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Published by University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies, 1990
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 96 numbered pages; medium cocked spine; light to medium wear to corners and edges of cover ; medium rub to cover; a couple minor creases to cover; several minor scratches/ minor dings to cover; weighs 6 ounces; measures 8.4 by 5.4 by .37 inches; 120225.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Fergus is amongst a very small minority of Montserratians. He lives in Montserrat. Emigration has taken generations away and the 1997 eruption of Soufrière destroyed two-thirds of its habitable space, its economy and drove the majority of its inhabitants into exile. The poems in Volcano Verses e…xpress the confidence that island life and folk will outlast volcanic tantrums, that though 'Tonight Chances pique still grows/.But cattle low and egrets ride/ Inspite of fire from mountain tides'. But what Fergus seems to be doing in the book is writing against the absences, writing into being again the people who have gone, the landscape utterly transformed, the society fragmented. The eruption has instigated the sternest truth-telling, the sense of a world purified, but it has also prompted a hugely heightened consciousness of the importance of the seemingly trivial, the myriad social interactions, the sounds, the smells of a literally vanished world. It is the very absences, the restriction of current possibility that drives Fergus to greater abundance of creation, in the conversational, muscular rhythms, the serious word-play that characterise his most mature and distinctive collection yet.Sir Howard Fergus was born in Montserrat. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Cotton Rhymes (1976), Green Innocence (1978) and Stop the Carnival (1980).
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Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Fergus's poems explore the nature of living on Montserrat, a 'two-be-three island/hard like rock', vulnerable to the forces of nature (Hurricane Hugo and the erupting Soufriere) and still 'this British corridor'. He writes honestly and observantly about these contingencies, finding in them metap…hors for experiences which are universal. Nature's force strips life to its bare essentials ('Soufriere opened a new bible/in her pulpit in the hills/ to teach us the arithmetic of days') and reveals creation and destruction as one ('We celebrate Hugo child of God/ he killed and made alive for a season').In a small island society, individual lives take on an enhanced significance: they are its one true resource and the sequence of obituary poems brings home with especial force how irreplaceable they are. Beyond Montserrat, Fergus looks for a wider Caribbean unity, but finds it only in cricket (and crime). Cricket, indeed, provides a major focus for his sense of the ironies of Caribbean history: that through a white-flannelled colonial rite with its roots in an imperial sense of Englishness, the West Indies has found its only true political framework and the means, explored in the sequence of poems celebrating Brian Lara's feats of 1994, to overturn symbolically the centuries of enslavement and colonialism."Fergus is a poet of real stature."Stewart Brown, Longman Caribbean New Voices 1"Fergus reaches his peak with fine poems dedicated to his friends, none among them as penetrating as Timo. A larger-than-life character, Timo is good from the heart and generous to the bone. This archetypal character is fast disappearing, and Fergus reminds us through a last bedside visit. But he does something else that rings true. He captures Timo's essentially nativist language, the lingua franca of the praise-song; this poem is no wooden obituary. Far beyond the mythic spectator fields of Lord's and mythic Elysium, we applaud Fergus on this second stride to the wicket. His first poetic volume, "Allioguana," rightfully alluded to the rich incantatory Amerindian legacy of this island. A mature poet, Howard A. Fergus is caught playing in familiar themes far afield."Edgar Othniel Lake, The Caribbean WriterHoward Fergus was born at Long Ground in Montserrat. His poetry began appearing from 1976, with Cotton Rhymes; Green Innocence (1978), Stop the Carnival (1980), and his poems have been anthologised in the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse and appeared in Artrage, Writing Ulster, Bim, The New Voices, Caribbean Quarterly, Ambit, Caribanthology and others. His most recent collection is Volcano Verses (Peepal Tree, 2003).
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Published by UWI MONTSERRAT, 2004
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Language: English
Published by University Centre, University of the West Indies, Montserrat, 1985
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Foxing to covers and textblock otherwise pages clean and binding sound. Book explores electoral politics and colonial status of Montserrat which is one of the last remaining British colonies in the Caribbean.
Language: English
Published by University of The West Indies, West Indies, 1985
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Paperback. Condition: Like New. This copy is LIKE NEW; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight. The covers are VG: absolutely intact in all ways, including perfect color and design, but price sticker on front, a few signs of age. . We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our des…criptions are accurate. We ship all books to U.S. buyers with Tracking. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.
Published by University of The West Indies, Montserrat, 1980
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight, but light foxing on edges and on the first pages. The covers are also near fine; intact, including color and design, but signs of sunning and rubbing, remnant of price sticker on front,…small marks on rear. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.
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Published by Montserrat, 1975
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Language: English
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Jan 01, 1985. Condition: Used: Good. Softcover, published 1985. 115 pages. Wear to cover. Prior owner's name to upper corner of front cover. Otherwise clean.
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Published by Montserrat:University Centre, University of the West Indies, 1983
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Add to basketsoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Montserrat:University Centre, University of the West Indies. 1983. 61pp. Stapled wrps. Covers lighlty soiled and edgeworn but otherwise in very good, clean condition.
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Published by UWI School of Continuing Studies, Montserrat, 1989
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A collection of poetry responding to the devastation of Hurricane Hugo on Montserrat in 1989. 26 pages. Near fine in stiff paper wraps.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The authors fourth book of poems. / The poems in this volume show his range of interests extending from hurricanes to cricket, from South Africa to crime. Among Fergus s emerging heroes are Brian Lara, Nelson Mandela, and Maurice Bishop, but he also celebrates old teachers, fa…mily and friends. // This is a paperback in fine condition. (91 pages).
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Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Fergus's poems explore the nature of living on Montserrat, a 'two-be-three island/hard like rock', vulnerable to the forces of nature (Hurricane Hugo and the erupting Soufriere) and still 'this British corridor'. He writes honestly and observantly about these contingencies, finding in them metap…hors for experiences which are universal. Nature's force strips life to its bare essentials ('Soufriere opened a new bible/in her pulpit in the hills/ to teach us the arithmetic of days') and reveals creation and destruction as one ('We celebrate Hugo child of God/ he killed and made alive for a season').In a small island society, individual lives take on an enhanced significance: they are its one true resource and the sequence of obituary poems brings home with especial force how irreplaceable they are. Beyond Montserrat, Fergus looks for a wider Caribbean unity, but finds it only in cricket (and crime). Cricket, indeed, provides a major focus for his sense of the ironies of Caribbean history: that through a white-flannelled colonial rite with its roots in an imperial sense of Englishness, the West Indies has found its only true political framework and the means, explored in the sequence of poems celebrating Brian Lara's feats of 1994, to overturn symbolically the centuries of enslavement and colonialism."Fergus is a poet of real stature."Stewart Brown, Longman Caribbean New Voices 1"Fergus reaches his peak with fine poems dedicated to his friends, none among them as penetrating as Timo. A larger-than-life character, Timo is good from the heart and generous to the bone. This archetypal character is fast disappearing, and Fergus reminds us through a last bedside visit. But he does something else that rings true. He captures Timo's essentially nativist language, the lingua franca of the praise-song; this poem is no wooden obituary. Far beyond the mythic spectator fields of Lord's and mythic Elysium, we applaud Fergus on this second stride to the wicket. His first poetic volume, "Allioguana," rightfully alluded to the rich incantatory Amerindian legacy of this island. A mature poet, Howard A. Fergus is caught playing in familiar themes far afield."Edgar Othniel Lake, The Caribbean WriterHoward Fergus was born at Long Ground in Montserrat. His poetry began appearing from 1976, with Cotton Rhymes; Green Innocence (1978), Stop the Carnival (1980), and his poems have been anthologised in the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse and appeared in Artrage, Writing Ulster, Bim, The New Voices, Caribbean Quarterly, Ambit, Caribanthology and others. His most recent collection is Volcano Verses (Peepal Tree, 2003).
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Paperback. Condition: New. Howard Fergus is amongst a very small minority of Montserratians. He lives in Montserrat. Emigration has taken generations away and the 1997 eruption of Soufrière destroyed two-thirds of its habitable space, its economy and drove the majority of its inhabitants into exile. The poems in Volcano Verses e…xpress the confidence that island life and folk will outlast volcanic tantrums, that though 'Tonight Chances pique still grows/.But cattle low and egrets ride/ Inspite of fire from mountain tides'. But what Fergus seems to be doing in the book is writing against the absences, writing into being again the people who have gone, the landscape utterly transformed, the society fragmented. The eruption has instigated the sternest truth-telling, the sense of a world purified, but it has also prompted a hugely heightened consciousness of the importance of the seemingly trivial, the myriad social interactions, the sounds, the smells of a literally vanished world. It is the very absences, the restriction of current possibility that drives Fergus to greater abundance of creation, in the conversational, muscular rhythms, the serious word-play that characterise his most mature and distinctive collection yet.Sir Howard Fergus was born in Montserrat. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Cotton Rhymes (1976), Green Innocence (1978) and Stop the Carnival (1980).
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The miscellany of poems in this volume (my third in under two years), is the product of ripened years and hopefully careful crafting. "Going downhill at dusk/I have an enormous appetite/to write poetry." They celebrate a number of persons beginning with our mothers and the ancestral impact o…n our lives, as the title of the book suggests. A biological element is present in treating with entities and persons. The book is not parochial; is is not just about Montserrat and its people and problems, and some challenges are in any case universal. It recognizes the interconnection between Montserrat and wider world; so Donald Trump and Theresa May are present and even Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as is reflection on a black Santa Clause. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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