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In this poetry-prose Salvo, Douglas Oliver calls on White westerners, complicit in their governments' neglect of Africa, to rediscover their common humanity with the continent. Fusing political with personal and covering many African countries, Oliver's tenth book of poetry invites readers to engage in a process of discovery and learning about the European viewpoint.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612108497169,"sku":"GOR012606589","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653820457233,"sku":"GOR013427380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50340181115153,"sku":"GOR007554781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852244755.jpg?v=1751457362"},{"product_id":"polynesia-in-early-historic-times-book-douglas-oliver-9781573061254","title":"Polynesia in Early Historic Times","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49790914265361,"sku":"CIN1573061255G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1573061255.jpg?v=1751308888"},{"product_id":"islands-of-voices-book-douglas-oliver-9781848617179","title":"Islands of Voices","description":"Douglas Oliver (1937-2000) was a poet with a substantial reputation in the late 1980s and 1990s, finding a larger audience for his socially-committed poetry in a way that no other of his poetic background had done, or perhaps wished to do. He left school early, and worked for many years as a journalist - in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry - before attending the University of Essex as a mature student in the 1970s. In this period he was associated with the so-called Cambridge School of poetry, and his work was published by its representative publishers, Ferry Press and Grosseteste Review Editions. He subsequently lived in Paris, New York, and then again in Paris, usually working as a lecturer. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Oppo Hectic, The Diagram Poems, The Harmless Building, The Infant and the Pearl, Kind, Penniless Politics, A Salvo for Africa, and the posthumous volumes, Arrondissements and Whisper 'Louise'. At the time this volume was compiled all of his poetry was out of print, making this retrospective survey all the more important.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51056975446289,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056978395409,"sku":"NIN9781848617179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52691119046929,"sku":"NLS9781848617179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1848617178.jpg?v=1751378397"},{"product_id":"penniless-politics-book-douglas-oliver-9781852242695","title":"Penniless Politics","description":"Penniless Politics grapples with the problems of survival and protest in the blighted urban world of modern, multicultural America. The focus of this late 20th century ‘re-take’ of The Decameron is the vital, violent city of New York, where Douglas Oliver lived on the Lower East Side, imagining the non-voting minorities coming together through the creation of a new kind of political party called Spirit. When Penniless Politics first appeared ‘in a curious samizdat’ edition, Howard Brenton hailed Oliver’s ‘great poem’ in The Guardian as ‘epoch-making…startlingly original’.   ‘As great writing will, Penniless Politics identifies a new era’s themes that we all sense to be there, just beyond language, waiting for their first expression. The poem’s theme is desire: a ferocious, overwhelming desire for the human spirit to change…Could it be that the most unlikely thing, a poem, can show the way out of the post-communist, post-modernist, “ideas are dead” miasma that is poisoning us? I suggest the reader hold on and take the rollercoaster ride through Oliver’s amazing plot and the dizzying heights and water splashes of his poetic invention. It’s worth it because the poem, with its ambitious-as-Milton first line – All politics the same crux: to define humankind richly – to its blistering final stanzas, could well be our Paradise Lost.’ – from foreword by Howard Brenton","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52437389672721,"sku":"GOR005185547","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781852242695.jpg?v=1759226379"},{"product_id":"kind-book-douglas-oliver-9780907954040","title":"Kind","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53122493317393,"sku":"GOR014755405","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780907954040.jpg?v=1770925533"},{"product_id":"poetry-and-narrative-in-performance-book-douglas-oliver-9780333473511","title":"Poetry and Narrative in Performance","description":"Since classical times scholars have attempted to describe poetic music but a difficulty for modern descriptions has been that any one performer of the poem may not create the same overall vocal music as another. 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