Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Author: Kathryn Roberts
Publisher:
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781854446176
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Author: Kathryn Roberts
Publisher:
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781854446176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathryn Simmonds
Publisher: Poetry Book Society Recommenda
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds' first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental. Often in urban or suburban settings, her protagonists struggle with mundane tasks such as cooking or commuting or office work - all the obstacles of modernity - and then, by some shift of attention, or by some keen narrowing of focus, they chance upon the surreal or the spiritual.This is a poetry of subtle contexts and allusions, as much concerned with the vulnerability of the body as for the fate of the soul and the idea of 'keeping faith' in God and life." --Book Jacket.
Author: Jean Boase-Beier
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0826435254
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Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 1472906160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its 146th edition Whitaker's Almanack is the definitive reference guide containing a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. Available only as ebooks, Whitaker's Shorts are selected themed sections from Whitaker's Almanack: portable and perfect for those with specific interests within the print edition. Whitaker's Shorts: Five Years in Review includes a digest of the year's events from 2008-9 to 2012-13 in the UK and abroad and articles covering subjects as diverse as Archaeology, Conservation, Business and Finance, Opera, Dance, Film and Weather. There is also an A-Z listing of all the results for the major sporting events from Alpine Skiing through to Fencing, Football, Horse Racing, Polo and Tennis.
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1466895861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian) The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief-as either redemptive or destructive. This is a map of real love in all its churning complexity, simultaneously direct and subtle, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives. With poems that will find deep resonance in the experience of most readers, it is a collection that can and does speak for us all.
Author: Jean Sprackland
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 1446412784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.
Author: Gillian Allnutt
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGillian Allnutt's Lintel gives us poems of the threshold; poems that stand at the edge, looking back as well as forward; poems that arise out of known, imagined and imaginary places, such as the landscape of Tabitha and Lintel (somewhere between Haworth and the Holy Land). They show the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness in which the arational is decried as irrational. But Gillian Allnutt's poems are also ambivalent in their approach to history, embracing change where the past needs to be broken with while at the same time holding on to what needs to be salvaged from the wreckage. As the wild girl Lintel, serving in the convent, says: 'It'll be as if I'd brought the breakers in with me.' Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Author: Eva Salzman
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of women's poetry in English featuring poets born from 1850 to the present. The poems appear under themed subject headings and reflect women's lives. Authors from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean are included. With classic poems by Emily Dickinson and& Sylvia Plath to the most recent prize-winners like Alice Oswald and Carol Ann Duffy.
Author: Hanif Kureishi
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 0571319351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOmar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.