Snail Poems

Author : Eric Sneathen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Grief
ISBN : 1928650384

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Snail Poems by Eric Sneathen Pdf

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Environmental Studies. Collecting found texts, lyric poetry, and experimental prose, Eric Sneathen's SNAIL POEMS is an elegy born of the general catastrophe of late capitalism and the specific tragedy of personal loss. Committed to smallness and fragility, SNAIL POEMS nevertheless spirals out, queerly navigating collisions of ecological devastation, the politics of friendship, and popular culture. "Knowing that there is no language to speak about death and no way to speak to the dead, Eric Sneathen speaks in snails instead. In these poems, the figure of the snail is a vessel for everything from beauty to rain to mourning to queer love and desire to you, dear reader. There are a staggering number of snails in SNAIL POEMS, but don't mistake the motif for fantastical. These poems are real life, in all of its precarity and grace." Amy Berkowitz"

Author : William Cowper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074830625

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The Poems of William Cowper by William Cowper Pdf

Author : Paul Durcan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446475478

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Snail In My Prime by Paul Durcan Pdf

Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country's fortunes and misfortunes. His readings are legendary and each new collection, from his collaboration with Brain Lynch, Endsville (1967) to Daddy, Daddy (winner of the 1990 Whitbread Poetry Award), Crazy about Women (1991) and Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999) has borne out the truth of Ezra Pound's dictum that "literature is news that stays news". This book contains Durcan's own selection from his work. It is a literary milestone that has set the seal on his reputation as a poet of international standing.

Author : Jamie McGarry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Snails
ISBN : 0957459696

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The Dead Snail Diaries by Jamie McGarry Pdf

A beguiling collection of observational poems and literary parodies which explore and celebrate snail culture, as told by a prematurely-crushed snail poet. Jamie McGarry of Scarborough and Valley Press writes with infectious verve and his poems are frequently romantic and always very funny. Several poems examine snailkind's unhealthy adoration of slugs - the rebels without shells of the kitchen garden - and highlights include a thrilling travel account ('A Snail of Two Cities') and a poignant account of moving house ('A Shell of My Former Self'). This book features a number of joyous homages to human poets including Robert Frost, John Betjeman, T.S. Eliot and Gervase Phinn, and was previously published by Valley Press. Jamie McGarry founded small publishing operation Valley Press in 2008, which he continues to run to this day. Uncovering and translating the original 'snail diary' in 2009, Jamie made it his mission in life to honour the author's memory, and spread the word of his literary prowess far and wide.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861897121

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Snail by Peter Williams Pdf

So attached was the author Patricia Highsmith to snails that they became her constant travelling companions. Often hidden in a large handbag, they provided her with comfort and companionship in what she perceived to be a hostile world. Theirs was perhaps an unusual relationship; for most of us the tentacled snail with his sticky trail might be a delicious treat served up in garlic butter but certainly not an affectionate pet. As well, for many a gardener, opinions on the snail and slug (which is a just a snail without a shell) have been shaped by the harm they inflict on vegetable plants and seedlings. With Snail, Peter Williams wishes to change our perspectives on this little but much-maligned creature. Beginning with an overview of our relationship with snails, slugs, and sea snails, Williams moves on to examine snail evolution; snail behavior and habitat; snails as food, medicine, and the source of useful chemicals and dyes; snail shells as collectible objects; and snails in literature, art, and popular culture. Finally, in this appreciative account of the snail, Williams offers a plea for a reconsideration of the snail as a dignified, ancient creature that deserves our respect. Containing beautiful illustrations and written in an approachable, informal style, Snail will help readers get beyond the shell and slime to discover the fascinating creature inside.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781535845458

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A Study Guide for Thom Gunn's "Considering the Snail" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Thom Gunn's "Considering the Snail", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Robin Malan
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0864863624

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The Pick of Snailpress Poems by Robin Malan Pdf

From its establishment in 1990, Snailpress has published over 50 volumes of poetry - a list described by Patrick Cullinan as 'wonderfully heterodox'. To mark this achievement and spread this wealth, Robin Malan has put together a selection of the poetry.

Author : Eric Ode
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1610677471

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Otters, Snails and Tadpole Tails by Eric Ode Pdf

"From raccoons to garter snakes, water striders to diving beetles, wetland inhabitants are brought to life in this remarkable collection for all ages." -- Page [4] cover.

Author : Shelagh Moore,Kate Wright
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781909102248

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It's easy to teach - Poetry by Shelagh Moore,Kate Wright Pdf

This great resource demonstrates ways of introducing children to the delights of poetry. It is for teachers who are not necessarily literacy specialists and offers a route through the different types of poetry that Key Stage 1 children will meet in their wider reading. It's easy to teach Poetry offers easy-to-teach topic sessions that link across the curriculum and are supported by worksheets, resources and examples of poetry that can be used in a variety of ways. Children will develop their creativity, speaking, reading and writing skills whilst enjoying playing with words!

Author : Ciaran Ross
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042028289

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Sub-versions by Ciaran Ross Pdf

From Swift's repulsive shit-flinging Yahoos to Beckett's dying but never quite dead moribunds, Irish literature has long been perceived as being synonymous with subversion and all forms of subversiveness. But what constitutes a subversive text or a subversive writer in twenty-first-century Ireland? The essays in this volume set out to redefine and rethink the subversive potential of modern Irish literature. Crossing three central genres, one common denominator running through these essays whether dealing with canonical writers like Yeats, Beckett and Flann O'Brien, or lesser known contemporary writers like Sebastian Barry or Robert McLiam Wilson, is the continual questioning of Irish identity - Irishness - going from its colonial paradigm and stereotype of the subaltern in MacGill, to its uneasy implications for gender representation in the contemporary novel and the contemporary drama. A subsidiary theme inextricably linked to the identity problematic is that of exile and its radical heritage for all Irish writing irrespective of its different genres. Sub-Versions offers a cross-cultural and trans-national response to the expanding interest in Irish and postcolonial studies by bringing together specialists from different national cultures and scholarly contexts - Ireland, Britain, France and Central Europe. The order of the essays is by genre. This study is aimed both at the general literary reader and anyone particularly interested in Irish Studies.

Author : Elizabeth Spires
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393070026

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The Wave-Maker: Poems by Elizabeth Spires Pdf

A contemplative, witty new collection from a "jewel of a poet" (Los Angeles Times). In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a badger disguised as a monk. For Spires, life is both a pilgrimage and a deepening—birth, death, and transformation all part of a seamless continuum. Possessed of a calm, crystalline sense of eternity, her poems invite fellow travelers to sit for a little while and be cleansed of the dust of existence.

Author : Chris Buckton
Publisher : Ginn
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780602296896

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Models for Writing by Chris Buckton Pdf

The Models for Writing books provide a complete programme to teach the writing process through shared, guided and extended work. Based on the National Literacy Strategy requirements, the books feature sentence-level focus, lively activities, and an easy-to-use solution for differentiation.

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393348132

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Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich Pdf

Time's Power is a new book by a major American poet, and a landmark in a distinguished ongoing career. For thirty years, Rich's poetry has revealed the individual personal life—sexualities, loves, damages, struggles—as inseparable from a wider social condition, a world with others, in which the empowering of the disempowered is increasingly the source of human hope. Now her mature vision engages with the power of time itself: memory and its contradictions, the ebb and flow between parents and children, the deaths we all face sooner or later, the meaning of human responsibility in all this. "Letters in the Family," for example, is written in the voices of three women—from the Spanish Civil War, from a Jewish rescue mission behind Nazi lines, and from present-day Southern Africa. Time's Power shows Rich writing with unprecedented range, complexity, and authority.

Author : S. N. Prasad
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638677987

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The Poetry of Philip Larkin by S. N. Prasad Pdf

The Poetry Of Philip Larkin: A Study In Long Perspectives By: S. N. Prasad The present book is an innovative attempt to give the Philip Larkin criticism a new direction. Early critical writings on Larkin for the most part tried to show him as a provincial poet and his poetic imagination as of a middle-brow kind. However, soon some perceptive readers of his poetry found some of its real value, as a result of which he is now regarded as one of the major British post-modern poets. This book has tried to show that Philip Larkin in his poetry tries to see man in his present existential condition and he sees his future prospects as a species in very long perspectives and, in this respect, besides his many- faceted merit as a true poet, he can and should be seen in the company of great mainstream scientists, philosophers, creative writers and thinkers. Philip Larkin in his major poems aims at giving a therapeutic touch to the ailing human culture. This book has a long INTRODUCTION which tries to show the true origins of man, his physiology and his present psycho-social condition. Views of reputed creative writers, scientists, philosophers and thinkers have been referred to in this connection. In the three middle sections of the book, thirty of Larkin’s poems taken from his three major volumes have been analyzed individually at some length. These analyses reveal some of the very important but hitherto unrevealed aspects of his poetry.

Author : Jeffrey Wainwright
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415287634

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Poetry by Jeffrey Wainwright Pdf

"Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it looks at aspects including : how technical aspects such as rhythm and measures work; how different tones of voice affect a poem; how poetic language relates to everyday language; how different types of poetry work, from sonnets to free verse; and how the form and 'space' of a poem contribute to its meaning." "Poetry: The Basics is an invaluable and easy-to-read guide for anyone wanting to get to grips with reading and writing poetry."--Jacket.