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“adele ogier jones”

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  • Following Rivers in Trees

    by Adele Ogier Jones ...
    'Explorations of place and time make for a wonderful, prismatic journey... Following Rivers in Trees captures the movement of time and life, one moment eddying under bridges and the next sweeping diaspora. Ogiér Jones's latest collection traverses a rich "legacy of Irishness", through seasons of blackberry-picking, centuries of history, and the exquisitely "busy tales" of otters. A beautiful ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beyond the Blackbird Field

    by Adèle Ogier Jones ...
    The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo), and in Dubrovnik – each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region, beyond the historical conflict of Kosovo’s ‘Blackbird Field’, so poems are grouped in line with sunset, evening, or night falling on tranquil landscapes, beyond war. Early dawn promise is reflected in the ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Desert Diya

    by Adèle Ogiér Jones ...
    Hana’s life in a tropical village is predictable and simple until she answers an advertisement. A journey with new friends, to new places, and training for work which she dreams will bring a better life for her family start the story. Work placements which seem so suitable to start with, step by step lead to a murder, judgement and ‘diya’ – the law of the desert based on the will of those injured, ... Read more

    $6.00 USD

  • Counting the Chiperoni

    by Adèle Ogiér Jones ...
    Chiperoni: term for a kind of fog, drizzle rain, experienced in the Shire Highlands of southern Malawi during the cold, dry season; name derived from Mount Chiperone, an isolated mountain peak at the southern extremity of East African mountain ranges, covered with montane forests and surrounded by deciduous woodlands.‘The sinuous rhythms and arresting imagery in Counting the Chiperoni take us on ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • From the Edge of the Pacific

    by Adèle Ogiér Jones ...
    'Another collection of experiences and imaginings from the watchful eye of the poet who gave us Afghanistan - waiting for the bus. Here, the poet weaves and gifts us with yet another salusalu (garland) of memories of and a passion for people struggling to adapt to the realities of their environments, that at times constitute "land beyond repair" (Somewhere Islands) yet, continuing to live ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Afghanistan - waiting for the bus

    by Adèle Ogiér Jones ...
    Adèle Ogiér Jones has worked internationally for more than two decades, much of it in development, more recently in regions affected by conflict. From 2004 to 2006, when these poems were written, she lived in Afghanistan, leading the education program of the Aga Khan Foundation in northern and central provinces. Political themes are common in these poems, though more often it is the snapshot of ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

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    by James Fitzpatrick ...
    Titanic is written in 'Triplicism' and revolves around a conversation between SO or SM Lightoller (Highest Ranked) surviving officer on RMS Titanic and Millvina Dean a two month old who was carried from sinking ship. She was steerage, which is third class, and was saved in a bundle of cloth, but would have no memory of what happened.In the poem Lightoller tells her what happens on his final deck ... Read more

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  • Waking Occupations

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    by Phoebe Wang ...
    The second collection from the acclaimed author of Admission Requirements.This astonishing new collection of poems contemplates our obligations to live in a creative, generative, and revolutionary way amid a cascade of global contingencies.In a four-part meditation on what it means to live on occupied land and in colonial time, the subject of these poems has moved beyond arriving and departing and ... Read more

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  • Mystery Child: Book 1

    by Nixon Mateulah ...
    In the remote village of Chidedza on a day when the cocks refused to crow and nature itself seemed to turn inside out with unnatural occurrences; a seventy year old woman gave birth to a grey haired, walking and talking child. But even more unnatural and frightening was the fact that the child walked backwards. Fear spread through the inhabitants of the small village. Upon hearing of the child, ... Read more

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  • All Forgotten Now

    by Jennifer Mariani ...
    A life that crisscrosses Zimbabwe, England, and Canada. A self-imposed exile, a state of constant waiting. Jennifer Mariani's poems grieve a life she can't return to, even as she struggles to belong elsewhere. Never far from the page is the reality of growing up white in post-independence Zimbabwe: Jennifer's own privilege juxtaposed with everyday poverty and racism. The poems in this book cry out ... Read more

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  • Small Things

    by Jonathan Barnes ...
    a collection of poems at the heart of which lies the observation that it is the small things in life - set-backs as well as pleasures - which define us as human beings, and that an appreciation of these is what ultimately gives life its meaning. ... Read more

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  • Inside the Wave

    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of ... Read more

    $8.89 USD