Jope Norman (88 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Dreams of the Caucasus. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Unlike Jope's previous two Shearsman collections, this one mixes prose-poetry with (free) verse. Writing in Ambit about Jope's Dreams of the Caucasus, Donald Gardner wrote that his reach 'is romantic and wide, not only geographically - from the Sahara to the Hungarian puszta and on to the Arctic Circle. As with much travel writing, there is a goal beyond the journey. These texts are an attempt to read nature for signs and they also represent a quest for the elemental in himself, a sort of spiritual geology'.These concerns remain central, with locations ranging as far afield as the American Rockies and the Aegean Sea and a blend of first-hand and virtual experience. One section focuses on visits to Italy, and the titular poem of the collection reflects this - prompted as it was by a visit to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, where Keats lamented the 'posthumous existence' he felt himself confined to in a letter sent in November 1820 to Charles Armitage Brown. By contrast, the sequence 'The Supreme Experiment' depicts the imagined world of an early Christian anchorite in the Sinai Desert and is (perhaps) an exercise in 'negative capability'.There's also a continued engagement with music and film - most notably the New German Cinema of the 1970s, which remains central to Jope's cultural land-scape along with the experimental music of that time and place. The political concerns of those traditions seem relevant, moreover, to the turbulent landscape of the UK in the late 2010s - some are directly responsive to the Brexit referendum and its tortuous aftermath, as befitting the author's own sense of threatened European identity during that period.Perhaps it's not just the author who might lead a 'posthumous existence' but also the poem, which is inevitably the product of a time and a place that has passed. The question of what might remain current is unanswerable, all the more so at the time of composition, but there is always the hope of a hospitable shore that these poems seek.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Posthumous Existence. Book.

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Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 92pp. Covers very slightly soiled.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 88 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Poetry. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 88 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Poetry. 1 Kg.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 91pp. Gift inscription dated 2021.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 92pp. Inscribed by Jope for Ian Robinson. Signed by Author(s).

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 50pp. Covers very lightly marked.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 102pp. Tiny name & date of publication at head of first page.

Card Wraps / Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 88pp. Tiny name at head of first page.

Card Wraps / Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. (ix), 115pp. Invisible gift inscription beneath dust jacket.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Companion to Richard Berengarten. Book.

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Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (28pp.) Inscribed on title page by Evans for poet & editor of Terrible Work, Tim Allen. Staples rusty. A. C. Evans (images) (illustrator). Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Paperback. Condition: New. 2nd. This book, which accompanies the volumes published in the author's Selected Writings series, guides readers through the many-faceted poetic output of Richard Berengarten (formerly Burns). Berengarten has been a crucial presence in contemporary poetry for over forty years - not only as poet but also as translator, critic and driving force behind the legendary Cambridge Poetry Festival - and his poetry has been translated into more than ninety languages. With thirty-four contributors from over a dozen nationalities, the book is a testimony to the recognition of his poetry by fellow writers and critics across cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries and frontiers. The range of poetic canons to which Berengarten's oeuvre responds enables him to put down 'multiple roots' in a number of literary traditions, and this is reflected in the book's diversity. It sets out not only to be of use to readers and scholars already acquainted with Berengarten's poetry, but as a guide to those who are encountering his work for the first time.It is divided into three main sections, the first of which approaches the work thematically and the second chronologically, while the third focuses on his 'Balkan trilogy' (The Blue Butterfly, In A Time Of Drought and Under Balkan Light).The book also contains an appendix of essays on Berengarten's ancillary roles as literary activist, EFL teacher/entrepreneur and teacher of poetry to children, as well as a detailed bibliography.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 60 & 80 pp with black & white illustrations, staple bound in card covers 2 issues of the poetry magazine.