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AFTER THE END
[David Sobelman]
'After the End' is a sequence of linked narrative poems, revealing a philosophical encounter between various necessary polarities: eye and ear, faith and reason, mythos and logos, essence and existence, as well as the connecting bridge, the corpus callosum, between them. The bridge is the a priori medium of language or the crossing from silence to speech and writing, but it's also a metaphysical bridge between a poet's being and the life of his soul.
{
96pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712462:9781550712469
, Guernica Editions
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AND LIGHT REMAINS
[Isabella Colalillo-Katz]
"In this new book, And Light Remains, Isabella Colalillo-Katz mobilises a poignant poesis to probe the divinities of the heart and its mnemonic trajectories. These poems are stark meditations, imagistic, hopeful and lyrical, on the paradigmatic nature of love and truth. They report the evocative experiences of a searching metaphysic that seeks to reconcile and restore what is lost on the human journey while celebrating what remains -- the indelible imprint of the soul through the language of the heart." -- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco.
{
76pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712381:9781550712384
, Guernica Editions
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BENTLEYS
[Dennis Cooley]
In Dennis Cooley's words: the bentleys also relates to Bloody Jack inasmuch as both titles are long poems, and both are responses to life as it has been imagined on the prairies. In 'The Bentleys' I 'revisit' an earlier time, the Dirty Thirties, yet the text I have constructed is in most respects recent to our time in its style and strategies. The manuscript is not constrained all that much by Ross's text, even as it is happily and provocatively enabled by it. The connections, then, are loose, so much so that many parts of the Bentleys would probably be unrecognisable to readers of Ross's classic novel. I might mention that in assembling 'The Bentleys' I was in part guided by a sense of the theatre. I've tried to run a performance metaphor through the manuscript and have, since I submitted it to Alberta, written 3 or 4 more poems along that line. I mention this not with the material. I started working on the manuscript in 1989, drawn to the situation: the Puritanism that constrains the characters, and that set against their fierce passions. I've always been struck about that in Canadian life and here was a gift: a frustrated musician, an aspiring painter -- and the two of them thwarted by the economic devastation of the Dirty Thirties and the claims of Puritanism. In a way it's everybody's story -- the force of desire and wish, the containment of their world.
{
150pp,
155x230mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
0888644701:9780888644701
, University of Alberta Press
} |
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BEOWULF
: A New Translation for Oral Delivery
[Translated by Dick Ringler]
This new translation of 'Beowulf' captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. The resulting text provides an approximation of the acoustic features -- and power -- of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. This edition also includes a substantial Introduction and translations of three shorter Old English poems that shed light on 'Beowulf'.
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188pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£6.95,
0872208931:9780872208933
/
HB,
£24.95,
087220894X:9780872208940
, Hackett Publishing
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BY WORD OF MOUTH
: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley
[Dennis Cooley; Edited by Nicole Markotic]
Dennis Cooley, one of Canada's most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In "By Word of Mouth", a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, is about our time and our place. Nicole Markotic's introductory essay discusses how Dennis Cooley plays with poetic reference, inspires with syntactical surprises, parodies contemporary writing, and indulges in wild, celebratory puns. This book roams around Dennis Cooley's poetical world and invites the reader to play along.
{
62pp,
155x230mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
1554580072:9781554580071
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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CAPTAIN COOK'S NAVIGATOR & COLERIDGE'S POEM
: William Wales, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
[Bill Whelen]
Australian art historian Bernard Smith has linked the navigator on Cook's second voyage, William Wales, to Coleridge's celebrated poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Smith found that Wales was Coleridge's schoolmaster and that the journal he wrote on the 'Resolution' voyage must have been a source for the poem. The author of this book came across Smith's 1956 articles while planning a tramping trip into Dusky Sound, visited by the Resolution in March/April 1773. In this fascinating and assiduously researched book, Bill Whelen traces the connections between the two men and 'the Ancient Mariner'.
{
208pp,
170x240mm,
February 2008;
HB,
1877276480:9781877276484
, University of Otago Press
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CHILDREN OF THE OUTER DARK
: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney
[Karl E Jirgens]
A four-time Governor General's-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in south-western Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney's poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth -- embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. "Children of the Further Dark" provides a geological survey of Dewdney’s poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdney’s career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canada's essential poetic minds.
{
58pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
0889205159:9780889205154
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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COLD PANES OF SURFACES
: A Junction Book
[Chris Banks]
The moving second collection of poems from award-winning author Chris Banks. Rooted in the pastoral tradition of Wordsworth, Frost and Wallace Stevens, 'The Cold Panes of Surfaces' describes the Southern Ontario landscape of trains, lakes, moose and pine with unflinchingly sharp image and metaphor. In so doing, he brings to it a distinctly modern edge, meditating on 'the rent we are paying to the planet for our waning lives'. Here, beetles become 'child kamikazes... a wallpaper of yellow-winged flames' and the planet is a 'Museum of Natural Beauty'. Banks takes imaginative leaps into the worlds of a magician's assistant, a fifteenth-century Japanese poet, and the Muse. Most of all, these poems eloquently describe childhood, loss in all its forms, the vagaries of relationships, and being 'a sullen young man / caught in the world's fist'. This is a remarkable collection, and a fitting follow-up to Banks' award-winning first book Bonfires.
{
76pp,
105x205mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£11.50,
0889712220:9780889712225
, Harbour Publishing (Nightwood Editions)
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COMEDIES OF MACHIAVELLI
: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia (Bilingual Edition)
[Niccolo Machiavelli; Edited & translated by David Sices & James B Atkinson]
This volume of sparkling translations -- 'The Woman From Andros', Machiavelli's version of Terence's classic comedy; 'The Mandrake', the earliest and perhaps greatest Italian theatrical classic of all; and 'Clizia', a work inspired by Plautus' 'Casin' -- brings to life in English plays whose racy vernacular language, subtle characterisation, and innovative dramatic construction preceded Shakespeare's establishment of English-speaking theatrical comedy by more than a half century.
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408pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£12.95,
0872209016:9780872209015
/
HB,
£34.00,
0872209024:9780872209022
, Hackett Publishing
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CONTINUATIONS
[Douglas Barbour & Sheila E Murphy]
Across great distances and a panorama shaped by words, poets Douglas Barbour and Sheila Murphy began writing in collaboration. Tapped to technology's dance across paper, with thoughts like bright colours coursing across screens, Continuations emerged as the product of a new creator, a 'third individual', who writes differently from either poet. Words shapeshifted and poets transformed, 'Continuations' is an intriguing addition to the growing field of collaborative poetry in North American literature.
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106pp,
135x230mm,
March 2006;
PB,
£11.99,
0888644639:9780888644633
, University of Alberta Press
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COURAGE UNDERGROUND
[Julie Roorda]
The poems in 'Courage Underground' burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs; they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and characters of the mythic underworld. The journey elicits new perspectives on loss and alienation that are both hilarious and startling.
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88pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712454:9781550712452
, Guernica Editions
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CRISP DAY CLOSING ON MY HAND
: The Poetry of M Travis Lane
[Jeanette Lynes (ed)]
This collection of thirty-five of Lane’s best poems is selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of 'home' in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane’s poems exhibit impressive range and variety -- long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art -- and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild. In her introduction 'As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve', editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane’s poetry integrates an eco-poetic vision with explorations of the artist’s task of mapping her world. Lane’s afterword reinforces her sense of the poet’s project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the 'unified disunities' of all things.
{
82pp,
155x230mm,
February 2008;
PB,
£8.99,
1554580250:9781554580255
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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DEATH DRIVE THROUGH GAIA PARIS
[Charles Noble]
In his latest work, Charles Noble further reins in the already tight haiku only to let loose, a "logopoeic" poetry. Poems of "splendid rigour" or riddles of wit that are solved by "lifetime" insights -- a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognising the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media & markets -- à la Frederic Jameson. & yet, these "haikus" go straight -- to "the shock of the na?ve". They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotle's sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, & enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarrelling couple in the bar hanging on each other's words & insistent with "what do you mean by [a simple word]?" But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span -- think architecture -- & which, more radically, in the "pleated/ crossword", "make[s]/ good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity" (p. 57), no expenses, except for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.
{
68pp,
115x180mm,
January 2007;
PB,
£10.99,
1552382265:9781552382264
, University of Calgary Press
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DESIRE NEVER LEAVES
: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn
[Tim Lilburn; Edited by Alison Calder]
The selected poems in "Desire Never Leaves" span Tim Lilburn's career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation's premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his works, providing insight into a poetic world that is both spectacular and humbling. The introduction by Alison Calder situates Lilburn's writing in an alternate tradition of prairie poetry that relies less on the vernacular and more on philosophy and meditation. Examining Lilburn's antecedents in Christian mysticism and the ascetic tradition, Calder stresses the paradoxical nature of Lilburn's writing -- the expression of loss through plenitude. The divine in the natural world is glimpsed in brief flashes; nevertheless, the poet, driven by love, continues his quest for what glitters in things. Tim Lilburn's afterword is an evocative meditation grounded in personal history. He speaks of how poetry, a craning quiet, allows one to hear what is alive in the world. He also describes how poetry is resolutely attached to both a historical moment and an individual subjectivity that is inevitably anchored in time. Lilburn's poetry is both a religious undertaking and a political gesture that speaks to the urgency of situating ourselves where we live.
{
49pp,
155x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£8.99,
0889205140:9780889205147
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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DON MCKAY -- ESSAYS ON HIS WORKS
[Brian Bartlett (ed)]
Over the past thirty years, Don McKay has created one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English language poetry. From the early collections Air Occupies Space and Lightning Ball Bait to the recent books Apparatus and Another Gravity, McKay has combined a curious, patient eye with an acute, arresting ear. His poetry overflows with details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, books, and music. Geographically it ranges from south-western Ontario to the St. John River valley to the seascapes of Vancouver Island. It blends nuanced description and complex metaphor, philosophical phrasing and folksy idiom, madcap humour and elegy. The contributors are Stan Dragland, Robert Bringhurst, John Oughton, Louis MacKendrick, Christopher Levenson, Don Coles, Sue Sinclair, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Margo Wheaton, Kevin Bushell, Susan Elmslie, Ross Leckie, Ken Babstock, and Brian Bartlett.
{
200pp,
110x180mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1550712527:9781550712520
, Guernica Editions
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ESSENTIAL AENEID
[Virgil; Edited & Translated by Stanley Lombardo; Introduction by W R Johnson]
This ample abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid' will be ideal for use in such courses as those surveys of Roman history or classical mythology in which time may not permit a reading of the epic in its entirety. W R Johnson's generous Introduction brilliantly illuminates the place of the 'Aeneid' in Roman mythology, history, and literature.
{
212pp,
140x215mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£4.95,
0872207900:9780872207905
, Hackett Publishing
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ESSENTIAL ODYSSEY
[Homer. Translated & Edited by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan]
This generous abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey" offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.
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264pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£6.00,
0872208990:9780872208995
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HB,
£24.95,
0872209008:9780872209008
, Hackett Publishing
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ETHICS OF THE ARISTOCRATS & OTHER SATIRICAL WORKS
[Obeyd-e Zakani. Edited & Translated by Hasan Javadi]
Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the day.
{
140pp,
150x230mm,
March 2008;
£25.99,
1933823224:9781933823225
, Mage Publishers
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EVERY INADEQUATE NAME
: Poems
[Nick Thran]
In this, highly anticipated debut collection of poems, Nick Thran fuses a whimsical pop sensibility with an urgent poetic gravitas that refuses to sell the human heart short. The resultant poems are emblematic of the clash between our private enthusiasms and the cool diffidence of the world around us. Here, a private school student stashes a stolen sheep's brain inside the bookcase of a girl he thinks is beautiful; a mother bakes banana bread with sugar borrowed from a neighbour who beats his wife. With equal parts playfulness and tenacity, Nick Thran writes refreshingly substantial poems about the risks we take in our struggle to remain passionate about something (anything) in an age when an ingrained cynicism attempts to keep genuine passion at arm's length.
{
72pp,
140x210mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£5.99,
1897178271:9781897178270
, Insomniac Press
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FAERIE QUEENE
: Book 6 & the Mutabilitie Cantos
[Edmund Spenser; Edited by Andrew Hadfield & Abraham Stoll]
Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of "The Faerie Queene" are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there are moments of great beauty and harmony, such as the famous dance of the Graces that Colin Clout, the rustic alter ego of the poet himself, conjures up with his pipe. Book Seven, the "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie", is among the finest of Spenser's poetic works, in which he explains the mythical origins of his world, as the gods debate on the hill opposite his Irish house. Whether order or chaos triumphs in the end has been the subject of most subsequent critical debate.
{
240pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
HB,
£29.95,
0872208923:9780872208926
/
PB,
£7.95,
0872208915:9780872208919
, Hackett Publishing
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FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 1
[Edmund Spenser; Edited by Carol Kaske]
Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.
{
222pp,
140x215mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£6.95,
0872208079:9780872208070
, Hackett Publishing
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FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 2
[Edmund Spenser; Edited by Erik Gray]
Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.
{
244pp,
140x215mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£7.95,
0872208478:9780872208476
, Hackett Publishing
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FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 5
[Edmund Spenser; Edited by Abraham Stoll]
Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.
{
192pp,
140x215mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£6.95,
087220801X:9780872208018
, Hackett Publishing
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FAERIE QUEENE, BOOKS 3 & 4
[Edmund Spenser; Edited by Dorothy Stephens]
Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.
{
480pp,
155x230mm,
December 2006;
HB,
£29.95,
0872208567:9780872208568
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PB,
£9.95,
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, Hackett Publishing
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FIELD MARKS
: The Poetry of Don McKay
[Meira Cook (ed)]
This volume features thirty-five of Don McKays best poems, which are selected with a contextualising introduction by Mira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process -- its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis.
{
88pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
0889204942:9780889204942
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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FIRST DAY
[Malca Litovitz]
In 'First Day', Malca Litovitz's third collection, childhood memories, love, nature, and battles with illness are depicted on a broad canvas of lyrical and prose poems.
{
86pp,
130x205mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712411:9781550712414
, Guernica Editions
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INTO THE ARMS OF PUSHKIN
: Poems of St Petersburg
[Carol V Davis]
Carol V Davis is the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her fascination with Russia, aided by a Fulbright grant, drew her to St Petersburg in the mid 1990s. Over the next decade, she divided her time between the US and Russia, where, as an American-born Jew, she was an outsider in Russian society. This collection of poems expresses the struggle with language barriers and cultural differences -- struggles heightened as Davis helped her children adjust to their new daily life. Inspired by Russia's rich history, its economic changes, and landscape, these poems express a unique perspective of Russia.
{
96pp,
155x230mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£10.99,
1931112711:9781931112710
/
HB,
£16.99,
1931112703:9781931112703
, Truman State University Press
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JOHN BETJEMAN
: Reading the Victorians
[Greg Morse]
John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his nineteenth-century forbears. This book explores his identity through such Victorianism via the verse of that period, but also its architecture, religious faith and -- more importantly -- religious doubt. It was, nevertheless, a process which took time. In the 1930s Betjeman's work was tinted with modernism and traditionalism. He found Victorian buildings 'funny' and wrote much in praise of the Bauhaus style, even though his early poetry was peppered with Victorian references. This leaning was incorporated into a greater sense of purpose during World War 2, when he transformed himself from precious humorist into propagandist. The resulting sense of cohesion grew when the dangers of post-war urban redevelopment heightened the need to critique the present via the poetics of the past, a mood which continued up to and beyond his gaining the Laureateship in 1972. This duty proved to be a millstone, so the 'official' poems are thus explored by the author more fully than hitherto. The conclusion of looks back to Betjeman's 1960 verse-autobiography, 'Summoned by Bells', which is seen as the apogee of his achievement and a snapshot of his identity. Included here is the first critical appreciation of the lyrics embodied within the text, which are taken as a map of the young poet's literary growth. Larkin's 1959 question 'What exactly is Betjeman?' then leads to a final appraisal of his originality, as evidenced by his glances towards postmodernism, feminism, and post-colonialism. The fact is that Betjeman never quite fits in anywhere. He is always a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole -- often for the sheer enjoyment of so being. In a sense, his desire to be as non-conformist as a Quaker meeting house makes him a radical, rather than the reactionary that his interests imply. He was a champion of beauty and the British Isles, and clearly did much to make us see the worth of our Victorian forebears. Greg Morse's book highlights this important facet of his work.
{
272pp,
152x229mm,
August 2008;
HB,
£49.99,
1845192710:9781845192716
, Sussex Academic Press
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LAST WOMAN
: Selected Poems, 1991-2001
[Claudine Bertrand; Translated by Antonio D'Alfonso]
"The Last Woman", a selection from twenty years of poetry, is a voyage into being and living, into the country where a woman reveals herself without fear. This lyricism of survival emerges directly from an intimacy of words spoken by one in search of roots, loving and spiritual. French critic, Jean-Pierre Faye, says: "Claudine Bertrand stands between Gaston Miron and Tristan Tzara: a Quebec poet who invents her own new language." This selection includes poems from La dernière femme (1991), L'amoureuse intérieure (1997), Tomber du jour (1999), Le corps en tête (2001), and Jardin des Vertiges (2002).
{
72pp,
130x205mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712365:9781550712360
, Guernica Editions
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LIONS' GATE
: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios
[Translated by Christopher Bakken & Roula Konsolaki]
"The Lions' Gate" introduces a crucial voice in world poetry to readers in English. Titos Patrikios is a poet of witness and engagement. A member of the intellectual left in post-war Greece, he survived imprisonment, hard labour, censorship, and exile. He narrowly escaped death by firing squad, and once had to bury his poems to keep them from discovery by the authorities. Patrikios endured years away from his home country, Greece, and was displaced from his family and literary community. His style bears the marks of that pressure and of his persistent need to pursue what might suffice in spite of such predicaments. At times reminiscent of Hikmet, Neruda, and Milosz, Patrikios's poems sound a note of defiant celebration. This poet's ethos is utterly humanistic and his impulses are toward praise as often as they are toward protest.
{
147pp,
155x230mm,
November 2006;
HB,
£16.99,
1931112649:9781931112642
, Truman State University Press
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LITERATURE & SACRAMENT
: The Sacred & the Secular in John Donne
[Theresa DiPasquale]
John Donne was deeply involved in the theological and ideological debates of his time. In this innovative study, Theresa DiPasquale explores the literary implications of that engagement. DiPasquale argues that Donne was greatly influenced by his response to the Reformation debate over the sacraments -- Baptism and the Eucharist -- in formulating his understanding of the written word as visible sign, of the poet as the quasi-divine maker of that sign, and of the reader and its receiver. Structured around close readings of Donne's poems, Literature and Sacrament considers poems, especially of a secular nature, that have not been previously viewed from this perspective.
REVIEW: ".the author shows a critical respect for the language of poetry which is in itself a virtue of some rarity. Neil Rhodes, MLR. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of Donne's sacramental theology and its implications in the broad range of his poetry, secular and sacred, and prose works, including the sermons, several so-called meditations, and other treatises..." -- Choice.
{
338pp,
155x230mm,
April 1999;
HB,
£38.99,
0820703095:9780820703091
, Duquesne University Press
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LOVE POEMS OF SHAMLU
[Firoozeh Papan-Matin; Poems translated by Firoozeh Papan-Matin & Arthur Lane]
Incorporates poems that trace the development of the relationship among the lover, the beloved, and love, in Shamlu's poetry. The selection includes poems that go back to the beginning of Shamlu's career when he was still experimenting with language and style in search of his own poetic voice. The chapters preceding the poems in translation, provide some insight into the life of Shamlu as well as his poetry. This work has valuable scholarly and pedagogic implications. While it is a contribution to the scholarship on the work of Shamlu, it also provides a concise translated collection that can be useful for students of Persian language and literature. This work can also serve as a textbook for courses in comparative and Persian literatures. Considering the growing interest in Persian poetry during the recent years, this book will further be of interest for audiences beyond speakers of Persian. Keeping these points in mind, Arthur Lane and Firoozeh Papan-Matin have translated the poems such that any reader, regardless of their language background, could grasp the original intent of the poetry and experience it as would a reader of Persian. The methodology has been to follow the original poetry as far as possible; where this proved awkward or obscure the translators have been guided by the rhythms and idiomatic usages of Modern English. Consequently a reader who is not familiar with the Persian language and its cultural intricacies will be nonetheless equipped to appreciate this poetry and its sublime qualities.
{
187pp,
155x230mm,
December 2005;
£21.50,
1588140377:9781588140371
, IBEX Publishers
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MADE FOR WEATHER
: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke
[Kay McKenzie Cooke]
Cooke's theme, like Robin Hyde's, is one of finding 'a home in this world': hers is an authentic poetry of place, with a fidelity to experience comparable to that of other more established poets such as Bernadette Hall or Brian Turner. Poems contain an array of striking images, developed from Cooke's exposure as a child and adolescent to the wind-whipped coastline of Orepuki, now a ghost town on the eastern fringe of Te WaewaeBay, near Fiordland. The passing of seasons features in the background of scenes which are dominated by ostensibly contemporary concerns such as a wild and woolly boyfriend, or collecting Toheroa. The poet has a gift for capturing people in day-to-day, incidental situations. Cooke has forged poetry out of common speech which synthesises unpretentiously the elemental energy at her fingertips.
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60pp,
140x210mm,
July 2007;
HB,
£13.99,
1877372498:9781877372490
, University of Otago Press
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MEDITERRANEAN MEN
[Nick Mancuso]
Internationally recognised actor, Nick Mancuso was born in Calabria, Italy, in 1948. In 1953 his family migrated to Toronto, Canada, where he spent his formative years and attended the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. He received a degree in Psychology in 1968, after which he began his professional acting career. A founding member of the 'alternative' theatres of Toronto including Toronto Free Theatre and Factory Lab Theatre, Nick Mancuso has starred in over 120 movies and stage TV programs, world-wide. He has been a recipient of many acting awards, including the Genie (Canada), The Houston Festival Best Actor Award, and Il Polifemo D'Argento (Italy). He has also written and performed his own works: Hotel Praha and The Death of Socrates, which was broadcast by CBC Radio.
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80pp,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
155071242X:9781550712421
, Guernica Editions
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MIDDLE ENGLISH POETRY IN MODERN VERSE
[Translated & Edited by Joseph Glaser]
This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted longer works, all translated into Modern English verse that closely resembles the original forms. Five complete satires and narratives illustrate important conventions of the period: Athelston, a historical romance; The Cock and the Fox, a beast fable by Robert Henryson; Sir Orfeo, a Breton lai; Saint Erkenwald, an alliterative saint’s life; and The Land of Cockayne, a fantasy. The book concludes with substantial excerpts from longer narratives such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis. The poems are accompanied by introductions, notes, marginal glosses, source notes, and appendixes, including a bibliography and a list to help readers locate the lyrics in current original-language editions.
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230pp,
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April 2007;
PB,
£9.95,
0872208796:9780872208797
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HB,
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, Hackett Publishing
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MINIATURE ROOM
[Rebecca Dunham]
With tender probing and tight, expressive language, 'The Miniature Room' explores the grace and power of the miniscule as it exists within an infinite universe. This 2006 T S Eliot Prize-winning collection utilises rich imagery and complex interlocking meanings as author Rebecca Durham builds off the classical themes of art, history, nature, love, life, religion, and motherhood to provide a sensual and inquisitive body of work. Author affiliation
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72pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1931112622:9781931112628
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HB,
£16.99,
1931112614:9781931112611
, Truman State University Press
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MORE EASILY KEPT ILLUSIONS
: The Poetry of Al Purdy
[Al Purdy & Robert Budde (eds)]
Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. This is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures. Robert Budde introduces the collection with an overview of Purdy's tumultuous life of letters, his legendary personality, his outrageous antics, his peers, his influences, and the history of his publishing career. Reorganising Purdy's body of work, this collection also re-interprets the chronological and thematic development of his writing. Choosing poems for a book like this is necessarily an act of literary criticism and Budde takes care to balance the various critical attentions that have structured the historical responses to Purdy's work. The selected poems will mix lesser-known gems with Purdy's greatest hits. Teachers, poetry-lovers, students, and writers will rediscover Purdy's unique voice. Those who are new to his work will get a full and rich sense of the man some have called the last Canadian poet. Includes an Afterword by Russell Morton Brown.
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96pp,
April 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
088920490X:9780889204904
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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N F S GRUNDTVIG -- A LIFE RECALLED
: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts
[S A J Bradley (ed)]
N F S Grundtvig, a chief shaper of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was an outstanding intellect of the European 19th century. As new-Europe reviews the old traditional cultural canon, reflective of the most dominant nations, interest grows in Grundtvig. This book comprises English translations of an extensive selection of Grundtvig's own retrospect upon events, causes and periods of his life, and of memoirs by contemporaries upon whose lives his impinged. The choice of texts follows closely that of Johansen and Hoirup's Grundtvigs Erindringer og Erindringer om Grundtvig (Copenhagen 1948). Texts are arranged in an approximate chronology of Grundtvig's life. A copious index supplies mini-biographies and other documentation of the period, its personalities, institutions and events.
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597pp,
175x245mm,
April 2008;
HB,
£37.95,
8772889691:9788772889696
, Aarhus University Press
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NIGHT WILL BE INSISTENT
: Selected Poems, 1987-2002
[Denise Desautels; Translated by Daniel Sloate]
"The writings of Denise Desautels have circulated in Quebec and Europe for some thirty years or so. She is considered to be one of the most talented poets in Quebec, often taking inspiration from the visual arts which she has a gift for seeing in words. As her translator, I was very conscious of this aspect of her work, and when various choices arose in the course of the translation process, I almost always opted for the most pictorial or the most visual element possible. 'A picture is worth a thousand words' as the saying goes, but the picture, once created, can give rise in the poet's mind to metaphors and 'word art' that allow us to see the same picture in a totally new and profound way. Denise Desautels has performed this feat of poetic legerdemain brilliantly in The Night Will be Insistent." -- Daniel Sloate.
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97pp,
125x205mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
155071239X:9781550712391
, Guernica Editions
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OCCUPIED WORLD
[Alice Major]
In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be occupied. In this brilliant new collection, Alice Major’s poems concern themselves with human occupation: how we occupy cities; how we occupy ourselves as citizens, workers and thinkers; how we occupy mythologies and metaphors; and how we occupy the passage of our lives.
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117pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
0888644698:9780888644695
, University of Alberta Press
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OFFICE TOWER TALES
[Alice Major]
"Sey forth thy tale, and tarie nat the tyme." Chaucer, Reeve's Prologue, l. 51. In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother from accounting, who gather to share tales during coffee breaks from their male-dominated engineering firm. If you desire to 'tarry the time' a while, you will feel redeemed by your pilgrimage through the pages of THE OFFICE TOWER TALES.
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232pp,
135x230mm,
March 2008;
PB,
£14.99,
0888645023:9780888645029
, University of Alberta Press
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PARADISE LOST -- A POEM WRITTEN IN TEN BOOKS
: Essays on the 1667 First Edition
[Michael Lieb & John T Shawcross (eds)]
Appearing in tandem with the first publication of an authoritative text of the 1667 first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these insightful essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in the text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise Lost from those of the now-standard second edition of 1674. This book represents the first and only collection of original essays on the subject of the 1667 edition of Milton’s major epic. The essays gathered here encompass a wide range of interest, extending from matters of text to matters of historical and literary context. These scholars also discuss the epic’s relationship to the literary and theological world it entered in 1667, which has been overlooked as readers have examined only the second edition. Order this volume separately or with its companion volume, "Paradise Lost: A Poem Written in Ten Books": An Authoritative Text of the 1667 First Edition.
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288pp,
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0820703931:9780820703930
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, Duquesne University Press
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POEMS OF ABU SAID ABIL-KHEYR
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January 2007;
1588140393:9781588140395
, IBEX Publishers
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POEMS OF HAFEZ
[Hafez; Translated & introduced by Reza Ordoubadian; Foreword by Shahriar Zangeneh]
Shamseddin Hafez, although born some six hundred years ago in southern Iran, is a contemporary and universal poet. Wherever Persian is known, he is easily recited by both King and common man. Even illiterates will recite a memorized verse of Hafez. Those uncertain about love, the future or any other situation, open a page of his collection of Poems at random and in it see their dilemmas untangled. His turn of phrase has enriched the Persian lexicon and, even more than Shakespeare in English, has entered everyday language. This has made him the Persian culture’s most read, quoted and revered figure.
His verse not only gives a panoramic insight into the culture of Persia but also window into understanding the universal soul.
202 of Hafez's ghazals have been translated in manner where the melody and the sense of the original still remains.
The pages of this edition are in the uncut format.
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April 2006;
£14.99,
1588140199:9781588140197
, IBEX Publishers
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POETRY OF SA’DI YUSUF
: Between Homeland & Exile
[Yair Huri]
Sa'di Yusuf has long been acknowledged as Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the pre-eminent modernists of Arabic poetry. In this first book-length study in English on the subject, the author seeks to provide a comprehensive look at Yusuf’s literary accomplishments through thematic analysis and close readings that place his texts within wider literary contexts. Encompassing discussions of more than a hundred poems, this study offers a coherent framework for understanding the body of work created by a major poet of our time.
REVIEW: "Ever since I began reading Sa’di Yusuf he has become the one who appealed the most to my poetic taste. He is one of our greatest poets. Poetry led him -- or rather he led poetry -- to revolt against the transcendence of poetic language and in its stead to create a new language: one characterised by austerity and its core by the search for essence. In this way poetry in his poems becomes life itself -- life in all its fullness and spontaneity." -- Mahmud Darwish. "Sa’di Yusuf is a poet of universality and multiple open visions enabling us to discover the poetics of the real world." -- Abbas Beydhoun, Lebanese poet and critic. "Sa’di Yusuf was born in Iraq, but he has become, through the vicissitudes of history and the cosmopolitan appetites of his mind, a poet, not only of the Arab world, but of the human universe." -- Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic.
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352pp,
152x229mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£55.00,
184519148X:9781845191481
, Sussex Academic Press
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REFIGURING THE SACRED FEMININE
: The Poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, & John Milton
[Theresa DiPasquale]
Theresa DiPasquale’s study of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton demonstrates how each of these seventeenth century English poets revised, reformed, and renewed the Judeo-Christian tradition of the sacred feminine. All three poets are deeply invested in the ancient, scripturally authorized belief that the relationship between God and humankind is gendered: God is father, bridegroom, king; the human soul and the Church as corporate entity are daughter, bride, and consort. All three poets, DiPasquale demonstrates, thus engage in literary projects that modify, expand upon, challenge, or rethink the natures of men and women, the duties and privileges of the female sex, and the essential role played by feminine powers and influences in healing the sin-forged rift between God and humanity.
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May 2008;
HB,
£39.99,
0820704059:9780820704050
, Duquesne University Press
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ROBERT SERVICE
: Under the Spell of the Yukon
[Enid Mallory]
Dressed in cowboy garb acquired in a Scottish auction room, a naïve but committed young Robert Service stepped off the CPR train in Vancouver, sustained only by his sense of adventure. Sixteen years later, he would leave the North as the author of the most commercially successful poems written in the 20th century. Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee', is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver were only preludes to his Yukon years and his first poems. Words were Robert Service's lifelong passion, and he set them on many stages. But it was his McGrew, McGee and other players of the Great White North who glittered with a golden glow and forever made him the 'Bard of the Yukon' and the de facto poet laureate of Alaska. Robert Service sheds light on aspects of Service's life that have been sketchily covered by other biographers, focusing on his years in the western US and Canada. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of 'Songs of a Sourdough', which sold over three million copies and was the most successful poetry book of the 20th century.
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240pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
HC,
£34.50,
1894974954:9781894974950
, Heritage House Publishing
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
: English & Persian
[Edward Fitzgerald]
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104pp,
140x215mm,
January 2007;
PB,
0936347600:9780936347608
, IBEX Publishers
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SELECTED POEMS
[Laurence Hutchman]
"Laurence Hutchman's poetry is a witness to the world around him, to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there's a refreshingly outward-looking documentary zeal in his poetry, transformations abound: a typewriter becomes a 'silent temple,' a baseball glove a 'leather flower,' a forest a 'way of going into myself.' With this selection from his previous books, it's clearer than ever how Hutchman's mix of curiosity-driven realism and metaphorical surprise gives his poetry generosity and scope." -- Brian Bartlett.
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133pp,
140x215mm,
January 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
1550712403:9781550712407
, Guernica Editions
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SEVENTEEN TREES
[Marianne Micros]
Marianne Micros, in Seventeen Trees, re-creates her deeply personal journeys to the land of her ancestors, a Greece where myth, spiritual sites, family folklore, and human encounters converge to intensify the poet's awareness of her origins, permitting her to mourn and celebrate, to reflect and dance.
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82pp,
December 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712438:9781550712438
, Guernica Editions
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SO THIS IS THE WORLD & HERE I AM IN IT
[Di Brant]
This is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language. They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories, of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin, Germany, of joyfully unruly characters in Canadian fiction, of the esoteric lives of Mennonites, honeybees, and twins.
REVIEW: "Infuriating and enthralling, Di Brandt doesn’t let readers off easy. Brandt is immensely skillful in combining personal narrative with academic critique. In her beautifully written style - she is, after all, a poet - she is conversationally engaging yet wholly critical." -- Jay Smith in See Magazine (Edmonton), March 29th, 2007. "...best display[s] the combination of her literary voice
with an intellectual argument drawn from personal experience." -- Quill & Quire, May 2007.
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246pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£14.99,
1897126093:9781897126097
, Newest Press
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SPEAKING OF POWER
: The Poetry of Di Brandt
[Di Brandt & Tanis MacDonald (eds)]
Provides an overview of Di Brandt's poetry written during a prolific period, portraying the lyric power and political urgency of her poetry.
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72pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
088920506X:9780889205062
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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SPIRITUAL ARCHITECTURE & PARADISE REGAINED
: Milton's Literary Ecclesiology
[Ken Simpson]
Ken Simpson’s study, focusing on John Milton’s 'Paradise Regained', examines the literary ecclesiology of this most subtle and elusive of Milton’s works. As Simpson asserts, in Paradise Regained Milton not only continues his critique of the English Reformation by confronting the failures of the Restoration settlement, but he also continues to develop the consistent theology of the church that preoccupied him in his prose during the civil war and Interregnum. Simpson examines Milton’s view of the church as a textual community -- a group of participants in the church who are each guided by the Holy Spirit in their reading of the Word. Simpson’s provocative and unique examination of Milton and 'Paradise Regained' will become an indispensable study, offering new views of this somewhat neglected poem.
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256pp,
155x230mm,
September 2007;
HB,
£38.99,
0820703915:9780820703916
, Duquesne University Press
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THEOLOGICAL MILTON
: Deity, Discourse & Heresy in the Miltonic Canon
[Michael Lieb]
In lively, forceful, and at times witty language, Michael Lieb has written an illuminating study of the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton. Milton’s God has always been a provocative and controversial figure, and Lieb offers a fresh way to look at the relationship between the language of theology and the language of poetry in Milton’s works. He draws into the discussion previous authors on the subject -- Patrides, Hunter, Kelley, Empson, Danielson, Rumrich and others -- resulting in a dynamic debate about Milton’s multifarious God. By stressing God’s multivalent qualities, 'Theological Milton' offers an innovative perspective on the darker side of the divinity. Lieb allows us to see a Miltonic God of hate as well as a God of love, a God who is a creator as well as a destroyer. Lieb directly confronts the more troubling faces of God in a manner richly informed by Milton’s own theology. Against the theoretical framework for the idea of addressing God as a distinctly literary figure, Lieb presents Milton in the historical milieu prior to and contemporaneous with his works. More cogently than others, Lieb clarifies Milton’s theology of the godhead and the various heresies, such as Socinianism and Arianism, that informed the religious controversies of the seventeenth century. He does so in a manner that exemplifies how literature and theology are inextricably intertwined.
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348pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
HB,
£38.99,
0820703745:9780820703749
, Duquesne University Press
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VIS & RAMIN
[Fakhraddin Gorgani; Introduction & Notes by Dick Davis]
VIS & RAMIN is one of the world's great love stories. it was the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis. VIS AND RAMIN had immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also the source for the tale of Tristan and Isolde, which first appeared in Europe about a century later. The plot, complex yet powerfully dramatic, revolves around royal marital customs unfamiliar to us today. shahru, the married queen of mah, refuses an offer of marriage from King mobad of marv but promises that if she bears a daughter she will give the child to him as a bride. she duly bears a daughter, Vis, who is brought up by a nurse in the company of mobad's younger brother Ramin. By the time Vis reaches the age of marriage, shahru has forgotten her promise and instead weds her daughter to Vis's older brother, Viru. The next day mobad's brother Zard arrives to demand the bride, and fighting breaks out, during which Vis's father is killed. mobad then bribes shahru to hand Vis over to him. mobad's brother Ramin escorts Vis to her new husband and falls in love with her on the way. Vis has no love for mobad and turns to her old nurse for help... Told in language that is lush, sensual and highly inventive, VIS AND RAMIN is a masterpiece of psychological perceptiveness and characterisation: shahru is worldly and venal, the nurse resourceful and amoral (she will immediately remind Western readers of the nurse in shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), Vis high-spirited and determined, Ramin impetuous and volatile. and the hopeless psychological situation of Vis' husband, mobad, flickers wearily from patience to self-assertion to fury and back again. The origins of VIS AND RAMIN are obscure. The story dates from the time of the Parthians (who ruled Persia from the third century BCE to the third century CE), and certainly existed in oral and perhaps written form before the eleventh century Persian poet Fakhraddin Gorgani composed the version that has come down to us.
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517pp,
125x205mm,
March 2008;
HB,
£29.99,
1933823178:9781933823171
, Mage Publishers
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WHERE ONE VOICE ENDS ANOTHER BEGINS
: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry
[Robert Hedin (ed)]
It is the unique gift of a poet to distil a place, a moment, a feeling in such a way that draws readers into his or her intimate world, inviting them to make it their own. In Where One Voice Ends Another Begins, seventy-six extraordinary poets from across generations invite readers to experience Minnesota through hundreds of diverse and deeply personal works. Quiet observations of daily life, the effects of political movements, feelings of love lost and found are explored in the poetry of such literary greats as Louise Erdrich, Barton Sutter, Mary Carr, G. E. Patterson, and Ray Gonzalez. The nurturing song-lyrics of the early Dakota and Ojibwe offer uncommonly personal glimpses into Minnesota's past. Works by a remarkable generation of poets who emerged in the '60s -- John Berryman, Robert Bly, James Wright, and many others -- showcase an astonishing literary vitality in a place far removed from the poetry hot spots of the coasts. Poetry "is what it is because an extraordinary genius paused at that point in history and touched it," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. The poets in this collection share this amazing gift and together present a moving portrait that is Minnesota -- its people, landscape, and culture.
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260pp,
160x270mm,
April 2007;
HB,
£19.50,
0873515846:9780873515849
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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WORLD FORGOTTEN
: Selected Poems
[Paul Bélanger; Translated by Antonio D'Alfonso]
This is a selection of poems chosen from the first four books published by Paul Bélanger. With Projet de Pablo (1988, a finalist for the Émile Nelligan Award), Bélanger began to cultivate his memory using various kinds of tools. In this first collection Picas-so's works become the pretext for the poet to compare painting to poetry. In Retours (1991, a finalist for the Governor General Award), the poet chooses to travel within and face the strangeness of the world therein. L'oubli du monde (1993) brings us to the more personal realms of memory. Autobiography crosses history in a well-tempered lyricism. Fenêtres et ailleurs (1996) shows us a man tackling more existential issues. This selection was done by Antonio D'Alfonso.
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76pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
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, Guernica Editions
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