Common Cause William J. Fishman

Common Cause William J. FishmanPoetry on the history of utopia, revolution and hope, introduced by Booker Prize winning author John Berger. "Communism," wrote Brecht, "is the simple idea so hard to achieve." Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea, from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Common Cause is a history of the defeated, a book about enthusiasm and illusion, heroes and martyrs, saints and sinners. It is an epic, a

the online critical journal seventeen seconds and (with Jennifer Mulligan) the trade literary publishing house Chaudiere Books

direct archival research

talks about class and politics as well as love and art

He has also written a collection of short fiction

Etel Adnan

an American visiting a provincial New Zealand town is gradually caught up in her host’s immersion in Maori culture

John Hicks

bringing parallels with Ovid’s famous poem describing his last night before exile

With many examples

The ideological battles of the 1930s tested consciences and saw writers develop an overtly political message

The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry

you can be what you want to be