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Number of Titles Found: 12
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| Title: Beautiful Nowhere |
| By (author): Louisa Campbell |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052047 : 9781911052043 |
| The vivid, passionately wrought poems of Beautiful Nowhere encompass themes of childhood trauma, madness, dissociation, psychosis and even an exorcism. Louisa Campbell's sure handling of these dark and difficult themes draws upon five decades of experience, ensuring the poems' unflinching honesty, empathy and authenticity in depicting extreme states of mind. Yet these are poems of joy as much as despair, always looking towards â the furthest we can see; a beautiful nowhere'. |
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Pages: 90
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - May 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 10.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 12 |
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| Title: Dandy Bogan |
| Sub-title: Selected Poems |
| By (author): Nick Ascroft |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052039 : 9781911052036 |
| Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. This logophilia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. As the poems range across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft's abiding interest and concern is what it means to be human. Who are we? How did we get here? And what the fuck do we do now? The heart of this selection draws on Ascroft's three full collections published in New Zealand. Bookending this are selections of newer and older poems, tracing the development over a quarter of a century of a unique poetic talent. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - July 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 10.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 12 |
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| Title: Enchiridion |
| Sub-title: The Handbook |
| By (author): Epictetus |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052101 : 9781911052104 |
| The Enchiridion (â handbookâ ) of Epictetus is one of the most well-known and best-loved works of ancient Greek literature. Based on the solid theoretical foundation of Stoic thought, this is indeed a highly accessible handbook giving practical advice on how to live a better life. It is as relevant now as ever it was. This pocket-size edition of the classic work is presented in a lucid, jargon-free new translation, with a thought-provoking introduction by contemporary philosopher Matthew Talbert. Typeset with Boatwhistleâ s customary panache, this edition is as elegant as it is engrossing. |
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Pages: 300
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 8.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 164 |
| Title: 3 of: 12 |
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| Title: Footnotes |
| By (author): C. Perricone |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052020 : 9781911052029 |
| What are footnotes? They are appendages -- subordinates -- minions, even, to the text itself. Mostly they seem untroubled by their humble position. Occasionally, though, a footnote will erupt with a kind of violence, eager to break out of its ignominy and offer something more than a doffing of the cap. These footnotes have something else to say, and they will find their way to say it. These are the footnotes that make up this book. Footnotes is a series of riffs and meditations on human life and culture, with a particular interest in the play of meaning and sound. These notes aspire towards the condition of poetry, running the gamut from the profane to the sacred, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the perfectly clear to the profoundly obscure. These are poems. But they are more than poems. They are footnotes that have broken loose. They deserve your most loving attention. They demand it. |
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Pages: 144
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - July 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 10.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 4 of: 12 |
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| Title: Hot Dog Diary |
| By (author): Nathan Tolzmann |
| ISBN10-13: 191105208X : 9781911052081 |
| In the late 1990s, Nathan Tolzmann and his friend Matt took an epic bicycle trip across America to mark the end of their twenties. Beginning from the west coast, they travelled along minor roads through the changing landscapes of one state after another, keeping diaries to record the small towns, countryside campsites and eccentric museums they came across, and the vast space in between. Some 20 years later, Nathan began an even more daunting project: to capture the entire trip in comic-strip form. The narrative is characterized by acute observation of images and events, achieving an almost haiku-like quality in its attention to the minutiae of the quotidian. The book's journey is augmented by occasional reflections from the older Nathan. Themes of friendship and the passing of time are reflected in the visual emblems of faded Americana. Exquisitely illustrated throughout, Hot Dog Diary is a book that lingers long in the memory. |
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Pages: 426
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - October 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 25.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 13 |
| Title: 5 of: 12 |
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| Title: Library of Aethers |
| Sub-title: Selected Lyrics 1994–2024 |
| By (author): Alasdair Roberts |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052098 : 9781911052098 |
| From his earliest recordings in the 1990s, it was clear that Alasdair Roberts was not only a powerful performer, but also a profoundly original songwriter. In the years since then, he has honed his craft across a series of albums that comprise a richly idiosyncratic body of work. Distinctive as they are musically, Alasdairâ s songs are equally notable for their articulate, poetic and often moving lyrical qualities â now starkly symbolic, now allusively ornate. This book aims to showcase those qualities, with a selection of lyrics from across Alasdairâ s songwriting catalogue. The lyrics are augmented by newly written notes by Alasdair, with original illustrations by Annabel Wright, plus a foreword by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson, and several entertaining appendices. |
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Pages: 300
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - May 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 64 |
| Title: 6 of: 12 |
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| Title: Off the Beaten Track |
| Sub-title: A Year in Haiku |
| By (author): Christopher Herold, Ã ireann Lorsung, Bob Lucky, Nicholas Currie, Matthew Paul, Sally Read, George Swede, Michael Dylan Welch, Matthew Welton, Hugo Williams, Christopher Herold, Fabian Ironside, Hamish Ironside |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052012 : 9781911052012 |
| Off the Beaten Track presents new work by twelve writers taking part in a unique collaborative project: each of them was invited to compose one haiku per day for a month, thus contributing towards the total of 365 haiku for a full calendar year. Half of the authors are widely published writers of haiku, while the other half are almost (or entirely) new to the form. This situates the collection within the tradition of English-language haiku, while also seeking to extend its boundaries through the inclusion of â outsidersâ with respect to that tradition. Complementing the haiku are original illustrations by twelve artists, making the volume as visually striking as it is thought-provoking and diverse. |
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Pages: 224
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - January 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 35 |
| Title: 7 of: 12 |
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| Title: Tell Me When My Light Turns Green |
| By (author): Lucas Aggerton |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052055 : 9781911052050 |
| Jacob Spalding is a young man caught between a troubled past and an empty future. As he struggles to make sense of his sister's death, Jacob becomes intimately acquainted with the dead ends and cul-de-sacs of Britain's mental health system in the 1990s. Yet the story is ultimately one of resilience, endurance and even hope. Deeply moving, yet punctuated by moments of pure comedy, Tell Me When My Light Turns Green is the outstanding debut novel by Lucas Aggerton. |
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Pages: 300
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - November 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 12.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 67 |
| Title: 8 of: 12 |
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| Title: The Golden Rule |
| Sub-title: Collected Poems of Ernest Noyes Brookings |
| By (author): Ernest Noyes Brookings |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052004 : 9781911052005 |
| Every now and then -- but rarely -- there emerges a poet so startlingly original and unlike any other that they seem to have evolved in isolation on some island of their own, far from the literary mainland. Ernest Noyes Brookings is one such poet. Brookings is the ultimate late starter: never having written poetry before, he began in his eighties to produce verses on a daily basis, with a quiet intensity and single-mindedness, while resident at a nursing home in Massachusetts. In the seven years until his death in 1987, he produced around 300 poems on subjects such as power tools, white worms, after-dinner mints, Vermont in winter and the death penalty. Despite being written with no thought of an audience or publication, Brookingsâ s poems nevertheless did gain a devoted following among the readers of The Duplex Planet, the small magazine in which the majority were published. The Golden Rule now presents all of the poems in a single volume. With a biographical memoir by David Greenberger (the man who first encouraged Brookings to write), an appreciation by the legendary Al Ackerman and an appendix describing Brookingsâ s unique writing process, this book commemorates a truly distinctive and enjoyable writer. |
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Pages: 256
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - January 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 15.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 9 |
| Title: 9 of: 12 |
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| Title: The Lucky Leaf Handbook |
| By (author): T. E. P. Noodle |
| ISBN10-13: 1911052063 : 9781911052067 |
| The Lucky Leaf Handbook is the world's first guide to the game of catching leaves as they fall from the trees. T. E. P. Noodle is a pioneering 'lucky leafer' who has been playing the game for many years, and has applied that experience, along with immeasurable enthusiasm and an inimitable prose style, to produce a book that will appeal to anyone who enjoys the outdoors, or who simply likes stupendous writing. With bespoke illustrations and a range of photographs by the author, this is as attractive a book as it is compelling. Besides covering the main subject with a level of detail readers may not have thought possible for such a simple game, Noodle has a tendency to digress onto other subjects, making this not merely a dry guide to the game, but rather a compendious and entertaining book that is truly unlike any other, as befits a publishing house that aspires to produce 'singular books for singular readers'. |
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Pages: 184
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| Published: Boatwhistle Books - September 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 6.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 146 |
| Title: 10 of: 12 |
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