{"title":"Chris McCabe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris McCabe\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a distinctive voice in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, crafting narratives that explore the complexities of human relationships and contemporary life. His works invite readers into rich, emotionally resonant stories where themes of love and identity intertwine with subtle cultural insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a thoughtful and evocative style, McCabe’s writing challenges conventional perspectives while remaining accessible and deeply engaging. Those interested in reflective, character-driven fiction will find his books a compelling addition to their literary journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-love-is-not-dead-by-chris-mccabe-9781529338539","title":"No, Love Is Not Dead","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSilver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo, Love Is Not Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, the most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon, Laura Tohe, and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from Amharic, Akkadian, and Ancient Greek to Yankunytjatjara, Yiddish, and Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of unlikely love stories and impossible love, love in a time of politics, surrealist love, visual love, and free love, offering an intuitive insight into both historical and present-day perceptions of love across cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluding over 50 poets, writing on each of the world's continents, this new anthology of poems about love features a diverse range of original poems written in a variety of languages—modern, ancient, endangered, and constructed—accompanied by English translations and commentaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoets included in the book: Apollinaire; Nicole Brossard; Augusto de Campos; Catullus; Chaucer; Dante; Robert Desnos; Ali Cobby Eckermann; Goethe; Kim Hyesoon; Louise Labe; Federico Garcia Lorca; Vladimir Mayakovsky; Miklos Radnoti; Kutti Ravathi; Sappho; Warsan Shire; Laura Tohe; Marina Tsvetaeva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLanguages included in the book: Akkadian; Amharic; Ancient Greek; Faroese; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Latvian; Maori; Persian; Polari; Portuguese; Russian; Sanskrit; Scots; Scottish Gaelic; Serbian; Spanish; Welsh; Yoruba.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Laura Tohe, the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and Professor Emeritus with Distinction at Arizona State University, who has won awards including the 2020 Academy of American Poetry Fellowship, the 2019 American Indian Festival of Writers Award, and the Arizona Book Association's Glyph Award for Best Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597356024044,"sku":"9781529338539","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529338539-no-love-is-not-dead.jpg?v=1777950058"},{"product_id":"poems-from-the-edge-of-extinction-by-chris-mccabe-9781473693005","title":"Poems from the Edge of Extinction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eOne language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems from the Edge of Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world. With poems by influential, award-winning poets such as US poet laureate Joy Harjo, Hawad, Valzhyna Mort, and Jackie Kay, this anthology offers a unique insight into both languages and poetry, taking the reader on an emotional, life-affirming journey into the culture of these beautiful languages.\n\nEach poem appears in its original form, alongside an English translation, and is accompanied by a commentary about the language, the poet, and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring power of poetry.\n\nThis timely collection is passionately edited by widely published poet and UK National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, who is also the founder of the Endangered Poetry Project, a major project launched by London's Southbank Centre to collect poetry in the world's disappearing languages. It is introduced by Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London, and Dr Martin Orwin, Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic, SOAS University of London.\n\nLanguages included in the book: Assyrian; Belarusian; Chimiini; Irish Gaelic; Maori; Navajo; Patua; Rotuman; Saami; Scottish Gaelic; Welsh; Yiddish; Zoque.\n\nPoets included in the book: Joy Harjo; Hawad; Jackie Kay; Aurelia Lassaque; Nineb Lamassu; Gearoid Mac Lochlainn; Valzhyna Mort; Laura Tohe; Taniel Varoujan; Avrom Sutzkever.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597518815468,"sku":"9781473693005","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781473693005-poems-from-the-edge-of-extinction.jpg?v=1777955140"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/chris-mccabe.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}