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Touching Distances
In this most engaging collection of 'diary poems', Anne Cluysenaar moves through two years of life, 2010-2012, with the volume opening and closing in December. Winter seems exactly right as a frame for these poems, given the questions posed about death and life's chancy transient nature that trickle through the collection.
At Time's Edge
Anne Cluysenaar was an inspirational poet for many years in Wales after periods in Lancaster and Birmingham. She was also a founder of The Vaughan Association. This is a book of poetry offered by her friends and colleagues to celebrate the rich contribution she made to each of our lives, to remember her and to continue the poetic voice she was so much a part of.
Double Helix
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Batu-Angas
This assortment of poems draws inspiration from the discoveries of 19th-century British scientist Alfred Russel Wallace--known for his explorations of the Amazonian rainforest, the Malay archipelago, and closely associated with Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. This collection traces Wallace's travels and expeditions, recalling the scientist's first impressions of exotic flora and fauna recalled in his journals and includes illustrations and photographs of specimens collected by Wallace during his journeys.
The Hare that Hides Within
In this compelling collection, 10 Welsh poets write about a spiritual homecoming. The poets include Greg Cullen, Lewis Davies, and Sharon Morgan, among others.
Poetry, Geography, Gender
Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.
Timeslips
In Timeslips Anne Cluysenaar focuses on slippages - of time, in landscape, and between different ways of life and language. The imagination, continuously and unstoppably transformed, rides the flow of its metaphors into the experiences that underlie our everyday life. In her early poems the slippages are intimate, between the generations and cultures of her own family. 'Timeslips' moves to a large sphere of geological, evolutionary and historical change. The book ends with the twenty-two 'Vaughan Variations': the life and Usk landscape of the seventeenth-century poet Henry Vaughan provide themes for meditations on bilingualism, war, nature and the spiritual resources of poetic form.
Our Changing Land
The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive about Wales and Welshness in an interdisciplinary yet comprehensive manner. The core concepts of gender, class and identity are explored throughout the book, which presents twelve chapters in three distinct yet overlapping thematic sections: Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity, Education; Labour Markets and Gender in Wales; and Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality. The chapters explore the role of men and women in Wales and of Wales itself as a nation, an economy, and a centre of partially devolved governance, raising questions related to equality, policy and progression. The collection also features photographs, graphic art and poetic verse that both represent and extend the central arguments of the book.
Translating Egypt's Revolution
The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership.--Publisher description.
The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry
In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us. He begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. With a practitioner's empathy Silkin reads the poetry of Whitman, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Bunting and eight British poets from the post-second World War period to illustrate how free and metrical verse create, separately or together, a poetic harmony. Additionally, he includes crucial statements on modern poetry from poets themselves, concluding with a fine memoir of Basil Bunting by Connie Pickard, published in book-form for the first time.
