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The late Romanian poet Marin Sorescu had a great fondness for Ireland. Several Irish poets have translated his work, including Paul Muldoon, in the recent Romanian poetry anthology, When the Tunnels Meet, and Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, whose translations appear in Sorescu's collection, The Biggest Egg in the World. In 1991, while in Belfast for the opening of an exhibition of his paintings (Sorescu started painting while under house ar...

Each two-hour double-cassette is a poetry quartet of four poets reading and talking about their work for thirty minutes.

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PAUL HYLAND, an award-winning poet, travel writer "(Ralegh's Last Journey), and magician, is alert to the source and power of his poetry. He does what storytellers and shamans have always done--he dons masks. plays games and tricks, performs modest miracles and, in all seriousness, attempts the art of the impossible.

The "weblines" Agard refers to are those spun by the West African trickster spider-god Anansi rather than those of the Internet, but in the constant playfulness that runs through the first third of his latest collection, Agard has no qualms about giving Anansi her own "website" in the more contemporary parlance as well. Anansi, whose name is given in just about every variant spelling imaginable (a sign of the spider-god's shape-shifting prowes...

These poems travel great distances across huge landscapes, both real and metaphorical: the big skies and endless horizons of the English Fens, the dust and rock of the Moon, the seas and deserts of dreams.Out of these distances, voices speak, or try to, wanting to bridge the gap, to connect, to be heard as well as to listen. Many of her characters are isolated people: the woman taken in adultery, a traveler lost in the Australian outback, a su...

The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music -- in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an interplay of the reader's imagination and the poet's intention. As in Bach's deceptively simple studies of that name, when the two discrete melodic lines of reader's and poet's imagination run parallel, polyphony is suggested. Garrett's poetry ofte...

Jamie's poetry is intelligent and subtle, her language inventive and refreshing. This is a wide-ranging selection. It reveals the generous range of her concerns, from life in the wilder parts of Pakistan and Tibet, to the difficult questions of identity posed in the celebrated Queen of Sheba.

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This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service.

Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. He opens this hard-hitting and blackly funny book of poems with an outspoken comment on where he's coming from, setting his poetry against the political landscape of Britain.

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Many of the poems in Timing are hymns to the momentary and the marvelously futile: physical love, football, the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward, fashion, and poetry itself. Several of the poems were written as performance pieces, as is the case with "Spunk Talking": When men are belligerent or crude, it's spunk talking, it's come come up for a verbal interlude: in your face Jack, get shagged, get screwed, get your tits out, g...

In this first collection, Matthew Hollis, an editor at Faber, immerses us in the undercurrents of love and loss. His poems are brimming with courage in adversity as well as the promise of renewal, culminating in a powerful sequence about his father's struggle with terminal illness.

GF Dutton's poetry draws on his different areas of knowlegde and expertise. Many of his readers from other fields are admirers of his poerty.

British poet Freda Downie died in 1993, and her Collected Poems were published two years later in 1995. Written in the last year of her life, this memoir is a sharp distillation of her melancholic sensibility. She recalls the high and low points of a poor, often disrupted English childhood, evoking people and places with the acute sensitivity of an isolated child and adolescent. She was an only child, and spent her early years living in a temp...

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between India and London. She draws upon this life of transitions for the themes in her second book: childhood, exile, journeying, home, and religious strife. In her latest collection, after Postcards from God, the woman's body is a territory, a thing that is possessed, owned by herself or by another. Her sequence, "They'll say, 'She must be from another country,...

It took twenty-seven years for a complex series of events, impressions, and memories to distill into the title poem of Sugar-Paper Blue. Based on Fainlight's 1965 visit to Leningrad and the shock of learning that Anna Ahkmatova was living in the apartment above her guide's, drawing on memories of her mother and aunt as young immigrants to New York City in the early years of the century, touching on the overwhelming reality of Russian history, ...

A comprehensive collection of manifestos and key statements by major 20th century poets from Yeats, Ezra and Pound to Dylan Thomas and Stevie Smith, with a further 30 specially commissioned contributions from contemporary writers including Seamus Heaney and Andrew Motion.

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