Rickerby helen (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "A new poetry collection that takes readers among 'the unsilent women', from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. 'Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys. 'Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us how to live? In her fourth collection of poetry, Helen Rickerby takes readers on a journey into women's writing, a quest for philosophical answers, and an investigation of poetic form. The poems in How to Live engage in a conversation with 'the unsilent women' - Hipparchia and George Eliot, Ban Zhao and Mary Shelley. They do so in order to explore philosophical and practical questions: how one could or should live a good life, how to be happy, how to not die, how to live. …

Unknown Binding. Zustand: Good. A small, hand-bound volume of biographical poetry by conference participants in Truth Or Beauty: Biographical Poetry, Victoria University of Wellington, 26-28 November 2014. Cover has a few marks. 52 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. A chapbook of biographical poetry produced in connection with the 2014 Truth or Beauty: Poetry and Biography conference at Victoria University of Wellington. The poems explore the possibilities and limitations of representing real lives through poetry. Some offer relatively direct accounts of their subjects, while others use impressionistic, episodic, mythical or experimental approaches that question whether biography can ever convey an entirely factual truth. Contributors include Airini Beautrais, Amy Brown, Helen Rickerby, Harry Ricketts, Robert Sullivan, Chris Tse, Karlo Mila, Nina Powles and numerous other New Zealand and Australian poets.…

Zustand: New. 2026. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 96 pages. Cover worn A new poetry collection that takes readers among ?the unsilent women?, fr om Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ?Women who speak have always been monstrous. T hat twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.? ?? Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us ho w to live? In her fourth collection of poetry, Helen Rickerby takes readers on a journey into women?s writing, a quest for philosophical answers, and an inves tigation of poetic form. The poems in How to Live engage in a conversation with ?the unsilent women? ? Hipparchia and George Eliot, Ban Zhao and Mary Shel ley. They do so in order to explore philosophical and practical questions: how o ne could or should live a good life, how to be happy, how to not die, how to liv e. Rickerby thinks through the ways that poetry can build up and deconstruct a l ife, how the subtext and layers inherent in poetry can add to the telling of a l ife story, and how different perspectives can be incorporated into one work ? the place where poetry meets essay, where fiction meets non-fiction, where biogr aphy meets autobiography, where plain-speaking meets lyricism, where form pushes against digression. The work is witty (?Perhaps I should ban ?perhaps.? ?) and self-reflexive (?Am I afraid that if I let the words leak out, they?l l mix with oxygen and become prose??) as Rickerby draws on the intensity, symb olism and layering of poetic form, using poetry as a space of exploration of ide as, of thinking, of essaying.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Helen Rickerby is a poet, editor and publisher who lives in Wellington. She has published 2. 5 collections of poetry with the chapbook Heading North (Kilmog 2010) her most recent. She is co-managing editor of JAAM and runs boutique poetry publisher Seraph Press. The poems in Cinema look at the personal through the lens of a camera and the world of cinema through the unfiltered eye. Meet the boy who learns to kiss from action movies, the girl made up of symbols and the director with the aesthetic of a sniper on the roof. Hoopla Series 2014. 78 pages.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A surprising and genre-bending poetic memoir about the years when everything got weirder.