Gordon Hodgeon (36 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For the past five years the poet Gordon Hodgeon has been confined to his bed. Following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is now unable to move his arms and legs, and cannot breathe without the help of a ventilator. In the last few months he has lost the power of speech. Today he can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen or by dictating to his carers, letter by letter. Condemned to painful silence, Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. The result is this extraordinary series of poems from the furthest edge of human endurance. These are the words of a man who cannot speak, the poems of a writer who cannot pick up a pen. Talking to the Dead is a book about disability and mortality, a painful study in helpless silence. But it is also, movingly, the defiant song of a personality still open to the world and its endless futures. Gordon Hodgeon is not sailing to Byzantium. Instead, he takes the hands of the anonymous and inarticulate dead in the glorious dance of the earth , talking to those who have gone before and those who will come after, reminding us how little changes in our lives, / the loves, the losses, hopes of song, / songs of despair. Today Gordon Hodgeon can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen. Yet Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. Confined to his bed for the past five years following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is u Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 4-5 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New. pp. 36.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winter Breaks is a no-frills week-end flight to the saddest hotel in the world. It's a grim Saga tour round the pleasures of old age, decrepitude and oblivion. Here you are only as cold as you feel. At the heart of the book is a cycle of poems based on Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Schubert's broken-hearted young man becomes a modern pensioned-off curmudgeon, an anti-romantic for our times. With one foot in the grave and the other in his mouth, the narrator faces loss and the certain expectation of loss with exasperation, anger and caustic irreverence. Gordon Hodgeon carefully picks his independent way across the frozen landscapes of the twenty-first century, glaciers of the heart, melting ice-caps of the spirit. Winter Breaks is a tribute to the nonconformist conscience, located somewhere between misanthropy and humanism, love and despair, mocking the world in which we live, bearing witness against false and unreliable gods. And when winter - like everything else - breaks down, the melting snows reveal the strength of tested values and convictions, the Horatian virtues of friendship, music, family, poetry, love and a determination to enjoy today - because tomorrow will surely be worse. "Gordon Hodgeon is a poet with a larger than usual appetite for the possibilities and complexities of English poetry." Pete Morgan"In poems of family and friendship he turns over a northern upbringing and life with a most remarkable tact, lyric gift - and judgement, without ever being judgmental." Glyn Hughes"Gordon Hodgeon reminds us that the voice of the curmudgeon can be grumpy, irreverent and ribald, but can also convey a sense of loss, fierce humour and gentle melancholy." Cynthia Fuller Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 47 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. pp. 36.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 36.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 7.56x4.88x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Old Workings This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condition: Very Good. 2006. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed by the author with dedication to first page. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 62pp. Clean copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A little reading wear; very good overall. Contains: Teachers and Their Books (Bibby), The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond (Mallett on a cracking murder ballad), Not Teaching R S Thomas (Bridge), Back to the Drawing Board (Gubb), Using Journals with Third Year Classes (Millard), Teachers Views of Writing and Their Pupil's Performance (Diamond), Images of English 1: Back to Basics or Forward to Understanding? (Parker and Seaman), Images of English 2: 'Is This Proper English We're Doing Sir?' (Jackson). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light reading wear; very good overall. Contains: During Not After - An Untraditional Approach to the Teaching of Writing (Freedman), A Classroom Confrontation (Belcourt and Gordon), Five Run Away Together - Should We Let Them Back (Wright), Language Study in Secondary Education (Stork, Mittins, Torbe), Topsy and Tim Rule OK? (Hodgeon), A Close Look at Whole Class Discussion (Watson), Once Upon a Time? (Whitehead). Book.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For the past five years the poet Gordon Hodgeon has been confined to his bed. Following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is now unable to move his arms and legs, and cannot breathe without the help of a ventilator. In the last few months he has lost the power of speech. Today he can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen or by dictating to his carers, letter by letter. Condemned to painful silence, Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. The result is this extraordinary series of poems from the furthest edge of human endurance. These are the words of a man who cannot speak, the poems of a writer who cannot pick up a pen. Talking to the Dead is a book about disability and mortality, a painful study in helpless silence. But it is also, movingly, the defiant song of a personality still open to the world and its endless futures. Gordon Hodgeon is not sailing to Byzantium. Instead, he takes the hands of the anonymous and inarticulate dead in the glorious dance of the earth , talking to those who have gone before and those who will come after, reminding us how little changes in our lives, / the loves, the losses, hopes of song, / songs of despair. Today Gordon Hodgeon can only communicate with the outside world by blinking at a Dynavox computer screen. Yet Hodgeon has continued to write, recording the changing seasons of his disability and the changeless seasons outside his window. Confined to his bed for the past five years following a series of unsuccessful operations on his spine, he is u Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 20 pages containing 7 poems from Gordon Hodgeon and 7 from Andrew Stibbs.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winter Breaks is a no-frills week-end flight to the saddest hotel in the world. It's a grim Saga tour round the pleasures of old age, decrepitude and oblivion. Here you are only as cold as you feel. At the heart of the book is a cycle of poems based on Franz Schubert's Winterreise. Schubert's broken-hearted young man becomes a modern pensioned-off curmudgeon, an anti-romantic for our times. With one foot in the grave and the other in his mouth, the narrator faces loss and the certain expectation of loss with exasperation, anger and caustic irreverence. Gordon Hodgeon carefully picks his independent way across the frozen landscapes of the twenty-first century, glaciers of the heart, melting ice-caps of the spirit. Winter Breaks is a tribute to the nonconformist conscience, located somewhere between misanthropy and humanism, love and despair, mocking the world in which we live, bearing witness against false and unreliable gods. And when winter - like everything else - breaks down, the melting snows reveal the strength of tested values and convictions, the Horatian virtues of friendship, music, family, poetry, love and a determination to enjoy today - because tomorrow will surely be worse. "Gordon Hodgeon is a poet with a larger than usual appetite for the possibilities and complexities of English poetry." Pete Morgan"In poems of family and friendship he turns over a northern upbringing and life with a most remarkable tact, lyric gift - and judgement, without ever being judgmental." Glyn Hughes"Gordon Hodgeon reminds us that the voice of the curmudgeon can be grumpy, irreverent and ribald, but can also convey a sense of loss, fierce humour and gentle melancholy." Cynthia Fuller Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…