Draws on Jeremy Hooker's poetry written over a period of forty years. This book shows the development of a poetry concerned with nature and history and the spirit of... Læs mere
Jeremy Hooker's new collection shows him producing some of his finest work.
Artist and poet David Jones fought in the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, surviving to write and paint some of the greatest modernist works on war. Now, thanks to Dilworth's painstaking research, Jones's story can be told in detail...
Features personal poems that span a life-time as the author relives moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying mother, or gets told how to behave by his grandson. This title is concerned with what lasts and what vanishes: dreams, memories, people and objects.
"Saint Billie".
In July 1943, the young Welsh poet and soldier Alun Lewis arrived on sick leave at the house near Madras of Freda Aykroyd, a devotee of literature.... Læs mere
Features five short stories that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world.
When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he was recognised as one of the finest and most... Læs mere
A collection of poems on different themes.
Simon Armitage - poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University - has been commissioned by 14-18 Now to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial,... Læs mere
At the Yeoman's House centres on Bottoengoms Farm, East Anglia. The celebrated authour of Akenfield explores the building inhabited by 20th century artist John Nash. It is part of... Læs mere
This collection surveys the culture of arctic Greenland from prehistory to the present, with a focus on the hardships experienced by indigenous communities under colonial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.