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Head Lands is a milestone in the development of Philip Quinlan's distinctive poetic voice, which is rapidly clarifying itself as an original of major importance. Reading these poems as a group in this chapbook has given me that thrill of excited recognition one feels on discovering one of those rare works of art which truly break new ground. These poems are astonishing marriages of coruscating verbal music with vigorously penetrating poetic vision, where the poet's "fingers frame the shapes of seas / as headlands hold / the seas at bay" while he "chart[s] ... / a never never never land" of close observation and metaphysical insight. No one else can write quite like this, and not many as well as this. I am now left waiting impatiently for Mr Quinlan's next collection. ~ Paul Stevens, Editor of The Flea, and The Chimaera
Phil Quinlan was a sports-mad fifteen year old when he packed his bag one Sunday morning in 1989 to play a game of football. A clash of heads on the pitch changed his life forever. Falling into a coma, he was given a twenty-five-percent chance to live. He regained consciousness six weeks later, waking to a world filled with pain. Full of hope and humour, rage and despair, this is Phil's story of chronic pain and rehabilitation, travelling the globe and finding love. A hugely inspirational tale of determination to overcome the results of a devastating injury.
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Foundations -- Information processing and nature of the mind -- Visual processes and visual sensory memory -- Masking, thresholds and consciousness -- An introduction to perception -- Theories of perception -- Mental representation -- Attention : general introduction, basic models and data -- Attentional constraints and performance limitations -- Human memory : an introduction -- Human memory : fallibilities and failures -- Semantic memory and concepts -- Object recognition -- The nature of language and its relation to the other mental faculties -- Reasoning -- Cognition and emotion.