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Eland is home to a Poetry of Place series, which was deliberately designed as a small, cheeky younger sister to our series of classic travel books. Poetry of Place are opinionated, cheap and passionate, a crib book for the spoken word, a chap-book for the half-remembered patch of quotable verse that will enliven a picnic, a visit to the pub or the odd half hour nursing a coffee, or awaiting train, plane or partner.
The series began in-house with 'Desert Air' and 'London', but began to be noticed when serious writers rose to the challenge of condensing a lifetime of knowledge into a pocket book. The revered poet Antony Thwaite contributed 'Ruins of Time', followed by A.N.Wilson's 'England' and Glyn Pursglove¹s 'Rome'. Whilst in the creation of the volumes on 'Venice' (by Hetty Meyrick Hughes), 'Istanbul' (by Ates Orga), 'Dublin' (by John Wyse Jackson) 'Voices of Arabia' and 'Andalus' (both by the learned Anglo-American Arabist Ted Gorton), the editors succeeded in camouflaging their own undoubted expertise and scholarship behind their enthusiasm, offering up to the world fresh translations, sharp opinions and new discoveries.
Recent titles have been assembled by such multi-taskers as John Lucas (a poet, professor, publisher and jazz-player) who edited 'Isles of Greece', Michael Peyron (an Anglo-French professor and historian of North Africa) who collected together 'Berber Odes' and Mary Miers ( a writer, conservationist and architectural historian) who created 'Highlands and Islands'. These were followed by 'China; city and exile' by the young Sinophile travel writer, Alex Munro and 'Tuscany & Umbria' by the Anglo-Italian polymath Gaia Servadio.
Collectively it is now clear that lifetimes of knowledge, travel and enthusiasm have been funelled into these deceptively small pocket books.
Poetry of Place, The Complete Set At the moment we have all fifteen of our titles in print and available. We can offer you this complete set for £49, a discount of around 30%.
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 | Poetry of Place, The Complete Set - UK
Authors: Various
At the moment we have all fifteen of our titles in print and available. We can offer you this complete set for £49, a discount of around 30%.
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 | Poetry of Place, The Complete Set - OVERSEAS
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PLEASE CHOOSE THIS ONE IF YOU REQUIRE POSTAGE TO THE USA or REST OF THE WORLD. THE TOTAL PRICE WILL BE £49 PLUS £15 POST AND PACKING. At the moment we have all thirteen of our titles in print and available. We can offer you this complete set for £49, a discount of around 30%.
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 | Poetry of Place: Tuscany & Umbria
Editors: Gaia Servadio
Gaia Servadio is an Italian writer, long settled in Britain, who has retained a passionate relationship with her motherland and those who have expressed this in verse. The cast she has assembled has a spell-binding intensity . . .
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 | China: City & Exile
Editors: Alexander Monro
Gathers poems about four of China''s venerable cities - Chang''an (now Xi''an), Luoyang, Beijing, and Hangzhou . . .
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 | Berber Odes
Editors: Michael Peyron
The Berber tribes of the mountains of Morocco are one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history . . .
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 | The Isles of Greece
John Lucas
For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek Islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death.
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 | Highlands and Islands
Editors: Mary Miers
There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides.
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 | Arabia
Editors: T.J. Gorton
Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It developed wherever Arabic came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo
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Editors: Glyn Pursglove
All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass. No literate traveller can escape its fascination, and many get drawn back year after year.
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 | England
Editors: A.N. Wilson
The patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. Memorable, funny, gloriously paced for chanting in the bath, over the wreck of a picnic or out in a boat on a river.
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 | Dublin
Editors: John Wyse Jackson
Stuff Dublin into your coat pocket. The perfect companion for a visit to the Fair City, or indeed to any inn, bar or café in Ireland.
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 | Istanbul
Editors: Ates Orga
Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike.
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 | Andalus
Editors: Ted Gorton
The idea of Moorish Spain captures the modern imagination, with its tales of knowledge shared across the borders of medieval Islam and Christendom, and of courts resounding to the gentle oriental strains of lute and ney.
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 | Venice
Editors: Hetty Meyric Hughes
A vibrant collection evoking the unforgettable city of Venice...La Serenissima: once seen, never forgotten, particularly by poets. | details extract
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 | The Ruins of Time
by Anthony Thwaite
Sized to fit any purse or pocket, this is just the book to compliment a picnic amongst the ruins of time.
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 | London
Editor: Barnaby Rogerson
London’s poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth’s dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge ..... | details extract
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 | Desert Air
Editors: Barnaby Rogerson and Alexander Monro
A collection of poetry of Arabia, deserts and the Orient of the imagination. A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers.
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