In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While engaged in this struggle, the poems also strive to rebuild, to console and to rediscover the world, its beauty, tenderness, humour, and joy.

In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While engaged in this struggle, the poems also strive to rebuild, to console and to rediscover the world, its beauty, tenderness, humour, and joy.

British Values and a Preparation to Visit Rome takes an original look at how Britain became a moral enterprise and a free society."British values" look at these, through the eyes of Athena, Trajan, St Paul and Mahatma Gandhi. These are the big four. You will say they are not British. True, but the values they symbolize have grown in Britain-transplanted, like seed potatoes from Greece, Spain, present day Turkey and India.Athena was the goddess of social wisdom; Tra...

The brand-new, nail-biting Jack Ryan thriller__________When a member of his Cabinet is killed in a plane President Jack Ryan suspects that the "accident" is anything but in this latest shocking entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.The White House is stunned when the Secretary of Commerce is killed in a plane crash in Turkey. President Jack Ryan isn't ready to write this off as a simple accident. Not only has he los...

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