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    Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging
    Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging
    Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging
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    Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging

    By Rachel Piercey and Emma Dai'an Wright

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    How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? What if you reject your home or your home rejects you? Homesickness and Exile is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of countries and cities. Poems about homecoming, departure and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity, and a recurring theme is the yearning for a sense of belonging and acceptance by a place. This anthology is inspired by the Tristia, a collection of poems written by the Roman poet Ovid after he was banished from Rome by the Emperor for an unknown misdemeanour. Homesickness and Exile expands on Ovid's themes and considers spiritual as well as physical exile in the modern world, with poets writing about rootlessness and geographical ennui.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateAug 10, 2018
    ISBN9781910139103
    Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and Belonging
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    Emma Dai'an Wright

    Emma Dai'an Wright (1986) is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 70 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. In 2016 The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers. She lives in Birmingham.

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      Homesickness and Exile - Rachel Piercey

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      Homesickness and Exile

      Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

      With poems from Ivy Alvarez, Zeina Hashem Beck, Alex Bell, Carole Bromley, Mary Buchinger, George David Clark, James Coghill, Ellie Danak, Cath Drake, Frank Dullaghan, John Froy, Charlotte Higgins, Holly Hopkins, Elizabeth Horne, Anja Konig, Eve Lacey, Gill Learner, Rachel Long, Marissa Mazek, John McCullough, Cheryl Moskowitz, Selina Nwulu, Richard O’Brien, Lisa Ortiz, Rachel Piercey, Stephen Sexton, Vili Skarlopoulou and James Trevelyan.

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      A Guide to Using This Ebook

      When I started the Emma Press, I wanted to create the kinds of books which people wanted to carry with them, to read on busy commutes and on holiday. Homesickness and Exile is especially appropriate for this, so thank you for buying this ebook.

      The difficulty of formatting poetry ebooks

      Some of the poems in this book have experimental layouts, with multiple levels of indentation and gaps between words on lines. This is difficult to recreate in an ebook, because the ebook can be read on so many different devices which each treat formatting slightly differently.

      My solution

      I want to create reflowable ebooks instead of fixed-format ebooks, which only really work on large tablet devices like iPads. So, to make this reflowable ebook work, I’ve done my best with the formatting on difficult poems but also included a screencap of how the poem looks on the printed page. This means that you can still adjust the size of the text, but you can also see how the poet intended the poem to be read.

      — Emma Wright, 21/9/14

      Copyright

      First published in Great Britain in 2014

      by the Emma Press Ltd

      Poems copyright © individual copyright holders 2014

      Selection copyright © Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright 2014

      Illustrations and introduction copyright © Emma Wright 2014

      All rights reserved.

      The right of Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

      to be identified as the editors of this work

      has been asserted by them in accordance

      with the Copyright, Designs

      and Patents Act 1988.

      eISBN 978-1-910139-10-3

      Print ISBN 978-1-910139-02-8

      A CIP catalogue record of this book

      is available from the British Library.

      theemmapress.com

      editor@theemmapress.com

      Contents

      A Guide to Using this Ebook

      Copyright

      Preface, by Emma Wright

      Light on the Galactic Tide, by Anja Konig

      Dundalk, by Frank Dullaghan

      Homecoming, by Selina Nwulu

      Yellow Sea Night, by James Trevelyan

      Emigrant, by Carole Bromley

      Foreign, by Mary Buchinger

      Ithaca, NY, by Anja Konig

      Prodigalia, by George David Clark

      One Morning, Borås, by James Coghill

      Paris, Texas, by Alex Bell

      Coming down, by Elizabeth Horne

      Mzungu, by Cheryl Moskowitz

      Away, by Carole Bromley

      Exile, by Charlotte Higgins

      Women of Corinth, by Eve Lacey

      Aunty, by Rachel Long

      Hiding from a Mouse, by Holly Hopkins

      On Rosebery Avenue, by Rachel Piercey

      Coming Home, by Ellie Danak

      The Town, by Alex Bell

      Ariel, by Charlotte Higgins

      What Greta Garbo Offered, by Ivy Alvarez

      The Restaurant at One Thousand Feet, by John McCullough

      Winged Carrots, by Zeina Hashem Beck

      The boy travels, by Elizabeth Horne

      The Terminal Building, by Carole Bromley

      Leaving Perth, October 2012, by Cath Drake

      Samovar, by Marissa Mazek

      Interview Conducted through the Man-Eater’s Throat, by George David Clark

      Forgetting How to Swim, by Richard O’Brien

      In a local café, by Vili Skarlopoulou

      Skype, by Stephen Sexton

      England, where did you go?, by Holly Hopkins

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