New Releases by Tom Leonard

A true coming-of-age story of the 1960s: two mid-teenage boys undertake an eight-hundred-mile bicycle travel adventure through northern Michigan wilderness. They visit all three of the upper Great Lakes. They encounter, now vanished, remnants of Michigan history and view firsthand the changing face of their home state. When they return home they have learned powerful lessons about friendship, self-reliance, and the world they live in.

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible. The text below came from the original book: The prose in this collection falls mainly into three categories: literary, topical-political and personal. They overlap. Some of the literary criticism was written when John Linklater was literary editor of the Glasgow Herald. He let me choose which books to review and, unusually for a daily paper editor, let me have complete editing control on my copy to the usual limit of about a thousand words. I am grateful to him for the space he thus gave me to pursue some lines of thought around writers such as Browning and Clare. Several of the fuller essays were written for the Edinburgh Review when Peter Kravitz was the editor in the eighties. Here too it was liberating to have the trust of an editor granting me as it were a space when I wanted to pursue ideas and, as these things work, to try to find out in words what I believe. The prose runs from an essay of 1973 written for Scottish International to some extracts this year from the journal I have maintained on my website since 2009. The extracts from this journal overall are arranged in three separate sections under the title "From a Room in Scotland". The letter which follows the article "A Taboo too Far" was not composed for publication but seemed appropriate to add as its composition is referred to in the article that precedes it; and I think it may be of practical use for some. A co-dependency between mendacity and violence seems to be a recurring theme over the years, for which creativity in and through art is put as one restorative bond of integrity of purpose. Tom Leonard Glasgow, September 2012

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible.It contains work from his two main collections Intimate Voices (Poetry 1965-83) and access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); also poems from Being a Human Being (2006) and work not in previous books including an elegaic sequence for his mother, a prose memoir of his father, a poem-suite "on the page" and a tri-part envoi to the collection.CONTENTSPollok Poster 1 13Six Glasgow Poems 14The Voyeur 20 Dripping with Nostalgia 21Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 22don''t tell wordsworth 23Four of the Belt 24The Psycopath 25The Appetite 26Storm Damage 27A Priest Came on at Merkland Street 28an oxford dictionary 36Poetry 37Jist ti Let Yi No 38Tea Time 39Paroakial 40A Summer''s Day still life with creative writing teacher 41 Yon Night 43Feed ma Lamz 44The Qualification 45The Dropout 46Fireworks 47Makars Society 48Crack 49Pfff 50Moral Philosophy 51My Parents'' Living Room at Christmas 53Fathers and Sons 54Placenta 55The Rainbow Of 56breathe deep and regular with it 61Rosebud 62100 Differences between Poetry and Prose 63 The Evidence 64Proem 65who wants to be free 66your eyes 67An Ageing Writer 68The Performance 69epitaph 75in the beginning was the word 76from Unrelated Incidents 77ma lungz iz fuckt 83humpty dumpty 84mehta physics 85would thi prisoner 86baa baa black sheep 87commemorative stamp 88yonza big wank 89efturryd geenuz iz speel 90right inuff 91An Old Story 92colorado mountain air 93Honest 94so whut day yi day wi yirsell then ih 98yi surta 99seen im? 100Opting for early retirement 101firmly 102Skills 103The underfunder''s utopia 104doon the close 105Myths in These Parts106respite in the reading 107the enemy without 108a handy news standfor the next bombing 109The Present Tense 110ablative absolute 123situations theoretical and contemporary 124the press as bogus phatic communion 128Blessed Trinity 132leaning forward 1331st Poster Poem against the criminal injustice bill 1344 football haiku 135a could eata hoarss 136rest assured 137glorious weather in a teacup 138ahma hoarss 139the mainstream a clerisy 140nora''s place: a Poem in 17 aspects 141A night at the pictures 160triptych: the ongoing memorial 163to have access to the silence 170in hospital 171suite: On the Page 172the case for lower case 178the pact 180June the Second 181touching your face 182kierkegaard 183Remembrance Day 184who want my smile 186The Fair Cop 187Wish you were Here 191getting on with it 194foodfor thought 195plasma nights 196The Proxy Badge of Victimhood 198Litany: Blair''s Britain 201Epithalamium 203Being a Human Being 204An Ayrshire Mother 205that each one be the subject 210odysseus 212A humanist 213a life 214

For Johann Sebastian there was always music. His family had been musicians, or bachs as they were called in Germany, for 200 years. He always wanted to be a bach. As he grew, he saw patterns in everything. Patterns he would turn into melodies and song, eventually growing into one of the most important and celebrated musical composers of all time. This is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach.

This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject''s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn the topic via a short and complete resource. We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career.

This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject''s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn the topic via a short and complete resource. We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career.

An installment to the Here Is series takes young readers on a fascinating safari to the African savanna, where giraffes, lions, elephants, and other creatures reside, and illustrates the ecological community and hierarchy of the animals. Simultaneous.

Radical Renfrew challenges the view of nineteenth-century West of Scotland literature which sees it as a desert in which a few ''minor figures'' bloomed: it asserts that people have been deprived of a whole literature of what they once held to be valid poetry. The introduction closely argues why and how this has come about.Nearly four hundred pages of poetry are brought back into print, all from the extensive archives of Paisley Central Library where Tom Leonard worked as writer-in-residence during the book''s compilation.Besides known Renfrew poets such as John Davidson and James Thomson of Port Glasgow, over 60 other writers are featured, including the forgotten radical feminist Marion Bernstein, and the pungent Chartist satirist Edward Polin. For the reader''s help, a guide to some of the main themes supplements the contents list.The aim of the book, Leonard stated, was to be pan of that process by which anyone can use the public library to reclaim and reconstruct their own past.TOM LEONARD was born in Glasgow in 1944 and died in 2018. This book is published by his surviving family, thirty years after it was first published.

The problem addressed concerns the estimation of a p-dimensional multivariate density, given only a set of n observation vectors, together with information that the density function is likely to be reasonably smooth. A solution is proposed which employs up to n + 1/2 p(p+1) smoothing parameters, all of which may be estimated by their posterior means. This avoids the well-known difficulties, associated with even one-dimensional kernel estimators, of estimating the bandwidth or smoothing parameter by a mathematical procedure. The posterior mean value function, unconditional upon the smoothing parameters, turns out to be a data-based mixture of multivariate t-distributions. The corresponding estimate of the sampling covariance matrix may be viewed as a shrinkage estimator of the Bayes-Stein type. The results involve some finite series which may be evaluated by straightforward simulation procedure. (Author).