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The crisp, hilarious, deeply moving lyrics of John Clegg are precisely formal, carefully gauged, the unsettling gothic elements aspects of a warm humanity of outlook. He is a gifted performer of his work, and a significant bookseller.

A mysterious telephone ringing in the woods leads to unexpected revelations when answered, intertwining the narrative with contemporary issues. The story explores themes relevant to modern society, inviting readers to reflect on the connection between the past and present through its unique premise.

This guide provides carefully constructed activities to support the language needs of second language English learners, with plenty of write-in space. The activities are designed to be used alongside the 3rd edition geog.1 students' book and enable students to stretch their language skills and fully understand the concepts presented.

Eric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars, and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is emotional, too, most vividly in the collection’s centrepiece: the sequence ‘Vaisala and Sinuhe’, charting an astronomy professor’s infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg’s poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

The Teller is the story of a family struggling to survive in the late bronze age in an area now known as the Welsh Marches. The saga is related to a tribe in the mid-iron age by an itinerant story teller and describes how their ancestors coped with conditions existing then and how circumstances forced a quest on two sons of the principal family in the tale. All descriptions of clothing, weaponry, tools, animals, transport, food, drink, dwellings, and prevailing climate are based on what is presently archaeologically accepted and what is known regarding living conditions in Britain at the time. In order to bring the characters to life, a fairly contemporary dialogue is used. Of course there is no way of knowing how they really talked in those far off times and so no attempt has been made to simulate it. In fact the book is a tribute to the likelihood that intellectually, in everyday matters, they were probably pretty similar to ourselves. The inspiration for such a portrayal came when watching a programme about life in Papua New Guinea. A tribesman bedecked in paint and feathers stepped out of the stone age to board a light aircraft, valley hopping to nearby villages. His manner was completely matter-of-fact and the quip he came out with was subtitled. I smiled to myself and thought, 'That's just what one of the locals in Shropshire might have said.' With utmost respect to my friends in Shropshire I hasten to add.

John Clegg's second Carcanet collection includes fractious jumpy poems, exploring contemporary science, new parenthood, encroaching storms, and the land of the dead.

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„The Observer’s Book of Pond Life“ von John Clegg ist ein Buch, das ich als Kind in einer öffentlichen Bibliothek in Patchway, Bristol, um 1979 entdeckte. Ich habe es über lange Zeiträume hinweg immer wieder ausgeliehen. Die Bilder suggerierten eine für meine Umgebung unsichtbare eine Parallelwelt. Bilder von Wasserkäfern, Wassermilben und Libellen schlugen einen Akkord an mit den graphischeren Zeichnungen von Diatomeen und anderen einzelligen Tieren, die abstrakter aussahen. Es war ein erstaunliches Buch für mich und machte mich neugierig, ob mein kleiner Gartenteich auch solche Leben enthielt. Dies führte zu einer neuen Besessenheit, Stunden damit zu verbringen, in Mikroskope zu starren, während ich den 7″ Schallplatten meiner Eltern lauschte. Als Kind die Weite in einem einzigen Tropfen Wasser zu erforschen, war wie in den Weltraum zu reisen. Die gedruckten Maßangaben in Zoll und Zentimetern auf dem hinteren Buchdeckel sind mir über all die Jahre in Erinnerung geblieben. “ (Stephen Gill)