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  The Best American Poetry 2013

  David Lehman, Denise Duhamel

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  Beloved and inventive poet Denise Duhamel selects the poems for the 2013 edition of The Best American Poetry,“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).Over the last twenty-five years, the Best American Poetry series has become an annual rite of autumn, eagerly awaited and hotly debated: “an essential purchase” (The Washington Post). This year, guest editor Denise Duhamel brings her wit and enthusiasm and her commitment to poetry in all its wide variety to bear on her choices for The Best American Poetry 2013. These acts of imagination—from known stars and exciting newcomers—testify to the vitality of an art form that continues to endure and flourish, defying dour predictions of its demise, in the digital age.This edition of the most important poetry anthology in the United States opens with David Lehman’s incisive “state of the art” essay and Denise Duhamel’s engagingly candid discussion of the seventy-five poems that made her final cut. Reflecting the vibrant state of our country’s contemporary poetry scene, The Best American Poetry 2013 includes such eminences as John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, James Tate, and Richard Wilbur, as well as the fast-rising hot poets Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews, Anna Maria Hong, Timothy Donnelly, Mary Ruefle, and Major Jackson.

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  Beja

  Dr Ken Jenkins

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  I’m loving it. (J.Q. – United Kingdom) Beautifully written (J.M. – USA) Wow! So Impressive! So riveting! (S.A. – Harare) I’m loving your book. Thank you! Can I share with a friend? (A.S. – Cape Town)  
  Ali and Salma are Beja people, living in the hauntingly beautiful hills by the Red Sea in North Africa. They belong to a nomadic tribe that time forgot, under siege by a Western culture that challenges the very core of their ancient traditions and beliefs. Enter David Stark, a doctor and aid worker, caught up in a civil war and his own unexpected awakening of love, faith and future. Traumatic events cast David, Salma and Ali together and their intertwined stories push them towards each other and a wildly unpredictable destiny. This is a gripping and inspiring story of the triumph of the human spirit and the love of God.

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  The Dublin Fosterling

  Thomas Kennedy

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  This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, romance and taut modern-day thriller, located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal, and can fight the bullies, but is branded as violent and held in an Institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her eighteenth birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.Joey, one of the bullies who made her past miserable, is now a Dublin gang member. They meet but agree to forget the past and romance blossoms. But someone is killing his friends, former bullies, now gang members, and Joey fears he is next. Meanwhile, the Celtic Goddess Danu of Otherworld has discovered Fiona’s existence and wants her dead. The Drimnagh Witches are tasked to find her and Wizard Drowe is released from Otherworld prison tasked to kill her. Fiona survives his initial attempt to murder her and befriends him before entering a strange, mystical Otherworld beyond her current reality. She has to figure out how to survive in both worlds, on the tough streets of Dublin and in Otherworld.

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  The Colour of Black & White -...

  Liz Lochhead

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  The celebrated Scottish poet presents a collection of poems from the intimate to the bawdy—paired with original linocut artwork by Willie Rodger. Liz Lochhead is one of Scotland’s most beloved contemporary poets. In this wide-ranging collection, she offers poems of love, death and iconic figures; Jungian archetypes who often speak in their own voices. There are also poems set in her native Lanarkshire; poems dedicated to other poets; and a section of “unrespectable” poetry—rude verses, rhyming toasts, and music hall monologues. The collaboration with the printmaker Willie Rodger was also an essential part of the making of this book. Lochhead, long an admirer of Rodger’s work, felt that he was a kindred spirit. His poetically pared down and essential linocuts accentuate the positive and the negative, the black and the white.

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  Love in Idleness Less Than Kind...

  Terence Rattigan

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  Love in Idleness is the third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays (after Flare Path and While the Sun Shines). It is published here alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, which was never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.
  Michael, eighteen, returns to wartime London from schooling in Canada, brimming with youthful left-wing convictions. Reunited with his mother, he is alarmed as he begins to realise that she is the mistress of a leading member of the war cabinet. Sparks fly between the idealistic younger man and the pragmatic politician, while the mother is torn between them...
  Rattigan's first version of this comedy, Less Than Kind, was never staged and never published until 2011, the centenary of his birth. Instead it was substantially rewritten at the behest of the Lunts, who were to star in the premiere production, and it opened in the West End in 1944 as Love in Idleness.
  This volume presents both plays in full so that readers may judge for themselves which is the better. Less Than Kind was premiered in London in January 2011.
  This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch and chronology.
  'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' - Guardian

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  Poetry Book Society Spring 2019...

  Alice Kate Mullen

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  The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. This issue includes reviews of the PBS Choice Rachael Allen's debut collection Kingdomland and PBS Recommendations Rebecca Tamás' WITCH, Amish Trivedi's Your Relationship to Motion has Changed, Jane Yeh's Discipline and Elizabeth Sennitt Clough's At or Below Sea Level, as well as exclusive interviews with these poets and samples of their poetry. This Bulletin also features the winning poems of the PBS & Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, reviews of all new poetry releases and extensive listings of new publications. This is the essential guide to the world of contemporary poetry.

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