intra-household income
distribution. Evidence is presented for India, Mauritania, Cte
d'Ivoire and China. Other chapters present case studies on
strategies for rural development: provision of rural credit in
Bangladesh and India; technical change in Philippine agriculture;
contract farming in Thailand; and banana growers in the Windwards.
The contributions introduce the problems of rural development and
show that effective rural development is assisted by investment in
education and secure access to credit; that equity is important for
incentives but not directly related to poverty; and that technical
and institutional reform are essential, but require careful design
and implementation.
Will Morrisey again considers the political dimensions of literary
classics, as previously seen in Melville’s Ship of State (2019).
His attention to Shakespeare’s comedies is a reader’s and
playgoer’s delight. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The Politic
Character of Shakespeare’s Comedy PART ONE: THREE REGIMES:
OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, MONARCHY Chapter One: Shakespearean Comedy:
Two Points on the Compass Chapter Two: Gentlemen and
Gentlemanliness Chapter Three: Royal Dreaming PART TWO: THE RULE OF
LAW Chapter Four: Comic Errors, Legal Slapstick Chapter Five: What
Will You? PART THREE: THE COMEDY OF MORALS Chapter Six: Taming Our
Shrewishness Chapter Seven: What Does Shakespeare Mean When He
Says, “As You Like It� PART FOUR: THE COMEDY OF POLITICS
Chapter Eight: Is All Well That Ends Well? Chapter Nine: The
Geopolitics of Love Chapter Ten: The Wisest Beholder
SHAKESPEARE’S POLITIC MERRIMENT
Unleash the power of storytelling to transform your talks,
speeches, and presentations-whether your audience is a boardroom of
executives, a classroom of students, or an auditorium full of eager
listeners. Everyone, regardless of their background and training,
can improve their storytelling abilities. But what is a story? How
can you tell it in a way that delights and informs your listeners?
Take a journey into the keys to great storytelling with two of the
country's top experts on story presentation and speech writing. In
The Art of the Tale, expert storytellers Steven James and Tom
Morrisey team up and tap into their lifetimes of experience to show
you how to prepare stellar presentations, tell stories in your own
unique way, adapt your material to different groups of listeners,
and gain confidence in your ability as a speaker. In this book,
you'll learn why: practice doesn't make perfect. you should never
tell the same story twice. there is no right way to tell a story.
it's best to avoid memorizing your stories. You'll also find
helpful hints on: gaining confidence in your ability as a
storyteller. connecting with your audience. matching your
expectations with those of your listeners. understanding what makes
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crafting and remembering stories. shaping your memories into
inspiring stories. Learn how to tell stories more effectively, lead
and teach more creatively, and prepare your message in less time by
using this unique resource provided by two of the nation's premier
communicators, who tap into their experience to share a lifetime's
worth of insights and expertise.
A step-by-step guide for developing an operational plan that
identifies specific results to be achieved within a set period of
time, and for implementing and assessing every phase of the plan.
Offers a simple, logical approach that can be adapted to any size
or type of business.
We cannot understand our current political situation and the
scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full
account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This
fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the
theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated historical
phase. By contrast, our contributors see beyond the horizon of
Progressivism to take account of the Founders' moral and political
premises. By doing so they make clear the broader context of
current political science disputes, a fitting subject as American
professional political science enters its second century. The
contributors to the volume specify the changes in the new world
that Progressivism brought into being. Part I emphasizes the
contrast between various Progressives and their doctrines, and the
American Founding on political institutions including the
presidency, political parties, and the courts; statesmen include
Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and John
Marshall. Part II emphasizes the radical nature of Progressivism in
a variety of areas critical to the American constitutional
government and self-understanding of the American mind. Subjects
covered include social science, property rights, Darwinism, free
speech, and political science as a liberal art. The essays provide
intellectual guidance to political scientists and indicate to
political practitioners the peculiar perspectives embedded in
current political science. Published in cooperation with The
Claremont Institute.
"How do you do it; how do you write a novel?" For authors who have
been asking that question, here comes best-selling writer Tom
Morrisey. Speaking with the authority of a pro who has successfully
published book-length fiction for more than a decade, he
demystifies the process in a manner that is at once educational and
highly entertaining. Noted, award-winning writer Alton Gansky,
author of WOUNDS, a novel, refers to this work as ..". not only one
of the best books on the subject, but the best-written book on the
subject."
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