This collection draws on what Donald Davie has discerned as Jeremy Hooker’s presiding territory: the emotion that we have when we recognise some particular terrain as home”.’ Davie suggests that it is hard to think of a better, a more humane or more timely end for poetry to aim at’. Written during his time as Creative Writing Fellow at Winchester School of Art, the collection takes the ancient capital of England, with its jumbled historical multiplicity, as a setting for a sequence which moves through self-discovery and the pain of broken marriage to a fulfilled delight at the processes of art - the anonymous painter of the title - and religious faith. Master of the Leaping Figures is a unified whole, a major work which justifies Dick Davis’s description of Jeremy Hooker as one of the best of our poets’.

Master of the Leaping Figures

Literature & Fiction

Hooker, Jeremy

Poetry

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<p>Includes a substantial selection of Gascoyne's poems from the early 1930s to the present. Included are examples of his earliest work in Roman Balcony (1932, published when he was sixteen) to Hölderlin's Madness (1938); all poems from his most famous volume, Poems 1937-1942, and the best-known poems from his post-war collections, including Night Thoughts (1956) in its entirety. There is a section of light verse and one section of recent poems. He established his name when he was a schoolboy, and his association with the Surrealists drew him into the orbit of Max Ernst, André Breton, and Dalí in Paris. He lived in France in the 1930s, and again in the 50s and 60s, and is revered there, both as a poet and as a translator.</p>

Selected Poems

David Gascoyne

Coming Up to Midnight

Rice, Nicky

The Heart’s Clockwork is an exciting collaboration between poet Brian Hinton and the painter Julian Bell, who in 1988 illustrated Virginia Woolf’s The Widow and the Parrot for the Hogarth Press, and who has designed the covers for three other Enitharmon titles. The poet and artist have previously collaborated on an edition of Emily Tennyson’s Farringford Journal (Isle of Wight County Press). The Island is central to this collection  its ravaged beauty, its rich, half-forgotten artistic heritage, the disintegration of its coastline. In The Heart’s Clockwork, this becomes a complex metaphor for contemporary society, an alchemical marriage between the land and the sea.

The Heart's Clockwork

HINTON, Brian

The playwright Christopher Fry received hundreds of moving, witty letters from his wife when they were separted by war. The letters give a highly entertaining picture of civilian life in the rural Oxfordshire community where Phyl Fry was living with her son. This is a portrait of a remarkable marriage in the years immediately preceding Christopher Fry's great dramatic successes.

A Sprinkle of Nutmeg: Letters to Christopher Fry 1943-45

Fry, Christopher

Fry, Phyl

Dramas & Plays

Novalis: Hymns to the Night

This, the great mystic work of Georg Phillip Friedrich von Hardenberg, the early German romantic poet known as `Novalis', was written between 1797 and 1800. No English translation of it has appeared for many years. In his conclusion Gascoyne writes: The Hymns are an expression of spontaneous faith without parallel in the contemporary world.

Friedrich Von Hardenberg, Georg P.

Horses - Their nervous heads in the mist, had I not known who they were, I'd have thought it was no more than the dream of being together in a meadow in the winter, but I knew, I recognized them. They had come out of a past, hesitated, and turned back into it. In recent years poems by the Dutch writer Rutger Kopland have made regular appearances in British magazines and journals, among them "Stand", "Encounter" and "London Magazine". A small pamphlet of his poems was published in 1987 under the title "The Prospect and the River" (Jackson's Arm Press), but this new book is the first substantial selection to appear in English. It charts the development of Kopland's work from the time of his first Dutch book in 1966 - poems that provided ironical, anecdotal impressions of life in a god-fearing rural community - to the latest poems of metaphysical and philosophical explorations and spiritual journeys.

A World Beyond Myself: Selected Poems

Kopland, Rutger

<p>Presents a complex metaphor for contemporary society, an alchemical marriage between the land and the sea.</p>

Heart's Clockwork: New and Collected Poems

Bell, Julian

Davies' interrogations of faith and friendship bring to life, in a language strikingly rooted in the physical world, spiritual concerns that span centuries. There is a moral seriousness in these poems which confronts doubt and fear, and survival itself, asserting at all times an unsentimental belief in the redemptive power of the human capacity to love. This is particularly so in the two main sequences, which re-create the lives of cave dwellers in prehistoric France, and the doomed love affair of Abelard and Heloise.

In a Valley of This Restless Mind

Davies, Hilary

This collection honors Nicki Jackowska's long intimacy with the written and spoken word. She moves between loss and celebration, weaving poems from personal and social roots with insight, subtlety, and humor. Few poets have met with such spirit the complexities of love, the world's violence, shadow and redemption, nor achieved so agile and resonant a poetic voice. This collection draws from her five previous books and includes a selection of new poems.

Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems

Nicki Jackowska

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