Peter McDonald

The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonalds new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The thirty-three hymns are poetic accounts of ancient Greek gods, including Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Poseidon. Some of the poems are micro-epics in their own right, recounting the lives and affairs of the divine; taken together, they form a meditation on the primal themes of love, war, betrayal, desire, and paternity, and contemplate the dangerous proximity of gods and men. The book includes a new translation of the Life of Homer, a narrative incorporating the shorter poems known as Homers Epigrams, attributed to Pseudo-Herodotus. Two appendices provide verse translations of episodes from Homers Odyssey and Hesiods Theogony, while McDonald gives fresh versions throughout of relevant passages from Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and other Greek poets. The accompanying notes and commentaries on the poems are the most generous and authoritative of any translation. This book revives an ancient classic for the twenty-first century.

Herne the Hunter is the sixth collection from one of Irelands most accomplished lyric poets. In this new body of work, Peter McDonald deepens his interest in myth and storytelling through the legend of Herne, a phantom huntsman of English folklore. In McDonalds poetic treatment of the legend, opposing forces are held in tension: body and soul, present and past, possession and desire, death and life. The collections two-part structure causes the poems to reflect and distort in a version of what Yeats called a troubled mirror: a sequence of Petrarchan sonnets is set against a Shakespearean sonnet sequence; stanzaic poems, shorter pieces, and longer compositions also meet their own images across the book, resulting in a complex symmetry of forms. Subjects in these poems stretch from game animals to Japanese swords, and from tree-catalogues to the constellations. The volume draws energy from struggles between irreconcilable imperatives, especially the need for pursuit and the desperation for escape, and the intimacy between the hunter and the hunted. McDonalds Herne - not quite man, nor spirit, nor beast - opens up a world in which time is felt passing through blood, in which one might listen to the cries of stones, where the weather is the news, and like the news / it has no meaning.

The poems in The Gifts of Fortune, Peter McDonalds seventh book of poems, cover a spectrum of personal history. They go to Belfast, Oxford, and further afield; in time they visit the poets pasts, his now, his possible futures. Autobiographical detail abounds: McDonalds experiences (as a workingclass boy in Belfast, who dreams of leaving, and a middleaged Oxford don, who dreams of going back) are filtered through a deep instinct for poetic tradition. At the heart of the book are two sequences: one, Mud, in which family, professional, and literary histories are combined in strictly formal, but personally unguarded, reflections on poetry, class, and privilege; and another, Blindness, where a series of tenline units test poetic form to (and beyond) breaking-point, in a meditation on family and suffering, disappointment and hope. Other poems return to themes of wealth and poverty, love and loss, and the alienation and puzzlement of age. Throughout the book, form is ghosted by the formless, hovering just beyond the frame; and Fortune vies with Fate, quite another force.

In the five volumes of poetry he has published since 1989, Peter McDonald explores an intimately known territory that becomes strange: pulled out of shape by history, made unfamiliar by distance, made new by the attentive imagination. McDonalds Collected Poems is a sustained meditation on place and belonging, loss and love. The classical world is a haunting presence; the landscape of McDonalds poems resonates with past voices, with memories and acts of remembrance. The assured and scrupulous craft that creates the telling detail, the unsettling depth, has made him one of the most important Northern Irish writers of his generation.

Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a wide poetic landscape, from Belfast in the troubled 1970s to contemporary England, from personal recollection to a fragment of Sapphos memory of her youth, eloquent across millennia; from ancient myth to rock music. At the centre of Torchlight is a major new translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a Greek text which, in McDonalds hands, resonates with the concerns and discoveries of the books shorter poems, and brings the mystery cult of Eleusis into an unnerving conjunction with the losses, recoveries and revelations elsewhere in the collection. McDonalds powerful lyric poetry is both complex and memorable, light and vigorous. His is an original and distinctive voice in Irish poetry.

The Oxford Book of Medical Quotations presents a wonderfully entertaining and eclectic range of quotations covering all aspects of medicine through the ages. It couples profound statements from famous scientists with witty one-liners from the likes of Woody Allen and Spike Milligan. Packed with hundreds of quotations, it is a book that anyone in the medical profession, or with an interest in health, will find an invaluable source of reference hand considerable entertainment. The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations presents a wonderfully entertaining and eclectic range of quotations covering all aspects of medicine through the ages. It couples profound statements from famous scientists with witty one-liners from the likes of Woody Allen and Spike Milligan. Packed with hundreds of quotations, it is a book that anyone in the medical profession, or with an interest in health, will find invaluable as a source of reference and considerable entertainment. Anticancer Research No.25 The reader will find a wealth of material to browse in this Oxford Dictionary; it should charm and amuse, and also provide material for use in speeches or articles for publication. British Journal of Anaesthesia This incisive, rather punchy little book is packed with such quotes, making a highly engaging read... This book has its rightful place - within easy reach - on the bookshelves of all health professionals and social commentators. It will add colour, depth and a sense of place in history to your thought processes, presentations and eventual quotes of your own. Palliative Medicine This is a wonderfully stimulating and entertaining collection of quotations covering all aspects of medicine, from antiquity to the present. You can browse, reflect, smile, and even laugh out loud... Wonderful holiday reading! IAHPC Website Absolutely fascinating... It is impossible to open this book at any page without finding something that will interest or entertain you... The rich and famous are certainly well represented in compilation and quite rightly so. Then there are real gems, including those from the most unlikely sources... This book is a little treasure. The Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists It''s no laughing matter going to the doctor but at least this collection of cracking quotes can make the visit more bearable. Northern Echo If you wish to pepper a presentation or if you enjoy writing... then you will find much in this volume to

The poems in One Little Room enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limits of concentrated meditation and formal shape alike.Poems inhabit the surroundings of a Belfast childhood, pushing these into dimensions where time and space play tricks on memory and circumstance. Boxes, lost travelling trunks, and small volumes enclosed in the dark are transformed into bright gateways to freshly imagined realities. Public and private histories undergo radical reconstruction in the sequence Centenary, where a hundred years of Northern Ireland and the century since the birth of the poets father coincide to produce a different kind of history; a series of discursive poems addressed to different women mark, like standing stones, the books developing engagements with past, present and future. From Harry Houdini in a milk-churn to the French poet St.-John Perse in the same room with Hitler; from Emerson in New England to Yeats at Rosses Point and Omaha Beach; and from the work on free paraphrases of the Psalms to the work done in a carpet-fitters cutting room in the 1970s, poems here repeatedly turn confinement inside-out. In this, his eighth collection, Peter McDonald effects transformations of memory and history, loss and love.

1. El animal y sus alimentos - 2. Carbohidratos - 3. Lípidos - 4. Proteínas, ácidos nucleicos y otros compuestos nitrogenados - 5. Vitaminas - 6. Minerales - 7. Enzimas - 8. Digestión - 9. Metabolismo - 10. Valoracion de los alimentos (A) Digestibilidad - 11. Valoracion de los alimentos (B) Contenido energetico de los alimentos y distribucion de la energia en el animal - 12. Valoracion de los alimentos (C) Sistemas para expresar el valor energetico de los alimentos - 13. Valoracion de los alimentos (D) Proteina - 14. Necesidades nutritivas para el mantenimiento y el crecimiento - 15. Necesidades nutritivas para la reproduccion - 16. Lactacion - 17. Ingestion voluntaria de alimentos - 18. La nutricion animal y los consumidores de productos de origen animal - 19. Hierba y cultivos forrajeros - 20. Ensilado - 21. Heno, forrajes deshidratados artificialmente, pajas y granzas - 22. Raices, tuberculos y subproductos relacionados - 23. Granos de cereales y sus subproductos - 24. Concentrados proteicos - 25. Aditivos - Apendice I: Soluciones de los problemas - Apendice II: Notas acerca de las tablas.

The latest edition of this classic text has been reorganised to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the science and practice of animal nutrition. Animal Nutrition is split into six main sections covering: The components of food; The digestion and metabolism of nutrients; Quantifying the nutrient content of foods: digestibility, energy and protein values; The nutrient requirements of animals; The nutritional characteristics of foods; and Animal products and human nutrition. The Appendices provides comprehensive tables on the composition of foods and feeding standards for dairy and beef cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry, and horses.