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He is still amazed by the fact that Lobsang Rampa was a plumber from Plympton, by the roster of bands he saw at the fabled Van Dike Club, and by the vibrancy of the more recent local literary scene. 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His surreal mix of deadpan narrative, skewed memory and keen observation - the latter made poignant by the great deterioration in the author's sight over recent years - is sui generis. For the reader, it's a delightful road to be on, and Kenny Knight the ideal travel companion.         Comments on the author's previous collection:  \"This is a stunning collection. These long poems stay with me, like nothing since I read, by accident years ago, the poems of Jaroslav Seifert. They have a similar mixture of close intimacy and expansive mapping; at times they are tied to very specific places and yet they always exceed them, push at their edges, and at the edges of the people inside their lines; these are poems about travel and dreams of journeys never taken, of girlfriends never met, of the zone between parting and changing, loss and seeing anew.\" -Phil Smith, International Times         \"It's a fine line, isn't it, the 'I' in poetry informing or engaging or alienating the reader? Too much and there is a self-indulgence, obviously. I think Knight presents the perfect balance because there is in this collection its seamless thread of the apparently real and the delightfully imaginative refraction of this.\" -Mike Ferguson, International Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52532852883729,"sku":"NLS9781837380091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52755801309457,"sku":"NIN9781837380091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781837380091.jpg?v=1760662551"},{"product_id":"honicknowle-book-of-the-dead-book-kenny-knight-9781848610170","title":"The Honicknowle Book of the Dead","description":"Conoisseurs of the arcane will no doubt wonder what it is about Plymouth and Buddhism: first Lobsang Rampa, a.k.a. Cyril Henry Hoskins - erstwhile plumber's son and host to the transmigrated soul of a Tibetan lama - and now Kenny Knight's repeated invocations of the Dalai Lama - occasionally accompanied by Ruth Padel - in a new Book of the Dead. While Nirvana might be hard to reach in this suburban district of Plymouth, the highlight of which is a misplaced 19th century fort, it nonetheless reaches the status of myth in this collection of poems. The Honicknowle Book of the Dead is where memory, movies, television and 1960s' rock bands merge into a surreal narrative; it is where Lorna Doone and Geraldine Monk share pages, where the local poetry scene announces its presence, and where - in an alternate universe, perhaps - Ted Heath led Britain into the Common Market, Ted Heath, the band-leader, that is. For memory is confusion, and being young is confusing, and poetry is never anything but confusion. 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In Never Quit: The Knight's Armor Principles, Kenny fuses military grit with real-world experience to forge a powerful code of resilience, responsibility, and relentless drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isn't just another motivational book. It's a battlefield manual for life, written for the underdog, the veteran, the entrepreneur, and anyone who's ever been knocked down and told to stay down. 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