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Not Quite Ithaka: Encounters on the Way: A Memoir
This book is a new departure in which he has tried to convey, in glimpses, and through the characters he's met, something of the inner tone and timbre of his long life in three countries. As he's spent a good deal of that life thinking about writing, the poems and experiments in poetry he's included are given a context that are not found in the individual volumes of his work, nor in CHANGES (New and Collected Poems, 1962-2002). This is not an autobiography in the usual sense, but an attempt to give a kind of musical structure to remembered experience, in which ellipses, leaps and silences are essential elements of the narration.
Your Body - The Fish That Evolved
Keith Harrison has a PhD in zoology from the University of Nottingham. He is a former Senior Scientific Officer at the Natural History Museum in London and a former programme manager for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. A Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Geological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London, Keith's fieldwork has taken him to East Africa and South America, and he has published numerous scientific articles about invertebrate and vertebrate animals. He wrote 1,000 entries on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in Cambridge University Press's household reference The Cambridge Encyclopedia. He now works in the media.
After Six Days
Set in the colourful, intense, competitive Montreal of the 80's, Harrison's new novel explores the efforts of two couples to reach beyond the boundaries of self. Their tangled relationships hang in precarious balance, with the individuals drifting towards confrontation and an awkward, though dramatic, reckoning. After Six Days is written in taut, contemporary prose, its short, explosive scenes alive with the authentic feeling of urban life now.
Love, Variously
In this gathering of old and new poems, Keith Harrison offers specific and wide-ranging instances of how love works, tangibly, undeniably, in our lives. The poems range from mischievous aphorisms to the darker ironies of divorce, from the lyrical to the elegiac, from lost love to joyful affirmation. Taken together, they are features of an incomplete map, a catalogue of instances held together by a celebration of our bodies and the immediacy of the physical world.
The Missionary, the Violinist and the Aunt Whose Head was Squeezed
Other documents found on this extended journey not only fill in the past but disrupt myths that had been transmitted down through the years. Key to this re-visioning of the past is the figure of Aunt Betty who suffered brain damage at birth.
Eyemouth
A spellbinding Scottish novel set in Edinburgh and Upper Canada during the tumultuous years of the French revolution and the Napoleonic war, Eyemouth is a wonderful novel with a definite Scottish flair!
Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film
This book explores how Bakhtin’s ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema. With a wide variety of tones, languages, cultural orientations, and thematic concerns, film directors have updated, translated, transposed, fragmented, parodied, and geographically re-situated Shakespeare. Keith Harrison illustrates how Bakhtin’s interlinked writings in various fields can fruitfully be applied to an understanding of how the ongoing responsiveness of filmmakers to Shakespeare’s historically remote words can shape self-expressive acts of co-authoring in another medium. Through the use of such Bakhtinian concepts as the chronotope, heteroglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, Harrison details how filmmakers—faithful to their specific cultures, genders, geographies, and historical moments—dialogically locate their particularity through Shakespeare’s presence.
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separate and very ancient Celtic motifs of the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings, brought together by the anonymous 14th century author. Acclaimed poet Keith Harrison's new translation uses a modernalliterative pattern which subtly echoes the music of the original at the same time as it strives for fidelity. This is the most generously annotated edition available, complete with a detailed introduction whichsituates the work in the context of Arthurian Romance as well as analysing its poetics and narrative structure.
