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No, Love Is Not Dead by Chris McCabe (Hardback)
£16.99
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9781529338522
Published:
04 Feb 2021
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
352 pages
Dimensions:
222x144x38mm
Weight:
0.460kgs
Author:
A powerful anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.
Brilliant collection of poetry...A beautifully curated book to be read and reread.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Review
This book is one that anyone with even a passing interest in poetry and/or language should have on their book shelf.
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Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards
For all lovers of poetry, languages and love in all its forms
Featuring original poems written in a variety of languages, accompanied by English translations and commentaries
Explore endangered and unique languages, from Akkadian to Ancient Greek, Yiddish to Yoruba
Unlock the many facets of love across two and a half millennia through the timeless words of some of the world's greatest poets
Flick through chapters themed around topics like unlikely love stories to impossible love
Perfect for the poetry, language or book lover in your life - including self-love for you
The introduction to the book and each chapter have been very helpful to a novice poetry reader like myself, and the inclusion of poems in their original language alongside the English translations are an added bonus for anyone interested in languages and the art of translation. The range of cultures, eras and attitudes to love is impressive and whether dipping in for a single poem or reading whole sections at a time it is a delight.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
Tackling the ever popular and emotional topic of the love, the poems are exquisitely composed and a joy to read and reflect on.
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Praise for Chris' McCabe's anthologies:
If you're interested in languages and poetry you'll love this book. It's a perfect mix of the original poetry with translation and commentary - very insightful as to the cultures of the languages featured. One of those books that should be much more publicised and valued that you feel lucky to find.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
This is a wonderful anthology. To realise that many of the poems' languages will soon have no native speakers and thus their world in all its richness and diversity is lost for ever, is just awful. If Extinction Rebellion is important to you, buy the book and act now!
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About the Author: Chris McCabe's poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins, THE RESTRUCTURE (all Salt Publishing) and, most recently, Speculatrix (Penned in the Margins). He has recorded a CD with the Poetry Archive was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award in 2013 for his collaborative book with Maria Vlotides, Pharmapoetica. His plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats, which won a Northern Arts Award, have been performed in London and Liverpool. He has read his work at venues including Southbank Centre, the British Library, the BFI, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Wellcome as well as performing at festivals such as Latitude and Ledbury. He is writing a series of creative non-fiction books that aim to discover a great lost poet in one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries. This began in 2014 with In the Catacombs: a Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery (which was selected as an LRB Bookshop book of the year) and was followed in 2016 with Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery. The project has been awarded Grants for Arts funding from Arts Council England. He is also the author of Real South Bank (Seren, 2016) and with Victoria Bean he is the co-editor of The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015). His first novel, Dedalus, will be published by Henningham Family Press in 2018.
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