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eBooks The first
Pamphlets Safe Passage by Joanna Ezekiel is now available. (For ordering info see below) (ISBN 0955193214) £3 Safe Passage is Joanna Ezekiel’s second pamphlet. The poems in this collection draw on a multicultural background. Joanna traces the paths taken by her ancestors and the unusual mix of cultures within her family. The ‘hard won safe passage’ is a theme that will reverberate with many, as will the whole of this short collection, leaving readers moved, enchanted and ‘rich as pilgrims’. From This Long Journey For days I have put myself What the reviewers have said about Safe Passage: Her range and treatment of her subjects in this slim volume are impressive, covering both the history of her Jewish family, intense childhood recollections, her journey through life, and more besides... The compressed energy and an unswerving courage to tell the truth about her own family history marks many of Ezekiel's poems with a sharp edge — a kind of elegiac journey that leaves the reader wanting to know more. The Lowest Level by Chris Major.
(ISBN 0955193206
Diagnosis We stayed the night, and left as chilly dawn broke a pale yoke above an empty car-park. Groups of birds flapped in trees, like strips of black sky torn by barbed branches. A week into Spring, and now it’s starting to snow. Perhaps the year’s heard your news, gone mad - and shuffled its seasons to end in May. What the reviewers have said about The Lowest Level: "It is one of the best poetry chapbooks I’ve read in quite a long time... He uses poetry against itself, and uses poetic convention against his subjects." - Jacob McArthur. http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/lowestlevel.html "When you read his collection … you find that what is really interesting is the implied connection between the grotty world he describes and the linguistic play that provides an antidote - of sorts..." - George Simmers. Sphinx Magazine. Also: John Francis Haines in http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/bs196.htm To buy The Lowest Level online from Blackwells please click here: Walking the Walls by Stephen Brown
(ISBN 0955193222) £3
Stephen Brown’s first collection opens in one of Other poems look outwards and to other things such as early twentieth century sculpture. ‘1911’ imagines a Mona Lisa freed from her canvas and enjoying cucumber soup in a The cover photo shows the historic walls of Derry and the book returns there at the end with the title poem, a reflection on a post-ceasefire state where ‘change creeps imperceptibly on the green stone’ and the guns that ‘keep the boys in thrall’ are merely Christmas presents for children, ‘just out of the bubble wrap.’ Reminders of the past are everywhere, though, and the ambiguities of ‘forgetting to survive’ sum up the importance and the impediment of memory. Remembering is both at the core of the effort to understand and also the cause of the insanity and the aporias that result from trying to come to terms with the trauma.
What the reviewers have said about Walking the Walls
Poems freshly squeezed straight from the landscape... The wonderful, terrible "Road Accident" is a beauty and a shock worthy of Muldoon, wandering into one's head uninvited days after reading the poem..... Full of dark pishoguery and fires-in-the-head, this is a thoroughly excellent short collection. - Ailbhe Darcy (New Hope International Review)
"...read him if you want to encounter a lively spirit who can use his experiences to reveal something of the oddity and excitement of life." - George Simmers (Sphinx Online Magazine)
"Lovely stuff." - Paul Muldoon
To buy Walking the Walls from Blackwells online store please click here:
To buy a copy of Safe Passage, The Lowest Level, or Walking the Walls, please send a cheque for £3.00 each (including P&P) to the address below. White Leaf Press AYLESBURY HP20 9AL |
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