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Features a sequence of poems offered to the author's friend, the artist Paresh Chakraborty. The sequence of 37 short lyrics demonstrates that Andrew Brewerton's quiet poetic voice is a powerful one.

Explores the difficulties associated with having your heart in Europe and your life in Japan, across the shadowy terrains of a world grown decidedly more at risk, dangerous, and violent. This work contains poetry that celebrates all it can by means of the poet's rhythm, dexterity, and eye for the energized processes of landscape and atmosphere.

A collection of poems, featuring such unexpected collisions as Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze encountering Zen philosophy.

Brings together a number of scattered poems and prose-poems. A companion to "The Llyn Writings", this book also contains works such as the "Alstonefield Part VI", Carpathian poems relating to The Dance at Mociu, and experimental poems such as "Small Square Plots" and "Floating Verses".

If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? This sequence of poems offers a number of possible and less possible answers to such questions.

A collection of poems, which explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. Presented in a language that is elegant and oneiric, the poems attempt to recast the daily ambiguities of living with others.

Talks about poetry and sexual violence, the balkanization of the art and ways to resist it, and techniques of poetry and how they engage with the circumstances of life. This book, made up of twelve interviews, also talks of the connections between the author's own poetry, literary criticism, translations, aphoristic writings, and ancillary work.

A collection of works, written by the author of "Switching and Main Exchange", "Pauper Estate", "Anxiety Before Entering a Room" and "The Imagination in Geometry", as well as the critical volumes, "The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry" and "Centre and Periphery".

A fox hears voices. A dogfox of indeterminate gender careers round desert USA, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in stolen cars and on foot. A barkingdog talks out loud and sings. A demotic fox listens and listens. A coyotefox lies. A coyote speaks truth. A kitfox reads the signs and tunes the car radio. Kitsune eats and drinks.

Although heavily indebted with the aesthetics of modernismo, Cesar Vallejo's early volume escapes the merely decorative, and includes poems of indubitable originality, harbingers of his later masterpieces. This book includes lyrics of existential angst and romantic frustrations that appear amid descriptions of family life and Andean landscapes.

A collection of poetry.

"No Man's Land" is Tupa Snyder's first collection. Born in Calcutta, she has studied at universities in India, the United States and England. This book includes a large proportion of work presented in 2007 to the University of Exeter for the award of a PhD, and demonstrates the arrival of a confident voice that straddles cultural divides.

Offers poems by Alexander Barclay, Humfrey Gifford, Richard Carew, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, George Peele, Anne Dowriche, Joseph Hall, John Ford, William Browne, Robert Herrick, William Strode, Sidney Godolphin, Mary, Lady Chudleigh, John Gay, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A collection which uses poetic tonalities and phrasings to disrupt the chronology of past and present.

Features lyric poems containing an array of characters that personify twenty-first century language, found on adverts, shopfronts, train tickets.

A collection of poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. It reflects the fragile, elusive and disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them.

Tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the intifadah.

Part dictionary, part travel diary, part historical record, this work narrates a story of fragmented shifts in identity - cultural, gendered and sexual. It addresses the complications of translation, not only linguistic translation, but also the multiple ways we translate ourselves when we are away from whatever we might call "home."

Traces an initiation into the mysteries and continuities of history and biology brought on by motherhood.

A work of poetry covering the period 1980-1994 in terms of composition, and several further years of revision.

Includes a collection of poems by a naturalist and expert on birds of prey on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied in Britain, North America, Iceland and Siberia. This book also contains some field drawings of the birds.

A new translation of one of the greatest monuments of German literature. This translation is of the famous first part (Faust. Der Tragodie erster Teil), and excludes the extraordinary Part 2, completed only at the end of the author's life.

"Helen Moore not only has her own distinctive voice, she has also marked out her own territory, a territory at once local and universal. You could say she has globalised the local or rather localised the global, for her concern is nothing less than our mental and physical sanity, our survival in a dark time." (Anthony Rudolf)

A journal of poet and lecturer Jeremy Hooker's time spent in North America during the academic year 1994-95. It reflects on his time as an Englishman in a foreign land - albeit a land with which he feels deep ties, both personal and literary.

Galicia, the Basque country and Catalonia have often found in Ireland an "inspiring Other" whether for political, social or cultural reasons. This anthology engages in an intercultural dialogue which redefines and strengthens the literary bonds among these communities.

Presents a range of poetry - English-language work and work in translation from Turkish, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

A collection of all Peter Riley's writings that have resulted from annual visits to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales between 1977 and 1998 - ordinary family holidays in a coastal caravan, but taking the notion of pilgrimage from that terrain into the possibilities and difficulties of a modern sense of ultimate purpose.

Offers a translation of Ilma Rakusa's 1997 German collection "Ein Strich durch alles", a collection of 90 "nine-liners", composed over a 21-month period in various locations. This is an English-only volume.