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Richard Gwyn
Poet and translator Richard Gwyn recalls time spent travelling Latin America, musing on the relationship between translation and travel, and how the places we visit form part of who we…
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In Ambassador of Nowhere, Richard Gwyn takes the reader on a series of journeys across Latin America, in search of poems for his landmark anthology, The Other Tiger. He is…
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Fabio Morabito
A selected poems in translation by one of Mexico's leading poets, taken from five collections of verse across five decades, addressing issues of migration, duality, language loss and the mutability…
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Presented in the ancient Japanese form of Haiku poetry, this vivid and deeply moving new translation of the Psalms is vivid and deeply moving. The rhythm of the 17-syllable verse…
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Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister…
A second collection of prose poems from the author of the award-winning novel The Colour of the Dog Running Away which together form a shifting progressive narrative revolving round three…
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Stowaway is a richly imagined poetic journey revolving around the nameless anti-Ulysses figure at its centre. Journeys of both memory and dream hold out alluring visions of port cities and…
The Other Tiger: Contemporary Latin American Poetry is a new and much-needed bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry featuring 90 Spanish-speaking poets from Latin and South America. Translator Richard Gwyn has…
In a lonely house deep in the Black Mountains of south Wales, a man spends insomniac nights absorbed in the ancient texts left him by his mysterious aunt.
Demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication. Focusing on language and communication issues, this work shows that it is possible to observe and analyze…
A love story, tale of adventure, historical thriller, and evocative tour of Barcelona, this work is a dazzling blend of the surreal and the ordinary, a novel that beguiles and…
This is the second volume of the biography of ‘John A. MacDonald’ by respected journalist Richard Gwyn. John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first and most important prime minister, is the man…
Includes a map of the Gothic quarter of Barcelona.
Dario Jaramillo
A dual language (Spanish/English) collection, introducing the major contemporary Colombian poet to English-language readers.
Richard Charles Gwyn
A collection of poetry written over the years. My Name is Rich. I have been writing over 30years. I enjoy writing. I wrote this poetry for a special person.
Richard J. Gwyn
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s…
A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima.
In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August…
Pryderi Gwyn Jones
Sequel to Brenin y Trenyrs. Our hero has stopped buying food during the school lunchtime as he is saving money to buy the coolest pair of trainers in the world…
