William Wright

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The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for postwar poets, who discovered in both Hopkins's style and subject matter a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, "green" ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. The poets collected in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins engage with Hopkins in diverse ways. Some mention Hopkins or address some aspect of his life. Others channel his innovative poetics or address important Hopkinsian themes. All demonstrate the centrality of his influence in contemporary poetry. Unfortunately, critics have mostly neglected the importance of Hopkins as a contemporary model, instead pinning his influence to the early twentieth century. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary poetry's dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of the dynamic material world. \

2015 was certainly a busy time for celebrities! In a mere 365 days we were hit with enough jaw-dropping headlines to last a decade. Who can forget Marilyn Manson marrying his cat and Pope Francis trading in his Popemobile for a Segway, or William Hung performing as an honorary Dallas Cowboy cheerleader? Could anyone have possibly expected Martha Stewart to get caught shoplifting at a Goodwill or Bill Clinton to have an affair with Yoko Ono? Mike Tyson getting abducted by aliens certainly took the world by surprise, as well as Britney Spears eating a pot brownie and dancing in her underwear at the MTV Video Music Awards. You say you don't remember those things happening? There's a good reason for it: They were all made up! Never one to let the truth get in the way of a good story, I've put together a collection of over a hundred over-the-top fake showbiz news articles called Icons: Celebrity Satire. Recommended by four out of five celebrities who chew gum. Check it out.

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The close observations and sculpted language of William Wright's poems make the world a holy place. These poems brim with the restless energy of waking that leads us into 'rooms of smoky light that house the myth.' The myth is the beautiful and fragile existence of the creatures in these poems, from the boy who ponders a long-drowned woman to a caterpillar heavy with 'something vital and black.' Wright draws a world that is elemental and spirit drenched, and it is a world I want to live in. --- Al Maginnes

Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but forgotten, save the likes of Cardigan, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and Gordon of Khartoum. Yet they were a disparate and fascinating assemblage, made up of men of true military genius, as well as egoists, fools and despots. In Warriors of the Queen, William Wright surveys over 170 of these men, examining their careers and personalities. He reveals not only the lives of the great military names of the period but also of those whom history has overlooked, from James ‘Buster’ Browne, who once fought a battle in his nightshirt, to Jack Bisset, who had fought in three South African wars by his twenty-third birthday. Based on original research and complemented by over sixty photographs, Warriors of the Queen provides new insight into the men who built (and sometimes endangered) the British Empire on the battlefield.