The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry: The Book of Wonders Sex-Magic-Poetry-Cornwall: A Flood of Poems Peter Redgrove: Here Comes the Flood Brigitte's Blue Heart Claudia Schiffer's Red Shoes By-Blows: Uncollected Poems Blinded By Her Light: The Love-Poetry of Robert Graves Lawrence Durrell: Between Love and Death, Between East and West Love, Culture and Poetry: A Study of Lawrence Durrell Samuel Beckett Goes Into the Silence In the Dim Void: Samuel Beckett's Late Trilogy Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life: Selected Poems Lust In America Romance In America Mystical America Sacred America Holy America Spiritual America Magical America Poetic Forms: A Handbook of Stanza-forms from the History of Poetry Gorgeous Little Orpheus Radiance: New Poems
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The Best of Peter Redgroveís Poetry
(new edition)
by Peter Redgrove
edited and introduced by Jeremy Mark Robinson
Poems of honey, wasps and bees; orchards
and apples; rivers, seas and tides; storms, rain, weather and clouds; waterworks;
labyrinths; amazing perfumes; wet shirts and 'wonder-awakening dresses';
the Cornish landscape (Penzance, Perranporth, Falmouth, Boscastle, the
Lizard and Scilly Isles); the sixth sense and 'extra-sensuous perception';
witchcraft; alchemical vessels and laboratories; yoga; menstruation; mines,
minerals and stones; sand dunes; mud-baths; mythology; dreaming; vulvas;
and lots of sex magic. This book gathers together poetry (and prose) from
every stage of Redgrove's career, and every book. It includes pieces that
have only appeared in small presses and magazines, and in uncollected form.
This new edition includes a new introduction
and bibiliography, and many new poems.
British Poets Series 280pp ISBN 1-86171-063-1 New, 2nd edition £15.00 / $30.00
To read more of Peter Redgrove's wonderful poetry, click here
As she left us, the tension from the thundercloud grazing the land lessened. We lifted our glasses and took a drink. The two, man and woman, with their clothes slightly out of phase, the two differing human shapes, heterodyning. The pocket full of posies, the cave of flowers, the underground fairyland, the shades within the soil moving with the clouds. The rose sets the thunder in motion. Earth and sky moving together, arms linked. The child within, the secret sharer, knows the clouds in its astrodome, watches the dragonish shapes. She occupied the form of a woman. She was for that moment the thunder, behind the door with the skeleton door-knocker, the bones hold a sword in their left hand and wear a triangular skirt of silver. Her witch-name was Vesica. As I touch the fixed star of her clitoris, her body gives off a potion of scents like a herb-bed of flowers in a sudden shower of rain. A woman like a big magnetic wave. A standing wave which keeps its shape but exchanges its substance with its surroundings continually. A strange shining taste in the air. The scent of the stone pines, like the moonís grove of the zodiac which she passes through at night.(Peter Redgrove, from An Alchemical Journal)
A marvellous collection of poems by one of Britain's best but underrated poets, Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003. This book brings together some of Redgrove's wildest and most passionate works, creating a 'flood' of poetry. Philip Hobsbaum called Redgrove 'the great poet of our time', while Angela Carter said: 'Redgrove's language can light up a page.' Redgrove ranks alongside Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. He is in every way a 'major poet'. Robinson's essay analyzes all of Redgrove's poetic work, including his use of sex magic, natural science, menstruation, psychology, myth, alchemy and feminism.
This new edition has been completey rewritten, with many new poems added.
'Robinson's enthusiasm is winning, and his perceptive readings are supported by a very useful bibliography' (Acumen magazine)
'Sex-Magic-Poetry-Cornwall is a very rich essay... It is like a brightly-lighted box. (Peter Redgrove)
'This is an excellent selection of poetry
and an extensive essay on the themes and theories of this unusual poet
by Jeremy Robinson' (Chapman magazine)
PBK ISBN 1-86171-070-4
320pp £15.00 / $30.00
CORNWALL HONEYMOONKaolin. A white shadow
Spread across half a county. All the streams
Flaming white. The soil packedUnderfoot solid with light. A beach
With drifts of dead leaves instead of pebbles.
Flowering fogs and the cold fur of moths.(Peter Redgrove, from 'Cornwall Honeymoon')
A full-length journey through the erotic
and magical underworld of one of Britain's best poets. Packed with quotes
from Redgrove's most powerful pieces.
'Peter Redgrove is really an extraordinary poet' (George Szirtes, Quarto magazine)'Peter Redgrove is one of the few significant poets now writing...His 'means' are indeed brilliant and delightful. Technically he is a poet essentially of brilliant and unexpected images...he never disappoints' (Kathleen Raine, Temenos magazine).
Bibliography, notes, index 173pp ISBN 1-871846-32-3
£14.99 / $23.50
New poems from the acclaimed British writer. Jeremy Reed's many poetry books include By the Fisheries (1984), Nero (1985), Selected Poems (1987), Nineties (1990) and Kicks (1995). Reed's books on poets include studies of Rimbaud (Delirium: An Interpretation of Rimbaud), Rilke, Hopkins, Madness: The Price of Poetryand Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Heroes (1999). Reed has translated Novalis and Montale. His novels include The Lipstick Boys (1984), Blue Rock (1987), Isidore (about Lautréamont), When the Whip Comes Down (on the Marquis de Sade), and Chasing Black Rainbows (1994, a fictionalized account of Antonin Artaud). His biographies include Lou Reed and Marc Almond. Reed has won an Eric Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the National Poetry Competition.
'Reed is a poet of rich and subversive imagery' (The Times)
'Remarkably talented' (J.G. Ballard)
'The most beautiful gorgeous outrageously
brilliant poetry in the universe' (Björk)
British Poets Series 60 pages
2nd edition ISBN 1-86171-177-8 £8.00
/ $16.00
To read more of Jeremy Reed's poetry, click hereBLUE REMAINSThe dress over her head. It's 2 a.m.
on a day that doesnít exist,
intercalendric time, I do my nails
as poets should, a scarlet gloss,
and celebrate the unreality
of having kicked the body clock.
You stand in your bra and panties
indefinitely.(Jeremy Reed, from 'Blue Remains')
Sex, jazz, glam icons, green crochet bikinis,
Gossard wonderbras, white nights and blueblack seas - the usual colourful,
sensual Jeremy Reed imagery in this brand new collection. Jeremy Reed's
many poetry books include By the Fisheries (1984), Nero (1985),
Selected
Poems (1987), Nineties (1990) and Kicks (1995). Reed's
books on poets include studies of Rimbaud (Delirium: An Interpretation
of Rimbaud), Rilke, Hopkins, Madness: The Price of Poetryand
Angels,
Divas and Blacklisted Heroes (1999). Reed has translated Novalis and
Montale. His novels include The Lipstick Boys (1984),
Blue Rock
(1987), Isidore (about Lautréamont), When the Whip Comes
Down (on the Marquis de Sade), and Chasing Black Rainbows (1994,
a fictionalized account of Antonin Artaud). His biographies include Lou
Reed and Marc Almond. Reed has won an Eric Gregory Award, the Somerset
Maugham Award, and the National Poetry Competition. 'Remarkably talented'
(J.G. Ballard)
'Reed proclaims his poet's calling through fine writing and lush imagery' (The Independent on Sunday)British Poets Series 60 pages 2nd edition ISBN 1-86171-149-2 £8.00 / $16.00'One of the most original virtuoso voices to be heard in the poetry of our fin de siecle' (Lawrence Ferlingetti)
MONKSHOODSuitably darker tones than indigo,
a thunder sky reflected in a lake
roofed over by dense trees. Our high ladder
lost legs after you went too far
and dropped the glass word we had kept
hidden for future retrieval.(Jeremy Reed, from 'Monkshood')
New poems from the British author of numerous
books. His recent poetry volumes include Under the Circumstances
(Oxford University Press, 1991) and Old Men and Comets (OUP, 1993).
His memoirs, Interplay and Play Resumed, appeared in 1995
and 1999. He received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1981. Of Enright's
1987 Collected Poems (OUP) Gavin Ewart wrote in The Observer:
'Anybody at all interested in English poetry should read this book. It
has in it the best autobiographic sequence written this century... It also
contains... some of the wittiest and wryest comment on the modern world
to be written in our time'
British Poets Series 64pp ISBN 1861711506 £8.00 / $16.00
To read some of D.J. Enright's poetry, click here
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Robert Graves (1895-1985), is one of Britain's best love-poets, though he was first known as a war poet and author of Goodbye to All That and later the I, Claudius novels. This book focuses on his highly individual love-poetry, which is marked by lucidity, passion and freshness. The author relates the poetry to the central Gravesian concerns of the White Goddess; the magical landscapes; the role of the true, dedicated poet; the concept of Muse-poetry; his relations with Laura Riding; the Single Poetic Theme of the Goddess and Her consort, the dying god; and the mythological surveys, in particular The White Goddess and The Greek Myths. Throughout the book Graves is set alongside the erotic poetry traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, Sufism, courtly love, Elizabethan and Romantic poetry. His poetic oeuvre is compared with Petrarch's Rime Sparse and Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as the English poetic tradition: Skelton, Donne, Keats, Hardy, Eliot and Yeats. The author also discusses Graves' associations with symbolism, witchcraft, mythology, folklore and psychology. All the major poems are featured in this important contribution to Graves studies. This is the only study of the whole of Graves' late love-poetry available.
Jeremy Mark Robinson's books include Glorification:
Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Art (1990), Arthur
Rimbaud (1992), Lawrence Durrell (1995) and Detonation Britain:
Nuclear War in the UK (1997). He edits two magazines, Passion
and Pagan America (a journal of American poetry).
Bibliography, notes 161pp ISBN
1-871846-11-0 £14.99 / $23.50
by Jeremy Mark Robinson
A new critical survey of the novelist who died in 1990. The author studies in detail all of Durrell's work; the late series of novels The Avignon Quintet, the Tunc and Nunquam novels, the travel books, the Antrobus diplomatic sketches, the letters, the poetry, and the books that made Durrell's name in the late 1950s, The Alexandria Quartet. Robinson discusses Durrell's creative friendships with Henry Miller especially, and also Anais Nin, Richard Aldington and others. The inter-related themes of love, art and death form the core of all Durrell's work. Durrell emerges as a major writer, who developed the literary modernism of Proust, Eliot and Joyce and fused it with Oriental philosophy. Still critically neglected, this study offers a much-needed new appraisal of Durrell.
Jeremy Mark Robinson's books include Glorification:
Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Art (1990), Arthur
Rimbaud (1992), Lawrence Durrell (1995) and Detonation Britain:
Nuclear War in the UK (1997). He edits two magazines, Passion
and Pagan America (a journal of American poetry).
Bibliography, notes 290pp ISBN
1-86171-066-6 £15.00 / $30.00
For an extract from this book about Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, click here
Alexendria Revisited: Durrell, Cavafy, Keeley and Others
D.H. Lawrence
and Lawrence Durrell
An expanded version of the essay that appeared
in the recent collection of essays on Durrell's art, published by UMI Research
Press, Michigan. Focuses on Tunc and Nunquam, and Durrell's exotic fusion
of psychology and Gnosticism, culture and architecture, humour and insight,
anecdote and poeticizing.
20pp ISBN 1-871846-60-9 £3.99
/ $6.00
Samuel Beckett's art is much debated in
critical circles: this book sets out to discover why. Beckett's sense of
poetry and language and its relation to creativity and culture is central
to his art. All the major fiction and plays are studied, including the
Unnamable
trilogy, Waiting For Godot, Endgame, How It Is, the short prose
pieces of the 1960s and 70s, and the late plays and texts. Other chapters
discuss the collaboration with Billie Whitelaw; Beckett's æsthetics
of theatre; his relation to philosophers such as Sartre and Heidegger;
and his use of silence.
Bibliography, notes 121pp ISBN
1-871846-41-2 £14.99 / $23.50
This book discusses the luminous beauty and dense, rigorous poetry of Samuel Beckett's late works, Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said and Worstward Ho. Johns looks back over Beckett's long writing career, charting the development from the Molloy-Malone Dies-Unnamable trilogy through the 'fizzles' of the 1960s to the elegiac lyricism of the Company series. Johns compares the trilogy with late plays such as Ghosts, Footfalls and Rockaby.
Gregory Johns taught English at the University of Iowa until his return to England in 1987. His articles have appeared in many leading journals. His books include critical studies of Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Carver and Paul Verlaine. He lives in Cornwall.
A new edition, including a new introduction
and a new bibliography.
Bibliography, notes. 120pp
ISBN 1-86171-071-2 £10.00 / $20.00
translated and edited by Virginia Rounding
Arseny Tarkovsky is the neglected Russian
poet, father of the acclaimed film director Andrei Tarkovsky. This new
book gathers together many of Tarkovsky's most lyrical and heartfelt poems,
in Rounding's clear, new translations. Many of Tarkovsky's poems appeared
in his son's films, such as Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The
Sacrifice. There is an introduction by Rounding, and a bibliography
of both Arseny and Andrei Tarkovsky.
Bibliography and notes
110pp ISBN 1-86171-114-X £10.00
/ $20.00
FIRST MEETINGSWe celebrated every moment
Of our meetings as epiphanies,
Just we two in all the world.
Bolder, lighter than a birdís wing,
You hurtled like vertigo
Down the stairs, leading
Through moist lilac to your realm
Beyond the mirror.(Arseny Tarkovsky, from 'First Meetings')
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Passionate poetry from North America and
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Passionate poetry from North America and
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Passionate poetry from North America and
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manic and always entertaining. There are many surprises in these anthologies,
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'Radiance has a spectacularly clear
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56pp ISBN 1-871846-46-3 £5.99 / $9.00
A guide to traditional forms of verse,
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poetic forms used in mediæval and Renaissance Europe, as found in
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Bibliography 30pp ISBN 1-871846-75-7
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