Peter Finch – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Peter Finch. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
23 produkter
Collected Poems
Volume Two 1997-2021
Häftad, 2022
246 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The two volumes of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems chart the course of a remarkable writing career. After reading Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as a young man Finch was inspired to become a poet, found the Second Aeon magazine and publishing house, and become a poetry entrepreneur, bringing to all these …
Welsh Poems
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2006
229 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Peter Finch has long been a significant figure in Welsh-poetry-in-English and a busy editor and publisher. The Welsh Poems, a title which pays homage to poet John James, is a survey of his more experimental work from the past two decades, including visual work, sound poems, and a number of playful …
High up in the Rolling Hills
A Living on the Land
Av Peter Finch
E-bok, 2013
57 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they …
Real Cardiff
The Flourishing City
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2018
129 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Discover more of Cardiff in this latest volume by Peter Finch, Real Cardiff – The Flourishing City. In it the Cardiffian continues his vigorous exploration of the obvious and the hidden vistas of the city, discovering new treasures and revisiting past haunts to find them drastically altered over …
Machineries of Joy
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2020
135 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Machineries of Joy is the vibrant, uproarious, pointed and wildly entertaining new collection from renowned Cardiff-based performance poet, Peter Finch. Known for his inventive and multi-faceted formal strategies and his best-selling psycho-geographical peregrinations around Wales and the USA,Finch …
Collected Poems
Volume One 1968-1997
Häftad, 2022
251 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The two volumes of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems chart the course of a remarkable writing career. After reading Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as a young man Finch was inspired to become a poet, found the Second Aeon magazine and publishing house, and become a poetry entrepreneur, bringing to all these …
Edging the City
A Journey Round the Border of Cardiff
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2022
131 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Peter Finch is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present. His response to the 2020 lockdown covid restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his, in a repeat of his long walk along the south Wales coast recorded in Edging the …
Edging the City
Av Peter Finch
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"What Edging the City does so effectively, though, is defamiliarize and enrich these landscapes, with allusion, digression and depth, all painted in seemingly effortless poetic prose. Finch lifts the apparently mundane to a place of real literary significance, giving some of these lesser-known …
Useful
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 1997
99 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Peter Finch's collection, Useful, is marked by all the restless energy, humour and angst that is so characteristic of this compulsively entertaining poet.Among the varied subjects to come under the poet's subversive scrutiny are Modern Art, the Blues, computers, automobiles, ex-wives, recalcitrant …
Real South Pembrokeshire
Häftad, 2011
127 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Real Series moves to west Wales as poet, past resident and frequent visitor Tony Curtis roams around south Pembrokeshire. On his tour round this half-county Curtis takes in many contrasts, from Pembrokeshire's new potatoes to the oil refineries of Angle, from farmworkers to immigrant artists, …
Five Guys, Five Poems
The Thundering Bus Pass Revue
Av Patrick Jones, Topher Mills m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Five poems from five poets. The bus pass tour.
Literary Business
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2026
171 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A personal ramble around the book world from the man who has experienced all sides of it.This book has something for everyone: writers, academics, critics and other enthusiasts in search of a no-holds-barred personal history; administrators wishing to navigate the obstacle course that is funding …
Literary Business
Av Peter Finch
Inbunden, 2025
232 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book has something for everyone: writers, academics, critics and other enthusiasts in search of a no-holds-barred personal history; administrators wishing to navigate the obstacle course that is funding writers and writing; fans hunting data on the Poetry wars of the 70s, and fellow …
Edging the Estuary
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2013
131 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the Middle Ages, the port of Cardiff stretched all the way from Chepstow to Gower. Peter Finch, archetypal Cardiffian, sets out to explore his heritage, walking the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary – reclaiming personal memories and discovering the lives of others. He then crosses over to …
Roots of Rock, from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2015
129 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In The Roots of Rock, from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back Peter Finch reflects on how popular music has shaped both his life and the culture in which he lives, from first hearing American music on the radio in his Cardiff home in the 1950s to the compendious and downloadable riches of digital …
Walking Cardiff
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2019
179 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Poet and psychogeographer Peter Finch undertakes 20 walks around his native city, picking out features en route and providing interesting stories, historical and contemporary, about life in the city past and present. His sharp eye and compendious knowledge of Cardiff is illustrated by photographer …
Walking the Valleys
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Peter Finch and John Briggs build on the success of their book Walking Cardiff and venture outside the capital and into the very different world of the Valleys. Over the past two centuries the Valleys have gone from idyllic rural landscape to the engine room of the British Empire to post industrial …
Real Cardiff 2
The Greater City
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2004
135 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This sequel offers another unorthodox travel guide to Cardiff, Wales. Part history, part topographical writing, and part traditional guidebook, this work explores Cardiff's best off-the-beaten-path destinations such as Ninian Park, Howell's Girls School, Cae'r Castell, and Steep Holm.
Real Cardiff
Av Peter Finch
Häftad, 2004
127 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Peter Finch's hugely popular alternative guide to the capital of Wales. "One of the best books I have ever read about a city." Jan MorrisPeter Finch discovers the real Cardiff - lost rivers, itinerant poets, the old race courses, the revitalised city centre, the redeveloped Cardiff Bay - as he …
Real Liverpool
Av Niall Griffiths, Peter Finch m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
131 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In population terms, Liverpool isn't a vast city (dwarfed by Birmingham, say), but it looms colossal in the history (recorded and mythical) of the British Isles, and in fact the world. "Real Liverpool" is Niall Griffiths' antidote to the flood of mawkish twaddle that will appear in the build-up to …
Real Llanelli
Av Jon Gower, Peter Finch m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
131 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Llanelli stands on several borders in Wales. Industrial town, or still belonging to its rural Carmarthenshire hinterland? Welsh or Englishspeaking? Plaid or Labour? Shaped by its workers or by the small number of families who employed them? It all makes Llanelli that much more interesting than a …
