Lament for the Death of a Bullsighter and other poems
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
Lament for the Death of a Bullsighter and other poems
Federico García Lorca
€70.00
London and Toronto William Heinemann Ltd.
English translation of Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
1938
Early printing
“In his Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Lorca expresses all the colour, pride and deep sorrow Spain. No other Spanish poet has drawn so heavily upon popular inspiration to such splendid ends.”
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The Speculative Memoir
A workshop with Micah Perks
Sat 20th June 11h
Events, Literature
Sat 20th June
11h-13h
Max 15 participants
A short-form workshop from award-winning author, Micah Perks!
About the workshop:
How does one tell impossible true stories? Perhaps through a speculative mode, blending fairy tales or ghost stories or horror stories or time travel with autobiography. In this two hour workshop I’ll talk a little about speculative memoir, we’ll read some excerpts by Carmen Maria Machado, Lidia Yuknavitch, Sofia Samatar and/or Sabrina Orah Mark, and do a writing exercise or two to experiment with this exciting genre.
About Micah:
Micah Perks is an award-winning author of five books and many essays and stories. She is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her memoir, Pagan Time, is about growing up in a log cabin on a commune in the wilderness. Her novel, The Wood Between the Worlds, coming out in 2027, is a queer literary speculative novel about the elusive promise of utopia, the rewilding of the natural world, and the uneasy pull between community and solitude, stability and freedom, mothers and daughters. Micah is currently working on a book length essay about care and transformation in the lives of three older women who fell in love with a baby loon on a pond in the wilderness.
Artwork by Katie Lebel
€15.00
€15.00
Structure & Form
a one-day workshop
with Victoria Gosling
Events, Literature September 5th 10h30-18h00
Structure & Form: Finding the right shape for your story This one-day workshop explores one of the central challenges of creative writing: structure. Ideas often arrive in fragments: a dream, an image, a question, a voice, or a character who refuses to leave us alone until their story is told. But how do we transform these raw materials into a compelling piece of writing? How do we shape our ideas so that we don't get lost? How does plot work and how interested in it are we? And around which factors can we organise our material? Through discussion, close reading and writing exercises, we will investigate a range of approaches to storytelling, from classical principles to contemporary experiments with form. We'll touch on ideas from thinkers and writers as diverse as Aristotle, Kurt Vonnegut and Carmen Maria Machado, using their work as a springboard to develop our own. Together we'll examine the many different ways writers organise stories. Whether you're working on a novel, short story, memoir or are simply curious about how stories function, this workshop will provide you with strategies to help you organise your ideas and move your writing forward with confidence. Expect a lively, open and supportive environment with plenty of opportunities to ask your questions. The workshop is suitable for writers of all levels of experience. The day will include:- Morning session 90 minutes
- Break for coffee
- Late morning session 90 minutes
- Long lunch break
- Afternoon session 120 minutes
€80.00
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
First Edition
GIFTS, Literature, Rare items
First edition, First Impression
Faber and Faber, 1965
A lovely edition fit for anybody's shelf!
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€325.00
€325.00
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Juana y La Cibernética (edición bilingüe)
No Category, LiteratureTHE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF A CHILEAN MASTERPIECE
Juana y la cibernetica is a proto-cyberfeminist, proleterian, machine-loving work of solitary confinement by Elena Aldunate, "La Dama Chilena de la ciencia-ficción".BILINGUAL EDITION EDICIÓN BILINGÜE
The edition comes with parallel bilingual texts and a fiction response by author Jo Lindsay Walton.María Elena Aldunate Bezanilla (1925-2005) was born in Santiago, Chile, and wrote under the name of Elena Aldunate. She became associated with the science fiction scene in Chile in the 1960s and 1970s, publishing a number of short fiction works and anthologies. These include Juana y la cibernética (1963), El señor de las mariposas (1967), Angélica y el delfín (1976) and Del cosmos las quieren vírgenes (1977).
Jo Lindsay Walton is a writer, editor and Research Fellow in Critical and Cultural Theory in the Sussex Humanities Lab. He is interested in the intersection of culture, technology, and economics. With Polina Levontin, he co-edits Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and with Samantha Walton, he runs the poetry press Sad Press. @jolwalton
Our print edition will be a limited edition riso production made by Do The Print, Barcelona Translation by Ana Baeza Ruiz and Elizabeth Stainforth Cover design by Terry Craven 44 pages €8 - limited edition riso print version (OUT OF PRINT) €2 - .pdf edition
€2.00