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Author : Kate Clanchy
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330456852
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Birth Poems written by Kate Clanchy and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous ed.: published as All the poems you need to say hello. 2004.
Author : Don Paterson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447204239
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Funeral Poems written by Don Paterson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our deepest grief we still turn instinctively to poetry for solace. These poems, drawn from many different ages and cultures, remind us that the experience of parting is a timelessly human one: however alone the loss of a loved one leaves us, our mourning is also something that deeply unites us; these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief or bereavement. Whatever our loss, it is assuaged in finding a voice – and whether that voice is one of private remembrance or public memorial, The Picador Book of Funeral Poems will help you towards it.
Author : Charlotte Greig
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447213351
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of 40 written by Charlotte Greig and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Picador’s 40th anniversary we asked 40 writers to respond to the idea of 40 in whatever way they liked. The results are spectacular: thoughtful, funny, poignant, as brilliantly diverse as the Picador list. Pieces include the temporal (what I was doing 40 years ago; the mid-life crisis of a 40-year-old whose lifespan coincides with Picador’s), the quirky (gifts I’d like to receive for my 40th birthday; 40 things to do before I die; what it’s like never to have been on any of those Best Under 40 lists), and the downright clever (40-word synopses of great works of literature), along with some astonishingly good short stories and poems touching on mortality and ageing. The authors range from great established writers on the list, like Alice Sebold, John Banville and Graham Swift, to new stars, such as Emma Straub, Belinda McKeon and Megan Abbott, and 33 more!
Author : Peter Forbes
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743294816
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Wedding Poems written by Peter Forbes and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picador Book of Wedding Poems is not just a pocket-sized Cyrano de Bergerac for the romantically tongue-tied: it is a veritable dictionary of all the ways in which love can be declared. If you're in the first throes of new love, need to put a relationship to the test, or have reached the point of a great affirmation or commitment, you'll find a poem here beautifully fitted to the occasion.
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509841407
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.
Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970626
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Fires written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Show[s] the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." —San Francisco Chronicle A wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories that were later significantly revised in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love appear here in their original form, revealing clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.
Author : John Stammers
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330456883
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Love Poems written by John Stammers and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling anthology of classic and contemporary love poems selected by an award-winning poet With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book of surprising connections, echoes and juxtapositions, where classic and contemporary love poems shed new and unexpected light on one another. Here, old favourites from Spenser to Tennyson sit side by side with poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Donaghy, the distance between the poets closed by their single timeless theme. Whether you're feeling tempted, seduced, tormented, or rejected, or falling in love, or out of love – this is the perfect book to inspire, console, and give a voice to every facet of our deepest and most complex human emotion.
Author : Richard Osmond
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509824200
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Useful Verses written by Richard Osmond and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as they are depicted in both folklore and herbal - but he views them through a wholly contemporary lens. Chamomile is discussed through quantum physics, ants through social media, wood sorrel through online gambling, and mugwort through a traffic cone. In each case, Osmond offers an arresting and new perspective, and makes that hidden world that lives and breathes beside us vividly part of our own. This is a fiercely inventive, darkly witty and brilliantly observed debut from a voice unlike any other you have read before - and as far from any quaint and conservative notion of 'nature poetry' as it is possible to get.
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330343640
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and the South sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the greatest and most engaging writers from India's recent history. With introductions to the writers and their work, this is an electic and enlightening anthology of Indian writing.
Author : Richard Meier
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447213114
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Misadventure written by Richard Meier and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier’s first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier’s poems are often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will soon discover a poet capable of illuminating the darkest corners of our lives by the very lightest of touches, and an ear simultaneously attuned to the lyric poem and the cadence of real speech. The collection also contains some disarmingly tender poetry on the experience of fatherhood. Misadventure is about all the hope and hopelessness lurking just below the surface of things, in our rooms, tables, coats and gardens – and leaves them enriched and strange, under the transforming eye of a fine new talent.
Author : Jon Ronson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447202503
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Psychopath Test written by Jon Ronson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon learns the art of psychopath-spotting. A skill which seemingly reveals that madness could indeed be at the heart of everything . . . Combining Jon Ronson's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is both entertaining and honest, unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . provocative and interesting' – Observer
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417709403
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present in English, and in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Among the 38 authors represented are contemporary superstars such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra.
Author : Safiya Sinclair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132353
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book How to Say Babylon written by Safiya Sinclair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya’s mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father’s beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya’s voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them. How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.
Author : Keath Fraser
Publisher : Macmillan _
ISBN 13 : 9780330321419
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Worst Journeys written by Keath Fraser and published by Macmillan _. This book was released on 1991 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience – at comfortable second-hand – a selection of the worst journeys in the world, described by some of the best writers on travel in the world. Worst Journeys combines reportage, fiction and poetry in an anthology that features many of the best-known writers of our times. ‘It is always good to discover new excuses to stay at home, particularly when the excuses are as enjoyable and well-written as these’ Peter Mayle ‘We are all brutish in our relieved enjoyment of the misadventures of others, and some of these stories make the toes curl with pleasure in one’s safe, cosy bed . . . all the big guns are represented in Fraser’s admirable choice: Colin Thubron and Bruce Chatwin . . . Theroux, Raban, Fenton, Young, Gellhorn, Thesiger, Newby . . . no wonder the writing is of the highest order, telling of blistering heat and crippling cold, injustice and cruelty, the hell of Vietnam and the Sudan’ Moira Shearer, Daily Telegraph ‘An excellent book full of funny, moving and exciting prose’ Time Out ‘Exquisitely uncomfortable far-flung moments from all the usual suspects, both venerable – Greene, Gellhorn, Newby – and chic – Chatwin, O’Hanlon, Amis, Rourke – plus unfamiliar gems and novel extracts that leave you eager for more’ Independent on Sunday All royalties are donated to Canada India Village Aid
Author : Kate Clanchy
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781509886609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (866 download)
Download or read book England written by Kate Clanchy and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 languages - and one special focus: poetry. In the last five years, its students have won every prize going. They have been celebrated in The Guardian ('The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group'), and the subject of a Radio 3 documentary. In this unique anthology, their mentor and teacher prize-winning poet Kate Clanchy brings their poems together, and allowing readers to see why their work has caused such a stir. By turns raw and direct, funny and powerful, lyrical and heartbreaking, they document the pain of migration and the exhilaration of building a new land, an England of a thousand voices. This poetry is easy to read and hard to forget, as fresh, bright and present as the young migrants who produced it." [jaquette].
Author : Don Paterson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330431842
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Book of Shadows written by Don Paterson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline'
Author : Hollie McNish
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760554421
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Plum written by Hollie McNish and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her compelling and powerful performances. Plum, her debut for Picador Poetry, is a wise, sometimes rude and piercingly candid account of her memories from childhood to attempted adulthood. This is a book about growing up, about guilt, flesh, fruit, friendships, work and play - and the urgent need to find a voice for the poems that will somehow do the whole glorious riot of it justice. Throughout Plum, McNish allows her recent poems to be interrupted by earlier writing from her younger selves – voices that speak out from the past with disarming and often very funny results. Plum is a celebration, a salute to a life in which we are always growing, tripping, changing and discovering new selves to add to our own messy stores. It will leave the reader in no doubt as to why McNish is considered one of the most important poets of the new generation. ‘She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown too used to and lets us see the world with fresh eyes’ Kate Tempest
