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Ken Norris
South China Sea is a poet’s autobiography. Forgoing the props of conventional narrative, the book travels through space and time, revealing the moments in a life that anchor reality and…
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Limbo Road as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem chronicles the search for the new beloved.
Selections from 19 groundbreaking books of poetry that draw together the best of Norris’s lyric poetry over a 25-year period.
Norris constructs odes, elegies, sonnets and long poem sequences, as he travels from Maine to the Mekong River to Montreal.
The second book in Norris’s travel trilogy is an unsettling novel-in-verse about the deficiencies of love amid clashing cultures.
Manufactured unrealities fall away in these poems, leading us both toward and away from being at home in the present.
Alphabet of Desire, Ken Norris’s sixteenth book of poetry, brings together two remarkable poetic sequences. ‘The Ascent of Spring’ is a haunting meditation on creativity and renewal. The title sequence…
The Music is an integrated collection of poems written over a six-year period. The music Norris charts is ‘the music of everyday life, ’ of Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday…
As much as a poetry collection can be about anything, this book is about unrequited love and the death of two friends. The weights of life, love, existence, mortality. The…
Ken Norris Norris
Part travel journal, part dark novel-in-verse, Asian Skies chronicles a search for the beloved in a commodified and globalized world.
Meditative, incisive and light in their touch, these poems meditate on the present moment, precariously balanced between past and future.
Norris,Ken Norris (University of Reading)
Report on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Books 16-22 is the final instalment in the multi-book long poem Ken Norris began in 1977. The seven books collected here…
Ken Norris (University of Reading)
This group of poets who gathered in the mid-70s around the alternative gallery Vehicule Art Inc. and the printing operation Vehicule Press was initially interested in gaining access to the…
In order to slow or stop the unprecedented loss of biodiversity, conservationists need reliable information on which to base conservation or restoration programmes. This book uses bird conservation to illustrate…
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Arite Gold
Collected work of Artie Gold, who appeared like a supernova within the constellation of Montreal Anglophone poets in the 1960s.
Endre Farkas,Artie Gold,Artie Gold,Ken Norris,Artie Gold
This volume brings together emerging topics in environmental science, making an excellent source for policy makers and environmental consultants working in the field or related areas.
