Jokes wrapped in wordplay and rhyme, limericks date back to the middle ages. Playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing them - both nonsensical and irreverent ones - almost daily and posting them on Facebook to make his friends laugh. Here over 250 are gathered as a playful twenty-first-century 'like' of the hilarious and delightful limerick to ......
The poems in A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of these courageous and mostly forgotten women, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination.
Rowland Bagnall’s poems are, in various ways, about seeing things—movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms—and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold them: windows, screens, fields of vision. Frequently funny and even more frequently fun, Bagnall’s poems cut across continents, memories, dreams, and rooms.
The work in Chip's first full collection, A Class Act, reveals a poet very much engaged with the struggles of the working man. The poetry is characterised by an attitude of stern determination and a tender, underlying empathy that never forgets the human story behind every headline and statistic.
The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
Charles Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics. This book includes extracts from a range of Olson's poetry and prose, including letters, interviews and the full text of the key essay 'Projective Verse'.
The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and religious essays.
