Böcker av Mike Gill

This collection of poetry and poetic prose holds a beautiful word-sketch of a continuing world that surrounds us despite a smearing cloud of pandemic. Outside the boundaries of fear and lockdown, the narrator helps us escape to a parallel world where squirrels, foxes, maples and cicadas thrive with equal significance to the eyes that care to notice. And, despite the boundaries for lockdown social revolutions take birth in the human world that keeps questioning the rights and wrongs, revising the old thoughts. The question of solitude remains to be asked-When this will be all over will the recurring dream return?-Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, author of multiple books including Plankton Dreams: What I Learned in Special Ed (Open Humanities Press)Gill's poems remind us how hope is a practice-a practice of the daily, the quotidian, the front porch. Part of this practice is learning how to notice and observe where national traumas intersect with individual ones. Reflections from the Front Porch implicates us because the collection refuses the convenience of looking away, of washing our hands of complicity. Gill invites us to think about how scale is felt and dangerous fantasies of distance, separation from what we think has no bearing on us but in fact actively constitutes our lives and our relations with others. And such relations are often non-human: mint, maple, cucumber beetles. Whole ecologies of hope, "beauty / in [their] lasting act[s]."-Travis Chi Wing Lau, Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, author of Paring (Finishing Line Press)

A new public sector is emerging from the ashes of austerity. Make sure you're still here to see it.As a public sector manager you are the backbone of public service delivery but you now face the greatest challenge of your career because of this thing called austerity. A New Public Sector will emerge from the significant changes being driven by these cuts and, if you want to be part of it, it pays to be prepared. How To Survive Austerity is your essential manual if you want to deliver results in challenging times and improve your own chances of survival.This book provides you with a no-nonsense, 7-step framework to ensure you and your staff are ready for the challenge ahead. Read How To Survive Austerity and act on what you learn to: Maximise your chances of surviving austerity; Present your service in the best way to all stakeholders; Get to grips with the significant changes taking place; Encourage the public to CHERISH your service; Prepare yourself, and your people, for the challenges ahead; Emerge as a leader in the New Public Sector.If you're being forced to do more with less, are under pressure to constantly justify budgets or simply want to be a proactive leader in these uncertain times, this book can help.

Mind Crash sets out to explore the deepest recesses of the human psyche through the utilization of several, quite often brutal, language exploration techniques.The results, a seemingly random collection of metaphysical short stories, cut-ups, koans, poems and automatic writing, are often as unsettling as they are darkly humorous.Whilst employing these frequently painful mental gymnastic routines, the author unwittingly unleashes, and subsequently exorcises, a number of allegorical demons.Do not forget to bolt your windows whilst reading it!- - -Mind Crash originally started life as a series of sporadic newsletters, available through subscription only, to a selective band of cultural mischief-makers dotted around the USA, Europe and Japan.These long-since out of print works, together with previously unpublished pieces, have now been composed into a single volume for the very first time.