Autumn 2012 Catalogue (12.4 Mb) - Hesperus Press

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6 ‘Unholyland begins beside Lake Galilee. Here, my readers will embark with me on a journey into the land of hypothesis and parable…We are entering the realms of imagination… saying goodbye to the solid (and tedious) terrain of fact’ Aidan Andrew Dun, from the foreword August 2012 Unholyland Aidan Andrew Dun ‘Aidan Andrew Dun is a poet who places himself in the tradition of William Blake, and “has a vision of the world” which draws strength and fire from that association. He is simultaneously a one-off and in excellent company’ Andrew Motion ‘He has an extraordinary sense of the past. He’s one of those people, along with Blake and Chatterton and others, who are like a divining rod for history’ Peter Ackroyd Unholyland is a love story in 216 sonnets. Against the background of daily events in Israel and the West Bank, an Israeli DJ meets and falls in love with a Palestinian rapper. In form, Dun’s verses are a mixture of classical structures and free-ranging rap. They are earthy and immediate, and as well as appealing to regular poetry readers, Unholyland will attract a wider range of people who will be drawn along by the rapidly developing story. Aidan Andrew Dun grew up in the West Indies and knew his calling for poetry from an early age. His poems have been published in various publications and his poetry books include Vale Royal, The Uninhabitable City and Salvia Divinorum. He lives in North London. 978 1 84391 373 3 • B-HB original • Poetry/Fiction • 120pp • £11 • World 978 1 78094 037 3 • eBook
‘I would say that in so far as it is possible for any human being to be both wise and worldly wise, to be selfless in any material sense, to have no envy, jealousy, vanity, conceit, to contain no malice, no hatred (though he had anger), to be always reliable, considerate, generous, never cheap, Morgan came as close to that as can be got’ J.R. Ackerley August 2012 E.M. Forster: The Final Decades Tim Leggatt A moving and insightful biography of the later years of classic British author E.M. Forster’s life. Tim Leggatt knew E.M. Forster for the last half of his life, decades after the last of his acclaimed novels was published, and in this memoir he draws on the unpublished correspondence he held with Forster over this period, as well as journals of their travels together, Forster’s own confidential diary and his Commonplace Book. ‘In Forster’s declining years,’ Leggatt writes, ‘his thoughts often concerned sex and his health, his increasing blindness and deafness, his hospital visits, all of which led him to think about death and how he would meet it and how others did. But this was not as gloomy as it may well sound. ‘He was much concerned about the world’s growing population and in this country about the disappearance of the countryside. I have also included many of his sharp and attractive descriptions of people and scenes, those of a very perceptive and thoughtful writer.’ Tim Leggatt has been an academic, an actor and a media consultant. E. M. Forster (1879–1970) wrote Where Angels Fear To Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room With a View, Howards End, A Passage to India and Maurice. His books Arctic Summer and The Obelisk are published by Hesperus Press. 978 1 84391 375 7 • B-PB original • 120pp • Biography • £10 • World 978 1 78094 034 2 • eBook 7
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