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Collected Poems
Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet 'whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to their lives and writes them up. God's Zoo (Carcanet, 2014), Evan Jones describes as 'a world journey through London's exiled and émigré artists, writers, poets and musicians'. He likes middle-length forms, less the lyric than the epylion, the epistle, dramatic monologue and eclogue. One of his tutelary spirits is the great Leopardi. Music is everywhere, notably Chopin and George Sand: music seems to propose some of the forms he chooses and how he modulates them. 'All parts give meaning to the whole,' he says, and proves it again and again. Kociejowski has produced over the last five decades a fine, refined body of work which this book celebrates.
A Factotum in the Book Trade
The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the village jumble sale he bought poetry volumes for their pebbled-l...
The Pebble Chance
Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marías.
The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool
Based on five journeys to Syria, with a cast of lively characters, this book is in danger of becoming a testament to the last of the Levant. With B AND W photos.
Zoroaster's Children and Other Travels
""Zoroaster's Children" brings together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing"--
Music's Bride
Fine second collection of poems from contemporary poet living in London.
The Serpent Coiled in Naples
A travelogue revealing the hidden stories of Naples. In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new destination in Italy. While many of its more unusual features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski’s portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things: Vesuvius, the mafia-like Camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.
God's Zoo
This book is the record of a journey through the world cultures of contemporary London. More specifically, it records a series of encounters with individuals who, although otherwise very different from each other, have three things in common. They are all displaced from their homeland or their origins. They have all become, in some sense, Londoners. And they are all, in their own fields, creative artists. Drawing on many hours of recorded conversation, but distilled with a poet's eye for form and for the telling detail, God's Zoo weaves its story from many stories, each chapter gaining resonance from the others. This is a book about many things. It bears witness to the difficulties encountered by people who have left behind not only a homeland but also family, culture and language. It is also a portrait of a city: London, as Kociejowski writes, is the main character even though it sits and watches silently for most of the time. Above all, it is a testament to the enduring value of art and creativity in human lives.
Palavers
Middleton was one of Britain's finest poets. He wrote his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement. The journal appears here in conjunction with conversations tape-recorded by Marius Kociejowski in London.
Summary of Marius Kociejowski's The Serpent Coiled in Naples
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Martorelli’s book is a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. It is the only proof of its former existence. The book is still available for inspection and purchase. #2 Martorelli’s book was a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. It was the only proof of its former existence. The book is still available for inspection and purchase. #3 Martorelli’s theory that Homer lived in Naples and founded the university there was not well received, and he lost his reputation. He began to believe that much of what we take to be Greek culture was in fact exported from ancient Italy to Greece. #4 Jacopo Martorelli was a Neapolitan philosopher who wrote a 738-page treatise on a bronze octagonal inkpot that was subsequently housed in the museum at Portici. He believed that much of what we consider Greek culture was actually imported from ancient Italy to Greece.
