Judy Brown

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This is a third collection from Forward-Prize-nominated poet, Judy Brown, following her well-received debut (Loudness, 2011) and second book, (Crowd Sensations, 2016). Lairs brings together something primal and secret – the lair as haven for a wild or feral animal – with the poem framed as a mathematical equation. In physical and mathematical terms, the ‘lair’ is a kind of nest, a beautiful accumulation of dense detail. This tension of order and disorder in these poems is informed by mathematics after Brown’s important residency at the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Exeter University. Brown’s writing is inspired by Uncertainty Quantification, a branch of mathematics that seeks to estimate the uncertainty on model predictions. In ‘Some Security Questions,’ this lack of certainty is emphasized when statisticians respond to being asked, ‘What were the stupid questions?’ They reply: ‘There are none,’ but we are reminded ‘this was maths, so they could / be out there, capable of being asked.’ In mathematics and in life, hopes for an orderly existence chafe against the uncertainty of a chaotic reality. In this way, Lairs dynamically connects to the contemporary moment including the fervid atmosphere of lockdown and the ongoing pandemic. The collection also considers post-Brexit life with a mocking of establishment conservatism and business-speak: ‘Corporate fish, you’re bright as pain,’ Brown tells us in ‘Fish. Oh. Fish’. With deft sleight-of-hand, Brown writes with deep intimacy whilst also registering seismic social and political shifts. ‘Settings’ for example tells the story of finding a real tick attached to the body of the narrator, but it becomes much more: ‘On the internet they were vile and interesting, / hard-bodies with a corona of grippy legs.’ The tick infects not only the body but the body politic via the public space of the internet. Brown shuns an easy populism, embracing complex music, and the poem ends by conveying both fear and the process of slow infection. Always in Lairs, a sense of unruliness challenges rules, prescriptions, constrictions. This energy is animal and feral, but it is also the pure chaos of mathematics, impossible to constrain. Brown’s remarkable poems are innovative in their use of language, but they also maintain moments of vulnerability and moving self-awareness. In these exquisite poems, the lair is both the community at large and a dark and intricate interior space where something wild still survives.

Join Emma, a very inquisitive and spunky five-year-old, on her quest to discover if the ocean ever stops. Along her journey, she meets Mr. Wind and talks with Mrs. Bird. She becomes discouraged when she cannot find anyone who will take the time to help her find the answer to her most important question. But then, she meets a very special friend who assures her that he knows the exact person who can help her. So please hurry and join Emma for all the excitement. The journey is about to begin. Will she find the answer to her most important question?

Join Emma, a very inquisitive and spunky five-year-old, on her quest to discover if the ocean ever stops. Along her journey, she meets Mr. Wind and talks with Mrs. Bird. She becomes discouraged when she cannot find anyone who will take the time to help her find the answer to her most important question. But then, she meets a very special friend who assures her that he knows the exact person who can help her. So please hurry and join Emma for all the excitement. The journey is about to begin. Will she find the answer to her most important question?

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015.Accordingly, approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected, a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making.

I hope these poems might be a gift for you. I can only hope. One of the mysteries, for me as a poet, is how poems that emerge in my morning journal, reflecting some unexpected inner explorations, may turn out to be a gift to stranger or friend. It is a process as mysterious as writing down the poems themselves. What may catch your attention? Why? What words evoke a yes for reasons I could never know, never imagine. So I send these poems off to you, like a note in a bottle, bobbing on the waves, landing eventually on a distant shoremoved by tides and windslike so much of our lives. May this collection meet you where you are in your life.

I hope these poems might be a gift for you. I can only hope. One of the mysteries, for me as a poet, is how poems that emerge in my morning journal, reflecting some unexpected inner explorations, may turn out to be a gift to stranger or friend. It is a process as mysterious as writing down the poems themselves. What may catch your attention? Why? What words evoke a yes for reasons I could never know, never imagine. So I send these poems off to you, like a note in a bottle, bobbing on the waves, landing eventually on a distant shoremoved by tides and windslike so much of our lives. May this collection meet you where you are in your life.

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Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science. Mainstream neoclassical economics may be able to contribute to a more sustainable society but it has also played a dominant role in a period where problems have been aggravated. A pluralist and democratic view of economics is therefore very much warranted. This book presents a multidimensional and ideologically more open view of economics: understanding economics in multidimensional terms is in accordance with the 17 sustainable development goals recognized by nations at the UN-level in 2015.Accordingly, approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered. Neoclassical Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) with focus on the monetary dimension and an assumed consensus about a specific market ideology to be applied is not compatible with democratic societies where citizen and actors in other roles normally differ with respect to ideological orientation. Environmental Impact Statements and Multi-Criteria methods are used to some extent to broaden approaches to decision-making. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. And since approaches to decision-making and to accounting are closely connected, a new theoretical perspective in economics similarly raises issues of how national and business accounting can be opened up to meet present demands among various actors in society. This perspective raises also numerous ethical questions at the science and policy interface that need to be properly addressed for sustainability decision making.

Judy Brown’s new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style. A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Brown’s poems surprise and delight at every turn. A central theme is the contrast between the city and the countryside. As well as spells living in London and Hong Kong, the author’s recent residencies at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales have provided key moments of inspiration. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as ‘Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted’ alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as ‘On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed’. There is also some quiet, edgy humour in ‘Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach’ and ‘Was this review helpful to you?’. Crowd Sensations is a wonderful follow-up to Brown’s Forward-prize nominated debut, Loudness.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2011.Shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2012.Loudness is the beautiful debut collection from Judy Brown. Her poetry combines a straightforward manner with artful complexity, a gift for ironic humour with exacting observations of the everyday. Titles like 'The ExPats', 'The P45' and 'The Crash' kick-start edgy narratives, full of characters who will suffer for their modern sins. Baroque stylings, sudden modulations in tone and register, and a keenly sensuous appreciation of the physical world complete this outstanding and original new collection."Her writing is direct and sensuous, alive to colour, touch, and above all, sound."Kate Bingham, Poetry LondonJudy Brown was born in Cheshire and has lived in Northumbria, Cumbria and Hong Kong. She studied English Literature at Cambridge and Newcastle upon Tyne and now lives between London and Derbyshire. She won the 2010 Manchester Poetry Prize and the 2009 Poetry London Competition, and received the Poetry Society's Hamish Canham Poetry Prize in 2005. She was shortlisted for the 2010 Basil Bunting Poetry Award, and has placed in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition and others. Her poems have appeared in the Bloodaxe anthology Identity Parade (2010) and The Forward Book of Poetry 2006. She is also the author of a prize-winning pamphlet, Pillars of Salt (Templar Poetry, 2006).