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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

Author : Susanna Grant
Publisher : Rough Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 1914236025
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book From Gardens Where We Feel Secure written by Susanna Grant and published by Rough Trade Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is gardener and writer Susanna Grant's exploration of her thinking on history, value and meaning of nature in the city. Examining the premise that naming species allows us to expand our understanding, our interest, our ways of looking at the world around us, and the idea of plant-blindness—our tendency not to see what we can't name in the nature that surrounds us—she throws a spotlight on five of her favourite wildflowers with accompanying images by photographer Rowan Spray. These stories are interspersed with reflections on Grant's own countryside childhood and her work in London's community gardens: why we can't walk where we want to, planting as an act of resistance and, above all, the necessity of weeds and their beauty.

FROM GARDENS WHERE WE FEEL SECURE.

Author : SUSANNA. GRANT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912722983
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book FROM GARDENS WHERE WE FEEL SECURE. written by SUSANNA. GRANT and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

About England

Author : David Matless
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146917
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book About England written by David Matless and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of “Englishness” and the idea of England since 1960. Brexit thrust long fraught debates about “Englishness” and the idea of England into the spotlight. About England explores imaginings of English identity since the 1960s in politics, geography, art, architecture, film, and music. David Matless reveals how the national is entangled with the local, the regional, the European, the international, the imperial, the post-imperial, and the global. He also addresses physical landscapes, from the village and country house to urban, suburban, and industrial spaces, and he reflects on the nature of English modernity. In short, About England uncovers the genealogy of recent cultural and political debates in England, showing how many of today’s social anxieties developed throughout the last half-century.

The Island

Author : Nicholas Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674296818
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Island written by Nicholas Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England. From his first poems in 1922 to the publication of his landmark collection On This Island in the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden wrestled with the meaning of Englishness. His early works are prized for their psychological depth, yet Nicholas Jenkins argues that they are political poems as well, illuminating Auden’s intuitions about a key aspect of modern experience: national identity. Two historical forces, in particular, haunted the poet: the catastrophe of World War I and the subsequent “rediscovery” of England’s rural landscapes by artists and intellectuals. The Island presents a new picture of Auden, the poet and the man, as he explored a genteel, lyrical form of nationalism during these years. His poems reflect on a world in ruins, while cultivating visions of England as a beautiful—if morally compromised—haven. They also reflect aspects of Auden’s personal search for belonging—from his complex relationship with his father, to his quest for literary mentors, to his negotiation of the codes that structured gay life. Yet as Europe veered toward a second immolation, Auden began to realize that poetic myths centered on English identity held little potential. He left the country in 1936 for what became an almost lifelong expatriation, convinced that his role as the voice of Englishness had become an empty one. Reexamining one of the twentieth century’s most moving and controversial poets, The Island is a fresh account of his early works and a striking parable about the politics of modernism. Auden’s preoccupations with the vicissitudes of war, the trials of love, and the problems of identity are of their time. Yet they still resonate profoundly today.

The Poem I Turn To

Author : Jason Shinder
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402205023
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Poem I Turn To written by Jason Shinder and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of classic and modern poetry features works selected and read by celebrated American movie actors and directors.

Influential Ghosts

Author : Rachel Wetzsteon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922764
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Influential Ghosts written by Rachel Wetzsteon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from the vast range of authors on whom he drew for inspiration. But it also suggest that his relationship to these writers was marked by a fascinating ambivalence. In chapters on Auden's relationship to Hardy and Kierkegaard, the study shows how, after lovingly apprenticing himself to their work and often borrowing stylistic or thematic features from it - Hardy's sweeping "hawk's vision," Kierkegaard's urgent "leap of faith" - he began to criticize the very things he had previously striven to emulate. In a chapter on Auden's elegies, the author argues that, alone among examples of this poetic genre, they both reverently mourn and harshly scrutinize their subjects (Yeats, Freud, Henry James and others). In a chapter on "structural allusion" in Auden's early poetry, the study posits that Auden singlehandedly invented a new kind of allusion in which he alludes to the form and subject matter of entire poems. But while doing so, he also finds fault with the attitudes (passivity, despair) depicted in them. In these structurally allusive poems - as with his relationship to Hardy, Kierkegaard and his elegies' subjects - Auden's sometimes accepting, sometimes skeptical attitude toward his poetic models is on powerful display, and finds a perfect counterpart in the tension between imitative form and critical content.

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

Author : Anthony Holden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476712794
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Poems That Make Grown Men Cry written by Anthony Holden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal). Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights—confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Although the majority are public figures not prone to crying, here they admit to breaking down, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. Their selections include classics by visionaries, such as Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Philip Larkin, as well as modern works by masters, including Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and poets who span the globe from Pablo Neruda to Rabindranath Tagore. The poems chosen range from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, with more than a dozen by women, including Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. All are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope’s famous phrase, “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.” From J.J. Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth to the late Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world. “Everyone who reads this collection will be roused: disturbed by the pain, exalted in the zest for joy given by poets” (Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature).

Early Auden, Later Auden

Author : Edward Mendelson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140088294X
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Early Auden, Later Auden written by Edward Mendelson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed history and interpretation of Auden’s oeuvre, spanning the duration of his career from juvenilia to his final works in poetry as well as theatre, film, radio, opera, essays, and lectures. Early Auden, Later Auden follows the evolution of the poet’s thought, offering a comparison of Auden’s views at various junctures over a lifetime. With penetrating insight, Mendelson examines Auden’s early ideas, methods, and personal transitions as reflected in poems, manuscripts, and private papers. The book then links changes in Auden’s intellectual, emotional, and religious experience with his shifting public role—showing the depth of his personal struggles with self and with fame, and the means by which these internal conflicts were reflected in his art in later years. Featuring a new preface by the author, Early Auden, Later Auden is an engaging and timeless work that demonstrates Auden’s remarkable range and complexity, paying homage to his enduring legacy.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

Author : Sue Steward
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896082403
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Signed, Sealed, and Delivered written by Sue Steward and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the women whose involvement in the pop music scene ranges from those who make the music to those who package the records; from TV performers to women in the pressing and packing factories; from women in the 50s to today.

Original Rockers

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311814
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Original Rockers written by Richard King and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s, with the march of the cd and record company disinterest oin the format, vinyl was looking like an anachronism. And with its demise came the gradual erosion of a once beautiful and unique landscape known as the independent record shop. Richard King, author of How Soon is Now, blends memoir and elegiac music writing on the likes of Captain Beefheart, CAN and Julian Cope, to create a book that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop. Chaotic, amateurish and extravagantly dysfunctional, this is a book full of rare personalities and rum stories. It is a book about landscape, place and the personal; the first piece of writing to treat the environment of the record shop as a natural resource with its own peculiar rhythms and anecdotal histories.

Vinyl Age

Author : Max Brzezinski
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316419699
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Vinyl Age written by Max Brzezinski and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even with access to a variety of streaming services, digital technology has paved the way for the analog revival; from multiplatinum megahits to ultra-obscure private presses, millions of records are available for purchase from all over the world. Vinyl Age is the ultimate post-internet guide to record collecting. Written by Max Brzezinski of Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest high-end record dealers, Vinyl Age combines an engaging narrative and incisive analysis to reveal the joys and explain the complexities of the contemporary vinyl scene. Brzezinski demystifies the record game and imparts the skills essential to modern record digging -- how to research, find, buy, evaluate, and understand vinyl in the twenty-first century.

Cambridge Book of English Verse 1900-1939

Author : Allen Freer
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521096256
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Cambridge Book of English Verse 1900-1939 written by Allen Freer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1970-11-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of English verse by writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound.

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674025229
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Rough Trade

Author : Rob Young
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781904772477
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Rough Trade written by Rob Young and published by Black Dog Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Run with punk's revolutionary zeal, Rough Trade cast its net wide in its search for musical innovation, from French and Northern Irish punk rock to classic Jamaican dub. The label released many of the most important and enduring records of the 1980s by artists including: The Smiths, Scritti Politti, The Pop Group, The Raincoats, Galaxie 500, The Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, Arthur Russell, Ivor Cutler and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Rough Trade looks back on three fascinating decades of innovation, noise and change, taking in ups and downs, twists and turns and some of the best music ever committed to vinyl."--BOOK JACKET.

David Sylvian: The Last Romantic

Author : Martin Power
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857128205
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book David Sylvian: The Last Romantic written by Martin Power and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sylvian spans three decades of image-conscious pop culture. From South London schoolboy in the Seventies to respected composer of the Nineties and beyond, he remains a uniquely fascinating hero. The new edition of Martin Power's acclaimed biography explores every detail of a unique life. The formation of Japan, their signing to Ariola-Hansa in 1977 and a shaky career start. Success with a new glamorous image and two classic albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum and the band's break-up and the start of Sylvian's solo career. Including many interviews and reviews of all Japan and Sylvian albums, this unique biography delves into the compelling world of the Lewisham lad who became the Last Romantic.

On Some Faraway Beach

Author : David Sheppard
Publisher : White Rabbit
ISBN 13 : 1399605720
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book On Some Faraway Beach written by David Sheppard and published by White Rabbit. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY ALAN WARNER 'A book that sets new standards for rock biography' Guardian Reissued as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series, On Some Faraway Beach is the first and only ever comprehensive and authoritative biography of Brian Eno, featuring interviews with many of his key collaborators over the years: from Bryan Ferry to David Byrne and Robert Wyatt. First published in 2008, it has been fully revised and updated to cover Eno's life and creative output since, with brand new material and a new introduction by Alan Warner. 'This exceptionally well-written biography duly celebrated [Eno's] great achievements with Roxy, Bowie, Talking Heads and his own solo work in compelling detail' Uncut '[An] honourable, authorised attempt to do justice to a mind-bogglingly restless and prolific subject' Sunday Times

Collected Poems of W. H. Auden

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679731970
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of W. H. Auden written by W. H. Auden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-04-23 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken. This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.