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The poet and the science writer are the same person. - Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry (Editor) 120 copies, 1 review
- The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature 113 copies, 3 reviews
- Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage 35 copies
- Our Land, Ourselves: Readings on People and Place 30 copies, 1 review
- Flightless Birds & Birds of Prey 26 copies
- The Great Remembering: Further Thoughts on Land, Soul and Society 24 copies
- Rodents 21 copies
- Insects 16 copies
- Coming to Land in a Troubled World 11 copies
- Jordens djur. 15, Djurens liv och byggnad 7 copies
- A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living 7 copies
- We Have Come Through 7 copies, 1 review
- Nanowetenschap reuzen van het oneindig kleine 5 copies, 2 reviews
- Picador Book of Wedding Poems 4 copies
- All the Poems You Need to Say I Do 3 copies
- What Comes Next...and How to Like it: New Poetry from America (Poetry… 3 copies
- What Is a Whole Community: A Letter to Those Who Care for and Restore the… 2 copies
- Out Loud (Poetry Review) 2 copies
- The Complaints 2 copies
- Poetry Review: Requiem for the 20th Century (vol. 88, no. 4, 1998/99) 2 copies
- Poetry Review: And So Farewell (vol. 89, no. 4, 1999/2000) 2 copies
- Poetry Review: Jostling at the Sacred Gate (vol. 82, no. 3, 1992) 2 copies
- Poetry Review, volume 90, no.1, Spring 2000: Poetry places 2 copies
- New Generation Poets: Poetry Review Special Issue 2 copies
- Poetry Review Volume 91 No. 2 Summer 2001 (Seven Years On - Part 2) 2 copies
- The International Brigade (Poetry Review) 2 copies
- Strange attraction: Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, Poetry… 1 copy
- Seven years on, part one, Poetry Review, Vol. 91 No. 1 1 copy
- Mangoes, rice and peas: Poetry Review, Vol. 90 No. 4 1 copy
- Kensington 1 copy
- Gecko's Foot, The 1 copy, 1 review
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Peter Forbes has 1 past event. (show)  Peter Forbes, A Man Apart A Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own. Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to contemporary society, and was often compared to Henry David Thoreau. Much like Helen and Scott Nearing, who were his friends and mentors, Coperthwaite led a 55-year-long "experiment in living" on a remote stretch of Maine coast. There he created a homestead of wooden, multistoried yurts, a form of architecture for which he was known around the world. Coperthwaite also embodied a philosophy that he called "democratic living," which was about empowering all people to have agency over their lives in order to create a better community. The central question of Coperthwaite's life was, "How can I live according to what I believe?"
In this intimate and honest account—framed by Coperthwaite's sudden death and brought alive through the month-long adventure of building with him what would turn out to be his last yurt—Forbes and Whybrow explore the timeless lessons of Coperthwaite's experiment in intentional living and self-reliance. They also reveal an important story about the power and complexities of mentorship: the opening of one's life to someone else to learn together, and carrying on in that person’s physical absence.
While mourning Coperthwaite's death and coming to understand the real meaning of his life and how it endures through their own, Forbes and Whybrow craft a story that reveals why it's important to seek direct experience, to be drawn to beauty and simplicity, to create rather than critique, and to encourage others.
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