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Michael Glover
This guidebook takes you exploring London beyond its most famous sights to find the art we have never quite noticed before.
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Stirling Prize, Cambridge Central Mosque is a truly innovative building, and one that is sustainable and socially and architecturally integrated into - and respectful of -…
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Glover's first book-length poem in which the speaker reflects on an absent partner, asking questions that will forever remain unanswerable.The words are illuminated by Hornung's paintings and offer up a…
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Van Gogh saw a poem as an exalted form of utterance, able to console, heal and reach to the very depths of our inner natures. In this book Michael Glover…
Good friends, Jason Heroux, sometime Poet Laureate of Kingston, Ontario and British poet and art critic called Michael Glover, engage in a little poetical repartee across twenty-six poems.
For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship "in the broadest sense," as founder Paul…
Rose Wylie,Michael Glover
Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references…
Go off the beaten path to discover the hidden places, stories, and neighbourhoods that reveal Sheffield's true character, history, and flavour. Fully revised and updated edition.
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Published to coincide with the bi-centenary of Ruskin’s birth, John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies provides an accessible way into the world of…
A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men’s clothing ever created: the codpiece.
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This is a dark, Gothic tale about a Cornish misfit by the name of Tredinnick: a rabbit trapper by trade, and a trapper of souls. It is part horror story…
Glover’s collection of poems pays tribute to Lorca’s extraordinary lyrical gifts. Spoken by an imagined lover, it conjures, fleetingly, poignantly, the irrepressible gusto of his life: his talent as a…
The Book of Extremities is a unique piece of writing: dark and haunting, making you question the nature of fiction, alongside beautiful photographs juxtaposed with the text. The author purports…
A book of poems soaked in the spirit of Sheffield through and through, then and now, by Michael Glover, a Sheffielder by birth, and author of the bestselling 111 Places…
In this monologue of a mind’s slow dying, an actor, man of abundant words, faces his final audience: of himself. It is a face that he barely recognises through the…
A collection of poems, long and short, on themes as caried as the poet Thomas Gray (of ‘Elegy’ fame), talking stones, absent gods, an old mans’ sad encounter with Cupid…
Poet, writer and art critic, Michael Glover brings us this collection of amusing, thought-provoking heart-warming and, in at least one case, revolting, tales. As a poet he finely weights each…
Stories of everyday lives captured in a few lines, inspired by images real or imagined in the poet’s mind. If we truly observe rather than let life pass us by…
Poems of Praise, Awe and Perplexity by: Wendy Cope, Rowan Williams, John F. Deane, Alison Brackenbury, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, D.H. Lawrence, W.B.Yeats, Christina Rossetti, Penelope Shuttle…
The best poetry takes your mind to unexpected places. But is it the poet's quirkiness that carries you there, or your own? Poems to challenge and stimulate, make you laugh…
‘Playing Out in the Wireless Days’ is the sequel to ‘Headlong into Pennilessness, ’ by poet and art critic, Michael Glover. It is a fond look back, reflecting on the…
A picture book for adults: artworks by Ruth Dupre complement beautifully the verse and prose of Michael Glover. It tells the story of a woman slowly losing her grip on…
Michael Glover’s most accomplished collection draws on a variety of themes and situations. The sands are forever shifting, you question the speaking voice is, and there is a darkness about…
Go off the beaten path to discover the hidden places, stories, and neighbourhoods that reveal Sheffield’s true character, history, and flavour. Revised and updated.
This is by no means a work of chauvinistic self-congratulations; it is rather a distinguished historian’s assessment of the last great invasion scare the British Isles have endured since the…
Michael Glover offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch, whose paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism with the stylistic mannerisms of…
Can you describe these seven hundred and ninety-four paragraphs as a collection of stories each of that length? Or are they more glimpses into the thoughts and feelings of other…
Cornelia Homburg
An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh's career, exploring the people and places that take over his late paintings
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Michael W. Glover
This volume contains the original French text plus an exciting new translation by poet Michel Glover. It is not a translation in the truest sense - where word for word…
This beautiful book is a collaboration between artist and poet and is a homage to all bug-life: the true rulers of the world, upon which we, and all life on…
On holiday in France, during a particularly warm spell, the exotic bugs descend. Many would reach for the citronella candles, or worse - the fly-swat and toxic aerosols to go…
Michael E Glover
“My Soul Speaks Wisdom” is a powerful collection of life, love, and inspirational poems used for everyday living. This book will provide insights on life, love, and also offer solid…
The best poetry takes your mind to unexpected places. But is it the poet's quirkiness that carries you there, or your own?
Poems to challenge and stimulate, make you laugh…
Michael Glover,D V Nobles
At the end of the universe lies the beginning of…Destiny! The first episode that started it all. Join Captain Massey as he searches for the answer to what happened to…
The second installment of Destiny is here! Episode 2, The Pilot dives right into the action as the cold, ESC executive Miss Arroway comes aboard the DESTINY and demands that…
Michael Glover Smith,Adam Selzer
Tells the fascinating but too little known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of film production in America in the years prior to the rise of Hollywood…
Reassesses and sets in its historical context Jorden’s famous pamphlet. In his introduction, Michael MacDonald provides an analysis of the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and…
Michael Crumplin,Gareth Glover
This book, using material from Belgian sources, describes the evolution of the Dutch/Belgian medical services and their hospitals in the newly-formed Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Michael Crumplin
The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most horrific actions fought during the Napoleonic Wars.
Michael W Glover
Saint Sebastian Stone Roses is the third book in The Lonely Tower Series, an epic adventure that takes the reader into a new world full of surprises. A dark fantasy…
Ian Glover,Michael P. Kelly
