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Plot 29: a Love Affair with Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Plot 29: a Love Affair with Land

Plot 29 is on a London allotment site where people come together to grow. It's just that sometimes what Allan Jenkins grows there, along with marigolds and sorrel, is solace.

LONDON'S CITY. BY ALAN JENKINS. NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKEN BY BILL MACKENZIE.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

LONDON'S CITY. BY ALAN JENKINS. NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIALLY TAKEN BY BILL MACKENZIE.

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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Becoming Ethical
  • Language: en

Becoming Ethical

This book is a practical guide for counselors and therapists who work in the field of interventions with men who have engaged in violence or sexual abuse towards partners and family members. The book argues that intervention practices must move beyond attempts to coerce, confront, or educate a seemingly unwilling or unmotivated man. Instead, it offers respectful intervention practices, necessitating a parallel journey by the therapist, which includes: assisting men in finding an ethical basis and the means to cease abusive behavior and to develop new ways of relating * being informed by political, rather than psychological, metaphors of explanation and understanding * seeing intervention in ...

Harm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Harm

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-04-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done and suffered - most frequently in the name of love - in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings and missed chances. A new directness and simplicity, and throughout, a raw urgency of personal feeling, inform a voice that is as resourceful as in Jenkin's earlier volumes, and continues to salvage a 'fugitive lyricism' (as one reviewer put it) from harsh and dissonant realities. 'By turns jocular, disquieting, sexy and inventive'-PETER READING, SUNDAY TIMES 'Jenkins' poetry is exhilarating. . . It is charged with erotic energy, rage, sorrow and confusion'-TLS 'Stylish, Savage, unforgiving'-HUGO WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jenkins has a restless mind: following his poetry gives his readers a rocky ride, but also a rewarding one. '-PETER PORTER, OBSERVER.

A Shorter Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

A Shorter Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

In his most eloquent and formally satisfying collection to date, Alan Jenkins plays a series of powerful and haunting variations on love and loss. The themes that run through our lives are relatively few, for all that they sound subtly different to each of us, with their own rich freight of places and faces. In poems that pay homage to what is unique to his own past experience - a suburban fifties upbringing, a heady youth of rebellion and exploration - Jenkins reminds us vividly of what is experienced by us all. The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for transcendence against our awareness of limitation: these are the things that can suddenly seem to compose a life - a life not so much reduced to essentials as seen in its passionate essence, a 'shorter' life. Though not in any formal sense a sequel, this poignant book recapitulates some of the motifs of The Drift (2000) and earlier volumes, to offer an extended meditation on memory and recurrence, and a statement - compelling, candid, sorrowful and subtle - of life's beauty and brevity.

The Twenties
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

The Twenties

The Twenties was the period which crystallised the vast social changes initiated in the first world war. It was probably the most significant decade in twentieth-century art and literature, and it was a time when America and Britain came very close together socially, culturally and in modes of entertainment. In this survey, the author records significant developments in aeronautics, motoring, radio, film, popular music, the press, sport and crime, and presents a vivid picture of celebrated 20s figures such as Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and Al Capone. There are chapters covering Art Deco and Cubism, musical comedy, and 1920s fashion.

Steel Dreams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Steel Dreams

The Great Depression begins to silence the Roaring Twenties while Charles Schwab, Eugene Grace, and James Campbell dream of merging Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube into a mighty steel company. Cyrus Eaton, a dapper financial dynamo, has his own dream of industrial power and stands in their way. He will spare no expense. The parties hire famed lawyers Newton Baker and Luther Day and top accountants George May and A.C. Ernst. These are the Gehrigs and Ruths of the legal and financial world, and they battle before one immigrant judge who will decide the outcome. Along the way, a trio of high school friends have their own dreams tested in the crucible of life. Dance the Charleston in speakeasies, pay the mob for protection, stand in soup kitchen lines, and experience "$TEEL DREAM$."

The Thirties
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Thirties

"The Thirties presents a number of different and often contradictory social facets with photograhs and dialogue." --

Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education

The drive to bring teaching and research closer together is perhaps one of the most significant developments in thinking about teaching and learning in higher education in recent years. Foster the links between teaching and research.

White Nights
  • Language: en

White Nights

Long After The little smoke-black steamer, wet with spray, You went aboard, bound for England, home And Blighty . . . The screws were churning up white foam As you stood shivering on deck, she in a cloak That clung wetly to her shoulders—the colour of dirt Or mourning—and the hat, battered straw, Without a ribbon or a feather, that, If she were rich, she would throw away; That she must wear and wear until it's dust Or she is. Round her neck she wore The handkerchief with which she waved goodbye for good.