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This is the third volume of essays by Alan Wall published by Odd Volumes, the imprint of The Fortnightly Review. As with the first two collections, theseare not academic essays. They are, however, scholarly and charged with the author's singular intelligence and literary skills.Wall believes that the essay is the perfect form for provisional explorations and intellectual forays into the often bewildering realities of the world today. In his ha...

Digby Walton was once the heir to an English pottery company. Now old, he contemplates the history of that company and reflects upon the modern world. His range of themes is vast: from the Somme to contemporary rock music, from the first world to the third, from the Battle of Britain to 9/11.

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An exciting introduction to the principles and applications of microeconomics and macroeconomics to the global business problems faced by today’s decision makers ·        What are the characteristics for successful entry into new international markets?  ·        How can ‘sustainability’ affect decision making within businesses?·        Why are today’s global investors so concerned about national debt issues?·        In what ways does an awaren...

We always live in the last moment of history. No one has ever come any further in time. All ages shape their own apocalyptic vision, a way of understanding the perils and revelations that perennially surround us. Endtimes explores such visions over the last two thousand years, since John of Patmos first looked out of his window and saw FINIS written in vapour trails on the blue Aegean sky. From Roman tyrants to the persecuted Russian poet Osip...

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Nirgendwo hält Christopher Bayliss es lange aus, weder im römischen Priesterseminar noch an der Universität von Leeds, geschweige denn bei seinen wechselnden Freundinnen. Doch als er bei seinen Literaturstudien auf einen für wahnsinnig erklärten Dichter des 18. Jahrhunderts stösst, ist dies der Anfang einer grossen Obsession - und einer Reise in die finstersten Bezirke der Aufklärung.

1937 brennt die Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey, und nimmt Tom Lynch den Vater, noch bevor er auf der Welt ist. In den Mooren Yorkshires bringtein verschrobener Schulleiter die Steine zum Sprechen und lehrt seinen Schüler Tom zu sehen. In Oxford verfällt der Kunststudent Tom dem Alkohol, den Frauen - und der Bilderwelt des mysteriösen Künstlers Alfred Delaquay.

One of five chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, Alan Wall's Raven is a single long poem-sequence.

Doctor Placebo finds himself at the end of the western intellectual tradition, and on certain mornings feels almost as old. As a medical practitioner he broods about his patients, as a writer he broods about his poems. Sometimes the two intermingle and he can't remember whether he is a doctor moonlighting as a poet, or a poet moonlighting as a doctor. One thing at least remains constant: moonlight. The end of the western intellectual tradition...

This volume features two long pieces: the title work - a translation & partial transposition of the Gilgamesh epic - and the mixed work in verse and prose, Jacob, originally published in the 1990s and long unavailable. In both works history, myth and the present collide. Jacob was shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize when first published.

Accompanying Alan Wall's Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old masters who have lived in London or its environs: Alexander Pope, of course, but also Thomas More, Johnson, Coleridge, Keats, Burton, Rosenberg, Pound and others. Then, 'Lenses' deals with Alexander Topcliffe, an early astronomer, and the unlucky Mar...