The 2, 500-year-old I Ching, or 'Book of Changes', is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy, consulted by performing complex routines of dropping bundles of dried grass stalks. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding and with a timeless design, this book will allow anyone to use the I Ching to predict their destiny.
A Novel. Fuses a critical look at language with an exploration of the politic and existential problems facing our species. Examines whether there is a better, healthier way for us to make meaning in the world. Set in an alternative present day, in a philosophical and literary examination of society.
We need a bigger vision for the city. Pastors Neil Powell and John James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. The more willing we are to collaborate across denominations and networks, the more effectively we will reach our communities--whatever their size--for Jesus.
The 2, 500-year-old I Ching, or 'Book of Changes', is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy, consulted by performing complex routines of dropping bundles of dried grass stalks. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding and with a timeless design, this book will allow anyone to use the I Ching to predict their destiny.
This fourth collection of poems sets daunting images of mortality against the small, incomparable consolations of human life. There are elegies for Roy Fuller and Adam Johnson. The concluding poems explore ecological themes and celebrate Powell's loved Suffolk land- and seascapes.
The poems in this collection are drawn from four earlier Carcanet titles: "At the Edge" (1977), "A Season of Calm Weather" (1982), "True Colours" (1990), and "The Stones on Thorpeness Beach" (1994), as well as previously unpublished work.
Neil Powell has been a dog handler for more than forty years and the dogs in his charge (breeds including the Alsatian, bloodhound, retriever and Labrador) have participated in every kind of search and rescue: from daring mountaineering rescues in the Mourne Mountains to helping to find victims of the Lockerbie bombing, from training the first ...
Neil Powell's seventh Carcanet collection explores the deep roots of identity: family histories we inherit, memories we carry, the casual decisions and wrong turnings that add up to make us who we are. Meditative, wry, melancholy and celebratory, this is Neil Powell is at his most versatile and memorable.
Neil Powell - critic, biographer and, pre-eminently, a poet of calm force. Now playful, now elegiac, his Collected Poems is a testament to civility. His landscapes and seascapes, his sense of music and friendship, root in the reader's memory.
Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, are images that dominate Neil Powell's collection of poems. His work ranges from an evocative recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to a fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast, from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills through a sequence of sonnets set in the Waveney valley. As is typical of his poems, a sense of place is evoked--the great brooding North Sea laps at the...