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THE PEBBLE CHANCE
FEUILLETONS AND OTHER PROSE |
| By: |
Marius Kociejowski |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1927428777 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781927428771 |
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| Publisher: |
BIBLIOASIS |
| Pub. date: |
16 December, 2014 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marias. |
| Synopsis: |
Marius is an antiquarian bookseller in London who has travelled widely; while ostensibly a collection of essays and reflections on the art of poetry (and in some cases, music and the visual arts), these essays are also biographical, and include dozens of anecdotes about his encounters with poets, novelists, and artistsIncludes stories of time spent as apprentice at distinguished UK antiquarian firm Bertram Rota, where he was bookseller to Javier Marias (who in turn caricatured Marius in an early short story, and later dubbed him "Skelton, Poet Laureate in the English Tongue," in Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear; essays include insight into the writing of All Souls and Dark Back of Timeanecdotes about encounters with W.S. Graham (a colleague of Dylan Thomas and a poet much-championed by Harold Pinter), Madge Herron (controversial itinerant poet in London, UK, ca the 1970s); poet and translator Christopher Middleton; on being neighbours with travel writer Bruce Chatwinone essay explores the recovery of an early 19th-century manuscript expounding in detail a woman's experience of rape and the prosecution thereofanother recounts Marius's friendship with Zbigniew Herbert, one of the best known post-war Polish writers, and distant relation to 17th-century English poet George Herbert |
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Canada |
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Biblioasis |
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