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16 produkter
Mirror
Häftad, 2015
148 kr
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Erik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for their most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with …
Mirror
E-bok, 2013
148 kr
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Erik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for their most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with …
Red Dancer
Häftad, 2017
151 kr
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A new edition of Richard Skinner's classic novel about the life of Mati Hari, released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death, October 2017.When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an …
Writing a Novel
Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way
Häftad, 2018
127 kr
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A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded. Richard Skinner believes it is your duty as a novelist to bring your whole self to the page; to find your story, not force it; to meet your reader in a spirit of …
Writing a Novel
Bring Your Ideas To Life The Faber Academy Way
E-bok, 2018
118 kr
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Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel. Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, …
Red Dancer
E-bok, 2017
115 kr
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When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they depart for Indonesia, where the marriage collapses amid infidelity and violence. Seeking a new life, …
Light User Scheme
Häftad, 2013
113 kr
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Each poem in The Light User Scheme is a short, tight burst of narrative. They aim to capture what is going on around us, in full sight or glimpsed in periphery. What results is a subtly interwoven series of resonant images, oblique glances and condensed emotional intrigue, amid a knowing …
Terrace
Häftad, 2015
72 kr
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The Argentinean writer Borges once observed that the 'imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.' Terrace is a book about the meanings of perfume, light and colour, exploring the world in a series of striking images, and juxtaposing them in unexpected ways …
Malvern Aviator
Häftad, 2018
74 kr
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In language that is both precise and strange, Richard Skinner ’s poems tip certainties on their heads, making familiar objects in the world unfamiliar: a mountain is not what it seems, a skull contains a universe. Alongside this process of ‘making-strange’ lies a deep connection with sound, colour, …
White Noise Machine
Häftad, 2023
163 kr
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Where Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound. A white noise machine is a device that produces a noise that calms the listener, which in …
Vade Mecum – Essays, Reviews & Interviews
Häftad, 2015
127 kr
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Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers …
Paradox & Perspective
An exploration
Häftad, 2026
163 kr
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What happens when we look again at something we thought we understood? In Paradox & Perspective, Richard Skinner brings together poetry, fiction and opinion pieces to explore the contradictions, questions and unexpected shifts of perspective that shape our lives and beliefs. His journey takes us …
Colliding with God
New and selected poems of faith and doubt
Häftad, 2017
144 kr
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The subject matter of Richard Skinner’s poetry starts with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and concludes with the events of the first Easter, taking in on the way Julian of Norwich’s hazelnut, Mastermind, God as a blizzard, and the eighth deadly sin. A psalm based …
Invocations: v. 1
Calling on the God in All
Häftad, 2005
93 kr
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From earthworms to CD-ROMs, from starfish to blizzards, from electrons to garden forks, from doubt to a shout of laughter … In the tradition of liturgical chants such as the ‘Advent Antiphons’, Richard Skinner has created invocations inspired by creatures, conditions and objects in the world around …
