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Shackletons Boat JourneyF. A. Worsley

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackletonsexpedition to Antarctica, this firsthand account chronicles one ofthe most breathtaking and inspiring survival stories of all time.

In August of 1914, Shackleton and his handpicked crewembarked from London on the HMS Endurance, determined tomake the first land crossing of the Antarctic. In this memoir,Frank Worsley, the captain of the ship, describes how theEndurancebecame trapped and was ultimately crushed to splin-ters by pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915; how the crew wasforced to drift on an ice floe for five months before they wereable to launch three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island; and how Shackleton and seven othersincluding Worsleywent on in a 22-foot open boat for 800miles through wintery Antarctic seas to South Georgia in searchof rescue. As moving as it is gripping, this is an extraordinarystory of courage and even good humor among a group of men

who, in the face of what must have seemed certain death, exhib-ited toughness, competence, loyalty, and modesty.

F. A. Worsleywas a New Zealand sailor and explorer. He servedas a reserve officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and, asthe commander of two ships, was decorated. He was the captainof theEnduranceduring Ernest Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

HISTORY/TRAVEL, 160 PAGES, 5 X 7.75

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A breathtaking story of courage under the mostappall ing conditions. Sir Edmund Hillary


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Whales and Dolphinsof Aotearoa New ZealandBarbara Todd

Based on the popular international Te Papa exhibition,

Whales: Giants of the Deep, this resource brings thesemajestic marine mammals and their underwater worldto life, with a special focus on the whales and dolphinsof the South Pacific. From the first richly illustratedchapter, readers are immersed in the salty sea to exploretheir amazing diversity, biology, and adaption to life inthe oceans. Throughout the book, hundreds of breath-taking photographs, historical images, astonishing factsand figures, and informative illustrations and diagramsbring the whale world to life. It also includes storiesfrom people whose lives have been inextricably linkedwith whalesfrom legendary South Pacific whale ridersto international whale scientists and from conservation-ists to former whalers and their families. For centurieswhales have captured imaginations and ignited emo-tions; humans have revered and mythologized them,hunted them to the brink of extinction, and passionatelyprotected them, and this book is a powerful combina-tion of storytelling, science, and culture that reveals therelationship between whales and people.

Barbara Toddis a researcher, naturalist, and educatorwith more than 25 years of experience studying whalesin both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. She hasworked as an educator, writer, photographer, andresearcher and is the author of 10 childrens books onmarine life as well asWhales & Dolphins of Kaikoura,New Zealand, and has featured in many documentaries,

includingDivine Dolphinsby National Geographic.

NATURE/ANIMALS, 304 PAGES, 8 X 10.75

300 COLOR PHOTOS, 100 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS,

FOUR-COLOR INTERIOR

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Meatyard / MertonPhotographing Thomas Merton

Photographs by Ralph Eugene MeatyardCalligraphies by Thomas Merton

Thirty-eight photographs by Ralph Meatyard, an important if often-overlooked American photographer, provide an intimate lookat the private life of one of the most renowned and influential spiritual thinkers of the 20th century in the last two years before hisdeath. Excerpts from Thomas Mertons own journals serve as captions to the images, offering a profound emotional context. Alsoincluded are eight previously unreleased pieces of Mertons own stunning calligraphic art, as well as essays by Roger Lipsey, anexpert on Mertons art; Chris Meatyard, the photographers son; and Stephen Reily, who discusses the close relationship betweenthe photographer and the spiritual teacher.

Ralph Eugene Meatyardwas an American photographer best known for the incorporation of dolls and masks in his work. ThomasMertonwas a writer, mystic, and Trappist monk. He is best known for his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.

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Part of the Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series, which includesMerton & Buddhism(9781887752848),Merton & Judaism(9781887752558),Merton & Sufism(9781887752077), andMerton & the Tao(9781887752992)

Excerpt:

I, for one, realize that nowI need more . . . a great needof clarification of mindfulness,or rather of no mindareturn to genuine practice . . .Need for the Spirit.

May 21, 1996

Have really reached thepoint in my life where onething only is important: callit liberation or whateveryou like.

My real business is somethingfar different from simply givingout words and ideas and doingthingseven to help others.


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MorphologiesShort Story Writers on Short Story Writers

Edited by Ra Page

In a series of essays written by leading contemporary exponents of

the short story such as David Constantine, A. S. Byatt, and FrankCottrell Boyce, this anthology examines the work and genius ofpast masters such as D. H. Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, and FrankOConnor. Each essay examines three stories in particular fromeach literary luminary from both a critical and creative point ofview as it seeks to understand the elements that make for anenduring short story. What becomes apparent in this unique, cross-disciplinary reader is that complicated plots, story arcs, and narra-tive layering, far from being the province of the novel or featurefilms, are amply present in short fiction as well, a literary formthat has a long tradition of deploying some of the most tightlycoiled, daring, and complicated structures of any. This is an indis-pensable resource for short story lovers, creative writing students,and fans of the past masters being examined or the contemporary

authors of each piece.

Ra Pageis the editor ofThe City Life Book of Manchester ShortStoriesand the founder and editor ofManchester Storiesmagazine.He has edited several anthologies published by Carcanet Press,includingLemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw LemandLitmus: Short Stories from Modern Science. He has written fortheGuardian, theNew Statesman, and theTimes, and is the recipi-ent of a Jerwood Foundation Bursary. He is deputy editor ofCityLifeand a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival.

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Excerpt:

What makes for a good short story?Being short, you might think the storys structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than,say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged as to what itshould and shouldnt be made up of, what it should and shouldnt do. Here, fifteen leading contemporarypractitioners offer structural appreciations of past masters of the form as well as their own personalperspectives on what the short story does so well. The best short stories dont have closure, argues onecontributor, because life doesnt have closure; plot must be written with the denouement constantly inview, quotes another. Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge,

from Hawthornes Twice Told Tales to Kafkas modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and uniqueinroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.

The purpose of asking fifteen contemporary short story writers to offer structural appreciations of theirfavourite past masters was not to uncover some unity of practice, or some single set of structures... Thewonder of the short story not to mention its unique political power lies in its pluralism, its sheer varietyand flexibility as a form. Accordingly, the purpose of these essays is to foreground just such multiplicity:the many styles, shapes, structures, and techniques the short story has to offer, looking at out-of-copyrightstories published in the hundred years between 1835 and 1935 a period that arguably saw all the majorstory types emerge. To draw out and celebrate the idiosyncrasies of the author in question; to point readersto texts they might not have considered before; to encourage people to re-read old favourites these arethe manifest aims of this book.


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That Summer in ParisA New Expanded Edition

Morley Callaghan

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital ofNorth America moved to La Rive Gauchethe Left Bank of theSeine Riverin Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs ofAFarewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald wasstruggling withTender Is the Night. As his first published bookrose to fame in New York, Morley Callaghan arrived in Paris toshare the felicities of literary life, not just with his two friends,Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but also with fellow writers JamesJoyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amid these tan-gled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed. Thistragic and unforgettable story comes to vivid life in Callaghanslucid, compassionate prose. Also included in this new edition areessays by Callaghan on Hemingway, Joyce, Fitzgerald, and

McAlmon, as well as the authors look back to those days in Parisand when he revisited 60 years later. The texts are followed byquestions for discussion and related readings.

Morley Callaghanis the author ofIts Never Over, The New YorkerStories, Strange Fugitive, Such Is My Beloved,and The Vow. Hewas nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the CanadianGovernor Generals Award for Fiction. He died in 1990.

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If there is a better story writer in the world, we dont knowwhere he is. New York Times

Excerpt:

One September afternoon in 1960 I was having a drinkwith an old newspaper friend, Ken Jonstone, when un-expectedly he told me he had a message to pass onfrom Ronnie Jacques, the well-known New York pho-tographer. Jacques had been in Sun Valley taking somepictures of Hemingway, and they had got to talkingabout me. After a while, Hemingway, really opening up,had become warm and jovial. In the old days in Parishe used to box with me, he said. It had all been ratherwonderful and amusing, Hemingway assured Ronnie,and there had been one ridiculous occasion when ScottFitzgerald had acted as timekeeper, and everybody hadbeen full of wine. Anyway, Hemingway sent hiswarmest regards. But what had really happened? KenJonstone wanted to know.Shrugging, I made some light-hearted comment anddidnt answer. Since I hadnt heard from Hemingwayfor years, I was surprised. I suppose it made me medi-tative So I sat there for some hours brooding, re-membering how desperately important it had oncebeen to me to get to Paris and enjoy the friendshipof Scott and Ernest.

Part of the Exile Classics series

Contents:

That Summer in Paris ~ 1

A Literary Life: Reminiscences and ReflectionsIntroducing Ernest Hemingway ~ 222Joyce, Into the Dream ~ 225In a Jugular Vein: Hemingway ~ 228Scott Fitzgerald ~ 233On Being Geniuses Together ~ 235College of One: Fitzgerald ~ 239Paris Revisited ~ 242

Questions for Discussion ~ 261Related Reading ~ 263Related Reading from Exile Editions ~ 265


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The Witch Doctor of Umm SuqeimCraig Hawes

The lives of locals and expatriates intertwine and collide as they

strive to negotiate the shifting mores of the ever-changing emirate ofDubai in this debut short story collection. In one story, a youngmale journalist puts himself at risk when he dares to defy local cus-tom by giving an Emirati female colleague a ride back to the office,to the envy of a bitter office rival. Another tale portrays a lavishmansion party in full swing that is suddenly interrupted by amuezzins call to prayer. Still another story follows a Pakistani taxidriver who fails to wake a female passenger from her drunken stu-por and takes her to his favorite caf across the city so as not tomiss an important cricket match. These tales of hardship and thehigh life, paranoia and alienation, and cruelty and love feature anarray of characters that span Dubais wide social spectrum and willappeal to anyone with a curiosity about what it is like to be an

expat in the Arab worlds most futuristic, vibrant, and affluent city.Craig Hawesis a journalist whose work has appeared in theLondon Evening Standard, theSunday Times, andTime OutDubai, among other publications. As a short story writer, he hasbeen short-listed for the Bristol Short Story Prize, has been a run-ner-up for the Rhys Davies Prize, and placed third for the YeovilShort Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in several publica-tions and prize-winning anthologies includingBlue Tattooand theBristol Prize Anthology, and one of his stories was broadcast onBBC Radio 4. He lives in Dubai.

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A writer who is clearly an exquisite stylist, with copious andchoice vocabulary and a succinct restraint of manner.

Stevie Davies, author,Awakening

This is how we need to assess culture clash and indeed, gener-

al confrontation born from intractable sociopolitical differences;with cool, clear, precise, and prismatic prose. Hawes does exact-ly this with tremendous skill and sensitivity.

Niall Griffiths, author, A Great Big Shining Star andGrits

Excerpt from the short storyThe Fidelity of Abbas Ali Khan:

Abbas Ali Khan glances at the clock on the dashboard.It is almost 2 a.m. and in less than fifteen minutes hewill be watching the cricket at the Rainbow Cafe inSatwa. This is to be his final fare of the night. Slowingdown as he approaches the destination, his fingersdrum out a cheery syncopation on the rim of the steer-ing wheel.

We are here, Madam, he says. Rolla Street?

Concerned by the lack of response, he pulls up to the

kerb and twists round to look into the back of the cab.

His passenger has fallen asleep. She lays on her sidefacing the front of the car, her bent knees breaching thegap between the seats. Though she lays perfectly still,Abbas can detect the shallow rise and fall of her chest.Looking at her properly for the first time, he guessesshe is about the same age as him. Mid-twenties,maybe. Thirty at most. She is fair-skinned, her long haira streaky mustard blonde. The alcoholic fug that seemsto be oozing from her pores makes him want to gag.

Madam? Madam? he says, reaching over and tappingher on the arm. We are here already.

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The Rood and the TorcThe Song of Kristinge, Son of Finn

Matthew Dickerson

When Kristinge, a young monk at a monastery in southeastern

France, discovers he is the son of a famous Frisian hero and kingwho died in battle six years earlier, he leaves the monastic life andsets out in search of his identity. Traveling with his old mentorWillimond, a monk originally of Lindisfarne, Kristinges journeybrings him first across France to Denmark to search of his mother,and eventually back to his native soil of Friesland. Along the wayhe meets the young, decadent, and half-crazy Frankish king Cloviswho resides in Paris, and the holy Abbess Telchild of the nearbymonastery of Jouarretwo of several historical figures woventhrough the novel. However, what begins as a quest to uncover hisheritage and find whether his mother still lives becomes a sort ofspiritual journey of discovery at many other levels. Kristinge wres-tles with the question: who is he, and who should he become? Is hethe monk he has spent the past six years training to be? Or the gift-

ed bard that was trained as a youth to compose songs, sing, andplay the harp? Or is he the future king that will unite Friesland andsave it from the threat of the increasingly powerful Danes andVikings on the one side and decaying but still threatening Frankishempire on the other? Compounding his confusion, Kristinge alsorediscovers and falls in love with a young woman whom he hadknown many years earlier as a child: a woman who would be farabove his station were he to remain a monk but not above his sta-tion were he to become king.

Matthew Dickersonis an author, a professor at MiddleburyCollege in Vermont, a scholar of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkienand the fantastic fiction of C. S. Lewis, and an environmental jour-nalist and outdoor writer. He is the author of numerous books,

among themA Hobbit Journey: Discovering the Enchantment of J.R. R. Tolkiens Middle Earth, which was short-listed for theMythopoeic Societys Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards, and thecoauthor ofFrom Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Mythand Fantasy;Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Visionof J. R. R. Tolkien; andNarnia and the Fields of Arbol: TheEnvironmental Vision of C. S. Lewis. He lives in Bristol, Vermont.

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Using archeology, translation and an energetic sense ofadventure, Dickerson plots the journeys of Kristinge,which the reader follows with confidence in Dickersonsresearch and artifice. At the end of The Rood and theTorc, Kristinge comments, I am contentand so is thereader in this fine novel. Diane Glancy, author,

Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea andThe Mask Maker

Rarely does a novel of historyone that summons a dis-tant place and timeseem so contemporary and thor-oughly imagined. The Rood and the Torc is an exemplarypiece of writing, one that conjures with grace and poeticskill the twilight of the Merovingian Dynasty. Matthew

Dickerson has managed to inhale the atmosphere ofnorthern Europe in the seventh century in such a com-plete way that its bright particularsthe smells, sounds,tastes, and imageryshimmer in these pages. . . . A mar-velous novel. Jay Parini, author,

The Last Station andThe Apprentice Lover

A weave of myth, song, vision, scripture and dream. . . .Dickersons sharp attention to detail and lush descriptionpreserves and evokes a bygone time and place well worthinhabiting. Gina Ochsner, author, The Russian

Dreambook of Colour and FlightandPeople I Wanted to Be


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Dead Cat BouncePeter CottonA federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a pop-ular government minister goes missing and then turns up deadon the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. With Detective DarrenGlass and the Australian Federal Police on the case, the investi-gation into the ministers murder quickly becomes entangled ina game of high-stakes politicsand all the while, the bodycount mounts. Detective Glasss suspects include some of themost powerful people in the land, and with the nation in shockand wanting answers fast, Glass has to negotiate a murkyworld of shifting allegiances, half-truths, and finger pointing,where everyone has a motive for murder. No one is safe, not

even the prime minister. As election day nears, Glass riskseverything for a breakthrough in the case, and his life is soonhanging by a thread.

Peter Cottonhas been the media advisor to three federal cabi-net ministers, worked as a foreign correspondent for the ABC,been a senior reporter on the ABCs AM and PM programs, andhad stories published in most major print outlets in Australia.

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Nor Any CountryGarth St. Omer

The only reprint of this important Caribbean novel originallyreleased in 1969,Nor Any Countryexplores the complexities ofpeople in the Diasporas returning to their homeland and theintricacies of moral choice in a society in the process of change.Peter Breville has been away from his native St. Lucia for thepast eight years. After completing his doctorate in England, he isappointed to a university post in Jamaica. Though he dreads themeeting, he decides he must see his family on the way. There ishis mother, for whom he feels real affection; his father, with

whom he has never got on, and his brother, with whom compe-tition had turned to antagonism. And there is Phyllis, fromwhom his education and travel have taken him ever furtheraway, who has waited patiently for his return, determined to bea wife to him. In the week he spends with his family and meet-ing old friends, he discovers a St. Lucia that, in the early 1960s,is on the point of emerging into the modern capitalist world, butwhere the disparity between the new middle class and theimpoverished Black Creole majority has become ever wider.

Garth St. Omeris a former professor emeritus at the Universityof CaliforniaSanta Barbara. He is the author ofJ, BlackBam and the Masqueraders;A Room on the Hill;Shades ofGrey; andSyrop.

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An exciting police procedural set in Canberras sometimes-

murky political climate . . . will delight fans of ShaneMoloney. Canberra Times

A solid police procedural with its finger on the politicalpulse of a fictionalized Canberra. . . . From Capital Hill,ringed by the deceptively calm leafy suburbs, to the shores

of the spectacular Lake George, Cotton knows his beat.Sue Turnbull,Sydney Morning Heraldand theAge

This book proves conclusively that truth is not strangerthan fiction. Laurie Oakes, coauthor, The Making

of an Australian Prime Minister

Few West Indian writers convey so movingly and depress-ingly the sense of economic and cultural conditioning while

exploring motives and impulses too minute and deep to beexplained away by social conditioning.

Kenneth Ramchand,author, The West Indian Novel and Its Background

Part of the Caribbean Modern Classics series


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Shades of GreySecond editionGarth St. Omer

As Stephenson comes closer to his girlfriend, Thea, he has toacknowledge that his past is a blank. He has never known hisfather, not lived with his mother, and cannot remember whathis grandparents looked like.The Lights on the Hill, the firstof two interdependent short novels inShades of Grey, is amoving and inward portrait of a man, blown along by circum-stance, trying to construct his own story.Another Place,

Another Time, the second short novel, goes back to the charac-ter of Derek Charles, who appears as a returning islander in St.Omers first novelA Room on the Hill. Here, almost a decadeearlier, St. Omer explores the circumstances in which the schol-arship boy makes the decision to separate himself from hisfamily and friends. This treasured Caribbean modern classic isbrought back into print for the first time, with a rigorousintroduction that adds context to the book.

Garth St. Omeris a former professor emeritus at the Universityof CaliforniaSanta Barbara. He is the author ofJ, BlackBam and the Masqueraders;Nor Any Country;A Room on theHill; andSyrop.

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After Auschwitz: A Love StoryBrenda Webster

Two emotionally fraught and complex themes collide in thispowerful, moving novel: Alzheimers disease and the psychologi-cal aftermath for survivors of the Auschwitz concentrationcamp. The story chronicles the intellectual decline of Renzo, aonce-brilliant Roman writer and filmmaker. Aware that he isslipping ever deeper into the haze of Alzheimers, Renzo keeps ajournal in which he grapples with his complicated marriage toHannah, an Auschwitz survivor who later chronicled that expe-

rience. As he writes about his own failing grip on reality, hereflects as well on how painful it will be for Hannah to loseanother loved one. Author Brenda Webster creates a fully-real-ized story, by turns poignant and humorous, about an enduringlove that makes pain bearable. Her brilliant use of an unreliablenarrator features highly lyrical passages that elucidate for thereader both Renzos sophisticated anguish and his childlikewonder as his rich memories of the artistic and intellectual cur-rents of the 20th century and his own creative life begin to fade.

Brenda Websteris a novelist, a freelance writer, a playwright, acritic, and a translator. She is the president of PEN West andone of the founders of RedRoom.com, an online site forauthors. She is the author of four previous novels:The

Beheading Game, which was a finalist for the NorthernCalifornia Book Award,Paradise Farm,Sins of the Mothers,andVienna Triangle. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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One of the most genuinely daring and accomplished worksof fiction . . . for a very long time.

Listeneron the original 1968 publication

[St. Omer is] destined . . . to take his place at the head of

the column. Guardianon the original 1968 publication


This one-of-a-kind novel . . . will remain with you longafter you have put it down. Marilyn Yalom,

author, How the French Invented Love

Author tour to include Los Angeles, New York, andSan Francisco


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Writing Down

the VisionEssays & PropheciesKei Miller

The conviction that telling and collectingstories is the most powerful means to rev-elation is the driving force behind theseessays from celebrated poet and novelistKei Miller. The pages of the book arefilled with stories about the experience ofmigration, of leaving familiar places andmaking connections in new ones, as wellas reflections on family, friendship, and

nation. Other more analytical piecesaddress the physicality of language, dubpoetry, and the work of Marlon James, afriend of Millers. Still other texts displaya passionate concern with moral justicewith respect to economic and socialoppression and homophobia. In theseessaysprophecies, in Millers estima-tionhe shares with the reader a sensibil-ity in which the sacred and the secular,conviction and skepticism, vision andanalysis, and polemic and reflectionengage in a profound and lively debatefrequently marked by an undercurrent

of humor.

Kei Milleris a professor of creativewriting at the University of Glasgow inScotland. He is also the author of severalpoetry collections. He is the editor ofNewCaribbean Poetry: An Anthology.

ESSAYS/GAY STUDIES, 160 PAGES, 6.25 X 8.25

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Perth

David Whish-Wilson

Dispelling some of the more unflatteringstereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author andPerth native David Whish-Wilsondescribes how the city strikes a perfect har-mony with its own eccentricities and con-tradictions, presenting a place of surprisingbeautyof brilliant light and sand-sweptpeacewhere deeper historical currentsnevertheless lurk beneath the surface. Thisexamination looks beyond the shiny glassfacades and boosterish talk of miningbooms to get at the richness of the naturalworld and the trailblazers, rebels, ordinarypeople, and even the occasional ghost thatbring Australias remotest city to life. Thisbeautiful portrait of Perth will move out-siders to revisit their preconceptions aboutthe city and inspire residents to renew theirconnection to it.

David Whish-Wilsonis a professor ofcreative writing at the Curtin Universityin Perth and the author of the novelsLine of Sight,The Summons, andZeroat the Bone.

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Part of The City Series, which includesAlice Springs(9781742233253),Canberra(9781742233185),Hobart(9781742233727),Melbourne(9781742231389), andSydney(9781921410925)

Love in the Holy Quran

HRH Prince Ghazi bin MuhammadForeword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Examining at least one verse from everychapter of the Quran, and citing morethan one-fifth of the entire text, this studyanalyzes what the Islamic holy book has tosay about love. More than simply exploringthe well-trodden subjects of love of Godand love of neighbor, however, this bookdiscusses familial love, friendship, the stagesof falling in love, sexual love, extramaritallove, beauty, taste, and many more. Writtenand structured in such a way that it can be

read in its totality or referenced on a chap-ter-by-chapter basis, this work is essentialreading not only for Muslims and scholarsof Islam and Quran, but anyone interestedin the secrets and mysteries of love.

HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad ofJordan is a professor of Islamic philosophy,an interfaith activist, and an author. Heestablished the Great Tafsir Project, thelargest online project for the exegesis ofthe Quran, and founded the World IslamicSciences and Education University.SeyyedHossein Nasris a professor of Islamic stud-ies at George Washington University and is

the author of more than 50 books. He livesin Washington, DC.

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Dark SparringSelina Tusitala MarshWhere Selina Marshs first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly,insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being anindividual of Pacific descent in a primarily European world,her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved one withall of the techniques of poetry and the Thai kickboxing shepractices at her disposal. The compendium brims with a fluid,humming list of poems, literary shout outs, and personal ele-gies, as Marsh takes readers through her mothers cancer diag-nosis and the long journey as her illness played itself out.Along the way, the poet offers glimpses of other parts of herworld as well: scenes from Matiatia to Orapiu to Apia; class-

room politics; the importance of leadership; and the reasonsshe feels New Zealand is a lucky country. The affecting,rhythmic verses in the book are given a literal, and appealing,voice in the accompanying audio CD, on which Marsh readsaloud a selection of the poems.

Selina Tusitala Marshis a lecturer in the English department atthe University of Auckland. She is the author of the poetry col-lectionFast Talking PI, which was awarded the NZSA JessieMackay Award for Best Book of Poetry. Her work has alsobeen featured inNiu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1and the Montana New Zealand Book Awardwinning antholo-gy,Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English.

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Funny, scurrilous, chilling, and gloriously inventive, Tam oShanteris widely regarded as Robert Burns masterpiece. Thepoem relates the tale of Tam, a farmer who, during his journeyhome after a night spent carousing with his friends, comesacross a coven of witches and warlocks being led in dance bythe devil. This magnificent edition of the poem features thework of Alexander Goudie, one of Scotlands most acclaimed20th-century artists. Over a period of many years, Goudie was

inspired by the poem to produce some of his most powerfuland imaginative paintings, which capture all the menace andcomedy of Burns poem. The pieces, together with introductoryessays by historian Edward Cowan, literary critic Alan Riach,and the artists son, Lachlan Goudie, make this is the definitiveedition of one of the greatest works of Scottish literature.

Robert Burnswas a lyricist and a poet celebrated as Scotlandsbest and most famous. He is the author of poems and songssuch as Auld Lang Syne,The Battle of Sherramuir, A Red,Red Rose, and To a Louse. Alexander Goudiewas a Scottishfigurative painter. As a portraitist, his sitters included HerMajesty Queen Elizabeth II, the actor Billy Connolly, and anumber of other individuals from the worlds of politics, com-merce, and entertainment.

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Missel-ChildHelen TookeyAccording to the 17th-century herbarium The Garden ofEden, a missel-child is a mysterious being found beneath amistletoe-covered treea changeling, perhaps. In this first col-lection from a respected editor, the missel-child is a point ofaccess to various archaeologies of identity, place, and language.The poems deploy syllabics and collage techniques as theyexplore elegy and myth. Each poem is a space in which lan-guage works not only to convey something verbally, but toenable it to be shown as well.

Helen Tookeyis a freelance editor and the author ofTelling theFractures, a short story collection. Her poetry appeared in theanthology New Poetries V.

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No Tear Is CommonplaceStanley MossThe poems gathered in this collection from distinguished poetStanley Moss stage a passionate, curious, and often combativerelationship with the world and the forces that shape humanlife and death. Mosss range is wide: his poetry recalls theAdirondack wilderness of childhood summers, imagines ayoung Christ learning carpentry, and reflects on the tragediesof 20th-century Europe in a style that concerns itself less withrhyme than with diction and less obvious metrical patterns.What ultimately shines through is the poets commitment tothe fullness of human experience in the present.

Stanley Mossis a poet, an editor, a publisher, and an art dealer.He is the founder of the literary imprint Sheep Meadow Pressand the author ofGod Breaketh Not All Mens Hearts AlikeandRejoicing. He lives in New York City.


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Her quiet, precise poems have a genuine eeriness.Grevel Lindop, author, Playing with Fire

andTravels on the Dance Floor

The poems in this collection resonate and ring true, tug-ging at thoughts and feelings just beyond the fully con-scious mind. A beautiful book. Carola Luther, author,

Arguing with MalarchyandWalking the Animals

Missel-Child is an exceptional volume. . . . This highly orig-inal book will be returned to over and over again.

Jeffrey Wainwright, author, Poetry: The BasicsandThe Reasoner

Again and again, coming upon a poem of Stanley Mosss, Ihave had the feeling of being taken by surprise. Not simply

by the eloquence or the direct authenticity of the language. . . [but for] the nature of his poetry itself, and from the

mystery that his poems confront and embody, which makesthem both intense and memorable. W. S. Merwin,

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Strong WordsPoetry in a Russian and English EditionAlexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova,and Andrei VoznesenskyTranslated by Vladimir Azarov and Barry Callaghan

Celebrating three Russian literary greatsAlexander Pushkin,Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesenskythis collection oftheir writing presents new translations of a combined 44poems and includes both Russian and English text. Nearly 20artworksfrom color monoprints to black-and-white collages,illustrations, and photographsby Pushkin, Voznesensky,Amadeo Modigliani, Nikolai Tyrsa, and Claire Weissman

Wilks are also included, opening an artistic dialogue with thepoems and the reader. These three master poets are broughttogether with masterful translations that engage their manycomplexities and are a must for personal or academic interestsin Russian literature or poetry in general.

Alexander Pushkinwas a novelist, dramatist and poet, nowconsidered the father of modern Russian literature.AnnaAkhmatovawas a modernist poet and is recognized as one ofthe greatest 20th-century Russian poets.Andrei Voznesenskiwas considered one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era,but his style often led to criticism from his contemporaries andeven a threat of expulsion.Vladimir Azarovis an architect andpoet.Barry Callaghanis an author, poet, and anthologist. He isthe editor in chief of both Exile Editions and Exile: the LiteraryQuarterly. They both live in Toronto.

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The Best of Kore Press 2012PoetryEdited by Ann Dernier

Selected from more than 400 full-length manuscripts, this col-lection of nearly 50 poems, published on the eve of KorePresss 20th anniversary, celebrates the publishers enduringcommitment to promote new aesthetically and culturallydiverse writing by women. The anthology gathers the voices ofa diverse group of female poets, most of whom are up-and-coming, others established, all of them with an original, freshway of viewing the world. In hens and family suffering, in thepresent and in the past, in Inanna and Wittgenstein, in a piata

and an archaeological shard, the poets whose work is featuredin this collection find the materials to build bridges across thegaps that create distance and conflict.

Ann Dernieris a member of Kore Presss editorial teamand a guest poet for the publishers Grrls Literary ActivismWorkshop. She is the editor ofWriting Out of the Darkness,an anthology of poetry by refugees in transition. Her workhas appeared in local and national publications, includingBurningword,Red Poppy Review, andThree Penny Review.She lives in Tucscon, Arizona.

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I am grateful for the work of Kore Press for providing aspace for the many voices of womens poetry. . . . [W]ithinthis collection, you will hear the many songs and land-

scapes that help build the world of contemporary poetry.Natalie Diaz, author,When My Brother Was an Aztec


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Difficult FruitLauren K. Alleyne

A collection of poems about coming into self-knowledgeof fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in theworldthis offering from Trinidadian poet Lauren Alleynegrapples with personal experience. The poems form a lyricmemoir of the authors life, chronicling a journey that includescoming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love andconnection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that

journey. The central poem, Eighteen, which narrates theaftermath of sexual assault, and another, Thirty, whichaddresses the virtues of self-reliance, are representative of sev-eral poems of age that both chronicle and disrupt time, lookingat the speakers past as a way to understand the present. Thesepoems are a movement through fractureboth necessary andunwarrantedtoward wholeness and transformation. Thisdebut collection introduces a striking new voice in poetry.

Lauren K. Alleyneis an assistant professor and the poetin residence at the University of Dubuque. She lives inDubuque, Iowa.


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Performance AnxietyNew and Selected PoemsJane King

This new collection of poems by Jane King, organized aroundthe metaphors of spectacle, performance, and vulnerability,offers a map to being lost in this strange century. This issought in the dialectics of birth and death and in rememberingthe vision of the child in the midst of adult despairs. Herobservant eye taking in the beauties and droughts, climatic andhuman, that she sees in St. Lucia and in the semipublic lives of

her neighbors.Performance Anxietytakes further those signsin the earlier collections that Jane King is a distinctively origi-nal explorer of the inner person and of the world on the mar-gins of perception.

Jane King is the dean of the Division of Arts, Science, andGeneral Studies at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College inSt. Lucia. Her previous poetry collections areFellow Traveller,which was awarded the James Rodway Memorial Prize, andInto the Centre, and her work has appeared in numerous journalsand is widely anthologized.




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The Claims OfficeDai GeorgeThe largely straightforward narrative in this remarkablyassured debut poetry collection from a young Welsh poet iscompellingly interlaced with often-elaborate and strangetextures and imagery. The rich surface is undercut by a mixof rebellious energy and unflinching satire that manifests itselfin nature poems that are often antinatureas in the darklyhumorous Narwhalin lively meditations on life in NewYork and London, and in skewed love poems (Plans with theUnmet Wife). Dai Georges pieces on his native Wales, such asthe title poem, similarly display an edgy sarcasm, though inter-mixed with an elegiac tone; they display a deep suspicion of

authority and a reluctance to conform to nationalist clich. Asa whole, this collection marks the emergence of a new,thoughtful, intriguing voice in British poetry.

Dai Georgeis a poet and a literary and performing artscritic. His work has been published in theBoston Review,theGuardian,New Welsh Review, andPoetry Wales, amongother publications. His poetry has also appeared in severalanthologies, including theSalt Book of Younger PoetsandBest British Poetry.


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The DisturbanceIvy AlvarezBased on a true story, this book-length poem chronicles a bru-tal multiple homicide in which a husband and father gunneddown his entire family. The verses feature a kaleidoscope ofvoices from all of the characters involved, introducing the fam-ily and chillingly chronicling the escalation of the fathers con-trolling attitude to violence. The aftermath is also explored,following the authorities, police, and neighbors who mighthave helped prevent the tragedy. This dark booknot withoutsome graphic violenceis also a courageous narrative aboutevil and its presence in everyday life. It is unquestionably har-rowing as it explores the terrible fate of a well-to-do, seeming-

ly prosperous and well-connected family, but also provescathartic as it reaches its end.

Ivy Alvarezis a MacDowell and Hawthornden fellow who hasthrice been short-listed for Best Poem by Australias fourW, anannual anthology of new poetry and prose. She is the author ofthe poetry collectionMortal, and her work has appeared in var-ious anthologies and publications, includingBest AustralianPoems,A Face to Meet the Faces, theGuardianonline,NewWelsh Review, andPoetry Wales.


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In Reality:

Selected PoemsJean PortanteTranslated by Zo Skoulding

The only collection to feature the poetryof acclaimed Luxembourger poet JeanPortante in English, this English-Frenchbilingual edition gathers Portantes workfrom the last 20 years, including poemsfrom his 2013 collection,Aprs le trem-blement, which addresses an earthquakein his ancestral Italian village. These piecesare notable for the way in which theywork at the spaces between European cul-

tures as they concern themselves withthemes of identity, politics, language, andthe divide between politics and everydaylife. Rich in imagery, the poems also tackletopics such as memory and forgetting, andmove discursively to a telling conclusionthat engages readers in either language.

Jean Portanteis the author of more than20 publications, including collections ofpoetry, short stories, plays, screenplays,and novels, and the editor of the French-language weeklyLe Jeudi. He is a found-ing member of the European Academy of

Poetry and a member of PEN Internationalin France. He was awarded Luxembourgsprestigious Batty Weber Prize in 2011 forhis complet eoeuvre.Zo Skouldingis theeditor ofPoetry Walesand the author ofthe poetry collectionsThe Mirror TradeandRemains of a Future City.


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Red Devon

Hilary MenosAfter her celebrated and award-winningfirst collection of poetry, Hilary Menosreturns withRed Devon, in which shereveals her experiences as a transplantfrom London moving into a tight-knitrural community and seeing firsthandsome of the human and animal costs ofthe conflict between traditional farmingmethods and the demands of moderncommercial agriculture. The poems alsotell the story of a burgeoning love affairbetween farmer Grunt Harvey and haulerJo Tucker, a romance that ends in tragedy.Alongside these two storiesone veryreal, the other fictionalruns a genuineconcern for farmers around the worldwhose livelihoods are threatened by glob-al changes in agriculture. Suffused with agritty, realistic style, these poignant,evocative verses are accessible and yetrichly textured.

Hilary Menosis a former food journalistand restaurant critic. Her first collectionof poetry,Berg, won the Forward Prize forBest First Collection in 2010.

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The Visitations

Kathryn SimmondsThe physical and the metaphysical meet,and questions of new motherhood areset against those of faith and the largerconundrum of how to live in this newestcollection of poetry from KathrynSimmonds. As in her debut collection, anappealing, deceptively simplistic voiceprevails in these verses, though subtleshifts of language and perspective implydarker themes and worlds unseen. Thetone is often simultaneously satirical andelegiac and the volume abounds with sud-den moments of strange illumination: alime tree strikes up a conversation; a lifecoach finds an old passport; an infantteeters on the brink of speech.

Kathryn Simmondsis a freelance writerand editor and a teacher. Her first coll-ection of poetry,Sunday at the SkinLaunderette, was awarded the ForwardPrize for Best First Collection and wasshort-listed for the Costa Poetry Awardand long-listed for theGuardianFirstBook Award.


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Quirky, witty, moving, KathrynSimmonds gift is to find joy and beau-

ty in unexpected places. She investsthe everyday world with an extraordi-nary luminosity. Jackie Kay, author,

Reality, RealityandRed Dust Road

These rural poems of irresistablycoarse vitality comprise a collectionthat is dark, taut, crafty, and entirelycompelling . . . heralding an unmis-

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Enough

Louise WallaceEnoughis a poetry collection about mov-ing to the South Island of New Zealand,the gestation of a difficult second book,teaching writing, imagining other livesfrom their Internet traces, the aging ofloved ones, and looking forward. Greatlyinfluenced by happenings in poet LouiseWallaces life, the book encompassesthemes of location and family, and of thevarious journeys people take both geo-graphically and emotionally. The poemsspan a range of formats and forms, fromlines of verse to small prose pieces likeminiature stories, and all are told througha clear, direct voice that is both accessibleand relatable.

Louise Wallaceis an award-winning poetand the author of the collection Since

June. She was featured inThe Best of BestNew Zealand Poemsand awarded theBiggs Poetry Prize. She has been a creativewriting professor at Massey UniversityWellington and Nelson MarlboroughInstitute of Technology.

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Life & Customs

Bernadette HallLife & Customsbegins and ends inOtago. Landscape and national identityserve as inspirations as the poetry collec-tion circles through diverse places andmoments in history. It is full of stories: agirl slips into an anorexic silence as coldas Antarctica; lovers wander hand inhand into a southern future. Halls choraland orchestral background has given herpoems a musical quality, with Life &Customspicking up the rhythms of amaze. In her unique voice it is hope that

emerges as a stubborn possibility.Bernadette Hallis a widely publishedNew Zealand writer and poet who hasheld residencies at both CanterburyUniversity and Victoria University. Shespent 10 years as the editor ofTakahemagazine and five as the poetry editorof thePress, a daily newspaper.




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The Odour of Sanctity

Amy BrownRevisiting historical events and using themas a starting point for an exploration oflove and humanity, acclaimed young poetAmy Brown tells the astonishing stories ofsix candidates for sainthood in this newcollection. From the lauded but enigmaticJeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel toChristina Rossetti, who posed as theVirgin Mary experiencing the annuncia-tion for five days straight while her broth-er, Gabriel, painted; from Margery Kempe,who became the first English-speaker toofficially record her memoirs, to ConradVon Marburg, who smelled rose petals in1231 as he knelt beside the body ofElizabeth of Hungary, whom he had beat-en to death; and from a newborn babywho spoke almost uninterrupted for threedays in 662, making divine demands andcalling himself Rumwold, to AureliusAugustine, who prayed for God to granthim chastity and continence, but not yet,The Odour of Sanctityexplores the possi-bility of sainthood and salvation in a spell-binding epic poem for modern times.

Amy Brownis the former books and

creative writing editor for the online artsjournal theLumire Readerand is anoccasional book reviewer for theNZListener. Her first collection,The Propa-

ganda Poster Girl, was short-listed for theMontana New Zealand Book Awards.

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Louise Wallace can start a poem inthe real world, then take it off to

somewhere else entirely. . . . Theseare marvelous poems.

Jenny Bornholdt,award-winning poet,Summer

Bernadette Hall has a rare ability tobe both loose and precise, talky andinterioracross poems but also withinpoems. There are lots of voices here

but theyre all firmly and warmly gath-ered up in the poets own personality.

Damien Wilkins, author,The Miserables


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Skin Deep and Other

Teenage ReflectionsThird editionAngela Shelf Medearis

Offering a powerful-but-playful portraitof urban teensespecially teens ofcolorthis collection of poetry is at oncerife with contemporary issues as well asthe timeless challenges of high school.Whether focusing on topics such as trou-bled families, racism in the streets, anddepression or boy-girl obsession, the joysof graduation, sports triumphs, and per-

sonal achievement, Angela Shelf Medeariswrites with wry humor and a direct hon-esty with which young readers will imme-diately identify. This is an excellentresource to engage adolescent readers andwriters in a discussion of issues they willrecognize from their own lives.

Angela Shelf Medearisis the author ofmore than 100 books for children basedon African American history and culture.She lives in Austin, Texas.

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Us, Then

Vincent OSullivanWith a characteristic use of vernacularand an active application of his senses ashe encounters the world around him,New Zealand Poet Laureate VincentOSullivan produces intensely personalpoems in this collection. For all that theybrim with insight, however, the poemsalso concern themselves with largerthemes of philosophical curiosity, religion,and mortality. And though the verses fre-quently employ iambic pentameter, theyrise above the level of poetical exercises,offering humor and narrative.

Vincent OSullivanis former professor ofEnglish at Victoria University of Wellingtonand at the University of Waikato. He is theauthor of the novelsBelievers to the BrightCoastandLet the River Stand, which wona Montana New Zealand Book Award; thepoetry collectionsBlame Vermeer, FurtherConvictions Pending: Poems 19992008,Lucky Table, andSeeing You Asked; andLong Journey to the Border, a biographyof John Mulgan. He is the coeditor ofTheCollected Letters of Katherine Mansfieldand has edited several major anthologies.


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Snow Whites Coffin

Kate CampIn this new collection of poetry from KateCamp, written during a writers residencyin Berlin, she grapples with being awayfrom her homeland, offering readerssharp, lyrical stories and philosophicaladventures in a foreign land. More thancomprising a mere travelogue, however,the poems are dense and full of brightexplosions of meaning as they navigatethe world of art and literature as well asthe physical world.

Kate Campis the author of the poetry

collectionsBeauty Sleep,The Mirror ofAnnihilated Souls, which won a NewZealand Post Book Award as the bestbook of poetry,Realia, andUnfamiliarLegends, which won the NZSA JessieMackay Award for Best First Book ofPoetry at the 1999 Montana NewZealand Book Awards. Her work has alsoappeared in magazines and journals suchasLandfall,NZ Listener, andHeat, andin anthologies such as The Best of BestNew Zealand Poemsand Best NZ Poems.




Many readers will find pieces of them-selves here, and theyll be encouragedto find their own voices and write

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Self-Portrait

Marti FriedlanderFrom a childhood spent in Londons roughEast End to a half-century in New Zealandphotographing winemakers and artists,children and kuia, Marti Friedlander haslived a life marked by adventure, travel,and its fair share of challenges. It is also alife that has been defined by the art ofobservation and capturing on film. InSelfPortrait, the renowned photographer tellsher story for the first time. As clear andunflinching in her prose as she is in herphotography, Friedlander describes grow-ing up in a London orphanage, being

Jewish, working in a Kensington photogra-phy studio, marrying a New Zealander, thechallenges of moving to a new country,and a life spent photographing the ordi-nary and the extraordinary, from balloonsand beaches to politicians and protests.She also explains how, with a strangerseye, she captured the transformation ofNew Zealand life over the last half centu-ry. This is a rich meditation on onewomans photographic journey throughthe 20th century.

Marti Friedlanderis one of the most

acclaimed photographers in New Zealand.Her work has been featured in books suchasContemporary New Zealand Painters:Volume 1 AM,Larks in Paradise: NewZealand Portraits, andMoko: The Art ofMaori Tattooing.

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Rhys Davies

A Writers LifeMeic Stephens

Drawing on heretofore unavailablesources, including many conversationswith the writers brother, this biographyof Rhys Davies sheds light on the veryprivate life of one of the most dedicated,prolific, and accomplished Welsh prosewriters. A homosexual man in the daysbefore the Sexual Offences Act, Davieswas an exceedingly discrete indidivualwho kept others at arms length. Still,Meic Stephens delves into his life with

alacrity. He describes the writers earlyyears as the Blaenclydach grocers son,his abhorrence of chapel culture, hisbohemian years in Fitzrovia, his visit toD. H. Lawrence in the south of France, hisunremitting work ethic, and his love-haterelationship with the Rhondda Valley inWales. Most importantly, however,Stephens discusses the dissembling thatwent intoPrint of a Hares Foot, a nomi-nal autobiography by Davies which theauthor shows to be an unreliable account.

Meic Stephensis a former literature

director of the Welsh Arts Council andthe founder ofPoetry Walesmagazine. Heis the editor of theOxford Companion tothe Literature of Walesand the Writers ofWales series.

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Richard Rive

A Partial BiographyShaun Viljoen

Using his own and others memories, pro-fessor Shaun Viljoen, a former colleagueof Richard Rives, brings the noted SouthAfrican writer, scholar, and literary criticto life with sensitivity and empathy. Thisbiography follows Rive from the 1950s,when he was writing forDrummagazineand spending time in the company ofantiestablishment writers such as JackCope, Ingrid Jonker, Eskia Mphahlele,and Nadine Gordimer, to his acceptance

to Magdalene College at Oxford, wherehe completed his doctorate on OliveSchreiner, and his return to South Africato resume his position as senior lecturerat Hewat College of Education. Vijoenpresents a portrait of a man in full, anindividual who was committed to thestruggle against racial oppression and tothe ideals of nonracialism but who alsocould be irascible and pompous, and whostruggled with a troubled awareness ofhis dark skin color and was guardedabout his homosexuality.

Shaun Viljoenis an associate professor inthe department of English at StellenboschUniversity in South Africa. His primaryareas of focus are South African literatureand East and West African literature inEnglish and in translation.

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El Paso DaysElroy BodeIntroduction by Robert Bonazzi

The thoughts, scenes, and observations gathered in this collec-tion written by an aging Elroy Bode concern themselves on thesurface with the daily happenings during a typical year, reflect-ing the authors sense of kinship with the people, creatures,and beauty of the Texas desert. Upon closer inspection, howev-er, these short sketches deal with the nature and meaning oflife and the inevitable loss of its pleasures, satisfactions, andmysteriesespecially in the context of the natural world that

surrounds him. The book ends with a long and powerfulrecounting by Bode of the incredible circumstances surround-ing the death of his son.

Elroy Bodeis the author of nine books, includingCommonplace Mysteries,Home Country: An Elroy BodeReader, andIn a Special Light. He has been a contributing edi-tor for theTexas Observerand is a two-time recipient of theStanley Walker Award for Journalism from the Texas Instituteof Letters. He lives in El Paso, Texas.Robert Bonazziis a poet-ry columnist for the San Antonion Express-News. He is theauthor of several collections of poetry, including Living theBorrowed Life, and of the critically acclaimed biographyManin the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like

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Flat/WhiteThe Strange Case of a New Immigrantin an Old Building and Things Going Badly

Ted Botha

The experiences upon first moving to New York City thatSouth Africaraised writer Ted Botha records here are so out-landish as to be unbelievable yet all the more astonishing forbeing true. Soon after having arrived in the city, Botha wasable to lie his way into a job atTime Out New Yorkbeforemoving on to work forVanity Fair and other magazines. Andwhen he found a $10,000 apartment in a small, dilapidatedHarlem building a mere two blocks from where other

Manhattan apartments were selling for more than $1 million,he seemed to have it made. But what appeared to be a fantasticopportunity quickly devolved into a world of chaos, lies, con-spiracies, suspicion, drug dealers, police raids, and deaththreats, much of it underpinned by a beast Botha thought hedleft behind in Africa: race. In what is equal parts a memoir, acomedy, a tragedy, and a travelogue, Botha describes hisattempts to reconcile his life in the New World with the one heleft behind in Africanot to mention survive the anarchy ram-pant in the old buildingwhile introducing a cast of charac-ters that readers will not soon forget.

Ted Bothais an editor for Reuters and a writer whose workhas appeared inCond Nast Traveler, theLos Angeles Times,theNew York Times,Oustide, and theWall Street Journal. Heis the author ofApartheid in my Rucksack,The Girl with theCrooked Nose,Mongo: Adventures in Trash, and the novelTheAnimal Lover, as well as the coauthor ofThe ExpatConfessions. He lives in New York City.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 284 PAGES, 5.75 X 9

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A perfect fusion of end-of-life wisdom and newborn

wonder. Steve Harrigan, author,The Gates of the Alamo

Heartbreakingly beautiful. James Hoggard, author,The Devils Fingers and Other Personal Essays

Author tour to include San Antonio, Texas (March)


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Now ShowingRon ElliottBrimming with cinematic references, this collection of shortfiction ably combines humor with pulsating action. Readerswill be able to celebrate the celluloid as they read their waythrough novellas that evoke a noir film, a romantic farce, acomedy heist, a thriller, and a classic road movie. The bookalso includes an introduction on how to adapt film scripts tostories. Cinephiles and lovers of crime fiction alike will beutterly drawn in by these unforgettable characters and stories.

Ron Elliottis a director, a scriptwriter, and a lecturer in filmand television at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is the

author of the novel Spinnerand the director of the feature filmJusticeand has written for numerous Australian television pro-grams for adults and children.

FICTION/HUMOR, 364 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $19.99 (CAN $19.99)

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A KingdomJames Hanley

After an elderly farmer dies following an accident on a remoteWelsh smallholding, he leaves the kingdom over which he hadruled so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As theyprepare for the funeral, the novelthe last written by the pro-

lific James Hanleyrelates the events and experiences thatmade each sister what she is now: Lucy, the runaway, who fledthe farm secretly and without warning, never to see the old managain, and Cadi, who promptly sacrificed her job as a teacherin Manchester to take Lucys place in her fathers lonely world,thus initiating a pattern of guilt, self-submission, self-reliance,and occluded rage that would last until his death. A haunting,elegiac evocation of hill-farm life, A Kingdomfocuses on theconnotations of the word rooted from its first line, exploringwhat it means, for good and ill, to be tied to such a place.

James Hanleywas a Liverpool-born writer and playwright ofIrish descent. He served as a sailor during World War I, anexperience that informed many of his works, including Boy,

an account of sexual abuse on board merchant ships, whichbecame the subject of an obscenity trial. His other worksincludeThe Furys, which depicted working-class life,Levine,which portrayed alienation and disengagement, and TheOcean, which focused on situations of extreme privation.

FICTION/WELSH STUDIES, 220 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.5

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This is a fun, readable collection, recommended for filmbuffs and crime readers alike. Four stars.

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logue, establishing his characters with expert brushstrokesand making the action gallop along.

Kerryn Goldsworthy, winner, 2013 Pascall Prize

for Australian Critic of the Year

Part of the Library of Wales series, which includes All ThingsBetray Thee(9781908069733),The Autobiography of a Super-tramp(9781908946072),Goodbye Twentieth Century(9781908069726),Turf or Stone(9781906998288), andTheVolunteers (9781906998264)


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The Life and Loves

of Lena GauntA NovelTracy Farr

Recounting the remarkable life of DameLena Gauntmusics most modern musi-cian as the first theremin player of the20th centurythis novel about an octo-genarian and former junkie is as geo-graphically diverse as it is culturally andmusically rich. Vignettes of growing up,the glittering years on the world stage,melancholy, war-time periods, and grow-

ing old all compose the story of a womanwhose life is made and torn apart bythose she gives her heart to.

Tracy Farris the author of short fictionpublished inThe Best New ZealandFictionandNew Zealand Listener.

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Juno & Hannah

Beryl FletcherIn 1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, asettlement of Christian fundamentalistslives a life of austerity and isolation. It isan existence that leaves little room forcompassion, particularly for the women,who are viewed with suspicioun onaccount of Eves original sin. The elderslord over women, children, and youngmen alike, meting out punishments fortransgressions as innocuous as self-reflec-tion. Sisters Juno and Hannah havegrown up in the community, but when astranger washes up on the river bank andHannah goes to his aid, she finds herselfaccused of necromancy. The girls flee butare quickly forced to accept help. Unsureof who is friend and who foe, Hannahfinds herself dependent upon, and attract-ed to, the man she brought back to life.The sisters breathless journey reflects thevividly portrayed New Zealand landscapewith its abundance of beauty andresources, but also with scars wroughtduring the early days of colonization.

Beryl Fletcheris the author of severalshort stories, four novels, and the memoir

The House at Karamu. Her first novel,The Word Burners, was awarded a region-al Commonwealth Writers Prize for bestfirst book in 1992. She is a former writer-in-residence at the University of IowasInternational Writing Program.

FICTION/FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

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The Visitor

Katherine StansfieldIt is 1880 in Cornwall. Pearl, Nicholas,and Jack play among the fishing boats ofSkommow Bay, not understanding theundercurrents beneath their games. Nineyears later, Nicholas, keen for the fishingindustry and society as a whole toprogress, makes a decision that will affectall of their lives forever. Told from thepoint of a view of an aging Pearl, suc-cumbing to dementia in 1936, this mov-ing novel jumps back and forth throughtime as Pearls own memory does andexplores topics such as the tensionbetween individual will and the pressureto conform to societal norms, love andtragedy, and the ripple effects of a dyingindustry. The story is set against the sce-nic backdrop of Cornwall as well as thelate-19th-century riots over the obser-vance of the Sabbath in the fishing indus-try, and serves as a tremendously accuratesnapshot of a particular moment in timeand a meditation on the universal themesof love and loss.

Katherine Stansfieldis a lecturer in cre-ative writing at Aberystwyth University in

Wales and an associate member of theInstitute of Cornish Studies at ExeterUniversity.

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To encompass a persons whole life ina book is no mean feat, especially ifthe person has lived a full and adven-turesome one. However, author Tracy

Farr manages to do this seamlessly . . .I was completely engrossed in LenaGaunts heartfelt story.

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More Than

Anyone Can DoZen TalksTon Lathouwers

Weaving together his own experienceswith references to his voraciously widereading, Zen teacher Ton Lathouwersillustrates his insights with texts drawnfrom a variety of literary and spiritualtraditions in this series of talks from1999. In his discourse, Lathouwers seeksto build a bridge between Eastern wisdomand Western literature, as well as between

popular religion and philosophic think-ing. In a sincere and open tone, he con-veys to listeners and readers alike thateveryone is capable of finding his or herown personal answer to the great mysteryof existence.

Ton Lathouwersis a former professor ofSlavic literature at the Catholic Universityof Leuven, Belgium, where he taught fornearly 30 years. After travels through

Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia,he dedicated himself to the study ofChinese Zen (Chan) and received trans-mission from the Chan master Teh Changin 1987. He is a central figure in theMaha Karuna Chan, a lay movement inthe Netherlands and Flemish Belgium.

RELIGION & THEOLOGY/LITERARY CRITICISM

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East Meets West

John AdagoAn account of how the philosophy of theEast came to be so integrated into theeveryday lives of millions in the West, thisbook focuses on a select group of men andwomen who endeavored tirelessly to injectEastern wisdom into a lacking Westernworldview. From G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D.Ouspensky, who first perceived a missingelement in Western thought, throughMaharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introducedmeditation to the West, to ShantanandaSarawati, who taught the philosophy ofnondualism to Francis Roles and LeonMacLaren, this history looks at the livesand work of those individuals who wereprimarily responsible for bridging the cul-tural divide. The book also discusses theauthors own experiences with a numberof teachers and organizations that havetaught meditation, Eastern philosophy,and the Fourth Way.

John Adagois a writer, a lecturer, and aleader of study groups that introduceseekers to philosophy and meditation. Hewas a member of a group led by the spiri-tual teacher Willem Nyland, himself a

pupil and collaborator of GeorgeGurdjieff. He lives in New York City.

BODY/MIND/SPIRIT/SPIRITUALITY

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Walking in a

Widening WorldUnderstandingReligious Diversity

Hendrik M. Vroom

For more than a century Western theologyhas been exposed to rigorous criticism,while granting space to other worldviewtraditions. What was once common haslost its self-evidence, leading to intriguing

questions. As a theologian, Hendrik M.Vroom has become an authority in the fieldof religious diversity and in this analysis heengages his expertise on such questionsasDo theistic religions worship the sameGod? Do religions have the same morali-ty? Do they accept the same rules foraccounting what one believes?andAs theworld becomes more pluralistic as religionschange and affect each other, how can theirfollowers be certain about their beliefs andmoralities?These are stimulating andessential questions for anyone interested inthe phenomenon of religion.

Hendrik M. Vroomis professor emeritusin philosophy of religion at VU UniversityAmsterdam. He is the author ofNo OtherGods,Religions and the Truth, andASpectrum of Worldviews.

RELIGION & THEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY362 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25

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Reassurance for the SeekerA Biography and Translation of Salih al-Jafarisal-Fawaid al-Ja fariyya, a Commentary onForty Prophetic Traditions

Samer Dajani and Shaykh al-Jafari Salih

This book is a unique collection of 40 Prophetic Traditions byone of the most celebrated teachers and spiritual masters of theAzhar Mosque, Sunni Islams leading institution of knowledgeand its most authoritative voice. It provides a glimpse into the

scholarly and spiritual traditions of Islam carried forth into ourday. Some may have concluded that the saints and sages of Islamended with such names as Rumi and Ibn Arabi. The knowledgeand spiritual depth reached in past centuries does, in fact, contin-ue into the present day. The book includes a biography of theauthor, a description of his main teachers, and a beautiful treatiseby the authors main teacher on a single Prophetic statement inwhich the Prophet summarizes his own spiritual states. This vol-ume also deals with death, the afterlife, the waking visions of theProphet, his ability to pray for and intercede for those alive, andnearness to and friendship with God.

Samer Dajanihas a masters degree in Islamic studies from theSchool of Oriental and African studies at the University of

London, where he is currently working on a PhD.Shaykh Salihal-Jafariwas one of the most famous scholars of the Azhar, theMuslim worlds premier institution of religious learning and itsmost authoritative voice in the 20th century. He was also theimam of its mosque and a famous teacher and spiritual guide.He authored 15 works on various Islamic sciences, edited manyothers, and composed 12 volumes of poetry.

SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION & THEOLOGY, 260 PAGES, 6 X 9

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Meditations on the Divine LiturgyThird editionNikolai Gogol

With a new subject and scriptural index, as well as a shortabstract on Nikolai Gogol as a religious personality, this re-edited commentary on the Divine Liturgythe primary publicworship service of the Orthodox Churchis as practical as itis mystical. Gogol, one of the most prominent Russian writersof the 19th century, draws from the early Church Fathers andhis own experience to explain the sublime mystery of the

Orthodox divine services. In doing so, he also provides a fasci-nating look into his own religious character and profoundliturgical spirituality.

Nikolai Gogolwas one of the leading figures in 19th-centuryRussian literature and the founder of critical realism. He is bestknown for his satirical masterpiece Dead Soulsand humorousplays and short stories such as The Government Inspectorand The Overcoat.

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A New Poetics of Chekhovs PlaysPresence Through AbsenceHarai Golomb

One century after the death of Anton Chekhov (18601904),his plays are celebrated throughout the world as a major mile-stone in the history of theater and drama. Outside the Russian-speaking community, he is undoubtedly the most widelytranslated, studied, and performed of all Russian writers. Hisplays are characterized by their evasiveness: tragedy and come-dy, realism and naturalism, symbolism and impressionism, aswell as other labels of school and genre, all of which fail toaccount for the uniqueness of his artistic system and world-

view.Presence Through Absenceis a bold attempt to map theunique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhovsimmensely rich artistic universe. Harai Golomb explores all theprime components of Chekhovs theatrical technique: text con-struction, themes and ideas, scenes, dialogue, plot, and interac-tion between verbal and nonverbal elements. His timelessworks are shown with rare insight and clarity to have artisticprinciples and coherence above and beyond the scope of theindividual play.

Harai Golombis a retired professor of theater studies, musicol-ogy, and multidisciplinary studies in the faculty of arts at TelAviv University. He has published extensively and lecturedwidely on Chekhovs plays worldwide.

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From Idomeneo to Die ZauberflteA Conductors Commentary on the Operasof Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Myer FredmanForeword by Sir Charles Mackerras

The first book by an experienced conductor to explore theorchestras contribution to some of Mozarts greatest operaticworks, this volume focuses on Idomeneo,Die Entfhrung ausdem Serail,Die Schauspieldirektor,Le nozze di Figaro,DonGiovanni,Cos fan tutte,La clemenza de Tito, andDie

Zauberflte. Written primarily for the concert- and opera-going public that is interested in enlarging its knowledge andappreciation of these masterpieces, the book also containsmany practical suggestions for aspiring conductors.

Myer Fredmanis a former conductor at the GlyndebourneFestival, a former initial musical director of the GlyndebourneTouring Opera, the former musical director of the State Operaof South Australia, and a former conductor and artistic associ-ate with the Australian Opera. He is now an adjunct professorat the University of Tasmanias Conservatorium of Music. SirCharles Mackerraswas an Australian conductor. During hiscareer, he conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the SydneySymphony Orchestra, and the Welsh National Opera, among

others. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of theBritish Empire and a Companion of the Order of Australia andalso received a Jancek Medal and a Medal of Merit from theCzech Republic.

MUSIC/BIOGRAPHY, 205 PAGES, 6 X 9

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Henry Green at the Limitsof ModernismMarius Hentea

Providing a theoretically sophisticated and historicallynuanced reading of Henry Greens novels, this work makes thecase for his importance in reconsiderations of modernism, latemodernism, and postwar realism. An ambitious reassessmentof Greens oeuvre to date, this book argues against the pre-dominant view of Greens fiction as an autonomous literaryconstruction and connects Green to a number of social and lit-erary contexts, resulting in fresh readings of his novels andalso a greater accessibility to an author long considered elu-

sive. With significant investigations of Greens connection tohis literary generation, his multifaceted and formally innova-tive handling of social class, his negotiations of narrativeauthority and authorship, and the importance of disabilitystudies to understanding Greens fiction, this study charts thecomplex trajectories of Greens fiction against both social andliterary contexts. The work also moves beyond the confines ofBritish literature to explore Greens connections to broadertrends in European literature.

Marius Henteais an assistant professor of literary studies atGhent University.

LITERARY CRITICISM/BIOGRAPHY, 224 PAGES, 6 X 9

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Hlderlin and the Poetryof TragedyReadings in Sophocles, Shakespeare,Nietzsche and Benjamin

Jeremy Tambling

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