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  • by Martin Anderson
    £12.49

    Includes poems that concern with the nature, from both a perceptual and ontological perspective, of continuing and intrinsic identities.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £8.99

    Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and non-native inhabitant.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £12.49

    Many of the sequences begin in the geography of the Essex salt marsh: here the condition of spiritual inanition, which has so frequently been attributed by the West to the non-West to legitimise aggression whilst masking its real objective, finds objective representation. It is the aggressor himself, not the victim, who suffers from inanition...

  • by Martin Anderson
    £12.49

    Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences. The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all share, however, like the author's previous collection of prose-poetry sequences (from Skylight Press) Interlocutors of Paradise, a concern with history and the psychology of colonialism.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £8.99

    The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which "the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire" floated.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £12.49

    A collection of five short meditations on colonialism and the Western mind. Written as a series of symbolist-tinged prose-poems, each section situates the reader in crafted spaces, hollows to be filled either by spiritual purpose or willful invasion.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £13.99

    The poems of Snow look both to the Far East for their ostensible subject matter and back to the UK. Snow is a collection in its own right; its choice and arrangement of poems suggests a terrain richer and more complex than those of individual poems and collections, and one within which they may be rewardingly re-encountered.

  • by Martin Anderson
    £17.99

    Issued at the same time as the third volume of Martin Anderson's Hoplite Journals, Shearsman Books now makes available a compendium edition of all three volumes under one set of covers, and in a larger format.

  • - Elephant, Game Domestication, and Cattle on a Kenya Ranch
    by Martin Anderson
    £17.99

    Martin Anderson is currently a Distinguished Overseer at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, his alma mater. He has pursued many endeavors during his life: trial lawyer in Hawaii and San Francisco; active reservist in the United States Marine Corps with two tours of active duty in World War II and the Inchon/Chosin campaign in Korea; developing partner in Heavenly Valley Ski resort in Lake Tahoe and other land developments; and Kenya rancher. Martin currently lives in Palo Alto, CA and continues to visit Kenya annually.

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