Lyric Love Poems

Giles, Harry

Self-Help

Xlibris

This book is a collection of poems written over a period of years. The poems reflect a love of nature and philosophy about life.

Nurturing Giftedness to Genius

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

In war and in birth we reveal “our real red selves”, and this volume brings together three poets whose work moves between life and death.\nHarry Giles’ Drone explores modern warfare and office life. His “drone” is both a remote-control killing-machine and office drudge who is lonely and lacks job satisfaction. Somehow funny and achingly sad, the drone is the most unforgettable character you’ll read this year.\nMarion McCready’s The Birth Garden reflects on the way childbirth has been viewed by the medical establishment over the past century. Disturbing scenes set on sinister wards and in a natural world both real and raw are captured in McCready’s vivid, urgent language.\nJ.L. Williams’ The History of Fire takes us back to war. Her poems are savage and hallucinatory. She writes not about a single war but a patchwork conflict, whose battlefield moves from ancient Greeks to the Gulf conflict to a nightmarish Vietnam-era ticker-tape parade.\nThe subjects depicted by these poets are contrasting, but their imagery and intensity echo each other.\nTriptychs bring together three poets in one volume to showcase the freshest voices and newest developments in Scottish poetry.

Our Real, Red Selves (Vagabond Poets)

Vagabond Voices

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize's 2016 debut collection award, Harry Giles' Tonguit is a moving exploration of identity in Scots, English, and bureaucracy. Politically radical and formally inventive, Tonguit plays at the borders of nationality and sexuality with irreverent affection, questing through languages for a place to speak. AWARDS Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2014 and the Forward Foundation's Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2016 A Scottish Review of Books Pick of the Year 2016 PRAISE "An unusually adventurous and promising collection" -- The Guardian "Varied experiments amplify Giles' ability to speak to the literati and the casual reader alike" -- The London Magazine "A thrilling mash-up of mongrel dialect and contemporary vernaculars, giving it inventiveness and freewheeling energy" -- Causeway / Cabhsair "Tonguit is the best new collection of the year" -- Eildon Tree "Harry Giles' impressive first collection shows every sign of a particularly Scottish alertness to language, political radicalism and intellectual play... Tonguit shows the sharpest new tongue in Scotland at its most seditious, lively and visionary best." -- WN Herbert BIOGRAPHY Harry Giles is from Orkney, Scotland. They write and perform work across poetry, theatre and games, and their work generally happens in the crunchy places where performance and politics get muddled up. They were the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion, co-direct the live art platform Anatomy, and have toured participatory performances across Europe, North America, New Zealand and Leith. www.harrygiles.org

Tonguit

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Stewed Rhubarb Press

Giles, Harry. Tonguit. Glasgow, Freight Poetry, 2015. 13 cm x 19,8 cm. 68 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Loosely inserted is an original press-release for this publication. Includes for example the following poems: Slash poem in which Harry Giles meets Harry Styles / Song for a Lover as Magicicada / Piazza dei Miracoli / The Hairdest Man in Govanhill etc etc. Harry Giles grew up in Orkney and is now based in Edinburgh, where he works as a poet, producer and performance artist. He holds an MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School, and in 2010 he founded the spoken word events series Inky Fingers, which he continues to help run. Harry's pamphlet Visa Wedding was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in November 2012. He has won and been nominated for a number of awards, both for his performances and printed poetry. In 2008 he won the National Student Slam, and in 2009 the BBC Scotland Slam. He was nominated for the London Zoo Award for best performance by a UK poet in 2011, and the following year he won the national Ideas Tap Poetry Competition and was nominated for the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. He was the Govanhill Baths Artist-in Residence in 2013. (Wikipedia).

Freight Books

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