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Zebra
  • Language: en

Zebra

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Zebra is the debut collection from Hebden Bridge-based Ian Humphreys. These acutely-observed and joyful poems explore mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchester. Humphreys is a fellow of The Complete Works programme (which aims to promote diversity and quality in British poetry) and was highly commended for his work at this year's Forward Prizes.

After Sylvia
  • Language: en

After Sylvia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022
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  • Publisher: Unknown

After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond. After Sylvia is shaped around five inspiring chapters, each exploring a key Plathian theme: Nature, Rebirth, Womanhood, Mothers & Fathers and Magic. Co-edited by Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett, contributors include Mona Arshi, Emily Berry, Mary Jean Chan, Heather Clark, Pascale Petit and Jacob Polley. This vital anthology sets out to help dispel the myth of Sylvia...

Why I Write Poetry
  • Language: en

Why I Write Poetry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-25
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Poetry Chronicle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

A Poetry Chronicle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Green Shadows and other poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Green Shadows and other poems

Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. — Gerald Murnane, ‘The Darkling Thrush’ Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth year, began his writing career as a poet. After many years as a writer of fiction, he only returned to poetry a few years ago when he moved to Goroke, in the Western Districts of Victoria, after the death of his wife. The forty-five poems collected here are in a strikingly different mode to his fiction — without framing or digressions, and with very few images, they speak openly to the re...

Sweet Anaesthetist
  • Language: en

Sweet Anaesthetist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A follow-up collection to the Saltire Prize winning Wristwatch - a vibrant, transfixing plunge into the stuff of life itself.

To Circumjack MacDiarmid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

To Circumjack MacDiarmid

More than Eliot or Pound, the career of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid reflects the restless nature of the modern age. From his early opposition to poetry in Scots to the triumphant use of dialect in Sangschaw; from these exquisite lyrics to the long dynamic poems A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle and To Circumjack Cencrastus; from the abandonment of Scots to the glacial, 'scientific' English of the unassembled Mature Art - most critics have limited themselves to a single phase of MacDiarmid's career. This study attempts, in his own phrase, to 'circumjack' or 'fully explicate' a troubling but brilliant author. Examining his earliest work, Herbert posits a symbolic structure which governs all MacDiarmid's periods, as well as explaining his need for ceaseless change. MacDiarmid emerges as a modernist of international stature, but also as a radical experimenter whose work anticipates post-modernist concerns.

Poems and Prose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Poems and Prose

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Against Oblivion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Against Oblivion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Using the model of Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", this series of biographical essays looks at 45 20th-century poets from Hardy to Larkin, taking in Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Lowell, Auden, and Plath along the way. Respresentative poems from each poet are included.

Late Gifts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 127

Late Gifts

Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful relationship in terms that are funny and re-energising, his world renewed. The child's future makes more urgent the environmental and political themes which have long been a concern for the poet. Here Price has developed new forms for his subject matter, including striking longer pieces which survey contemporary worlds with arresting imagery and a hypnotic energy, the twin gatherings of prose poems 'Shore Gifts' and 'Shore Thefts', and quieter, meditative poems of elegy and awe-struck praise. As Maureen N. McLane has written, 'He is one of our most attentive, delicate, ferocious transmitters, singers, makers.'