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Refugee Tales

by Ali Smith, Marina Lewycka, David Herd ...

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on ... Read more

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Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on
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Torry

The Life and Career of a Football Great

by David Herd, Ian Stewart ...

Torry: The Life and Career of a Football Great is the story of the remarkable Torry Gillick, a Scottish international footballer revered both in Glasgow and Liverpool.On the pitch, Gillick won every possible honour in Scottish football with Rangers across two spells at Ibrox, and was the only player signed twice by the legendary Bill Struth. At Everton, he was a key player in their famous league ... Read more

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Torry: The Life and Career of a Football Great is the story of the remarkable Torry Gillick, a Scottish international footballer revered both in Glasgow and Liverpool.On the pitch, Gillick won every possible honour in Scottish football with Rangers across two spells at Ibrox, and was the only player signed twice by the legendary Bill Struth. At Everton, he was a key player in their famous league
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1977/78

A Historic Season for Rangers FC and a Treble That Ended an Era

by David Herd ...

1977/78: The Treble That Ended An Era tells the story of a historic season for RangersFC on and off the pitch.Captain John Greig' s 17-year playing career at Ibrox ended in treble glory, and he was latervoted ' The Greatest Ranger' by the fans. With another great Rangers figure as manager, thelate Jock Wallace, the team made a clean sweep of domestic honours, playing entertainingand attacking ... Read more

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1977/78: The Treble That Ended An Era tells the story of a historic season for RangersFC on and off the pitch.Captain John Greig' s 17-year playing career at Ibrox ended in treble glory, and he was latervoted ' The Greatest Ranger' by the fans. With another great Rangers figure as manager, thelate Jock Wallace, the team made a clean sweep of domestic honours, playing entertainingand attacking
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Through

by David Herd ...

A powerful exploration of language, politics, and the human cost of hostility in public spaces.Through, written between 2011 and 2015, continues David Herd's inquiry into the language of public space, building on his previous work in All Just. This collection of five extended poems delves into the ways contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile, examining the impact on human ... Read more

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A powerful exploration of language, politics, and the human cost of hostility in public spaces.Through, written between 2011 and 2015, continues David Herd's inquiry into the language of public space, building on his previous work in All Just. This collection of five extended poems delves into the ways contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile, examining the impact on human
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All Just

by David Herd ...

The poems in this collection are created from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement and the translation between public and private spaces—conversations that start and are broken off; public announcements intervening in private situations; an emergency that is about to unfold in the background. Taking bearings from Dover and London and wrestling with themes of elegy ... Read more

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The poems in this collection are created from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement and the translation between public and private spaces—conversations that start and are broken off; public announcements intervening in private situations; an emergency that is about to unfold in the background. Taking bearings from Dover and London and wrestling with themes of elegy
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Refugee Tales: Volume III

by Monica Ali, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Gillian Slovo, Lisa Appignanesi, David Constantine, Ian Sansom, Lytton Smith, Emma Parsons, Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Wittenberg, Roma Tearne, David Herd ...

Series Book 3 - Refugee Tales
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of ... Read more

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With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of
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Contemporary Olson

Edited by David Herd ...

As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and politics, ... Read more

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As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and politics,
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The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller

A Nomad Memory

by Hélène Aji, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Eric Hoffman, Romana Huk, Elisabeth Joyce, Henry Weinfield, Tyrone Williams, David Herd ...

The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career. ... Read more

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The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career.
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Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World

Making Space for the Human

by David Herd ...

Series series Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention results. As a matter of urgency, the book argues, we need to understand what is at stake in such ... Read more

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Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention results. As a matter of urgency, the book argues, we need to understand what is at stake in such
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Refugee Tales V

by Anna Pincus, David Herd ...

Series Book 5 - Refugee Tales
Featuring: David Mitchell, Daljit Nagra , Scarlett Thomas , Guy Gunaratne , Hannah Lowe, Tessa McWatt, Natasha Brown, Haifa Zangana, Ridy Wasolua, David Flusfeder & Shamshad KhanModelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Refugee Tales series sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets, novelists and other ... Read more

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Featuring: David Mitchell, Daljit Nagra , Scarlett Thomas , Guy Gunaratne , Hannah Lowe, Tessa McWatt, Natasha Brown, Haifa Zangana, Ridy Wasolua, David Flusfeder & Shamshad KhanModelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Refugee Tales series sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets, novelists and other
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The New American Poetry

Fifty Years Later

by Carla Billitteri, Terence Diggory, David Herd, Ben Hickman, Megan Swihart Jewell, Burt Kimmelman, Joe Moffett, John R. Woznicki, Paul R. Cappucci, Seth J. Forrest0, Joshua S. Hoeynck1, Peter Middleton2 ...

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen’s anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, ... Read more

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The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen’s anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary,
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The Meaning of Life

A Very Short Introduction

by Terry Eagleton ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. ... Read more

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We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives.
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