Peter Johnson Bücher

Ein namenloser Sechzehnjähriger ist der Protagonist dieser Geschichte, die sich aus vielen Fragmenten langsam zusammensetzt: Die Mutter ist tot, der Vater hat die beiden Söhne verlassen und alles scheint sinnlos. Als er Zeuge eines Unfalls wird und der einflussreiche Vater des Fahrers versucht, die Sache zu vertuschen, gelingt es dem Jungen endlich, seine Angst zu überwinden und „das Richtige zu tun“.

Handbuch zur Segelsportgeschichte, zu Fahrten- und Regattasegeln sowie zu Konstruktion und Bootsklassen; reich illustriert.

The first completely new and authoritative popular book on Roman Bath since 1984

Sara Eliza Johnson's much-anticipated second collection traces human emotion and experience across a Gothic landscape of glacial and cosmic scale. With a mind informed by physics, and a heart yearning for sky burial, Vapor's epic vision swerves from the microscopic to telescopic, evoking an Anthropocene for a body and planet that are continually dying: "So alone / I open like a grave," Johnson chronicles her love for "all this emptiness, this warp and transparence, the whorl of atoms I brush from your brow," and considers how "each skull, / like a geode, holds a crystal colony inside." Almost omnipresently, Vapor stitches stars to microbes, oceans to space, and love to pain, collapsing time and space to converge everything at once. Blood and honey, fire and shadow, even death and mercy are secondary to a profoundly constant flux. Facing sunlight, Johnson wonders what it would mean to "put my mouth to its / mouth, suck the fluid / from its throat, and give / it my breath, my skin, / which was once my / shadow," while elsewhere the moon "is molten, an ancient red, and at its bottom is an exit wound that opens into another sea, immaculate and blue, that could move a dead planet to bloom." In Vapor, Sara Eliza Johnson establishes herself as a profound translator of the physical world and the body that moves within it, delivering poems that show us how to die, and live.

Peter Johnson, a pivotal figure in American prose poetry, showcases his mastery in "While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems." This collection highlights his darkly comic and poignant style, which has been influential in reviving and advancing the prose poem genre over the past three decades. Johnson's work embodies characteristics he champions as a critic, including directness, intellectual depth, and an exploration of irony and absurdity. His contributions have significantly shaped the prominence of prose poetry both in America and globally.

Come on a journey with renowned botanist Peter Johnson as your enthusiastic guide and discover the delights of New Zealand wildflowers - from the mundane to the magnificent, from the overlooked to the ostentatious. Savour the detail of the regional 'bunches' and their place in the wider landscape, and be entertained by Johnson's insight, anecdotes, and engaging style.

Newly researched Information. Useful to Modellers. Good Quality Historic Pictures. Locomotive and Rolling Stock Information.