Böcker av Richard Burns

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2022, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2022. The 11 full papers and 19 short papers presented together with 5 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. 8 chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book starts with a long poem 'Do vidjenje Danitse', and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac Concentration Camp.

Set in the ruins of Yugoslavia, this book explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key figure is the Balkan rain maiden. This gypsy or peasant girl takes on a mythological authority and a wholly modern moral presence. In the wake of waste and war she is the incarnation of hope.

The action of this book-length poem unfurls in the public and private worlds of corporate man. The Manager is a poet's response to challenges thrown down by T.S. Eliot more than eighty years ago in The Waste Land. Its ground is identity, sexuality and vision. Its occupation is mind, heart and spirit.

This first volume of Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten consists of longer poems written between 1965 and 2000, in Greece, Italy, England and Yugoslavia. While some poems have their focal points in a recognisably English landscape and consciousness, there is no insular limitation on the matter.

Taking its departure from both the Nazi massacre at Kragujevac in former Yugoslavia in 1941, and a moment at the memorial museum in 1985, when a blue butterfly descended onto the author's writing hand, this profound book crafts living poetry out of suffering and tragedy.

In a lively style, this text shows how anyone can improve their chances of exam success by following a few simple rules. It contains tips for exam preparation and for improving performance in the exam itself.

This collection brings together many of the poet's continuing preoccupations: the idea that no book is complete till a reader reads it; that the totality of any writer's oeuvre constitutes one work, one book; and the Biblical and mystical idea of the Book of Life.