The Faber book of political verse

Literature & Fiction

Tom Paulin

Poetry

Faber&Faber

A reworking of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound in which Paulin reworks the myth in the vernacular. Plot and character, even action, are secondary to a quasi-futuristic treatment of contemporary issues, such as feminism, the corruption of power and authoritarianism. From the author of Fivemiletown.

Seize the fire: A version of Aeschylus's Prometheus bound

Dramas & Plays

Faber and Faber

This collection of poems, from 1972 to 1990, is selected from "A State of Justice", "The Strange Museum", "Liberty Tree" and "Seize the Fire". This book also includes a verse translation of Sophocles's "Prometheus Unbound".

Selected poems, 1972-1990

Faber Paperbacks

<p>Analysing Hazlitt's radicalism and its foundations in Unitarian culture, Paulin argues that he was in effect a republican epic poet in prose - as distinct from prose poet - and a crucially important critic who has been given nothing like his due. He offers a fully rounded literary portrait with great depth and detail.</p>

The Day-star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber & Faber Academic

In The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin sets out to recount the origins of the Second World War. The result is a triumph of technique, a simultaneous vision which proceeds by quotation and collage, catalogue and caption, prose as well as verse - a myriad staging of historical realities through the poet's intense and bitter scrutiny of the particulars of time and place. The volume opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe. It evokes Weimar culture, Hitler's rise to power and the beginnings of the persecution of the Jews, and ends with the Battle of Britain.

The Invasion Handbook

History

Military

<p>"The Secret Life of Poems" is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for students and readers of poetry, and seeks to explain how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems.</p>

The Secret Life of Poems

Poets from the North of Ireland

John Montague

Gerald Dawe

JOHN HEWITT

Tom Matthews

Derek, Mahon

Michael Foley

Louis MacNeice

Paul Muldoon

W.R.

michael-longley

James, Simmons

Ciaran. Carson

George Buchanan

Seamus

Roy McFadden

William Peskett

Blackstaff Press

Ireland & the English crisis

Classics

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Selected Writings Of William Hazlitt Vol 8

Duncan Wu

David Bromwich

Stanley Jones

Taylor & Francis Group

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