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Cultural Writing. Born in Cork, Ireland in 1943, Augustus Young was educated at the universities of Cork, Dundee and London. He left home and arrived in London in 1967 with dubious credentials as a published poet, ' a science degree and a career to make. So begins LIGHT YEARS, a masterly reenactment of the author's literary development. "Funny, self-aware and beedy-eyed, Augustus Young is a chronicler of rare originality and wit. His episodic approach gives his writing a briskness and lightness of touch lacking in the more portentious memoir; his meeting with Basil Bunting is a comic masterpiece, essential to any future collection of literary anecdotes"--Jeremy Lewis.
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Poetry. Illustrations are by John Parsons. THE CREDIT was first published as two books in 1980/85 by Menard Press/Advent Books. This second edition has been heavily revised. THE CREDIT is an opera with word music. The prosody is syllabically based ottava rima, gradually segueing into rhyming free verse with occasional ballads. The first Act recites the story of Hugh, a product of Jesuit education, who returns to school as a celebrity on prize-giving day. The occasion is clouded, if not soiled, by the uninvited presence of a certain Doc McGuiness, a dodgy business associate. The event is seen through the arias of Brother Jim, the janitor and sacristan. An ex-intellectual, he plays with ideas ...
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Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Garden State can now be found in one place. This encyclopaedia contains a wealth of information from New Jersey's prehistory to the present covering architecture, arts, biographies, commerce, arts, municipalities and much more.
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
'Catchers of the Light' is a History of Astrophotography. It tells the true stories of the 46 pioneers who did most to master the art of celestial photography, as it was known during its early days; and whose efforts have made it possible for us to see the many magnificent pictures of the Universe featured in books, magazines and on the internet. In its TWO magnificent volumes is contained an unbelievable collection of tales of adventure, adversity and ultimate triumph and tells the uplifting stories of this small band of ordinary men and women, who did such extraordinary things; overcoming obstacles as diverse as war, poverty, cholera, death, very unfriendly cannibal natives and even explod...