A luminous exploration of thought by one of our most distinguished poets. "If sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head." Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as thought.

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems – from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird – Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonance, imagery and form, letters and odes, and much more. In Actions & Travels Anna Jackson explains how we can all read (and even write) poetry.

There are some poets you travel the routes of so often you could feel your way in the dark, that turn, that corner, and then the plummet towards the end. What does it give you, after all, to meet in person in a room? A thought the dog doesn't share, when, having known the followed route, the stored scent, an affair of the air, here is the other dog! Incarnate! Guessed and host! 'Poets know words, know routes, know ghosts' Uneasy nights out with dead Russian poets, dalliances with German ga...

This thoughtful, disturbing, and darkly funny new collection explores the theme of uneasy domestic life in poems arranged in three sequences and narrated by a gas fitter, his wife, and their teenage daughter. Without explicit storytelling, the secrets and peculiarities of each character are revealed in technically superb poetry that is deceptively easy to navigate.

In Anna Jackson's fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life closes in on the New Zealand poet. Scenarios from home and work join fairy-tale tropes in these multifaceted poems that preoccupy themselves with thickets of language and other tangles and examine the relationship between "I" and "you." Venturing into the realm of academia, the zoo, and a pool hall, this compilation also visits the sites of folktales, stories, and dreams. With surprising twists on what would normally be se...

In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment. Her ideas often assume unexpected forms, appearing as hens, vending machines, or grass within her poetry. Also addressed in these poems is the fate of today's animals in their restricted habitats, which is dealt with in poems such as "Dodo," "Butterflies," and "The Pastoral Elephant."

The verse of Latin poet Catullus is reinterpreted for the modern world in this collection of poetry that incorporates classical ideas through domestic and maternal themes. With wit, originality, and tenderness, famous poetry from Catullus is adapted to the playground, the home, and the family to capture the fear, anxiety, and delight of childhood. Admirers of poetry, children's sensibilities, and Russian literature, which is often referenced in homage, will enjoy this insightful collection...

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic, and when childhood itself and children’s li...

Spill is a mystery about a town in Maryland. It was a nice place to live until the Churchills moved there. George and Helen Churchill adopted a little boy named Bobby. Bobby was different from the other children. Bobbys parents were shot to death, and he went to a group home until the Churchills adopted him. He was quiet and very slim in size. The glasses didnt help his appearance at all. The kids at school would talk about him and also made jokes about him. Sometimes Bobby would laugh rig...

You already know how to lose weight: eat less and move more. Why isn’t it working? If only you could make yourself not eat when your mind is screaming for your favorite foods. In Meditate Yourself Fit, author Annamarie Jackson offers a way to prepare yourself physically, strategically, and spiritually to set yourself up for a lifelong, successful relationship with food. Jackson’s proposal rescues you from nagging food cravings. She teaches you how to believe deeply in your true self, so th...