Results for "Prior, Michael"

The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering of millions of peopl... Read More about Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique (Biblical Seminar)

Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity.Canada-Japan Literary Award, WinnerDorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, WinnerRaymond Souster Award, ShortlistAmid the reco... Read More about Burning Province: Poems

The failure of the left in Britain to achieve its objectives in the past, and the rapidly changing nature of popular involvement in politics in recent years, both suggest the need for a reappraisal of socialist strategy in the 1980s. The Popular and the Political explores the need to redefine social... Read More about The Popular and the Political Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 43

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention: “I am all that is wrong with the Old ... Read More about Model Disciple

The North of England has suffered huge losses of industry and people over the past decades. This book is about that loss.... Read More about The Grim North