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These poems are concerned in one way or another by encounters the Outer Hebrides and its landscapes, inspired by summers spent there since childhood, and chart an inner journey of growing awareness of the world as much as the physical journey to reach that destination. The poems range from triple haiku in Gaelic, to reflections on the natural world, fauna, landscape, and the constant presence of the past in form of standing stones, to longer...

Whether dealing with Greek gods, kings, politicians, terrorists, or capitalists, 19 Women explores the ability and power to take by force that which is desired. Man 'treats the world like firewood' and insists 'I will have what I came for'. Violence and greed are softened by moments of jewelled beauty where 'all your lovers' hearts are garnets, strewn' and 'emeralds are embedded in walls, like [...] eyes'. Peter Clive's collection asks the rea...

Moonsong expands the definition of philosophy. It seeks to understand the nature of existence, knowledge, thought, religion, and the meaning of life. Whether looking at space exploration, the creation of the universe, or cave paintings in the Pyrenees, Clive's poems advise 'there is no darkness, only light, everywhere and always'. Where the hiss of atoms jostling in the air' can be experienced on a 'mundane Monday morning' train journey to wor...

Forces of aggression, ideology and greed isolate us from each other. Peter Clive's second poetry collection "stowaway" explores the human experience of shared pain and expresses solidarity with refugees and the victims of war.

God announces himself with fire / only because we have invented darkness, / and when we try to emulate him, / our own announcements - beacons / lit across the forty thousand generations of the age of fire / - take the form of tower blocks burning in the night, / nuclear detonations turning the desert to glass, / concentration camp chimneys, / the ramparts of glaciers collapsing into the sea".As the imperatives imposed on us by climate change g...

Peter Clive examines Beethoven's relations with the multitude of persons who formed his circle: relatives, friends, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With over 450 entries, this volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the subject currently available in any language.

This lively, fascinating book is the first of its kind on Schubert. It appears at a time when interest in Schubert's life and compositions is greater than ever, and its publication coincides with the celebration of the bicentenary of Schubert's birth in 1797. The book opens with a chronicle of the composer's life, followed by more than 300 biographical entries on Schubert's friends and acquintances, and on the numerous persons with whom he bec...