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Scent of the Unseen
"In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugová retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer." Andy Brown
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The Street of Clocks
The poems in this collection are lyrical monologues, urgently delivered by a narrator who both loves the world and has intense quarrels with it. Often set against a vivid landscape — the rural America of Lux's childhood and unidentified places south of the border — these poems speak from rivers and swamps, deserts and lawns, jungles and the depths of the sea.
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Fever Tree
Jackie Wills travels through landscapes of place, memory and imagination with a luminous clarity. Many of her poems are rooted in an ordinary, domestic world of family; others take us on journeys — from South Africa to the Sierra Nevada, via Shoreham Airport Cafe. All are voyages of discover, mapped through her precise observation and vividly sensual images. She manages beautifully the conjuring trick of writing poems that begin with simple moment, observation or place, but that spin off,
— Amanda Daltontracking soundwaves through space
to become lyrical and humane meditations on the possibilities of life, love and death.
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What Darkness Covers
This is a beautiful and haunting book, full of things remembered and half-remembered, strange resonances emanating from the Irish landscape and way of life, and the poet's insight into a poet's existence.
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Sudden Collapses in Public Places
Anyone who has ever spent any time in a hospital or in a hospital waiting room will love these poems; anyone who has ever been to the doctor or felt ill or had to fill in a form will love these poems. That covers everyone. Here are poems about a difficult, scary subject, cancer, that circle around it lightly, on light dancing feet, and every so often whack you on the head. Oddly enough, Sudden Collapses is compulsively readable...
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ed. Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor
Altered State: The New Polish Poetry
Twenty-five Polish poets are represented in this anthology and the contrasting styles and subjects make for a rich, vibrant and exciting volume which is immediately accessible to an English readership.
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Between Two Worlds: The Music of David Lumsdaine
This book about David Lumsdaine is both illuminating and thorough, and is an excellent starting point for the study of the music of one of the most intriguing composers of our time.
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The Museum of Light
The Museum of Light is a strong and unusual collection, in which the five discreet parts of 'Background Noise', the uncompromising sequence that forms the backbone of this book, are interspersed by a tapestry of contrasting poems, some ironic, some light-hearted, some delicately lyrical.
The reader embarks on a journey that is both arduous and revealing, a journey from an indeterminate starting point to an indeterminate destination by way of a rich collage of ideas, images, voices and landscapes that are at once familiar and unrecognized.
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Selected Poems
Concerned with the often painful historical legacies of family and race, Harper re-visits personal and black history in these poems, in which we not only hear the driving syncopations and heady improvisations of Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis but also the cadences of those towering literary figures - among them Yeats and Keats - that have so much influenced him.
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The Shut Drawer
This book is a rich mix of situations and landscapes in which tensions are always present, where dark presences lurk in the shadows, and where the scorpion's tail is posed ready for the strike.
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