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  • Dante's Inferno

    by Philip Terry ...
    Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the 12th to the 20th and 21st centuries, and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and ministers for education; the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quennets

    by Philip Terry ...
    The poetic form used in these pages is one invented by Raymond Queneau in his 1975 book Morale élémentaire; it has come to be called the "quennet", after its inventor, as it has one more line than a sonnet. The three sequences which make up this collection experiment with psychogeographical quennets inspired by walking around the Essex estuary and the Berlin Wall Trail, with the final sequence ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Purgatorio

    by Philip Terry ...
    A modern, satirical pilgrimage through art, culture, and redemption.In this sequel to Dante's Inferno, Dante's journey shifts to Mersea Island, Essex, where he and his guide, Ted Berrigan, ascend a mountain of Flexible Rock Substitute. Encounter contemporary artists like Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst, alongside historical figures and literary giants.As Dante climbs, he grapples with themes of ... Read more

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  • Dictator

    by Philip Terry ...
    Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrière considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near ... Read more

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  • Ovid Metamorphosed

    by Philip Terry ...
    The shape-shifting poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses has fascinated writers and artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso. Its eternal freshness is haunted by an ancient idea: that a person's true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed- the wolf-like man becomes a wolf, the obsessive spinner a spider.For this dazzling collection Philip Terry asked leading writers ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by Philip Terry ...
    Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Forest Lands

    Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks

    by Philip G. Terrie, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven ...
    Series series New York State Series
    The Adirondack Forest Preserve is the largest publicly protected wilderness in the Eastern United States, with a state constitutional provision guaranteeing that it be "forever kept as wild forest lands." But just what does "wilderness" mean today? How has our understanding of that concept shifted, from the colonial implications of the term as first applied to the Adirondacks to a more inclusive ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unnamed Pleasures

    Essential Poems

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Philip Terry ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A new translation of the vividly sensual, fantastically macabre verse from the 19th-century Parisian poet who invented modernity.“The greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language.” —T.S. Eliot**French poet, essayist, art critic and translator Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new era in world literature—indeed, he coined the term 'modernity'. His critical and poetic work changed everything ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Inevitable Imposter

    Identify and Defeat Imposter Syndrome

    by PHILIP TERRY-SMITH ...
    Impostor syndrome is the faulty belief that one is a fraud and not deserving of their achievements. Impostor syndrome can be debilitating to one's personal and professional life. It also affects one's mental and physical health and even their relationships in a variety of ways. ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

  • Celina

    by Catherine Axelrad ...
    Translated by Philip Terry ...
    In the late 1850s, Celina, a young girl aged fifteen, takes up work as a maid for the Hugo family in Guernsey. There she encounters the delicate balance between the professional and the personal, and the obligations upon her as her livelihood is at stake. Celina navigates a life of hardship and loss, but not without crucial moments of pleasure and pride. In a voice full of the innocence of youth, ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • The Lascaux Notebooks

    Translated by Philip Terry ...
    by Jean-Luc Champerret ...
    This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated – tentatively – into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technological Change and the Rural Environment

    Edited by Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden, Sarah Whatmore ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation. The book discusses these problems and other issues such as how rural environments in many developed and developing countries have been transformed by a technological revolution. Looking at a diverse range of topics from ... Read more

    $42.99 USD