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Featherhood
Author | : Charlie Gilmour |
Publsiher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781501198502 |
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“I loved every single page.” —Elton John “The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk.” —Neil Gaiman In this moving, critically acclaimed memoir, a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the mischievous bird saves him. One spring day, a baby magpie falls out of its nest and into Charlie Gilmour’s hands. Magpies, he soon discovers, are as clever and mischievous as monkeys. They are also notorious thieves, and this one quickly steals his heart. By the time the creature develops shiny black feathers that inspire the name Benzene, Charlie and the bird have forged an unbreakable bond. While caring for Benzene, Charlie learns his biological father, an eccentric British poet named Heathcote Williams who vanished when Charlie was six months old, is ill. As he grapples with Heathcote’s abandonment, Charlie comes across one of his poems, in which Heathcote describes how an impish young jackdaw fell from its nest and captured his affection. Over time, Benzene helps Charlie unravel his fears about repeating the past—and embrace the role of father himself. A bird falls, a father dies, a child is born. Featherhood is the unforgettable story of a love affair between a man and a bird. It is also a beautiful and affecting memoir about childhood and parenthood, captivity and freedom, grief and love.
Featherhood
Author | : Charlie Gilmour |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781501198519 |
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"A beautiful, moving, and wildly original memoir of grief, healing, and fatherhood through the story of a young man who adopts a baby magpie"--
Poetry And Contemporary Culture
Author | : Roberts A.M. Roberts |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9781474472074 |
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The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ranges widely over contemporary poetry in America and the British Isles and explores transatlantic connections. Informed by current theoretical debates around ideas of value, the chapters focus these through clear discussion of texts in various media, including the work of a wide variety of poets and movements. The book carries forward the debate on the value of contemporary poetry amongst critics, scholars and practitioners while offering rich material for students and teachers of contemporary poetry and culture.Contributors: Jonathan Allison, Vicki Bertram, Paul Breslin, Cairns Craig, Robert Crawford, Lilias Fraser, Alan Golding, Romana Huk, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Michael Roberts.Features * Focuses on the relationship between poetry and cultural practices* Informed by current theoretical debates about value* Wide range of British and American poetry discussed by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic
The Featherhood
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Pigeons |
ISBN | : 1888617373 |
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A fictional account of what happens when the world's most valuable bird, a champion Belgian racing pigeon, escapes and becomes the pet of a group of inner-city children. They have no idea of the bird's value but raise babies from the bird that win a major race, against long odds. An educational and heartwarming story of how the pigeon sport, and pedigreed homing pigeons, functions. Based on the international awarding-winning filmmaker, and author's, more than 50 years of experience in the pigeon hobby.
Cabaret McGonagall
Author | : W. N. Herbert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040368816 |
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Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Transactions of the Philological Society
Author | : Philological Society (Great Britain) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1070 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Philology |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924065856282 |
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List of members included in most vols.
The Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Oxford 9
Author | : Horace Walpole |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BNC:1001984401 |
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Treatise on Basic Philosophy
Author | : Mario BUNGE |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1977-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9027707804 |
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In this Introduction' we shall sketch the business of ontology, or metaphysics, and shall locate it on the map of learning. This has to be done because there are many ways of construing the word 'ontology' and because of the bad reputation metaphysics has suffered until recently - a well deserved one in most cases. 1. ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEMS Ontological (or metaphysical) views are answers to ontological ques tions. And ontological (or metaphysical) questions are questions with an extremely wide scope, such as 'Is the world material or ideal - or perhaps neutral?" 'Is there radical novelty, and if so how does it come about?', 'Is there objective chance or just an appearance of such due to human ignorance?', 'How is the mental related to the physical?', 'Is a community anything but the set of its members?', and 'Are there laws of history?'. Just as religion was born from helplessness, ideology from conflict, and technology from the need to master the environment, so metaphysics - just like theoretical science - was probably begotten by the awe and bewilderment at the boundless variety and apparent chaos of the phenomenal world, i. e. the sum total of human experience. Like the scientist, the metaphysician looked and looks for unity in diversity, for pattern in disorder, for structure in the amorphous heap of phenomena - and in some cases even for some sense, direction or finality in reality as a whole.