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Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of one of the bestselling hardcover books of all time, this special edition includes 12 new poems and never-before-published drawings by Silverstein.
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Comic provocations : exposing the corpus of old French fabliaux
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary body's unsettling capacity.
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Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like
St Claire Bullock - a Professor of Philosophy, no less - in the intervals between pondering the great questions of life, turned his hand to penning light verse in the manner of Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash and Edward Lear. In rhyming couplets these wry and witty poems ponder the foibles and vanities of mortals. Some of these are captured in pen and ink drawings which caricature the subject of the poems. Each character is given an amusing name, beginning with Master Cecil Abercorn, through Clarence Castle, Serena Huff, The Marchioness of Mal de Mer, Major Houghton Reid and Thomas Tinkham Tattersall to Roland Washburn White. There are 70 poems in all of which 10 are illustrated. The illustration on the front cover relates to Rupert Ashe: 'The greatest pride of Rupert Ashe was his luxuriant moustache. He took great care to keep it groomed, And even, with restraint, perfumed. He brushed it upward every day, and it made such a grand display, that people who were not the wiser, imagined that he was the Kaiser.'
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Hypnotize a tiger : poems about just about everything
\"This book is full of [the author's] zany black-and-white artwork and features his ... inventive characters and worlds\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Poetry Lifeline Across Hemispheres Through Crises. Conversation/Interchange: Some Days The Bird
When I picked it up at AWP 2016 (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference held each year in the U.S.), I fell in love with the dozen poems they published as part of their exchange. [...]when Heather approached me about a poetry collaboration just before Christmas of that annus horribilis we were all racing to adios, how could I decline? I swept aside the teetering pile of work and doctoral deadlines, shut the door on the clamouring domestic to-do list and neatly packaged up the most pressing obstacle in a small envelope sealed with sticky-tape and shoved into a bottom drawer. Surely not an obstacle in the writing of a book centred around gardens, I hypothesised as the carrot of conversing in verse with Heather dangled so tantalisingly. Because of these missives across the Pacific, I could imagine her father's garden in Ireland and the pain of her separation from him during Australia's lengthy lockdown, and she could empathise with my care and concerns for my own beloved father, whom we lost earlier this year.
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I'm just no good at rhyming, and other nonsense for mischievous kids and immature grownups
\"An illustrated collection of comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts)\"-- Provided by publisher
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'Looking worse and worse and worse': Humour in the poetry of Fleur Adcock
At a reading for Poetry East at the London Buddhist Centre on 6th December 2014, Fleur Adcock was invited to read the work of other poets whom she admired. One of the poems she chose was ‘I Remember’ by Stevie Smith. Following the reading, when Adcock was interviewed by the poet and Buddhist monk Maitreyabandhu, she described going to hear Stevie Smith read in the 1960s, saying how Smith was ‘very funny [...] very tragic’, and Maitreyabandhu pointed out the tragicomic tone of some of Adcock’s own poems. Adcock admitted that once she had got over being ‘solemn and obsessed’ in her youthful poems she had allowed herself to be funny. What first attracted me to Adcock’s poetry was her humour and in this article I will investigate how she uses humour, which has been little studied in her work. I will also examine how reviewers have responded to this aspect of her poetry.
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Every thing on it : poems and drawings
The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than 130 never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the American artist, selected by his family from his archives.
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The so-called nonsense inscriptions on Ancient Greek vases : between Paideia and Paidiá
The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of nonsense writing on Greek pottery of the late archaic and early classical age.
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