The vivid story of twenty-four hours in the real and remembered lives of a brother and sister living in Gaza and separated from their family.
Ghassan Kanafani’s writings are among the most influential in modern Palestinian literature. In his novels, short stories, and plays, he explores complex...
The third edition of this vibrant poetry magazine showcases some of the finest and most original voices in contemporary poetry today
The full line-up for the magazine is:
Poetry :
Jeremy Reed
Anna Saunders
Christopher Levenson
Mark Goodwin
Raine Geoghegan
Fred D'Aguiar
Luc a Orellana Damacela
Alison...
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Bipolar disorder is an often misunderstood and incorrectly diagnosed condition. This book will explain to you the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder, the treatment methods, and some strategies for managing it.
You will learn about the signs of bipolar disorder, and how to tell...
Isthmus was Jeremy Reed's first collection, produced in a finely-printed edition by Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press in 1980. Overwrought, perhaps even over-written, it shows the author struggling with a gamut of new influences -- some of them provided by Benveniste - and trying to find his way in a...
Read More about The Isthmus of Samuel Greenberg (Shearsman Library #6)Bona Drag, a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G...
Read More about Bona DragThe first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, a major long poem written in the shop, while managing Red Snapper Books in the period 2007-2008, takes in an acutely personalised retrieval of...
Read More about The Glamour Poet vs. Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat DollsBona Vada (gay slang for "good looking"), the companion volume to Bona Drag (Shearsman, 2009), again finds Jeremy Reed - described by J.G. Ballard as having "an imagination almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance", and by the rock bandit Pete Doherty as "a legend" - piloting stunning imagery into...
Read More about Bona VadaAsa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London, 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting edge poetry influenced by Black Mountain poets, the New York School of Poets and the European avant-garde, was not only a self-taught, one-off maverick genius as a printer...
Read More about I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Asa Benveniste and Trigram Press