Focusing on the pivotal role of imagery in poetry, this rich work of poetic criticism offers deep insights into the craft and significance of poetic expression. It serves as an engaging exploration for poetry enthusiasts, delving into how images shape meaning and evoke emotions in verse.
This collection focuses on republishing classic works from the early 1900s and earlier, which have become rare and costly. The editions aim to provide affordable access to these timeless texts, preserving the original content and artwork for modern readers.
A centenary edition of C Day Lewis' poems. It offers the reader a view of the technical variety and range of Day Lewis' work, from the pastoral lyrics of his youth, inspired by Hardy and Yeats, through the political verse of the 1930s, to the reflective and more personal poems of his later years.
Autobiographical sketches and recipes from one of the UK's best loved food writers -
Take any form you choose and repeat it at regular intervals, and, just as repetitive sounds produce rhythm or cadence, you have pattern. However, the use of pattern in design is no haphazard matter, but a disciplined activity in which the artists must impose a pleasing order and structure on the whole to achieve an aesthetically satisfying end product.This classic guide, revised and expanded by Amor Fenn three decades after its publication, teaches artists to do just that. Surveying a multitude of applications, from architectural detail to decorative textile printing and typographic patterns, Day provides insight into the geometric foundations of all repeating patterns, and treats in a practical way the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. He demonstrates the extent to which pattern is the essence of the ornamental arts, and offers a wealth of technical information for the student and designer.Generously illustrated with more than 270 designs ranging from old Japanese, Persian, and Arabian patterns to early 20th-century motifs, Pattern Design will stimulate the imaginations and advance the skills of novices and experts alike.
Book II
Good Tempered Food shows how to plan and half-prepare a dish a day or even a week before. Risotto can be half-cooked before time, the simplest of meat sauces can be converted to lasagne or cottage pie, puddings can be pre-cooked and finished at the last minute.
An extraordinary collection of letters and interviews showing the real lives of those whose lived through the Second World War
Rocky Place is a street in coastal Wintersea. The residents are indeed in 'rocky places'. Quentin and Lyn move there from Melbourne to give their marriage a fresh start. They are daggers drawn with next door Rick and Cathy and their friends, Peter and Tess. The 'pure' young love between William, Quentin and Lyn's son, and Jodi, Peter and Tess's middle daughter, contrasts with the tired goings-on of the older generation. The characters take turns as the story is told through their eyes. Their inner conflicts allow the author to explore universal themes of relationships, sexual mores and mental illness. Nevertheless, they cannot help but arouse affection and amusement. In the heat of summer, events become increasingly fraught, leading to a horrific tragedy that no one saw coming, but many could have stopped. 'We're all to blame, ' said Lyn. 'Every one of us.' This is a fast-moving and absorbing novel which gives us readers an excellent yarn and is a thought-provoking parable for our times. The final section, given to Jodi, conveys a message of love's ultimate triumph.
