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Paperback. Condición: New. "If his cypher was discovered too soon, his life would be the forfeit. If never, his labour would be in vain."In this volume, we invite you to reflect on all the ways messages can be hidden - and uncovered - in other messages. More than that, we invite you to think about the relationship between the within and the without, and what it tells us about ourselves. Look Again is a compilation of curious poems, short texts and extracts from longer works that all have something to hide or reveal, taking their cues from riddles, cyphers and imaginary languages.Be aware: you may be left with a mind to see secret writing everywhere you look.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Nobody is going to buy the book if I say nice things about you, Werner."- Klaus Kinski to Werner Herzog What are the things you can't live with or without? What can we expect from relationships that refuse to resolve themselves one way or the other? You Again collects together accounts of ruinous tension and blighted passion, mixing extracts and cut-ups from famous works with fresh slivers of contemporary writing. There's romance, of course - but other kinds of entanglement as well, all awash with delight and frustration, rage and joy, hope and perplexity.

Paperback. Condición: New. "If his cypher was discovered too soon, his life would be the forfeit. If never, his labour would be in vain."In this volume, we invite you to reflect on all the ways messages can be hidden - and uncovered - in other messages. More than that, we invite you to think about the relationship between the within and the without, and what it tells us about ourselves. Look Again is a compilation of curious poems, short texts and extracts from longer works that all have something to hide or reveal, taking their cues from riddles, cyphers and imaginary languages.Be aware: you may be left with a mind to see secret writing everywhere you look.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Nobody is going to buy the book if I say nice things about you, Werner."- Klaus Kinski to Werner Herzog What are the things you can't live with or without? What can we expect from relationships that refuse to resolve themselves one way or the other? You Again collects together accounts of ruinous tension and blighted passion, mixing extracts and cut-ups from famous works with fresh slivers of contemporary writing. There's romance, of course - but other kinds of entanglement as well, all awash with delight and frustration, rage and joy, hope and perplexity.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Very ready we are to say of a book, 'How good it is - that's exactly what I think!' But the right feeling is, 'What the hell did I just read?'"- John Ruskin Why a book of misquotations? Because what's captured in such a book is the jittery, jumbled essence of truth: that wisdom and edict alike are constantly customised, iterated, adjusted. Nothing stays the same. Say It Again gathers the sage words of philosophers, statesmen, artists and authors alongside proverbs, sayings and scripture - all distorted with varying degrees of deliberation. Some are stitched into poems (or something like poems) while others speak to the present in bizarre new ways. Whether or not they retain their former authority, or the power to lower the reader into the deep well of human experience, these refigured fragments are evidence that everything we know may be shaken, like the grains in a kaleidoscope.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Behind the thin glass, the wind chanted not warnings but invitations. " They're done with the land, its reckless rulers and its unjust laws! Now ten poets set sail under the bold black flag, as pirate queens, gentleman corsairs and salty dogs, to sing shanties most boisterously and comb for treasure. But what kind of treasure? And what varieties of creature await them in the deep? And what happens when the rum runs dry? Is the journey really what it seems to be? Did they ever, in fact, escape the shore?

Paperback. Condición: New. In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans - as well as the existential fears they continue to embody - these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians - their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed .

Paperback. Condición: New. Poets are famous rakes, seductresses and time travellers, are they not? Cast all doubt from your mind by taking in these ten tantalising accounts of extremely inter-generational flirtation, whereby prominent persons from history are left weak-kneed and willing. But is that all there is to it? Or are our poets, as poets tend to be, up to much else besides mere dalliance? And will they change the past forever, or vanish into it?

Paperback. Condición: New. Poets are, as a matter of fact, natural spies. Nondescript in appearance, they're quick, ever-watchful, and shifty in their skins. Practised at fleeing, and at giving pursuit. Likely to reach for a pen that fires a dart. Likely, too, to cross each other's paths in out-of-the-way places, and exchange some vital capsule of information. Most importantly, perhaps, they are experts at slipping the grip of a rival spymaster, who is their own dark double - for a time, at least. And when called out of retirement to do their bit - well, take any reticence with a pinch of salt.

Paperback. Condición: New. Long before we went to the moon, we dreamt of going there, of what it would be like, in every medium from cinema to comic strip. Now, ten brave cosmonauts have resurrected that most rickety, most celestial of technologies - the lyric poem - as a means of reaching out as far as any of us has ever gone, in a space race from which some of them may never return. What will they find out there, amid the cold craters of the forbidding lunar crust?

Paperback. Condición: New. Do poets make good detectives? Find out by following their feats of deduction, in this set of ten wildly varied accounts of mystery and murder. See them soften the tight lips of witnesses, squeeze the hearts of suspects, and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed. Watch for their subtle skill, but also for the all-too-human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up, glintingly, to the light.

Paperback. Condición: New. Poets are, as a matter of fact, natural spies. Nondescript in appearance, they're quick, ever-watchful, and shifty in their skins. Practised at fleeing, and at giving pursuit. Likely to reach for a pen that fires a dart. Likely, too, to cross each other's paths in out-of-the-way places, and exchange some vital capsule of information. Most importantly, perhaps, they are experts at slipping the grip of a rival spymaster, who is their own dark double - for a time, at least. And when called out of retirement to do their bit - well, take any reticence with a pinch of salt.

Paperback. Condición: New. "Behind the thin glass, the wind chanted not warnings but invitations. " They're done with the land, its reckless rulers and its unjust laws! Now ten poets set sail under the bold black flag, as pirate queens, gentleman corsairs and salty dogs, to sing shanties most boisterously and comb for treasure. But what kind of treasure? And what varieties of creature await them in the deep? And what happens when the rum runs dry? Is the journey really what it seems to be? Did they ever, in fact, escape the shore?

Paperback. Condición: New. "One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted-"When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, it's as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. We have gathered here ten in one slim book - ten possible summoning spells, primed to plant sounds and images deep in the ear and eye. Would you risk reading them aloud? Be careful - repetition is a kind of incantation. And the ghosts in these lyric tales are as angry as they are mournful as they are cold .

Paperback. Condición: New. Poets are famous rakes, seductresses and time travellers, are they not? Cast all doubt from your mind by taking in these ten tantalising accounts of extremely inter-generational flirtation, whereby prominent persons from history are left weak-kneed and willing. But is that all there is to it? Or are our poets, as poets tend to be, up to much else besides mere dalliance? And will they change the past forever, or vanish into it?

Paperback. Condición: New. Long before we went to the moon, we dreamt of going there, of what it would be like, in every medium from cinema to comic strip. Now, ten brave cosmonauts have resurrected that most rickety, most celestial of technologies - the lyric poem - as a means of reaching out as far as any of us has ever gone, in a space race from which some of them may never return. What will they find out there, amid the cold craters of the forbidding lunar crust?

Paperback. Condición: New. "Very ready we are to say of a book, 'How good it is - that's exactly what I think!' But the right feeling is, 'What the hell did I just read?'"- John Ruskin Why a book of misquotations? Because what's captured in such a book is the jittery, jumbled essence of truth: that wisdom and edict alike are constantly customised, iterated, adjusted. Nothing stays the same. Say It Again gathers the sage words of philosophers, statesmen, artists and authors alongside proverbs, sayings and scripture - all distorted with varying degrees of deliberation. Some are stitched into poems (or something like poems) while others speak to the present in bizarre new ways. Whether or not they retain their former authority, or the power to lower the reader into the deep well of human experience, these refigured fragments are evidence that everything we know may be shaken, like the grains in a kaleidoscope.

Paperback. Condición: New. Do poets make good detectives? Find out by following their feats of deduction, in this set of ten wildly varied accounts of mystery and murder. See them soften the tight lips of witnesses, squeeze the hearts of suspects, and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed. Watch for their subtle skill, but also for the all-too-human weaknesses and maddening contradictions that all honest poetry (and all good detective fiction) holds up, glintingly, to the light.

Paperback. Condición: New. In scenarios which recall the mid-20th century craze for atomic monsters and stop-motion titans - as well as the existential fears they continue to embody - these ten sprawling poems and lyrical tales turn on terrible confrontations in modern metropolitan centres. The poets behind them are fighters, guardians - their lines and stanzas weapons of resistance. And while the beasts themselves may be somewhat figurative, somewhat fantastical, the danger they represent is sometimes very real indeed .

Paperback. Condición: New. The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: "Come buy, come buy!" And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies - European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And while in many ways their power has waned - what is there for them in the urban, post-industrial, rubbish-strewn present? - our susceptibility to it has not. Those who go in search risk never quite returning, or coming back changed.

Paperback. Condición: New. "One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted-"When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, it's as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. We have gathered here ten in one slim book - ten possible summoning spells, primed to plant sounds and images deep in the ear and eye. Would you risk reading them aloud? Be careful - repetition is a kind of incantation. And the ghosts in these lyric tales are as angry as they are mournful as they are cold .

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Paperback. Condición: New. "Enter freely and of your own will!" After a hellish coach ride up a mountain pass, each of our ten poets crosses a threshold - perhaps a little dishevelled. But the master of the castle remains oddly reclusive; is this stop-off or destination, sanctuary or trap? Move through the book as you would a candlelit corridor: every poem here is an unlocked chamber door, behind which lies mirrors, dust, and the temptation of the flesh.

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Smut' can mean many things.Within the pages of this book you will find poetry, short stories, visual artworks and more, crafted by ARU students past and present. These diverse works have one thing in common - they all engage creatively with at least one of the many definitions of a single word: smut.Are you ready to see smut through new eyes?

Paperback. Condición: New. "This game takes a minute to play - since you should never spend longer than a minute in a library on fire." Looking for a different kind of challenge? Here's a collection of rules and instructions - for games to play on your own, with friends or enemies, outside or in. Most are designed to be very short, but one or two may last a week, a month, or a lifetime. There are role-playing games, dice games, creative games and battles, extracts from the likes of H. G. Wells and Charles Cotton as well as new work by contemporary writers. But Roll Again is also an experiment in literary form - it includes texts which are more poem than game. It urges readers to dive into the ambiguous space between imagining and enacting, and in so doing rethink the meaning of everyday experiences.

Paperback. Condición: New. As noted by Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Chris Beckett in his foreword, one of the key pleasures of this anthology is the range of different forms, subjects and styles: "Poetry, travelogue, a last will and testament, microfiction (nanofiction, even?) . and - yeeeessss! - several pieces of science fiction."The writers involved find themselves at the start of their careers, facing - as we all do - an uncertain future. But anxiety can spur the imagination if we let it, and these writers have chosen to do so. The result is variety and experimentation. Colour, darkness, familiar and alien landscapes, rifts in time and space, tricks of the light, memory and glossary, loss and longing.

Paperback. Condición: New. This anthology brings together a rich collection of fifteen voices. Each contribution is unique in flavour, origin, and rhythm, yet somehow, like the ingredients of a well-loved recipe, the combination is greater than the sum of its parts. Utilising both prose and poetry, these narrative reflections come in a range of genres, covering expansive stretches of space, time, and emotion. Together, they make up a tapestry - one as intricate and simple as a hand-crafted dish.Here you'll find intimate personal stories, generosity of spirit and langage, and trust in the universal power of storytelling, memory and connection. Whether sweet, bitter, spicy, or simmering to unfold, each piece is a vital part of the whole, and a reminder of stories that linger long after the last page.

Paperback. Condición: New. How well do you know Gaius Valerius Catullus, Ancient Rome's most notorious scandal-monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch? Impress your friends by having his muckiest quotes and most stinging jibes to hand at all times! In this customisable handbook, you'll find him at his most sexy, tender, savage and scurrilous, translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books' many talented scribes. Catullus is seven genres; emoji Catullus; Catullus in Scots; poems sculpted into sex positions - and pages for you, the reader, to fill in, in your own obsene fashion.

Paperback. Condición: New. The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: "Come buy, come buy!" And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies - European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And while in many ways their power has waned - what is there for them in the urban, post-industrial, rubbish-strewn present? - our susceptibility to it has not. Those who go in search risk never quite returning, or coming back changed.

Paperback. Condición: New. "If his cypher was discovered too soon, his life would be the forfeit. If never, his labour would be in vain."In this volume, we invite you to reflect on all the ways messages can be hidden - and uncovered - in other messages. More than that, we invite you to think about the relationship between the within and the without, and what it tells us about ourselves. Look Again is a compilation of curious poems, short texts and extracts from longer works that all have something to hide or reveal, taking their cues from riddles, cyphers and imaginary languages.Be aware: you may be left with a mind to see secret writing everywhere you look.