by Béla Balázs images by Susan Adams Libretto for the Opera in One Act by Béla Balázs English performing version by John Lloyd Davies The story of Bluebeard has a long history, from Perrault's Fairy Tales through Maeterlinck, and is deeply embedded in...
images by Ralph Kiggell a selection of poems with woodcut images by Ralph Kiggell Water and swimming have featured strongly in Ralph Kiggell’s life and when we put forward the idea of a second book to follow his hugely successful Leading the Cranes Home it seemed...
by Thomas Hardy images by Mark Cazalet Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma died in November 1912, in the attic room of their house where she had lived estranged from him. Their marriage had hardened into an empty shell and Hardy had long been in love with Florence Dugdale, whom...
by Kevin Crossley-Holland images by Inger Lawrance prepared from the Anglo Saxon by Kevin Crossley-Holland Ever since the tenth century, versions of The Seafarer have been committed to books, though it was no doubt part of the tradition of poems recited aloud and...
by Christopher Smart images by Angela Lemaire by Christopher Smart. Woodcut and linocut images and an Afterword by Angela Lemaire. Christopher Smart (1722-1771) was a major poet of great learning. Fascinated by the occult and the supernatural and Freemasonry, his...
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