Birdfish books (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poems by Australian poets Tegan Gigante and Sarah Gale.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I'm drawn to the attractive scope, humanity and acuity of Wallis's vision. His poems reflect wide travel in fact and in imagination. Often entertaining in their responses to appealing poets like Larkin and McGough, or in self-ironising accounts of life experience (in 'Table Tennis', 'Anzac Day', and the splendid title poem), they embody a broad empathy for fellow lovers and explorers of the emotions. 'Honeymoon Bay', and 'The Story of a Life', along with poems invoking David Hockney's subjects, as well as the lives of Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing, give point to the depth, integrity and authority of the collection. I recommend his celebration of the art.' (Michael Sharkey - Editor of the Australian Poetry Journal) 'Rob Wallis's poetry will immediately charm you with its sure-footed and literate wit. But this is just a ruse - its real agenda, barely-hidden, is to haunt you with its perceptive observations and acute tenderness.' (Andy Jackson).…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 54 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Myth affirms where history must surmise,If the dead could speak they'd tell us lies.Verba Sequentur is John Flaus' second collection of poetry. Selected from work over many years, it comprises a diverse range of material. There's history and myth in these verses-the "history" is the experience of a full life well lived coming through in the depth and reach of the allusions, and the "myth" is present in what the poet does with this life-experience. Aldous Huxley once said something like: "Experience is not what happens to you: it is what you do with what happens to you." And Flaus turns his experience-as an actor, as a lover, as a lecturer, as many many things-to good account in many of these poems.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A new collection by Australian poet Mark Tredinnick, OAM (Birfish Books, 2020). The poems weave a journey through grief and loss into healing and transformation, speaking to themes of family and parenthood in a landscape of ecological awareness and tenderness.…