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A brand new book from the bloodaxe "contemporary french poets" seriestranslation by keith bosely - a bilingual editionhis poetry has an epic and tragic dimension: spurred by an urge for transcendence, it refuses false paradises, arrivals and notions of reconciliationoxfam bookshop hexham first known for his war-time poems written from a german labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the magi - andre frenaud () is one of the most searching of french poetshis work is structured by a sense of quest, which gives it its labyrinthine patterns, underground tensions and fractured, inventive formspoetry book society recommended translationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morerome the sorceress () is frenaud's richest and most disturbing confrontation with the hidden life of myths and the sacred, probing the themes of time, inheritance, revolt, illusions of divinity, father-?gures, mother-?gures, and the insatiable monuments of language which pretend to grapple with this weight of experience
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Part of the bloodaxe contemporary french poets seriesin his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, western culture merges with oriental and arabic traditionsoxfam bookshop hexham salah stti is a french lebanese poet and essayist of international renownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis collection has been chosen by unesco for their collection of representative workshis poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is hanging on the other side of being' - the great soft lion's track in the invisible' - while still capturing the swarming particularities of our daily presence in the worldhis writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension while never ceasing to root itself in earthy, sensuous experiencebrand new and in excellent condition
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Originally aired in , the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the dark ages with wood going on a journey of discovery to find out what really happened in europe following the decline of the roman empiresee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisc and box in excellent conditionthe episodes are: 'in search of offa', 'in search of boadicea', 'in search of arthur', 'in search of alfred the great', 'in search of athelstan', 'in search of eric bloodaxe' and 'in search of ethelred the unready'oxfam bookshop newport historian michael wood presents this bbc series about the dark ages
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Thomas's poetry published by penguin modern classics, orion and bloodaxe with substantial sales every yearall his life, he was a minister in the church of wales, at a succession of increasingly remote country parishesit is a hilarious and extraordinary story of a singular man for his second biography rogers - a welshman who moved to england - has found the perfect subject: the great welsh poet rhere is a man who banned hoovers from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, whose attempts to seek out more authentically welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud english holidaymakershe is regarded in wales as the national poetoxfam shop dumfries this is the follow-up to the author's previous biography, the critically acclaimed and sales success, "the last englishman"byron rogers' previous books for aurum have twice been radio 4 book of the weeknow byron rogers has unearthed the amazing story of this man's life, and that of his household - one both comic, absurd and touchingthis is sure to be widely reviewedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit describes the life of one of 20th-century english literature's greatest poetsthomas is now accepted, along with ted hughes, philip larkin and seamus heaney, as one of the great post-war british poetsthomas (an english-educated man who set out to become more and more welsh throughout his life)he had a reputation for being an austere, unforgiving, taciturn, wintry manto thomas's many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetry
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