Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs PDF

Author: Christopher Reid

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0571363113

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This wonderfully witty and varied collection, illustrated in full-colour by the brilliant Sara Ogilvie, is perfect for younger readers to appreciate.I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you find themAnd, at the very least, not mind them.T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections ever. At last, in the 80th year of Old Possum's Cats, we have the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master poet and Costa-winner, Christopher Reid.A book that will be enjoyed by generations to come, perfect for reading together!

I like Bees, I don't like Honey!

I like Bees, I don't like Honey! PDF

Author: Sam Bishop

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0571334202

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I like bees . . . but I don't like honey!I like my imaginary friend . . . but I don't like it when people say he's not real. A beautifully illustrated, funny and thought-provoking book for building confidence and encouraging children to express their feelings - about anything and everything. This book will help enable a much broader conversation about individuality, fear and hopes.All author royalties are being donated to the NSPCC.

Six Bad Poets

Six Bad Poets PDF

Author: Christopher Reid

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780571304042

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Six Bad Poets is a farce-in-verse by Christopher Reid. It follows the exploits and mishaps of a group of poets, whose destinies are more intimately connected than they themselves can know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society. Recklessness, fecklessness, blind ambition and enthralment to dark secrets are among the forces that drive these colourful and conflicted characters - three male, three female - towards their fates. Six Bad Poets is a fast-paced romp through a world that the author has observed closely over many years, and from which he reports with merciless accuracy, zest and humour.

Whose Dog Are You?

Whose Dog Are You? PDF

Author: Martin Wallen

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1628953098

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The intriguing question in the title comes from an inscription on the collar of a dog Alexander Pope gave to the Prince of Wales. When Pope wrote the famous couplet “I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew, / Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are You?” the question was received as an expression of loyalty. That was an era before there were dog breeds and, not coincidentally, before people were generally believed to develop affectionate bonds with dogs. This interdisciplinary study focuses on the development of dog breeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beginning with the Foxhound—the first modern breed—it examines the aesthetic, political, and technological forces that generate modern human-canine relations. These forces have colluded over the past two hundred years to impose narrow descriptions of human-canine relations and to shape the dogs physically into acceptable and recognizable breeds. The largest question in animal studies today—how alterity affects human-animal relations—cannot fully be considered until the two approaches to this question are understood as complements of one another: one beginning from aesthetics, the other from technology. Most of all, the book asks if we can engage with dogs in ways that allow them to remain dogs.

To Say Nothing of the Dog

To Say Nothing of the Dog PDF

Author: Connie Willis

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1998-12-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0553575384

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From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.

Glaciers

Glaciers PDF

Author: Alexis M. Smith

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2023-07-25

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1953534988

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A Vulture Best Short Book A She Reads Indie Book Club Pick for Summer “Alexis Smith’s brilliant debut novel is filled with kaleidoscopic pleasures. Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book—a true gift.” —Karen Russell “Her story could be told in other people’s things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet full of dresses sewn before she was born. All these things tell a story, but is it hers?” Isabel is a single twenty-something in Portland, Oregon, who repairs damaged books in the basement of the local library, dreaming of a life she can’t quite reach. She is filled with longing—for a life in Amsterdam even though she’s never visited, for the unrequited love of a coworker, for a simpler time from her childhood in Alaska among the threatened glaciers she loves, and for the perfect vintage dress to wear to a party that just might change everything. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Alexis M. Smith’s shimmering debut finds Isabel looking into her past—remembering her parents’ separation, a meeting with an astrologer, and a life-changing encounter with a glacier—and shows us how fleeting, everyday moments can reveal an entire life. In classic movies, in old photographs and unsent postcards, rare books, and thrifted gems, Glaciers tells the story of a young woman’s love of the past and a hope to make something new and all her own.

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight PDF

Author: Eric Avila

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520248112

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"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Kitchen Disco

Kitchen Disco PDF

Author: Clare Foges

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0571307892

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At night when you are sleeping There's a party in your house, It's a pumping, jumping, funky bash When all the lights go out . . .When the sun goes down, the Kitchen Disco starts up - and all the fruit in the fruit bowl come out to play. There are lemons who break-dance, tangerines who twirl and some very over-excited apples. Kitchen Disco is a zany and hilarious rhyming picture book for young children, featuring a stunning holographic foil spread in the middle of the book.'A party season essential.' The Times'Absurdly catchy account of what the fruit gets up to when the household sleeps.' Metro

The Song of Lunch

The Song of Lunch PDF

Author: Christopher Reid

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780571273522

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Lunch in Soho with a former lover – but Zanzotti’s is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid’s wit, craft and human sympathy. Published to tie-in with a major BBC 2 dramatization for National Poetry Day, starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson.‘A tiny narrative disproportionately rich in exact observation, sorry comedy and controlled pathos. After reading Reid you start to wonder why fiction-writers bother with padding and padding about of prose.’ Alan Hollinghurst, Guardian Books of the Year 2009Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.The BBC production of The Song of Lunch by Christopher Reid:Starring: Alan Rickman and Emma ThompsonProducer: Pier Wilkie Director: Niall MacCormickExecutive Producers: Sarah Brown and Greg WiseCover shot: BBC Picture Publicity/Nick Briggs

Letters of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes PDF

Author: Ted Hughes

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 0571262945

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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to others. It is a fascinatingly detailed picture of a mind of genius as it evolved through an incomparably eventful life and career.

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