A visionary artist, Peter Hay (1951-2003) was a fine draughtsman and watercolourist, and a brilliantly inventive printmaker. He had a strong sense of place; the junction of the rivers Thames and Kennet close to his home was a frequent symbolic theme in his work. This book brings together the range of this prolific artist's work for the first time.
Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, Conor Carville's second collection of poetry teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate our lives. Many of the poems reassert the capacity of song to grasp the shape of a life, a community, or a world, in the shadow of its vast disorder.
Over 25 years Adrian Lawson chronicled the wildlife he encountered in the parks, woods and town of Reading. This book takes us through the calendar year with a selection of articles from his long-running newspaper column, Rural Reading, plus some new and previously unpublished pieces, accompanied by perceptive illustrations from Geoff Sawers.
The stories behind Reading's memorials bring the people and events of Reading's past to life. This book describes aspects of the town's history by considering some of its - often not well known - plaques, statues and monuments. Even the better known memorials have secrets to yield in the tales of their origins.
The narrator wanders around Reading, the town where he has settled, musing on the town and the issues facing us all.
This landmark book brings together, for the first time in English, translations of 75 poems by the renowned Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta. The poems are presented in their original Portuguese with facing-page English translation by prize-winning poet Lesley Saunders.
In Penumbra, Kate Behrens' third collection, the poems are linked by themes of dislocation and heredity. If the dead are ever-present here, so is love: the absence of, rewards and longing for it, the endurance and effort of it.
Jean Watkins' second collection, celebrates the diversity of wildlife, landscape, art and human experience.
In his carefully meditated debut collection of poetry, James Peake explores the imagination's material legacy - how our ideas have entered wood and stone, celluloid and skin, metal and glass, and become restless in the process.
Reading is famous for its varied, colourful and intricately patterned brickwork. Illustrated throughout with local photographs, Bricks and Brickwork in Reading gets back to basics with bonding, tells the story of a successful Victorian brick maker, pays homage to Alfred Waterhouse and revels in the delights of air bricks and crinkle-crankle walls.
Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees - and a few well-known introductions too - all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings.
An account of the history of Reading's Abbey and the changes to its ruins and the surrounding area after the Dissolution in 1539.
Lesley Saunders' fourth collection, is an extended praise-song for the Greek and Latin literature she grew up with as a schoolgirl. These poems respond, in oblique and glancing ways, to the riches of these two cultures.
First collection of poems by Jack Thacker winner of the 2016 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition.
John Froy's second collection is filled with love, hopes and fears for his family and friends and for the natural world.
A second collection of poems from a maturing writer, in demand as judge and tutor, currently publishing novels as well as poetry.
The history of Reading's cinemas from 1897 to the present day, illustrated
A collection of new and selected previously published poems reflecting and developing the theme of women.
Poet and artist Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was one of the most original and influential figures of twentieth century French poetry. In Storms Under the Skin Jane Draycott translates poems and prose-poems from Michaux's works 1927-54.
Second collection from established poet and critic who has been a regular reviewer of poetry for London Magazine, Poetry Review and the TLS as well as poetry editor for Dublin Quarterly Magazine. This collection is a 'sustained meditation on magnetism in all its senses' (Bernard O'Donoghue).
An illustrated pocket history of Reading: 145 million years in 84 small pages.
These remarkable translations of Rilke's poems by Latvian exile Ruth Speirs, a close friend of Lawrence Durrell are brought together in a single volume for the first time. Rhythmically alive and carefully faithful, they have been described as 'excellent' and ' the best'.
A beautifully illustrated record of the final Silchester dig which took place in summer 2014.
Poetry collection reflecting concern for the state of the world, both politically and environmentally, but grounded in real life: music, literature, craftsmanship, history, family & friends.
Local history, folklore and ghost stories from the Vale of the White Horse and South Oxfordshire.
A lifetime of poetry. Poems recalling her long life, collected together by a poet in her late 90s.
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