This second collection by the prize-winning poet Sue Leigh considers how we might respond to our stay on earth. In poems of deceptive simplicity, often looking at the world with the eye of a painter, she celebrates the brief beauty of our lives.
In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and ambitious collection to date, David Cooke imagines the short-lived paradise achieved by those miniature elephants whose bones have been found on the island. In poems gathered here he explores notions of home and the way humans aspire to define their space and achieve a life of ease.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered by artist Sally Castle. With an introduction by Oscar Wilde expert Michael Seeney.
Gill Learner's third poetry collection, Change, refers to both personal experience and what's been happening in our third-millennium world. At its core are poems reflecting on the sudden death in July 2018 of her husband. With recognisable images and emotional resonances, she guides us through both internal and external landscapes.
Imaginative and haunting new translations by Ian Brinton of the 18 poems in the 'Tableaux Parisiens' section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, with evocative illustrations by Sally Castle. Includes the poems in their original French side by side with Ian Brinton's English translation.
Through memories, photographs, maps and archives, Coley Talking tells the story of 19th and 20th-century life in one of Reading's poorest communities. Through the microcosm of Coley, we see the transformative improvements brought about by slum clearance, the NHS, state education, and trade unions.
Claire Dyer's accomplished third collection of poetry charts the journey, from a mother's perspective, of the transition of her younger child from boy to girl.
James Harpur entered a boy's boarding school in the 1970s and survived to tell the tale. Powerful, poignant and humorous, the poems in The Examined Life re-create a 'vale of soul-making' that, with its tragedy and comedy, heroes and villains, is like a microcosm of life itself.
This hugely well-informed and entertaining account of live music in Reading between 1966 and 1976 charts the journey from the emergence of psychedelia to the dawn of punk. Read about the early years of the Reading Festival, lost and much missed music venues, and performances from a huge range of bands - from The Amboy Dukes to The Who.
A wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of influential women, all with a connection to the Reading area, with campaigners, world changers, celebrities, Olympic champions, writers, artists, a fish scientist called ET, and one of Britain's worst serial killers.
A beautiful retrospective overview of the work of award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davis, telling the whole story of plants and flowers and their surrounding species and habitats, interweaving illustrations and artworks with commentary from the artist about the plants, the inspiration behind the works and the art techniques used.
Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece, engaging readers with the particular unease that must trouble any follower of Spencer's paintings, with their human dramas and contradictory beatitudes.
A new collection of poems from Ian House, probing the transformations wrought by aging and by creation but ranging from Wallace Stevens's guitar to a child drawing, from a medieval monk cataloguing saints' bones to Ovid's violent and sexual Metamorphoses. A central sequence explores the nature of art through the paintings of Paul Nash.
Published to celebrate 20 years of the Whiteknights Studio Trail, this book presents a fascinating short history of this 'village within a town' and features artworks inspired by this area of Reading from 28 artists along the trail.
Hadil Tamim's art beautifully combines the formal structure and discipline of Islamic floral pattern-making with British flowers and architectural forms. Alongside the artwork, the book includes commentary from Adrian Lawson on the flowers depicted.
A reproduction of the copy of the Bayeux Tapestry held by Reading Museum, with an account of the story it tells and details of its making and subsequent history.
Tom Phillips' first full-length collection navigates terrains which range from Eastern Europe, Australia and the Home Counties to his own back garden in Bristol. From the different perspectives these vantage points offer, it unearths connections between chance meetings and `big history', family stories and the state we're in.
Inspired by a visit to the painter's studio, Bonjour Mr Inshaw is a homage by the poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw. The book presents paintings and poems on facing pages, celebrating the centuries-old ekphrastic tradition of dialogue between the arts of poetry and painting.
This collection of poetry from William Bedford explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire. The decline of rural ways of life is shown against the arrival of American forces in the 1960s, their nuclear weapons dominating the landscapes where medieval dancers once celebrated pagan rites in midnight graveyards.
A second volume of haunting, emotionally complex poems from a genuinely compelling artist
A guide to the public garden near Caversham Bridge in Reading, detailing the history of the site, its owners, its restoration and the planting of the gardens.
A memoir of the life of an art student in the 1970s. The second volume of John Froy's memoir.
Jenny Halstead spent a year as artist in residence at the University of Reading's Harris Garden. This book records in words and pictures the changing seasons, the volunteers who work there and the story of its renovation.
Nine short stories by poet and translator Peter Robinson
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