Conscious and Verbal is Les Murray's first book since his celebrated verse novel Fredy Neptune, described by Peter Porter in the Independent as, 'a true verse novel, not just a tour de force but a sustained piece of storytelling in poetry.' Conscious and Verbal is full of stories, too: political stories as in the harrowing 'At the Swamping of ......
This second collection by an acclaimed poet and editor is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world.
These essays, first published between 1925 and 1927, propose a radical overhaul and a new construction of Scotland's cultural identity. MacDiarmid focuses on poetry and the novel, on theatre, art, music, history and education, and also on writing by women in Scotland.
Traces a journey, across continents and from youth to maturity. This book moves from memories of childhood in Guyana, through a long elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, to the reflective closing section. It celebrates how imagination and memory enable us to cope with violence and death.
Gabriel Josipovici's acclaimed novel reissued in 2018.
Josipovici's novel is based on the life of Pierre Bonnard, the painter of enchanting domestic interiors and innocently unsensual nudes. A thoughtful and deeply felt piece told in three parts from the perspectives of Bonnard's wife, daughter, and the painter himself.
This collection, published for John Clare's bicentenary, comprises the tales he wished to include in his third collection, "The Shepherd's Calendar" (1827), previously unpublished poems, Clare's own description of local customs and his draft essay on English pastoral poetry.
This is a book of poems with a specific aim: to analyze the power of illusion. It shows how the power of illusion is generated not from "cultural forces" but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance, and considers the Christian guarantee of salvation.
This novel is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like the author himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds.
Suggests both continuity and change. This title features two sections that continue the idiom of "Turns" (1975) and include many poems on English themes. It contains the two concluding sequences that chart voyages across the Atlantic.
