New Releases by Douglas Dunn

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, ''Larkinesque'' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all its intimate, hearthside rumination, this is a volume of poems that looks outward in equal measure: at Scottish independence, British politics and an international refugee crisis, and reflects unflinchingly on what it is to consider oneself a contributor to society. Penned with a dexterous wit and a steady nerve, The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this country''s most senior and celebrated writers. ''It is hard to think of many poets who can equal his combination of imaginative ambition, formal resource and range of tone . . . Written on these terms, poetry is a matter of permanent urgency.'' Sean O''Brien ''The most respected Scottish poet of his generation.'' Nicholas Wroe

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A model for personal and community advancement using the power of PRACTICAL COMPASSION in ACTION, demonstrated through the allegory of a fantasy parable. When a successful business person from our world stumbles into an exotic, subterranean civilization, long hidden from the Outside world, he is exposed to new ways of thinking and feeling, but also exposes others to a world of harsh and cruel violence. The Outside world is rich in technological wonders but is plagued by violent terror and social injustice, while the Cave People of Enrisa thrive in an advanced, harmonious social order of cheerful, happy "compassionate joy," but which is industrially primitive. When the world is turned inside out, and the cave people of Enrisa come face to face with the Outside world, both cultures are confronted with strange new wonders!

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Guide for developing the personal and social interactions to achieve a complete, balanced lifestyle. While many find their moral and ethical values to be at odds with their desire for personal success in achieving financial security, personal relationships and a healthy lifestyle, this book is designed to show how these seemingly different aspects of our lives can be made to work with each other instead of against each other. Developing a compassionate social conscience and strong interpersonal relationships should promote rather than undermine success in all areas of our goals and desires. We should not have to choose between values and success. Extro-Dynamics presents a simple step-by-step "how to" guide for building happier, healthier and more successful well-rounded lives.

The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing language from the body.

A collection of poems, letters, interviews and essays by Douglas Dunn.

“The Cujo Cat Chronicles 2, The Chaos Continues” are the further musings of the world’s smallest dictator. In this book, the maniacal housecat shares his thoughts and insights on everything from stray animals to stray politicians. He continues to rule his kingdom with an iron paw while pondering Shakespeare, baseball, and just about everything in between. Once again, Cujo invites his readers into his world and seeks to subjugate them.

Majestic, dramatic, and undeniably beautiful, the British coastline has inspired artists and writers for centuries. In this exquisite volume, it gives birth to a landmark collaboration between award-winning poet Douglas Dunn and one of Britains foremost artists, Norman Ackroyd. This eagerly awaited new collection of Dunns poems finds perfect harmony with Ackroyds atmospheric landscapes, which provide a visual response to the evocative beauty of Dunns verse. An introduction by Dunn, examines the rich literary and artistic tradition of chronicling the variety and splendor of the British coastline, Ackroyds subtle aquatints document the wide range of natural features that characterize it.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. Robert Browning (1812-89) was largely educated in his father''s vast library and spent only one term at university. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett Browning, eloping to Italy until her death in 1861, when he returned to England to complete his celebrated work The Ring and the Book (1868-9). He died in Venice in 1889.

A generous selection of poems from ''one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today'' (Robert Nye). In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year. New Selected Poems 1964-1999 draws substantially upon the entire range of Dunn''s poetry, from Terry Street (1969) to The Year''s Afternoon (2000), and confirms his place ''among the finest of our poets'' (Melvin Bragg).

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This collection opens with a wry elegy for three fellow Scots poets, it remembers other teachers and precursors and revisits scenes of Dunn''s earliest poems. Dunn focuses on conundrums of solitude, and the solidarity of the dreaming man in a wider world.

This dissertation is a phenomenological research study that addresses the effect the aging body has on men at midlife. The data for this research was obtained by interviewing six men between the ages of 48 and 61 years of age. These interviews provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between the psyche and the aging body. We can observe this relationship in the psychological life of the individual. I found that the data from this study produced three levels of meaning. The first level was the concrete change that occurred in the aging body. The second level was the change of psychological attitude experienced by the men interviewed. The third level was an imaginal realm of meaning. Concrete bodily changes symbolize a boundary and a limit for the future of the body, and these limits have an impact on this psychological life. Psychological attitudes influenced by the aging body were limitation, power, spirituality, mortality, relationships, deterioration, and the discovery of different parts of the self. These changes forced the individual into an attitude of greater self-awareness and self-reflection providing an opportunity for the soul to be heard through the symptom. The bodily symptoms associated with midlife are wake-up calls that penetrate to the deepest layers of the psyche. They are the voice of the soul wanting to be heard. When examined in detail, the interviews provided a rich source for an imaginal background of meaning. I found that underneath the struggle these men engaged in at midlife existed a hidden conflict. This conflict was between their unconscious concept of a hero and the reality of their own bodies. As their bodies began to deteriorate, they could no longer identify with the hero archetype. This resulted in an attempt to rebuild the body into a heroic form or a sense of despair over the loss of the heroic image. The heroic myth is one of the most embedded myths of the Western world. Our culture, however, has no myth to support an aging hero. The interviews suggest an adult development and psychic growth that is a nonlinear, acausal process, not a stage-dependent progression toward a final goal. Adult development is not, then, a chronological process, but rather a psychological and spiritual process of discovery. Each man provided a unique, individual process in response to the changes in their body. These stories reflected an individually determined course of development that did not fit into a clearly defined stage.