Alastair Reid Libri

What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can find the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.

Peer to Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the twentieth century, and this collection brings together the best of Mutis's largely unknown body of poetry.Álvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll . Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can or will last.Few know, however, that Maqroll made his first appearance, and established his myth, not in prose but in poetry. Starting 1948, Mutis published several volumes of poetry influenced by surrealists like Robert Desnos and Pablo Neruda, but with an unmistakable voice of his own, gaining the admiration of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, who called him “one of the greatest writers of our time.” Here a bilingual selection of Mutis’s haunting poems—invocations to a hidden god, private talismans of an outcast spirit—has been rendered into English by Chris Andrews, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman, and Alastair Reid.

This beautifully restored 1960s children's classic takes readers on a whimsical journey through imaginative trades, starting with a butterfly and culminating in everything from straw hats to stars. With engaging text by Alastair Reid and vivid illustrations by Bob Gill, it appeals to all ages.

Follow unexpected possibilities on fanciful and humorous journeys, powered by the limitlessness of the imagination and the openness of the human spirit. SUPPOSING I looked in the mirror one day and saw someone who wasn't me at all... SUPPOSING I sailed around the world and when I was a mile from my hometown, I just turned the boat and sailed round again the other way... SUPPOSING... Supposing leads to pondering a chain of hypothetical events that play with the way that things are, daring to imagine a world beyond the laws of physics and unbeholden to societal conventions. Each sentence may start with the same word "SUPPOSING," but it's impossible to predict where the zany musings will lead! Alastair Reid's text, still as delightful and fresh as it was in 1960, is accompanied by new, dazzlingly vibrant illustrations from JooHee Yoon.

Alastair Reid was a poet, essayist, translator and traveller, who was instrumental in bringing the poems of Borges and Neruda into English. He died in 2014. Reid started to write for the New Yorker in the late 50's and contributed poetry and travel pieces for nearly 40 years. His poetry came back into circulation in Scotland in 1978, when Canongate published a collection of his work - including some translations - in a pocket-size hardback, bringing his work across these genres to the attention of a new generation. Now readers can enjoy his collected works in this new edition from Galileo.

Focusing on British shipbuilding during its peak, this study explores the intricacies of production organization and the dynamics between industry leaders and trade union members. It delves into the union's role in broader labor politics, providing original insights into the historical context and the impact of these relationships on the industry.