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Spitalfields Life
"I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
Republic of Dogs/republic of Birds
Poetry. REPUBLIC OF DOGS/REPUBLIC OF BIRDS is the first book-length prose text by poet and translator Stephen Watts. The text was written on a typewriter in the late 1980s, then mislaid and lost. Found again in 2012, it was typed onto a laptop with minimal editing. The narrative moves between London's Isle of Dogs and Scotland's Western Isles, where Watts lived and worked as a shepherd. It is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and memory of these locations. Watts is interested in the changing landscape of London's East End: the destruction of working- class culture and its collective memory and the pace of urban development and regeneration. The writing is itself a form of activism, memorialising a lost culture through its physical traces and the stories and voices of its inhabitants.
Ancient Sunlight
Stephen Watts has lived on the same housing estate in Whitechapel, London since 1974 and his poetry is London-centric. His poems in 'Ancient Sunlight' find the ancient in the modern in the most engaging and comprehensible fashion, easily outmanoeuvring the far-right politicisation of these radical changes, celebrating instead the many elements of his home.
The Glasgow Effect
How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.
The Blue Bag
Bag for holding materials.
Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds
Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Its non-linear narrative moves between London's Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants. Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitive of writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author's distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism. Written on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript was mislaid and lost. Found again in 2012 it was typed onto a laptop with minimal editing. First published in 2016 and republished in 2020, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.
Journal Of Stephen Watts Kearny -
A narrative of the first overIand crossing by white persons between the upper Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, in an effort to open a route for the passage of United States troops betmeen Camp Missouri, later known as Fort Atkinson, near the present city of Omaha, and Camp Cold Water, the predecessor of Fort Gnelling, near the present cities of St. Paul and minneopolis.This journal of the famous soldier, Stephen Watts ICearny, now printed for the first time, has unusual interest in being the onIy known record or account it is believed, of an early military exploration that was an incidcnt of the pioneer movement of United States troops into the great trans- Mississippi region. Until 1818 no effort had been made to establish army posts beyond the Mississippi. Following the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the Americans had regarrisoned a few minor cantonments evacuated by the Spanih, and had planted a few new posts......
Journeys Across Breath
Journeys Across Breath collects poems from the extraordinary career of one of the UK's most significant poets, Stephen Watts. Gathering all of Watts' published works between 1975 and 2005 - as well as a number of unpublished pieces appearing here for the very first time - this collection is an astonishing journey through the life and eyes of a remarkable writer of people and place. This long-awaited volume presents the breadth of Watts' writing, from early prose poems, through long narrative sequences, fragmentary episodes, and later poetic meditations - all in Watts' unmistakable voice. A writer of both the intensely personal and deeply-felt universal, Watts' poetry charts familial histories, friendships, and encounters, set in both remote, rural landscapes across Europe and the changing, urban environs of East London.
Mr. Playboy
Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy magazine and the expansion of the Playboy empire to the present Puts Hefner's life and work into the cultural context of American life from the mid-twentieth-century onwards Contains over 50 B/W and color photos, including an actual fold-out centerfold
