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Flora and Fauna (Hominids Included)

Anthony Hirst

Poems and photographs on the subject of the impact of humans on our natural world

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Memorials, nightscapes, etcetera: poems of several decades

Anthony Hirst

Collected poems written between 1963 and 2020, most of them published here for the first time.

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The Covid Years 2023

Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic by 27 contributors, mainly in poetry but also in prose and images. A sequence of dated entries from March 2020 to January 2023. The age…

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Two Years at the Road Side 2023

Anthony Hirst

A volume of very varied and mostly very recent poetry. Much of it written in response to recent events (Ukraine, Gaza, famine), mixed with personal reminiscences and dreams.

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Alexandria, Real and Imagined

Anthony Hirst,Michael Silk

Offers a portrait of an extraordinary city as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants and by outsiders, from the time of its foundation in the 4th century BC up…

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Sweet-Voiced Sappho: Some of the Extant Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Other Ancient Greek Poems

A selection of the poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek authors translated into English verse by Theodore Stephanides, with facing Greek texts from editions which correspond closely to the…

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The Usurpers

Willa Muir

The Usurpers, was based on the diaries Willa Muir kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband was the Director the British Institute there. Under the guise of…

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And my mother’s bitter tears

Demetrius Toteras

A semi-autobiographical novel of two boys growing up in the Greek Community of San Francisco in the 1940s. They obtain fake birth certificates to join the US army to escape…

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To Chryso Prosopeio / The Golden Face

Theodore Stephanides

Greek translation of Theodore Stephanides first poetic collecion The Golden Face published in 1965, with the original English text on facing pages.

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God and the Poetic Ego: The Appropriation of Biblical and Liturgical Language in the Poetry of Palamas, Sikelianos and Elytis

Anthony Hirst

The Greek Bible and the services of the Orthodox Church have proved a rich source of language for many poets of modern Greece, and perhaps for none more than for…

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Eirene - Baris - Peace

Iakovos Menelaou

A collection of 25 short poems constituting an appeal for peace and understanding between Greek and Turkish citizens in Cyprus, with facing translations into Turkish and English, followed by an…

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Kalamas and Acheron: Rivers of Hades

Christophoros Milionis

A collection of eleven short stories embodying the impact on the rural population of a mountainous district of nortwestern Greece of the events of the Second World War and the…

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The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text

C.P. Cavafy

This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of Cavafy’s 154 authorized poems ever to be published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of…

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Aristophanes at Oxford. O.W. by Y.T.O. [I.E. L. C. M. S. Amery, F. W. Hirst and H. A. A. Cruso.]

L S Amery,Henry Alfred Anthony Cruso,Oscar Wilde

Title: Aristophanes at Oxford. O.W. By Y.T.O. [i.e. L. C. M. S. Amery, F. W. Hirst and H. A. A. Cruso.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the…

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