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Welcome to Kathryn Gray's Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully serious. Here, melancholy and humour, irony and sincerity can be often found in the same poem, creating a rich experience for the film buff or fan of celebrity culture, as the book is full of easter eggs and movie refe...

Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales captures the perspectives of key Anglophone Welsh and Wales-associated poets who have emerged in the wake of devolution and Wales's 1997 «yes» vote - or whose career profiles and development were consolidated in its wake. The post-1997 era has been a dynamic one - notably characterised by a striking gender shift, in which women are now at the very centre of An...

This book traces the development of John Eliot's mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot's determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of conversion and Christianity. The book analyzes the spoken words of religious conversion and the written transcription of those narratives, it also consi...

The poetry of Kathryn Gray captures the voice of one of those rare, capacious writers for whom the entire detritus of modern life is colorful grist for the lively mill of her imagination. She conjures up what might have been in the grim streets of her Swansea adolescence: "You could almost see them down the backstreets/as it bucketed on a Saturday night, the purr/of a Vespa, his right foot pressed to the curb/as he leans over, calls to a girl....

This book traces the development of John Eliot's mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot's determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of conversion and Christianity. The book analyzes the spoken words of religious conversion and the written transcription of those narratives, it also consi...