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Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
Category: Poetry & Plays
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
The Abundance : Narrative Essays Old and New by Geoff (FRW) Annie; Dyer Dillard
Category: Non-Fiction
The Bad Side of Books - Selected Essays of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence; Geoff Dyer (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction
You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of bu ...Show more
The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer
Category: Fiction
'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're virtually extinct'. It is a small world in Brixton that Dyer commemorates, of council flat and instant wastel ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
Category: Biography
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer - And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
Category: Sport
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late m ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
Category: Biography
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter wit ...Show more
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
Category: Military
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs by Geoff Dyer
Category: Photography
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? and trademark originality - The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the w ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
Category: Travel
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
Category: Travel
From one of our most original writers (Kathryn Schulz, "New York" magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer s restless search ...Show more