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15 produkter
Air Histories
Häftad, 2013
126 kr
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Christopher Meredith's latest collection is filled with gorgeous, original depictions of the landscape of Wales, especially the Black Mountains near the author's home.Beginning in the Stone Age and ending in the future, well-known forms appear alongside vigorous experiments, all touching on the …
Air Histories
E-bok, 2013
127 kr
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Air Histories opens with a poem about a neolithic arrowhead uncovered by manmade environmental damage after lying for millenia in a Welsh mountaintop. It closes with a rollicking poem urging action to heal the wounds of the same piece of earth. In a dazzling range of styles and registers and …
Brief Lives
Häftad, 2018
135 kr
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From the nightmarish first story set in the South China Sea in 1946 to the final piece, set nowhere at the end of time, Brief Lives demonstrates in a short compass a huge range in technique and milieu and a unity of theme and sensibility. It opens naturalistically but is distinctly non-realist by …
Still
Häftad, 2021
164 kr
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Many though not all of the poems in Christopher Meredith’s collection, Still, explore the web of meanings in the word ‘still’. They meditate on the paradoxes of stillness and motion, on the capacity of memory and imagination to hold life apparently still and the struggle in art to achieve the power …
Please
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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‘Punctuation killed my wife.’ So opens Christopher Meredith’s novel, Please.Octogenarian Vernon, who’s never written anything longer than a memo, tries to write the story of his apparently unremarkable courtship and marriage from the 1960s to today. How should he do it? His lifelong obsessions are …
Griffri
Häftad, 1995
84 kr
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In the dream I'm travelling very fast and without effort high over the ground as if I'm a bird flying. There's the trackless mass of trees and strips of mountain ridges and the thread of river like sour milk. The sky is dark blue and red like bruises. I swoop down and then up to miss smashing into …
Book of Idiots
Häftad, 2012
124 kr
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In The Book of Idiots, tipsy, sick Wil Daniel tells the narrator, Dean, a tale that may be a ghost story or a romance, a farce or a tragedy. Meanwhile we get glimpses of Dean's own half-lived life, and those of friends and colleagues. These threads develop into a dark, offbeat and merciless …
Snaring Heaven
Häftad, 1995
73 kr
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"The most significant writer among these prizewinners… I take to be Christopher Meredith. He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence about alienation and doubt." So wrote Michael Hofman in the TLS of the 1983-84 Gregory Award winners. Meredith's first short book, This, went on to …
Sidereal Time
Häftad, 1998
109 kr
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Clint and Dustin are coconuts, 10L have turned into three-toed sloths, Gron is becoming Zero Mostel, the lower sixth is an airliner of people about to fall out of the sky, and you, you've turned into a three-eyed Martian who speaks a nounless language and has forgotted to pay the child minder.But …
Meaning of Flight
Häftad, 2005
113 kr
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This new collection of poems is Meredith's first since Snaring Heaven from the early nineties. Meredith is well-known as a novelist, and his poetry shares some of the qualities that make his fiction so memorable: a palpable passion for landscape and humanity's place in it, an inventive and …
Melog
Av Christopher Meredith, Mihangel Morgan
Häftad, 2005
113 kr
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One of the most exciting works of modern Welsh-language fiction, available in English for the first time. The dull life of unemployed academic Dr Jones changes forever when he sees a young man naked on a building top, threatening to jump to his death. Persuaded to come down, the stranger is …
After the First Death
An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century
Av Christopher Meredith, Dannie Abse m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
125 kr
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This anthology contains writing by many of the greatest authors of Wales. From Wilfred Owen and David Jones, Dylan Thomas and Dannie Abse to Christopher Meredith and Gillian Clarke, it spans a century which saw both the barbarism of mechanised warfare and the development of mass communication, mass …
Library of Wales: Shifts
Häftad, 2023
126 kr
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Funny, lyrical and poignant, Shifts is a novel of the decline of industry and of the south Wales working class in the 1970s. It broke new ground on its appearance in 1988 in combining a real, close-up depiction of work and ordinary lives with symbolic power and a wider imaginative reach.
