Poetry Wales

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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Poetry Wales

Poetry Wales PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Fur Coats in Tahiti

Fur Coats in Tahiti PDF Author: Jeremy Over
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784107646
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Wales Poetry Book of the Year Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group and the New York school. There are scissor snips and slips of the tongue and eye in a sequence of word and image compositions derived from an Edwardian illustrated dictionary. Elsewhere there are childlike, and plain childish, oral and aural pleasures to be had with bananas, cherries and Slobodan Zivojinovic; tahini and Petroc Trelawny. The book begins with 'O', an openmouthed astonishment at nativity, and ends, not with Z but, in the hope of further connection, with the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet: '&'.

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me PDF Author: Kate Clanchy
Publisher: Swift Press
ISBN: 1800751664
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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With a new afterword. 'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip Pullman Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career. Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit', trying to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance. While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and drastically under-resourced. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me will show you why it shouldn't be. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020

Poetry 1900-2000

Poetry 1900-2000 PDF Author: Meic Stephens
Publisher: Library of Wales
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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"Poetry 1900-2000 brings together a vibrant expression of the industrial, pastoral, rural, urban, religious, political and linguistic experience of Wales in the twentieth-century world. The poetry collected here is as varied as Wales itself, and ranges from the well known to the startling, from the lyrical to the experimental, the celebration of tradition to that of protest. Each poet's biography situates the writer in a social and literary context, and the collection presents an unparalleled panorama of the development of Welsh poetry in English in the twentieth century." --Book Jacket.

The History of Wales in Twelve Poems

The History of Wales in Twelve Poems PDF Author: M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786837684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects of the Welsh past into focus. Together, they give the flavour of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, in the Welsh language and in English, that is internationally renowned for its distinction and continuing vibrancy.

100 Poems to Save the Earth

100 Poems to Save the Earth PDF Author: Zoe Brigley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781726242
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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100 Poems to Save the Earth is a concise, eclectic and engaging anthology of poems in English addressing the climate crisis, edited by Welsh poets and enviromentalists Zo Brigley and Kristian Evans and including poems from America, UK, Ireland and beyond, such as Roger Robinson, Rhian Edwards, Tishani Doshi, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and George Szirtes.

Poetry, Geography, Gender

Poetry, Geography, Gender PDF Author: Alice Entwistle
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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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.

Death Magazine

Death Magazine PDF Author: Matthew Haigh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784632069
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Death Magazine is a futuristic, glossy body horror magazine in poetry form. It takes our cacophonous obsession with perfectionism and turns it into a series of synthetic, blackly-comic nightmares.

My Family and Other Superheroes

My Family and Other Superheroes PDF Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781721643
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Leaping from the pages, jostling for position alongside the Valleys mams, dads, and bamps, and described with great warmth, the superheroes in question are a motley crew: Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun, and a recalcitrant hippo. Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working-class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out. This is a postindustrial valleys upbringing re-imagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism.

Footnotes to Water

Footnotes to Water PDF Author: Zoë Skoulding
Publisher: Seren is the book
ISBN: 9781781725269
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Footnotes to Water, poet Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bièvre in Paris, and tracks the literary hoofprints of sheep through Welsh mountains. In these journeys she reveals urban and rural locales as sites of lively interconnection, exploring the ways in which place shapes and is shaped by language.