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  • 'Proof...'
    Peter Riley
    ’How do you get mortal harmonyout of a stone box into the moving air?With ash and ink, and sing a lyric air with passion.’'Proof...' asks and answers this question in 27 short poems as only poetry can. It is an account in the simplest, declarative language of the wren’s song, the life in transit of the refugee, mortality, the poet’s task, the fall of Constantinople, the Manches...
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    10,62 €

  • Last Kind Words
    Peter Riley
    'The song, ’Last Kind Words Blues’, was recorded in 1930 in a makeshift studio in Grafton, Wisconsin, and issued by Paramount Records as one side of a 78 rpm shellac disc with the musician’s name given as 'Geeshie Wiley'. It’s not a straightforward lyric. It’s not about slavery, but slavery is there in it. It’s about the victims of war, but forgets that it is.' - Peter RileyPet...
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    15,04 €

  • Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry
    Peter Riley
    In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent, non-vocational labor as a necessary sacri...
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    127,03 €

  • Collected Poems Vol. 1
    Peter Riley
    A major event, the publication of Peter Riley’s collected poems in two volumes covers his work from the early 1960s to today. Volume 1 covers 1962–1997, encompassing books such as Love-Strife Machine, The Linear Journal, The Llyn Writings, The Derbyshire Poems (including Lines on the Liver and Tracks and Mineshafts), Noon Province, Reader, Lecture, Author and Snow has Settled… ...
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    29,57 €

  • Collected Poems Vol. 2
    Peter Riley
    A major event, the publication of Peter Riley’s collected poems in two volumes covers his work from the 1960s to today. Volume 2 covers the period from the late 1990s to 2015, covering books such as Excavations, Alstonefield, Two Setts and Coda, The Glacial Stairway, Greek Passages and Due North. Like its companion volume, it also contains a large number of uncollected poems.Th...
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    29,59 €

  • Dawn Songs
    Peter Riley
    Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pieces performed in pubs of the Sheffield Moorlands area at Christmas, called ‘Mass Lyric’; and ‘Dawn Songs’ itself, which concerns a lamentational genre of Transylvanian village music and forms the bulk of the book. So if ever there w...
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    20,47 €

  • Due North
    Peter Riley
    Due North is a poem in twelve chapters concerned with human movement northwards or out in the quest for work, subsistence, settlement and gratification, and in danger of getting trapped in various enclosures, including thought-traps. The cast includes migrant workers, returning soldiers, children growing up, and population movements such as the early 19th Century descent on the...
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    17,97 €

  • The Dance at Mociu
    Peter Riley
    The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty ’stories’ of Transylvania, a part of the world that has fascinated the author for many years, and which he and his wife have visited annually since 1998. These pieces are not stories in the conventional sense, but range from meditation to epiphany, from observation to recordings of an old world that seems threatened - the world of ...
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    17,91 €

  • Chapters of Age
    Peter Riley
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    14,13 €

  • The Derbyshire Poems
    Peter Riley
    The Derbyshire Poems brings back into print two important earlier collections (from the 1970s and 1980s) by Peter Riley, Lines on the Liver and Tracks and Mineshafts, together with the explanatory essays that were originally issued alongside the latter volume, and an uncollected sequence from the same period, ’Following the Vein’, which belongs with the other poems dealing with...
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    20,44 €

  • Greek Passages
    Peter Riley
    Greek Passages is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power. The structure is entirely diurnal, building each poem from the day’s events, so that cognizance of monumental historical figures and events infiltrate from outside into notes of fauna, ruins, the news, books about Greece or n...
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    17,99 €

  • The Day’s Final Balance
    Peter Riley
    This volume is subtitled ’Uncollected Poems 1965-2006’ and is exactly that: a book which brings together a number of scattered poems, and hard-to-find publications, that deserve to be preserved in book form.There is no overlap here with either of the author’s Carcanet collections, or with his previous Shearsman publications, but there are pieces here that relate to those books,...
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    20,39 €

  • The Llyn Writings
    Peter Riley
    Since the 1970s, Peter Riley and his wife have been making regular trips to the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales, and he has been writing a series of poems and meditations about the place - a spectacular area of natural beauty. To date, many of these poems, and poem-sequences, have appeared in small-press and bibliophile editions, and in artists’ books. Three of the sequences were...
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    17,99 €

  • A Map of Faring
    Peter Riley
    A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the f...
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    15,27 €

  • Mastering Biology
    O.F.G. Kilgour / Peter Riley
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    59,43 €

  • Practical Government Budgeting
    Peter W Colby / Peter W. Colby / Susan L Riley / Susan L. Riley
    This book provides descriptions, instructions, and exercises to help readers master government budgeting as it is actually practiced. University courses and training programs serving present and future state and local officials and staff will learn how to do public budgeting in this relevant, practical, and useful workbook. Each chapter presents techniques followed by step-by-s...
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    44,83 €