Bøker av David Hickey

A light-hearted account of how the 1977 Dublin University Boat Club raced the best university crews in the world in an attempt to win the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta.

In the Lights of a Midnight Plow, glitters and startles. The writing is deftly musical, where every detail and image has been carefully weighed, honed with a knife's edge and poet's ear. There is language, the sparkle and sheen of it, the rhythm, all of which tells us that a new and important voice is at work here.

David Hickeys second collection builds upon the myriad strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and covenants, Hickeys subjects range from art and astronomy to snowflakes and suburbia. These poems "e;take their time / Covering the roadside trees in forms of their careful willing . . . gesturing down to earth, unveiling new shapes / for all that they find.David Hickey is a past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize, the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada and the United States.

This book celebrates the 39 players, managers, and team executives who have been elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame for the baseball feats they achieved during their tenure with this storied ballclub and over their careers.

Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Musee dArt and Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This title comprises of fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a lifetime.