Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.
The Teller and the Tale, the latest book from novelist, playwright, biographer and critic, Gabriel Josipovici, contains essays which take a fresh, analytical approach to the works of literary giants including Proust, Kafka, Eliot, Beckett, Muriel Spark, and many more. Josipovici is the authoritative voice in literature, and this book is the ......
Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them.
Presents a collection of poems that evoke the poet's long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. Opening with a death in winter, the author renders a tender work of mourning which is moving but not dispiriting. She uses the words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence.
These brief and telling stories of rustic life and love are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montes - "over the mountains" - region of North East Portugal. The author speaks of the men and women living there, complex in emotion and thought, and elusive and thrifty with words.
Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewiss search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars. It also ......
A rich harvest of primarily conversational poems from 1966 to 2021. This collection turns, cuts and stumbles through the self-contradictions, self-deceptions and absurdities of everyday life.
Tablets: Secrets of the Clay transforms the world's first letter symbols, cut onto clay tablets, into matters of our modern everyday life. The poems are accompanied by drawings inspired by the ancient Sumerian images. These short poems, which can be read as Iraqi haiku, invoke an urgent wisdom beyond their original borders. In her author's note, ......
First published in 1899 and subsequently out of print for over 50 years, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism, introducing the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. This new critical edition includes an introduction, chronology, notes and illuminating appendices.
