Sutherland smith james (134 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: New. James Sutherland Smith's poems draw on his experiences of life in the Middle East and Middle Europe; what is most strange, they tell us, is to be found not in the exoticism of remote locales, but close to home. His language ventures into foreign and domestic places, into nature, politics, and the self-di…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Some months before the year of revolutions a late friend took a train into the heartland of what was held up as a model of despotism; a stopping train, in his compartment one other passenger clad in a blue suit needing thirty minutes attention from a stiff clothes brush. Opening a mildly indecent magazin…

Paperback. Zustand: New. The poems in James Sutherland-Smith's eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of "a down-at-heel Hapsburg town" and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title p…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This collection records a final detachment, in all senses of the word, from the author s country of origin. Often the poems are set in places where political and social upheaval has recently occurred. They record the aftershock of moral and spiritual earthquakes often in intimate contexts. Bot…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. James Sutherland Smith's poems draw on his experiences of life in the Middle East and Middle Europe; what is most strange, they tell us, is to be found not in the exoticism of remote locales, but close to home. His language ventures into foreign and domestic places, into nature, politics, and…