<i>The Desperate Journey</i> tells the story of the Highland Clearances as they affect one small family. The Murrays are forced to load their possessions onto a cart and travel across Scotland to Glasgow. Here the children have to work in a mill and live in overcrowded and dirty lodgings. The family are offered the chance to join an emigrant ship bound for Hudson Bay in Canada, and make a perilous journey into a new life in the Red River Colony. The spirit and resourcefulness of Davie and Kirsty shines through all their hardships as they witness the evictions and burning of the crofters' homes; endure the hardships of child labor in a Glasgow cotton mill; survive the Atlantic crossing on a disease-ridden ship; and witness bitter feuding among rival colonists. Kathleen Fidler’s skill at bringing characters to life has enthralled generations of readers and will no doubt do so for many more years to come.

The Desperate Journey

kathleen-fidler

Five Seasons Press

Good Wild Sacred

Gary Snyder

The landscape of harmony

Berry, Wendell

Hamburger, Michael, (Intro.)

Setting the Poem to Words

Hart, David

Poetry. A beautifully produced large-format book collecting together all Alan Halsey's longer poems and sequences, as well as prose texts and graphics, from 1988 to 2004. Most of the contents have only been published previously in various international anthologies, sought-after limited-edition booklets, or heard at one of the author's readings in Britain, Europe or the US. Each book has a deftly-incorporated CD featuring 208 Memory Screen graphic images with PC/Mac software forauto-slide-show and interactive viewing. "His grasp of language, or the many layers and interiorities that make a text work, is about second to none"--Paul Green. "A poetry of passionate and stoical resistance"--Robert Potts.

Marginalien

Literature & Fiction

Halsey, Alan

Poetry

<p>Poetry. SOME BUSINESS OF AFFINITY is a series of translations, responses, reworkings, and interpretations of an array of different cultures, languages and writers. Included are reactions to Catallus and Hokusai, reworkings of excerpts from Coleridge's notebooks, and translations of Aeschylus and medieval Welsh author Dafydd ap Gwilym. These are interspersed with illustrations that augment Merchant's selections and comment on the nature of translation itself.</p>

Some Business of Affinity

Merchant, Paul

Poetry. "Gavin Selerie weaves together richly colored threads taken from Gothic storytelling, Irish politics and literature, feminist heroic history and the fascinating development of popular theatre. His dazzling kaleidoscope uses a varied sequence of verse forms: the effect is oral, brash, sparky, and yet grounded in a deep knowledge and love of the highest poetic tradition. LE FANU'S GHOST reveals, in a most original way, the wonderful cross-pollination of high and low, notorious and neglected, oral and literary, Gaelic and Faery lore, Ireland and England, and will give great pleasure to readers"-Marina Warner. "Selerie's nonfictional-fictional genealogical poetic quest into the life, friends, and relations of the Anglo-Irish author of Gothic thrillers, such as Carmilla and Uncle Silas, sometimes recalls the procedures of Melville in Moby-Dick, particularly the extracts supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian. Every contingent sound-bite of information has been arranged to perfection"-Susan Howe.

Le Fanu's Ghost

Selerie, Gavin

The Road from Herat

Holtham Clare

The Kilpeck anthology

Storhaug, Glenn (edit)

Song of the Rowan (Hereford poems)

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