Transforms Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann.
Track is a book-length poem, originally released in the USA by Spuyten Divil in three volumes.
In this generous assembling of work fromthe past ten years, Robert Vas Dias explores meanings and resonances inherent in art and the suggestive implications of objects which both make up the quotidian and help to define us. This is a poetry of 'domestic tranquillity' as well as chaos, of the absurd and the numinous, of the serious and comedic.
In the mid-1950s, a small but energetic group of young Turkish poets exploded into creative life. Their cosmopolitan experimentalism sent shock waves through the literary establishment. They became known as the Ikinci Yeni (The Second New). This anthology introduces broad selections from five of the leading Ikinci Yeni poets.
Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between Becquer, Ruben Dario and the generation of Jimenez, Lorca, Alberti, Guillen and Aleixandre. Born in Seville in 1875, he lived a reticent life as a poet and schoolmaster; he died a refugee in France after escaping from Franco's new Spain.
In Buried Music, Peter Robinson continues his work of discovering poetry in everyday, anywhere places. It is as if, as Roy Fisher intuited, 'he carries a listening device, alert for the moments when the tectonic plates of mental experience slide quietly one beneath another to create paradoxes and complexities that call for poems to be made.'
"Diagrams are meant to be clear, precise, serious and informative but in David Greenslade's eyes they become ambiguous, playful and misleading. harbouring deep, mysteries. Read at your peril: you will never be able to view a diagram in the same way again." (Donald Norman, author of Psychology of Everyday Things)
Set in 'South-Wets Wales' Illennium is a cut-up sonnet sequence which draws on recent theories about the social role of shame, as it kaleidoscopically traces the trajectory of a romantic attachment across a tangle of shifting friendships.
A collection in English by one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway.
"Flags" was the only volume of poetry published by the Russian emigre poet Boris Poplavsky (1903-1935) during his own lifetime. A significant Surrealist volume, it is one of the 'lost' creations of a man who has been called the greatest of the Russian emigre poets. This book opens a window onto a fascinating and unfairly neglected figure.
The insidious peril that haunts these pages appears in various guises against a backdrop of France, Germany, Greece, the USA and the UK. Stalker is a collection of prose poems in which the narrator attempts to make sense of everyday experience, turning to Rilke, Van Gogh, Steinbeck and others in her quest for understanding.
Presents the author's first collection since his "Collected Poems" and the analysis memoir, "Dreaming Arrival", published by Shearsman in 2008.
Explores ideas of belonging and displacement. This work weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. It shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both sacred and profane.
Presents a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power.
Born in Dublin in 1954, the author spent some time in Spain and the UK, and then lived and worked in the mid-west of Ireland. This collection brings together his seven published volumes.
Sir Thomas Wyatt is remembered today as one of the most important poets in the English language, and as the man who brought the sonnet into English, with imitations and re-creations of Petrarch. His work is broader than that, however, and he showed himself to be a fine elegist and satirist as well as a lyric poet of the very first order.
Features poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining juxtapositions and in breathless passages of 'stream-of-consciousness' rant, which work wonderfully on the page or performed live.
Features a poetry collection formed from a mass of influences but most prominently from three classic Japanese anime: "Ghost in the Shell", "Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2", and "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, this title is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling.
A work in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher.
A book of longing. It examines what it means to be fully alive to the world.
While the Western world was declaring war on an abstraction, the author had been drawing up peace terms with a host of them. What came from them were promptly anthologized in "The Boodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations". This work features extended reflections that look out on the world and see a wounded head bandaged in clouds.
Takes off from a palindrome quoted in Anne Michael's novel, "Fugitive Pieces": 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?'
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