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  • Following Rivers in Trees
    Adele Ogier Jones
    ’Explorations of place and time make for a wonderful, prismatic journey... Following Rivers in Trees captures the movement of time and life, one moment eddying under bridges and the next sweeping diaspora. Ogiér Jones’s latest collection traverses a rich 'legacy of Irishness', through seasons of blackberry-picking, centuries of history, and the exquisitely 'busy tales' of otter...
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    21,26 €

  • Counting the Chiperoni
    Adèle Ogier Jones
    Chiperoni: term for a kind of fog, drizzle rain, experienced in the Shire Highlands of southern Malawi during the cold, dry season; name derived from Mount Chiperone, an isolated mountain peak at the southern extremity of East African mountain ranges, covered with montane forests and surrounded by deciduous woodlands.‘The sinuous rhythms and arresting imagery in Counting the Ch...
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    14,19 €

  • Desert Diya
    Adèle Ogier Jones
    Hana’s life in a tropical village is predictable and simple until she answers an advertisement. A journey with new friends, to new places, and training for work which she dreams will bring a better life for her family start the story. Work placements which seem so suitable to start with, step by step lead to a murder, judgement and ‘diya’ – the law of the desert based on the wi...
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    19,57 €

  • Beyond the Blackbird Field
    Adèle Ogier Jones
    The poems in this collection were written in Pristina and Prizren (Kosovo), and in Dubrovnik – each with their rich stories and heritage. The title represents a new era for the Balkan region, beyond the historical conflict of Kosovo’s ‘Blackbird Field’, so poems are grouped in line with sunset, evening, or night falling on tranquil landscapes, beyond war. Early dawn promise is ...
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    15,27 €

  • From the Edge of the Pacific
    Adèle Ogier Jones
    'Another collection of experiences and imaginings from the watchful eye of the poet who gave us Afghanistan - waiting for the bus. Here, the poet weaves and gifts us with yet another salusalu (garland) of memories of and a passion for people struggling to adapt to the realities of their environments, that at times constitute 'land beyond repair' (Somewhere Islands) yet, continu...
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    15,61 €

  • Afghanistan - waiting for the bus
    Adele Ogier Jones
    Adèle Ogiér Jones has worked internationally for more than two decades, much of it in development, more recently in regions affected by conflict. From 2004 to 2006, when these poems were written, she lived in Afghanistan, leading the education program of the Aga Khan Foundation in northern and central provinces. Political themes are common in these poems, though more often it i...
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    17,06 €