Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Echo Gods and Silent Mountains - cover

Echo Gods and Silent Mountains

Patrick Woodcock

Publisher: ECW Press

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

Summary

Patrick Woodcock's eighth book of poetry is the first written in one geographical location, the Kurdish North of Iraq. Woodcock lived in three cities over two years where he worked as a teacher and lecturer while traveling extensively throughout the region collecting material for this book. Mixed with poems both serious and humorous, long and short, this is the work of a poet who cannot live or create without uprooting himself to our world's most misunderstood and misrepresented regions.
Available since: 04/01/2012.

Other books that might interest you

  • Glory Dazed (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Glory Dazed (NHB Modern Plays)

    Cat Jones

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A moving and darkly comic story of an Afghanistan veteran's search for redemption, and a fascinating insight into the plight of ex-servicemen in modern Britain.
    Ex-squaddie Ray - mentally scarred from his time in Afghanistan - returns home to Doncaster to attempt to see his kids and reconcile with his ex-wife, Carla - mentally scarred from her marriage to Ray. A pub lock-in provides the setting for the humorous, heart-wrenching action that follows.
    Glory Dazed won the BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Prize 2011. It was developed in collaboration with ex-soldiers serving prison sentences at HMP & YOI Doncaster by Second Shot Productions, a social enterprise that exists to give serving prisoners and ex-offenders opportunities within creative industries.
    'devastating... a deeply intense hour' - Time Out
    'a piercing drama... captivating' - Whatsonstage.com
    'frighteningly real and relevant... remarkable theatre' - British Theatre Guide
    Show book
  • Business - cover

    Business

    Ambrose Bierce

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009.
    Show book
  • Cyrano de Bergerac - cover

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Edmund Rostand

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Anthony Burgess' energetically witty translation of this well-loved nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously.
    This translation was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production with Derek Jacobi as Cyrano. Six years later Burgess provided the sub-titles for the hit film version with Gerard Depardieu, and the sub-titles won as much praise as did the film itself!
    Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) wrote several plays which were mightily successful in their time, providing starring roles for the likes of Sarah Bernhardt and Coquelin. But only Cyrano de Bergerac still survives.
    Anthony Burgess was the author of over fifty books, among them the novel, The Clockwork Orange, as well as stage plays, screenplays and translations.
    Show book
  • Jack and the Beanstalk - A Radio Dramatization - cover

    Jack and the Beanstalk - A Radio...

    Benjamin Tabart

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A poor woman lives far from London in a cottage with her "indolent, careless, and extravagant" son, Jack. The two have little money and are forced to sell their last possession, a cow. Jack leads the animal along the road and meets an old man who trades some magic beans for the cow.Jack's  mother is furious when she discovers he has come home with no money,  and tosses the beans away. The next morning, Jack finds a beanstalk has grown to the clouds and climbs it... finally reaching a castle, high above the sky!
    Show book
  • Short Poetry Collection 091 - cover

    Short Poetry Collection 091

    Various Various

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010.
    Show book
  • Stephen Jeffreys: Plays (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Stephen Jeffreys: Plays (NHB...

    Stephen Jeffreys

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.
    Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in the time of Elizabeth I, The Clink, in which a stand-up comedian becomes involved in the political skulduggery surrounding the ailing queen; an autobiographical drama set in 1966, A Going Concern, about a washed-up family business; and Jeffreys' smash-hit, The Libertine, a Restoration romp about the licentious Earl of Rochester, much revived and also filmed with Johnny Depp.
    Rounding off the volume are two previously unpublished plays: Interruptions, inspired by Jeffreys' interest in the collective aspect of politics and his fascination with the Japanese aesthetic principle of Jo-ha-kyu; and a very likable, short autobiographical monologue, Finsbury Park.
    Together, all six plays represent the impressively wide range of topics and styles that Jeffreys can embrace. Above all, each one of them is intensely and enjoyably theatrical to its very core.
    'I had the great pleasure of working with Stephen Jeffreys on his play, The Libertine. Would that all playwrights had his openness, his talent, his hard-headedness, his experience, his enthusiasm, his complexity, and perhaps best of all his talent and interest in eliciting the best in others' - John Malkovich
    'Stephen's plays always bear the kitemark of unique, handcrafted quality' - Ian Rickson
    Show book