Each Man is an Island - a poem by Thor May (2015) (original) (raw)

No Man is an Island' - Crossing Thresholds: Journeying with the recent poetry of Syd Harrex

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2016

As John Donne wrote, ‘No man is an island, entire of itself’. 1 Perhaps drawing upon Donne’s reflection, Syd Harrex has described his inheritance as islandic. His island-self was created in the Australian island State of Tasmania where he lived out his first three decades. Stories of shipwrecks and imagined maroonings shaped Syd’s boyhood games; his island childhood influenced not only by the visceral experience of living separate from the main, but also by the literature of islands, such as Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Barrie’s The Coral Island, Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Golding’s The Lord of the Flies, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In adulthood, Syd had a long association with Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is in the tranquil town of Penneshaw that Syd’s more recent writing-self had found a place of solace, inspiration, and respite. Overlooking Backstairs Passage, the narrow body of water that separates the island that locals call KI from the South Australian mainland, Pen...

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No man is an island - Anarchism and social complexity in Western Zealand 550-1350, 2019

'No Man is an Island' No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Archipelagos: Poems from Writing the North (editor)

2014

The book Archipelagos was commissioned by the Writing the North project ( http://www.writingthenorth.com). It includes poems by Raman Mundair, Robert Alan Jamieson Morag MacInnes, Jim Mainland, Yvonne Gray, Alison Miller Pamela Beasant and Jen Hadfield. It comes with an introductory essay by Penny Fielding and Mark Smith.

Every Man is an Island: A Transtextual Study on the Chinese Sonnets of Feng Zhi

Malta University Press, 2020

Every Man is an Island offers a translation and a transtextual study on the poem collection The Sonnets of Chinese lyricist Feng Zhi (1905-1993) as well as notes on the life and poetic style and ideology of the same author. Feng Zhi was a distinguished translator and professor of German literature with a deep knowledge of the poetry of Goethe, Novalis and Rilke. Regarded as one of the most refined lyricists and sonnet writers in early modern Chinese literature, Feng Zhi’s mystical poetry manifest a gradual shift from Romanticism to Modernism and addresses some of the most relevant themes that interested Chinese intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century: individualism, love, poetic transcendence, loneliness and interpersonal relationships. The twenty-seven sonnets analysed in this work encapsulate the mature thought and poetry of Feng Zhi and portray a poetic journey of the individual in modern China. The monograph also contains unpublished photos of the Chinese poet. (To order a copy of the monograph, you may contact Malta University Press or the author on salvatore.giuffre@um.edu.mt who will guide you accordingly)