T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in physical illness as a subject, method, and stylizing force. Experience of physical ailments, from the fleeting to the fatal, the familiar to the unusual, structures the writing of the modernists, both as sufferers and onlook...

I tried finding the right words, taking them from my tongue and spilling them to a page to make some sense.A Book of Short Stories By Peter Fifield

At any given time in our lives, we are in the midst of forming or looking for relationships. How often do we pause to look at those that are formed without thought or action? In this book of short stories and poetry, Peter Fifield gives us a glimpse through his words, at some of those relationships.An interesting connection is formed when a stranger's possessions fall into the hands of a young man struggling for inspiration. A little boy, no longer in the world that was his, reaches...

I remember nightsfilled with starkissed whispersgently floating usoff to sleep.Those werethe nightswe lived for

That First Night...When we laid in the sand that nightwith our tangled bodiesand you cradled my heart with yours.When there were no words but insteadthe sounds of whispering wavesthat spoke of love we did not know yet.When I felt the cool, damp sand encase my feetand your laughtickle down my arms.When the stars were as bright as Austinand they swayed on the ocean's surfacelike drunk friends on the walk h...

The Beat Goes On;I was too entranced by the beating of your heart, to hear the meaning in your words.Nodding my head as I continued to ignore.I'll just wine you and dine you, prove I'm a good fella.But my actions are misconstrued, true love comes in A Capella.Stripped to the core, pure and raw emotion from the heart.Getting the message across, the truest definition of art.So I'll tune out the beat so I can finally hear it.And ...

Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across Beckett's work, opening up new avenues of enquiry and association for scholars, stud...

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plura...