Animaculture
Animaculture

Author: Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

Publisher: Seren Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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This eagerly awaited collection by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is her first since 1990's acclaimed Book of Shadows. Her style is intensely lyrical and imaginative but also finely controlled and tempered by a keen intelligence. This collection includes shorter lyrics as well as two fine sequences. There are poems here inspired by personal experience: by family, dreams and childhood memories. Others are re-interpretations of myths or historical anecdotes. Always evident is the author's profound and passionate response to nature; these poems are steeped in all weathers and seasons. The 'Sculpture at Margam' sequence is a series of meditations based around the history and setting of Margam Abbey on the coast of south Wales, while the five parts of 'Spring in Saskatchewan' vividly evoke the scenes, myths and events encountered by the author on a recent visit to Canada. The critics on the author's last collection: "... unusually readable; an attractive book, written with contagious enthusiasm by a conscientious author in love with her subject. Admirers should flock in plenty" Anne Stevenson, Stand "... fluid and integrated, rhythm and theme perfectly harmonised" Richard Poole, Planet Hilary Llewellyn-Williams was born in Kent but made her home in west Wales for a number of years, before moving recently to Pontypool. Widely published, she has read her work in a variety of venues and taught in schools, workshops and seminars. She has also travelled in Europe and North America. Her collections for Seren are The Tree Calendar, Book of Shadows and Animaculture.

Poetry, Geography, Gender
Poetry, Geography, Gender

Author: Alice Entwistle

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-09-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0708326706

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Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.

The Waterfalls of England
The Waterfalls of England

Author: Griffith Fellows

Publisher: Sigma Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781850587675

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From Northumberland in the north to the southern tip of Cornwall there are over 200 easily accessible waterfalls to admire. Each waterfall is given a unique star rating for its attractiveness and appeal together with clear directions and graded access according to the severity of the route.

Seren Selections
Seren Selections

Author: Amy Wack

Publisher: Seren Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Introducing 11 new British poets, this compact anthology features fresh voices with an emphasis on Welsh poets but also highlights writers from elsewhere in Britain. Though most of these young writers have not yet published a collection, several of them have already won the Eric Gregory Award for writers under 30, while many have been anthologized or published in magazines. This diverse sampler of contemporary British poetry is a wider showcase for the work of these promising talents.

Soul-Violence
Soul-Violence

Author: Wolfgang Giegerich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1000176436

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"All steps forward in the improvement of the human psyche have been paid for by blood." Further to this statement from C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich’s third volume of Collected English Papers shows that the soul is not merely the innocent recipient or victim of violence: it also produces itself through violent deeds and expresses itself through violent acts. Beginning in primordial times with the ritual spilling of blood in animal and human sacrifice, a light was kindled within the darkness of what would otherwise have been mere biological existence, the light of consciousness, mindedness, and "the soul." And following upon this, in the clearance thus created, the soul attained new statuses of itself on the historic battlefields of war and revolution. First-order killings gave way to second-order killings, the killings of metaphysics and philosophy. Turning around upon itself (even as it violently engaged those adversarial others through whom its self-relation was mediated) the soul learned to self-critically cut into itself. It was in this way, as the inwardness of the blood that was paid out for it, that psychology emerged. Topics include ritual slaughter as primordial soul-making, shadow integration and the rise of psychology, blood-brotherhood and blood-revenge, the alchemy of history, Kafka’s "In the Penal Colony," child sacrifice, Islamic terrorism, and the animus as negation with special reference to Bluebeard.

Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales
Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales

Author: Marie-Luise von Franz

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780919123779

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From the author's preface: "This book is a collection of fairy tale interpretations I presented in a series of lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. I did not want to focus on a specific theme but rather to wander through many countries and types of fairy tales. I chose some that challenged me because they were unusual. I wanted to show both their diversity and their underlying similarities, so that one could appreciate what is common to all civilizations and all human beings, and I wanted to show how Jung's method of interpreting archetypal fantasy material could be applied to these diverse tales."