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A brand new book from the bloodaxe "contemporary french poets" seriespoetry book society recommended translationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis work is structured by a sense of quest, which gives it its labyrinthine patterns, underground tensions and fractured, inventive formstranslation by keith bosely - a bilingual editionoxfam 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 poetry has an epic and tragic dimension: spurred by an urge for transcendence, it refuses false paradises, arrivals and notions of reconciliationrome 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 seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebrand new and in excellent conditionhis 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 worldin his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, western culture merges with oriental and arabic traditionshis writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension while never ceasing to root itself in earthy, sensuous experiencethis collection has been chosen by unesco for their collection of representative worksoxfam bookshop hexham salah stti is a french lebanese poet and essayist of international renown
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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 yearoxfam 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 weekthomas (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 man for his second biography rogers - a welshman who moved to england - has found the perfect subject: the great welsh poet rsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a hilarious and extraordinary story of a singular mannow byron rogers has unearthed the amazing story of this man's life, and that of his household - one both comic, absurd and touchingto thomas's many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetryall his life, he was a minister in the church of wales, at a succession of increasingly remote country parishesthomas is now accepted, along with ted hughes, philip larkin and seamus heaney, as one of the great post-war british poetsthis is sure to be widely reviewedhere 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 holidaymakersit describes the life of one of 20th-century english literature's greatest poetshe is regarded in wales as the national poet
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