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The perfect gift for anyone in your life, or a wonderful source of comfort for the self - this is a wonderfully heartfelt collection of thoughts and blessings that will heal, inspire, comfort and move. When you need a poem or a blessing to find strength, whatever the occasion, this is a rich source - and something to be turned to time and time again...'This book is golden' -- ***** Reader review'Every family should have a copy of this book on their shelf' -- ***** Reader review'What a perfect co...

FIG is the second installment of the ongoing series Goan Atom. It is a colllection of 12 poetic pieces written between 1996 and 2004. They have each previously been produced as off-page collaborations or text-installations. This range of artistic and poetic contexts and the compositional processes that result from these is a crucial aspect of the goanatom poetics represented in FIG. Each piece has been carefully rethought and twelve short prefatory notes have been written and developed especiall...

There is a poem in As far as I can see (AUP, 1999) that imagines a future time: They gave me flowers and asked where I would go. To open the eyes of the soul, I said. There is a way but this is only the first gate. milk and honey is a dance to the music of that future time. It looks back and remembers. It looks forward and tries to see what will happen next. Its theatre is the world turning round and what can be saved each day from a life of the imagination. It builds tentative structures...

This title features "Adorno on the Gold Coast" - who can blame the barometer for being called a gauche gauge which in any case is better than guage, or body thermometer oracle of the oral cavity that cannot stop your torso from wheezing in sync with the refrigerator set one notch below very very cold as the crimson rosella seems to have recovered from its defenestrating flight and tottered sous la guage affixed to the garage next door and you just don't know how to pick through what was discover...

Provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has impacted on Chaucer studies in the 15 years up to 1998. The text anthologizes some of the most important critical work in the field and provides an introduction which considers Chaucer and Postmodernism.

THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics,...

Transporting you back to those fanciful days of childhood, 'A Bit of Nonsense' is a collection of classic limericks and stories from Edward Lear that will not fail to delight.

The Rain Diaries is a book you’ll want to hold on to, accessible without being easy. It’s poetry that makes you think and feel. Words without the blinkers. At times, it says the unsay able with a power that kicks you in the chest. Within this collection there are people you’re already aware of even if you’ve never met them, because these poems reflect worlds glimpsed at odd angles that de-familiarise the well known, and make the unfamiliar recognisable. There’s genuine love in here, love of a ci...

These quiet and lyrical poems take on the difficult task of maintaining a living connection with literary tradition. `The Graft’ turns upon moments of uncertain feeling wherein the clarity of loss dispels our anxious dialectical interrogations. The poems are cross-pollinated with images of cyclical change, haunting, germination, hibernation and resurrection. The desire of order runs up against the fact of our hybridity, which is reflected in the delicately variegated forms of this collection: `a...

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