Epigrams and Fragments |
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Epigrams and Fragments
trans. Alan Halsey Mercurialis the Younger
ISBN 1-904052-16-9
West House Books, Paperback
2004, 28 pp
Mercurialis the Younger, ‘of Anticyra in Phocis, famous for black hellebore’, fl. 260-285 AD. Seventy one of his poems survive in the Annales Anticyrae where they are quoted, usually in fragmentary form, to illustrate contemporary events and aspects of life in the province.
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Escafeld Hangings |
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Escafeld Hangings
Monk, Geraldine
ISBN 1-904052-17-7
West House Books, Paperback
2005
In ‘Escafeld Hangings’ Geraldine Monk trawls through this ‘City of Eternal Construction’ concentrating mainly on the enigmatic figure of Mary Queen of Scots who was imprisoned there from 1570 until 1584.
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For Silver See Blue |
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For Silver See Blue
Storhaug, Glenn
ISBN 1-904052-09-6
West House Books, Paperback
2003, 64 pp
Poetry. A meditation on colour inspired by Minoan Crete and shaped like a medieval dream poem, glossed by picture credits, acknowledgements and a table of contents.
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From Taxonomy |
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From Taxonomy
Stewart, Christine
ISBN 0-904052-07-X
West House Books, Paperback
2003, 40 pp
Prose-poems with b/w graphics. ‘An unusual and original collection that updates the Renaissance emblem-book for the post-Language age.’—David Kennedy
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Hear the Voice of the Bard! |
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Hear the Voice of the Bard!
Annwn, David
ISBN 0-9521891-1-9
West House Books, Paperback
1995, 28 pp
In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to the Blake Society in 1994, David Annwn considers the origin of William Blake’s vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin.
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Hippototescopo |
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Hippototescopo
de Wit, Johan
ISBN 0-9531509-4-1
West House Books, Paperback
2000, 64 pp
Poems with footnotes. ‘Johan de Wit suspects that the guilty will not listen and his answer is to create formally autonomous literary texts, a pure poetry that is as solid as the world.' Robert Sheppard
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Hotel Faust |
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Hotel Faust
Wagney, Catherine
ISBN 0-9531509-6-8
West House Books, Paperback
2001, 20 pp
Poems. ‘There is a troubled and mischievous soul running through the corridors of Hotel Faust. It is a soul determined not to be lost.'—Geraldine Monk
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Human Remains and Sudden Movements |
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Human Remains and Sudden Movements
Davidson, Ian
ISBN 1-904052-10-X
West House Books, Paperback
2003, 24 pp
Poetry. ‘Wry wit is the dancing skeleton of these deceptively simple poems which, often gentle in manner, domestic, meditative, shift focus and tone as a fading ripple reveals not the water expected; as if mist had force.’—Tom Raworth
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Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text |
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Insubstantial Thoughts on the Transubstantiation of the Text
Monk, Geraldine
ISBN 1-904052-05-3
West House Books and the Paper, Paperback
2002, 16 pp
Poem/essay exploring the various modes of ‘reading’, from unvocalised private reading through to the performance of text as interactive ‘fused sonics’.
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Magpie Words |
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Magpie Words
Caddel, Richard
ISBN 1-904052-03-7
West House Books, Paperback
2002, 196 pp
This is the largest collection of the poems of Richard Caddel (1949-2003).
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