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A
Collect of Voices
by Roy Holland |
UK price:
£8.99
US price:
$12.79
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 164
ISBN: 978-1908026231
Published: Diadem
Books Aug 2011 |
Book Description
These poems by Roy Holland
reflect a wide range of
experience and insights, as
well as places, indeed,
continents, where the
different settings and
cultures inspired the poet.
He had always been a keen
observer of life and his
environment, from whatever
or whichever of the many
spheres of life he had been
engaged in, whether it be
engineering, teaching, or
lecturing in a university,
and his settings range from
industrial Britain to the
rugged and dry terrain of
Lesotho. When it comes to
Africa, his ability to see
'deep down things' (in the
words of Hopkins) is more
evident than ever. He was
not a tourist with a camera,
but a true poet with an
artist's perception that
goes deeper than the eye can
see. There is something of
D. H. Lawrence's dark god or
dark force that comes from
below, that informs the
African veldt or the Maluti
Mountains with latent
vitality.
About the author
Roy Holland
was born in Birmingham. He
went to Africa in 1966 to
teach in the universities of
the Boleswa countries. In
1971 he went to Greece for
three years. He and his
family lived on the island
of Levkas for six months,
the Gulf of Corinth for a
similar period, and in Corfu
for a little over two years.
He wrote full-time until
1974, when he returned to
the U.K. and worked on a
research project until
returning to Africa in 1977.
Thereafter he lived in
Southern Africa and worked
in universities in Zimbabwe,
Lebowa and Venda. He was
Professor of English at the
University of the North, the
University of Venda, as well
as Dean of the Faculty of
Arts in the later 80's.
Available from the
following on-line
bookstores:
Other
works by Roy Holland:
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THE
NOWHERE MAN
by Roy Holland
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UK price:
£8.99 US
price:
$17.95
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US
trade)
Pages: 262
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-0-6
Published: July-2008
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A young man
in
Birmingham,
in the
sixties,
escapes the
humdrum
mundanity of
life through
fantasies,
tries to
find
himself, and
finally
escapes his
dead-end
lifestyle by
gaining a
place at a
university.
NOW LEAD
ME HOME
by Roy
Holland
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UK
price:
£10.99
US
price:
$21.95
Publisher:
DIADEM
BOOKS
Format:
Paperback:
Perfect
binding
, cream
interior
Size : 6
x 9 (US
trade)
Pages:
262
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-2-0
Published:
July-2008
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In this third book of the ‘Jonathan Three’, the experiences conveyed by the protagonist’s stream-of-consciousness place the reader in the mind of the young man who eventually finds real love and meaning in a fulfilling relationship.
THE WAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN
A Play for Voices
by Roy Holland |
UK price: £6.99 US price: $15.02
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 98
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-3-7
Published: July-2008 |
It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play – a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature – could have taken place
ALAN
PATON SPEAKING
The Lintrose
Conversations:
Interview with Alan
Paton
by Roy Holland
edited by Charles
Muller |
UK price:
£14.60 US
price:
$28.95
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US
trade)
Pages: 114
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-4-4
Published:
August-2008
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This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton’s home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into Paton’s life, his political involvement as the founder of the Liberal party in South Africa, and his writings.
Contact the author by
email:
roy@royholland.fsnet.co.uk
 Roy
Holland
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