A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural, southern hometown, Rimertown/an atlas delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven strands—a collection of "maps," a collection of "stories," a series of vernacular prose poems, and a fractured narrative—the volume explores various geographies: of the physical world, of the intersection of natural and peopled landscapes, of the passage of time, of leaving and returning, of human relationships, of soldiers and war. Walker asks: how is "home" carried in memory, in landscape, in story, in time? Her poems break and merge, stitching and fragmenting narrative, syntax, and image as they push toward their own geography, "a fever doll, tapered song/ engineered into dusk/ hold the watery stream, its buck and clanging."

rimertown: an atlas (New California Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Laura

Poetry

University of California Press

A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural, southern hometown, Rimertown/an atlas delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven strands―a collection of "maps," a collection of "stories," a series of vernacular prose poems, and a fractured narrative―the volume explores various geographies: of the physical world, of the intersection of natural and peopled landscapes, of the passage of time, of leaving and returning, of human relationships, of soldiers and war. Walker asks: how is "home" carried in memory, in landscape, in story, in time? Her poems break and merge, stitching and fragmenting narrative, syntax, and image as they push toward their own geography, "a fever doll, tapered song/ engineered into dusk/ hold the watery stream, its buck and clanging."

rimertown: an atlas (New California Poetry) (Volume 23)

History & Criticism

The twenty-fifth of August 2018 marks the 250th anniversary of the departure of the Endeavour from Plymouth, England, and the first of three voyages by James Cook that would nearly complete the map of the world. Interweaving accounts of scientific discovery with the personal stories of the voyages’ key participants, William Frame and Laura Walker explore the charting of the Pacific and the natural world, the first encounters and exchange between Western and indigenous cultures, and the representation of the voyages in art. The illustrations, many of which have never before been published, include drawings by all the artists employed on the voyages, including Alexander Buchan, Sydney Parkinson, William Hodges, and John Webber. It also includes the only surviving paintings by Tupaia, a Polynesian high priest and navigator who joined the first voyage at Tahiti and sailed with Cook to New Zealand and Australia. A stunningly illustrated object-centred history, James Cook: The Voyages offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to discover the extensive Captain Cook collection of the British Library, including original maps, artworks, journals, and printed books.

James Cook: The Voyages

History

Frame, William

Europe

McGill-Queen's University Press

John Walker's story has been told elsewhere. This is the story of the lives he shaped when he exercised the prerogatives of a father - and it is the story of that family when he abandoned it for his own pursuits. This is Laura Walker's story. It is the story of abused, misguided children, the story of someone tempted to join her father's enterprise in order to receive the positive reinforcement that deprived children want from their parents. It is the story of a despairing mother, married to the wrong man, and robbed of her son. It is the story of a woman whose only support at times came from a faith in God.

Daughter of Deceit: The Human Drama Behind the Walker Spy Case

Horner, Jerry

Religion & Spirituality

W Pub Group

Poetry. "This is writing of high intelligence and an architectural sense of structure. The title series, `swarm lure,' takes as its occasion the language of Italian beekeeping. Like Montale's `The Pledge,' constructed of motets, each section is a movement in time and presence, a part of the whole comb. This is poetry that can `cry the wagon and its horse tightly up a mountain,' which is to say it matters"--Paul Hoover. "Lure over lore tumbling, head over heels, image and prosody, Laura Walker translates the lushness of fragment. Her poems--hungry, bewildered--are incarnated on memory's body, her mysterious gesture "writing recipes on our arms"--Elizabeth Robinson.

Swarm Lure

Battery Street Press

Poetry. "Using a linguistic constraint centered exclusively on entries from F-H in the OED, Walker manages to hit on charged words—face, lost, boat, river—words that seem to hold all of human history within them—in ways that set them off in dozens of directions at once. There's a narrative here, sheer and shadowy, that slips away as soon as you look at it directly. It's a book to be read with the corner of the eye, that subtle seventh sense, which is just what she is speaking to, so clearly and so beautifully."—Cole Swensen

Follow-Haswed

Apogee Press

Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration&mdash;as Paul Ricoeur said: narrative is human time. Walker's rich and delicate story of natural forces, human forces, master narratives, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and as fragile as any fine sequence of poems: from soldiers inside of hollow trees to a loved but slightly dangerous brother to birds' silent migration, to the loneliness of a child's unarticulated world, a family history is woven together in moments of safety and danger, achieving clarity. It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by."&mdash;Maxine Chernoff

story

Poetry. BIRD BOOK is written in collaboration with a field guide to North American birds. Each page both borrows and departs from language found in an individual bird entry. The resulting text is an investigation into dissolved and dissolving narrative, into the permeable boundaries between "human" and "natural," and into the partial and shifting nature of narrative and memory themselves, "wet and traveling maps." Here, as in bird song, gap and repetition create their own story. To welcome "accidental field," "to take the songbird out of your mouth," to examine the ever-shifting relationship between what we receive and what we project, is to move through a porous and shared space, affecting and affected, where "yellow spectacle" hovers over "a suggested house": "exuberant ground."

bird book

Shearsman Books

When you want to escape the drudgery and dissatisfaction of your current situation you need much more than motivational pep talks or superficial clichés. You have many years of work ahead of you. Will you be more drained, more drone, more dread? Or will you become more fulfilled, more meaningful, more you? But the odds are stacked against you. You need to know what is really going on, the pitfalls to avoid, strategies that work and how to get a robust personal plan. Laura Walker has transformed her award-winning academic research on mid-life reinvention into this powerful, practical guide. It reveals the hidden truths and tools you need to discover and step into the next chapter of your work and life-- confidently with your head held high.

Dancing with Fear and Confidence: How to liberate yourself and your career in mid-life

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

mPowr Ltd

The secret supply teacher

Biographies & Memoirs

Rogers, Mark

Mchill, Erin

Professionals & Academics

Independently published

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