Look We Have Coming to Dover!

Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 73
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780571263912
ISBN-13 : 0571263917
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Look We Have Coming to Dover! by : Daljit Nagra

Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations.

British Museum

British Museum
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : 9780571333752
ISBN-13 : 0571333753
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis British Museum by : Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana, and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter, more contemplative and inquisitive, at times valedictory. His political edge has been honed in a series of meditations and reflections upon our heritage, our legacy, and the institutions that define them: the BBC, Hadrian's Wall, the Sikh gurdwaras of our towns, the British Museum of the title poem. With compassion and charisma, Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores, the Arab Spring, the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community. British Museum is a book that asks profound questions of our ethics and responsibilities at a time of great challenge to our sense of national identity.

The Experience of Poetry

The Experience of Poetry
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 462
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198833154
ISBN-13 : 0198833156
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Experience of Poetry by : Derek Attridge

An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

101 Great American Poems

101 Great American Poems
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 9780486110264
ISBN-13 : 0486110265
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Great American Poems by : The American Poetry & Literacy Project

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

Loop of Jade

Loop of Jade
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 71
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ISBN-10 : 9781448190683
ISBN-13 : 1448190681
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Loop of Jade by : Sarah Howe

*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: β€˜It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.

Ramayana

Ramayana
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 263
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780571294893
ISBN-13 : 0571294898
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Ramayana by : Daljit Nagra

Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld. The tale has been celebrated in many languages and has spread to many other countries including Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is used as a Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Islamic, Sikh as well as a secular text, and lives in in many art forms too: in drama and dance, in sculpture and painting, in prose and in poetry. Daljit Nagra was captivated by the versions his grandparents regaled him with as a child. Now an award-winning poet of dazzling gifts, he has chosen to bring the story to life in a vivid and enthralling version of his own. Accessible and engaging, and bursting with energy, Nagra's Ramayana is a distillation and an animation for readers of all ages, whether familiar with or entirely new to this remarkable tale.

The Lammas Hireling

The Lammas Hireling
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 9781447236863
ISBN-13 : 1447236866
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lammas Hireling by : Ian Duhig

Ian Duhig has long inspired a fervent and devoted following. With The Lammas Hireling - the title poem having already won both the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Poem - Duhig has produced his most accessible and exciting volume to date, and looks set to reach a whole new audience. A poet of lightning wit and great erudition, Duhig is also a master balladeer and storyteller who shows that poetry is still the most powerful way in which our social history - our lives, loves and work - can be celebrated and commemorated.

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 484
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0486600610
ISBN-13 : 9780486600611
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by : Roger R. Bate

Teaching text developed by U.S. Air Force Academy and designed as a first course emphasizes the universal variable formulation. Develops the basic two-body and n-body equations of motion; orbit determination; classical orbital elements, coordinate transformations; differential correction; more. Includes specialized applications to lunar and interplanetary flight, example problems, exercises. 1971 edition.

Applied Complex Variables

Applied Complex Variables
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9780486158280
ISBN-13 : 0486158284
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Applied Complex Variables by : John W. Dettman

Fundamentals of analytic function theory β€” plus lucid exposition of 5 important applications: potential theory, ordinary differential equations, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, and asymptotic expansions. Includes 66 figures.

World War One British Poets

World War One British Poets
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 83
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ISBN-10 : 9780486113234
ISBN-13 : 048611323X
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis World War One British Poets by : Candace Ward

DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div