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Herbert's gaining of the title Dundee Makar (or City Laureate) inspired him to write about his hometown in a way authentic to its parlance and dialect. This project was unexpectedly shaped during the writing process by the passing of Herbert's father, and by the encroachment of a new intolerance in the political landscape.

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Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.

Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language", because a translation is neither the same as the original, nor the same as the normal foreign-language of other texts, for it is something unique, something set apart from either, just as bronze forged from copper and tin overcomes the brittleness of copper and the softness of tin to become both hard and pliable, as if it has become a new element. In this volume, Chinese poets and Englis...

Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality.

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This exciting anthology maps a singular encounter between two groups of poets, one based in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the other in the North East of England. Over a period of four years, these eight poets, working together as writers, editors and teachers, maintained a creative dialoge. The result is a diverse body of work including original poetry and new translations. Bulgarian poetry, liberated by the casting off of communism, now looks ...

Offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of relevant readings from the work of well-known authors to help illustrate the techniques presented.

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.

The northern word for hometown, 'toon', flickers in meaning between 'tune' and 'cartoon'. In Bill Herbert's big bumper book, the title toon is Troy: the first lost home. Exiled to a lighthouse on the River Tyne, the wily Scots maestro has written a book in love with lost and difficult things. Sometimes reflective, sometimes subversively mischievous, he registers or rails against displacement and resettlement, lamenting the passing of relatives...

A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel, Othermoor, a cubist version of the North, and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.