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  • Rude Britannia

    Edited by Mina Gorji ...
    Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon’s obscene outburst on 'I’m a Celebrity…' only provoked a handful of complaints – a muted reaction compared to the furore following his use of the f-word on television twenty-eight years earlier.This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Class and the Canon

    Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

    Edited by K. Blair, M. Gorji ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Girl's Journey

    A memoir of love, loss, and continents crossed

    by Deepika Gorji ...
    A Girl's Journey is an inspiring memoir of resilience, identity, and the courage to embrace change. Born in India and shaped by life in Iraq before building a future in Canada and the United States, Deepika Gorji shares a heartfelt journey across four countries and two continents. Through personal stories of family, cultural transitions, immigration, and self-discovery, she reveals how every ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Scale

    by Mina Gorji ...
    A White Review Book of the Year 2022.At the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Darkness Trilogy

    by Ali Gorji ...
    The trilogy "Crossing the Darkness" is the story of people's efforts to achieve freedom. People who have lost the right to determine their own destiny and are looking for a way to get out of the crisis that is the result of deception and promises of leaders and politicians. The author has used three events in Iran's history as three human experiences in the "Trilogy of Passing the Darkness", but ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Art of Escape

    by Mina Gorji ...
    A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (January 2020). Among Mina Gorji's poems in New Poetries V (2011) was one about Houdini entitled 'The Art of Escape' which returns here as the title poem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of 'the strange and sometimes darker side of nature' and the different forms and meanings of escape: ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

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  • Morning

    How to make time: A manifesto

    by Allan Jenkins ...
    ‘This is my manifesto for morning.There is an energy in the earlier hours, an awareness I enjoy. In today’s world we tend to wake as late as we can, timed to when we have to work. But we don’t need to chase the day.’In Morning, Allan Jenkins shows how getting up earlier even once a week or month can free us to be more imaginative, to maybe read, to walk, to write. He talks to other early risers ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Easternmost House

    by Juliet Blaxland ...
    THE TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019!Shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize!Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award 2019!If you enjoyed Raynor Winn's The Salt Path, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, Chris Packham's Fingers in the Sparkle Jar or Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk, you'll love The Easternmost House.Within the next few months, Juliet Blaxland's home will be demolished, and ... Read more

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  • Turned Out Nice Again

    On Living With the Weather

    by Richard Mabey ...
    In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder (SAD - do we all get it?) and the mysteries of storm ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

    by Matthew Gavin Frank ...
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  • The Beauty

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. Born of a rigorous questioning of heart, spirit and ... Read more

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