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Gay Love Poetry

Gay Love Poetry more books like this

by Neil Powell

This is a wide-ranging collection of gay love poetry - by and for men - ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to contemporary England and America. Organized thematically, it stretches from Catullus, Virgil and Ovid right up to modern writers such as Thom Gunn, Mark Doty and Gregory Woods, and including translations of essential European and other ...

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Donald Davie Collected Poems

Donald Davie Collected Poems more books like this

by Donald Davie, Neil Powell (Editor)

Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities.

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Fate and fortune more books like this

by Brian Innes, Francis King, Neil Powell

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Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations

Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations more books like this

by Neil Powell

Two of the most successful British novelists of the last fifty years, Kingsley and Martin Amis are both known for their savage wit and their indifference to causing controversy. In his critical biography, Neil Powell looks at the careers of these two very divisive, and hugely talented writers: how they were formed by their upbringings, developed ...

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The Language of Jazz

The Language of Jazz more books like this

by Neil Powell

The word "jazz" did not begin to appear in print until around 1915 and was grudgingly admitted into polite society. This book explores the vocabulary which has grown up around it. Entries include words unique to jazz ("bebop", Dixieland", "ragtime"); ordinary words with specific jazz meanings ("cool", "jam", "stride"); musical terms adopted by ...

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The Book of Change: How to Understand and Use the I Ching more books like this

by Neil Powell

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Daley : the last ten years more books like this

by Daley Thompson, Neil Wilson, Steve Powell

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Adam Johnson Collected Poems

Adam Johnson Collected Poems

by Adam Johnson, Neil Powell (Editor)

"When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm, and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he had become one of the most accomplished English poets of his generation. This collection of his poem

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Carpenters of Light: Some Contemporary English Poets

Carpenters of Light: Some Contemporary English Poets more books like this

by Neil Powell

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Alchemy, the ancient science more books like this

by Neil Powell

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Roy Fuller: Writer and Society

Roy Fuller: Writer and Society more books like this

by Neil Powell

Drawing on letters, journals and published writing, this text provides an account of Roy Fuller's life and work. All the books of poetry are discussed and the novels receive attention. A story of Fuller's career also unfolds: provincial schoolboy; solicitor's clerk; law student; wartime Navy radar engineer in England and East Africa; post-war ...

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Neil Powell: Selected Poems

Neil Powell: Selected Poems more books like this

by Neil Powell

The poems in this collection are drawn from four earlier Carcanet titles: "At the Edge" (1977); "A Season of Calm Weather" (1982); "True Colours" (1990); and "The Stones on Thorpeness Beach" (1994), as well as previously unpublished work.

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Stones on Thorpeness Beach more books like this

by Neil Powell

This fourth collection of poems sets daunting images of mortality against the small, incomparable consolations of human life. There are elegies for Roy Fuller and Adam Johnson. The concluding poems explore ecological themes and celebrate Powell's loved Suffolk land- and seascapes.

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Unreal City more books like this

by Neil Powell

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A Halfway House

A Halfway House more books like this

by Neil Powell

Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast; from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills to the composer Gerald Finzi's orchard in Hampshire. There is a ...

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The Language of Jazz

The Language of Jazz more books like this

by Powell Neil, Neil Powell (Editor)

The word "jazz" did not appear in print until around 1915 and was only grudgingly admitted into polite discourse. The Language of Jazz explores the vocabulary that has grown up around it. It includes words unique to jazz (bebop, Dixieland, ragtime); ordinary words with specific jazz meanings (cool, jam, stride); musical terms adopted by jazz (bar ...

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George Crabbe: An English Life: 1754-1832 more books like this

by Neil Powell

George Crabbe is today most widely known as the author of Peter Grimes, from The Borough (1810), one of a sequence of verse-narrative collections (the others include The Village (1783), The Parish Register (1807), Tales (1812) and Tales of the Hall (1819)), usually regarded as his major works. The reputation of that extraordinary poem has, ...

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A Guide to the Birds of St Helena and Ascension Island

by Neil McCulloch, Dan Powell (Illustrator)

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Die Wissenschaft Der Alchimisten

by Neil Powell

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The supernatural. Alchemy, the ancient science more books like this

by Neil Powell

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Mysteries of magic more books like this

by Stuart Holroyd, Neil Powell

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A Season of Calm Weather more books like this

by Neil Powell

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True Colours more books like this

by Neil Powell

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At the Edge more books like this

by Neil Powell

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Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology

by Neil Beynon, Shaun Green, Gareth D. Jones, Dan Pawley, Justin Pickard, Gareth L. Powell, Martin McGrath, Paul Raven (Editor)

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