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Erebus book5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people since the 1840s. Told in a very relaxed and sometimes - as you might expect - very funny Palin style.' David Baddiel, Daily Mail Carefully researched and well-crafted, it brings the story of a ship vividly to life.' Sunday Times of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke. The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we've all been waiting for.' Nicholas Crane is home to latest books,second hand books,old books,rare books. It's a fascinating story that brings full-bloodedly to life.' Guardian Now available: Michael Palin's North Korea Journals ![]() Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 years. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic, along with the HMS Terror. On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. She died in 2021.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror She was the author of two previous poetry collections: Stormthrower (Wolsak and Wynn, 2002) and Return from Erebus (Brick Books, 2010), the latter of which received the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award. whole sections of the Book of Lorgar across his shaven scalp to terrify his enemies. She also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa before returning to Canada and settling in rural Nova Scotia where she worked as a potter to support her poetry habit. Erebus is a senior Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. She spent a decade living in the U.S., most notably in Alaska and Georgia. Julia McCarthy was originally from Toronto, ON. Reading this book makes me ecstatic about poetry.” - Don Domanski They stir the mind and mend the heart because they show us the world with compelling, evocative words that lift us into the intimacies of light and darkness. ![]() Her voice is authoritative and subtle, rich with the resonances of lived experiences that are actualized, and laid out before the reader in a superb embodiment of attentiveness. Intuition and art combine to bring evocative and graceful language to fruition on every page. These poems take the reader through a multitude of experiences that are centred viscerally in the spirit, and its reactions to the universe. There’s a quiet urgency that carries the weight of intent and imagination perfectly. There’s a mental/spiritual acuteness running through the book, an awareness that is keen and highly developed, both in terms of language and the fierce depth of vision. “It’s immediately evident when you start reading this collection that these poems are testimonies to a poet who can straddle internal/external realities with complete eloquence. The poems articulate this darkness with such keen and evocative vision and language that it appears to be made of light they explore the richness of being, the ephemeral nature of our experience, and its inherent grief, where “jays smash like blue china/flung into the trees/and fly away mending themselves” and you “hear rain and the river/the sound of water walking on itself again.” Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy’s Return from Erebus.
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