This collection of poems, from 1972 to 1990, is selected from "A State of Justice", "The Strange Museum", "Liberty Tree" and "Seize the Fire". This book also includes a verse translation of Sophocles's "Prometheus Unbound".
Intends to recount the origins of the Second World War. This volume opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe. It also evokes Weimar culture, and Hitler's rise to power.
Mixing poems by known authors with anonymous material - work songs and street cries, nursery jingles, graffiti, lyrics of suffering and celebration, charms and chants - Tom Paulin's anthology speaks for an alternative tradition, one that nimbly and defiantly opposes the 'Parnassian official order' which still dominates our culture.
Originally published almost thirty years ago. this book by John Hewitt (1907-1987) a major figure in Northern Irish poetry and literature, records and discusses for the first time a unique part of Ulster's heritage and makes an important contribution to discussions of language, identity, and culture in the North. He examines the remarkable flowering of peasant verse from the beginning of the nineteenth century and for the next seven decades, p...
The Invasion Handbook opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe. It evokes Weimar culture, Hitler's rise to power, and the beginnings of the persecution of the Jews, and affirms the struggle and the recollections of a generation upon whom the doors of living memory are now...
