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Stephen Collis
Written amid wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends Stephen Collis's investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering. The fulcrum of a trilogy begun with…
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Brilliant new celebration of the work of poet Phyllis Webb, which sweeps into the wilds of politics, philosophy and economics.
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Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on how language holds the materiality of the physical world.
Investigates one of philosophy’s ongoing preoccupations-change-articulating its patterns across disciplines and through eras, from Ancient Rome to the Occupy Movement.
A poetic record of revolution that traces the lines from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches.
Resisting enclosure with each word, tearing down (intellectual) property’s fencing, The Commons mines history to find spaces of linguistic hope.
Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis’s friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb-now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last…
Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.
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Once in Blockadia is a controversial collection of serial poems about resistance, solidarity, and the role of poetry in activism.
Stephen Collis Jones
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolano, The Red Album is a work of fiction that questions historical authenticity and authority. Divided into two parts, the book begins with…
Stephen Collis,Jordan Scott
Origin of the Species left in five ecosystems for a year: a gorgeous photographic and poetic document of Nature’s force.
George Bowering
Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canada’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and…
Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canada's inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and…
In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of…
Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater
This is a guide for practising teachers of English and teachers in training.
First-ever publication of visual works by the renowned Canadian poet Phyllis Webb, who died in November, 2021. With eighty-five paintings and forty-five collages.
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Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater (University of South Australia)
A collection of eleven very short but unabridged stories. These stories are accompanied by creative activities before and after reading, and notes on the authors and stories along with a…
Ali Smith,Abdulrazak Gurnah,Chris Cleave,Marina Lewycka,Jade Amoli-Jackson
Reimagined Canterbury tales
This collection of essays presents a study of migration cultures in the contemporary Mediterranean with a particular focus on Italy as a point of migratory convergence and pressure. The essays…
This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly ‘American’ author read literature and…
Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power…
Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of…
