The Kingdom of Atlas

Literature & Fiction

Sail, Lawrence

British & Irish

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

Opposite views (An Aldine paperback original)

Poetry

Dent

<p>Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four decades. The new poems continue to explore Sail's characteristic themes-the border country between belief and doubt, the interplay of memory and imagination, the possibilities of art, and the context of silence-and they do so with a fresh inwardness. Attentive to the often alluring details of the material and natural world (many of them reflecting the writer's love of the sea), these poems also contemplate the relationship between appearance and essence.</p>

Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books

Modern French Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology Covering Seventy Years (English and French Edition)

Sorrell, Martin

Dufour Editions

Quartet: The Four Seasons

Alvi, Moniza

Crucefix, Martyn

Khalvati, Mimi

Porteous, Katrina

Harvey, Matt

Brackenbury, Alison

France, Linda

Tutton, Chris

Schmit, Michael

Avalanche Books

Exeter Poetry Prize 1998

Odyssey Poets

Cross Currents contains forty-two essays written for Poetry Nation Review at the invitation of its editor, Michael Schmidt, and published in the magazine as an unbroken series between 1995 and 2003. Some of them chronicle events and issues relating to those years: all have poetry at their centre, while covering a wide range of other subjects. These include film, music and contemporary art: and there are also accounts of visits to Saint Petersburg, Bosnia, the Orkneys and Venice. The essays take their bearings not only from English literature, but also from French, German, American, Czech and Russian writers: the question which runs throughout is the fundamental one of value. The approach is associative and personal; the aim, to present a lively and companionable stimulus to the reader’s own thinking.

Cross Currents

Essays & Correspondence

Enitharmon Press

Songs of the Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years.  They are notable for their combination of a close focus and breadth, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside the challenges of history and the beauty of the natural world.  Trees, flowers, creatures and landscapes are set memorably in the context of the Christmas story and the calendar: and topographically the poems range from a Romanian convent to a Devon beach to an alpine cablecar.The finely drawn illustrations by Erica Sail, the writer’s daughter, add their own note of precision and detail.  Taken together with the poems, they help to create a perspective in which the darkness of winter really does yield up its music. All royalties from sales of Songs of the Darkness will be given to Trusts for African Schools, a registered charity which acts as a conduit for money raised in the UK to be sent out to some of the poorest schools in Africa.  More information, and details of the ten individual schools currently supported by the Trusts, eight in Kenya, and one each in Uganda and Ethiopia, are available on the website www.trustsforafricanschools.org.

Songs of the Darkness

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