Voices of conscience: Poetry from oppression

Watts, Stephen

Cronyn, Hume

McKane Richard

Iron Press

Poetry. REPUBLIC OF DOGS/REPUBLIC OF BIRDS is the first book-length prose text by poet and translator Stephen Watts. The text was written on a typewriter in the late 1980s, then mislaid and lost. Found again in 2012, it was typed onto a laptop with minimal editing. The narrative moves between London's Isle of Dogs and Scotland's Western Isles, where Watts lived and worked as a shepherd. It is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and memory of these locations. Watts is interested in the changing landscape of London's East End: the destruction of working- class culture and its collective memory and the pace of urban development and regeneration. The writing is itself a form of activism, memorialising a lost culture through its physical traces and the stories and voices of its inhabitants.

Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Test Centre

Firebird Book Award Winner 1st Place in 1) Biography/Historical, 2) History/US, 3) New Nonfiction (2023) Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY 2nd Place Book Award (2023) Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Book Awards Winner 3rd Place (2023) Page Turner Awards Finalist (2023) Illinois State Genealogical Society Special Recognition Award (2023) Kindle Book Awards Semi-Finalist (2023) Chanticleer International Book Awards Journey Long List (2023) Self-Publishing Review Book Awards Finalist (2022)\nWhat started as a project to archive a family’s genealogy files became an insightful window into the life of Charles Watts, one of the millions of Dickens-era working-class English emigrants who risked everything for the possibility of better opportunities in distant lands. Charles Watts left London and, after four years of adventure in America and Canada, became an Illinois prairie pioneer.\nSearching for Charles is the chronological account of Watts’s experiences as told through his letters home—and the subsequent five-decade multigenerational search by his descendants. This book contains the only published, complete transcriptions of Watts’s letters. They cover a wide range of topics, including farming, European revolutions, Native Americans, a burgeoning family feud, and firsthand accounts of the rapidly expanding population of early nineteenth-century America, along with the opportunities provided by its explosive growth.\nSearching for Charles is for readers interested in how the discoveries encountered during a half-century genealogical journey can unfold into a dramatic and surprising account of the hidden life of an unhistoric man.

Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure

Parenting & Relationships

Houndstooth Press

Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

Lilith

Baraheni, Reza

Literary

Tenement Press

Although the Expressionists are renowned for their dynamic and emotionally challenging imagery, their literary masterpieces remain a well-kept secret. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of some of the very best poems from the Expressionist era, by radical artists and writers such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

Music While Drowning: German Expressionist Poems

Miller,David

Tate

Journey Across Breath/Tragitto Nel Respiro

Hearing Eye

The poems of Ancient Sunlight range in theme and space from the inner East End of London – where the poet has lived for over thirty years – with its complex richnesses of cultures and the often brutal pains of its regeneration, to great European cities such as Prague and the Italian mountains of his family origins. It is a poetry that marries personal acuity with deep communal awareness, reflecting his work as a poet in schools, hospitals, galleries, drop-in centers, urban and moorland fastnesses, and the wilder places of the human heart. This is a generous, passionate poetry of affirmation and anger for those excluded by, or on the margins of, our drunkenly material literature and society.

Ancient Sunlight

Enitharmon Press

The United States has sought to combat security threats in Africa principally by supporting partner governments, and security sector assistance (SSA) has been one of the primary tools it has used. A RAND Corporation study used statistical models to evaluate the impact that U.S.-provided SSA has had on political violence in Africa—in particular, the incidence of civil wars and insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and state repression.

Building Security in Africa: An Evaluation of U.S. Security Sector Assistance in Africa from the Cold War to the Present

History

Lane, Matthew

Brooks, Andrew

McNerney, Michael J.

Johnston, Trevor

Mann, Sean

Africa

RAND Corporation

Securing Gains in Fragile States: Using U.S. Leverage in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyond

Martini, Jeffrey

Campbell, Jason H.

Kwon, Inhyok

Asia

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