Nick Hayes

Climbing the Fences That Divide England

The Book of Trespass

A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his talea Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world's litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-inch salp (the human race's oceanic ancestor), a blue whale and a hermit. Nostradamus, Cassandra, Medusa, Poseidon, Thor, Gaia, Al-Javari, Mephistopheles and a buzzard also make cameo appearances.

The Rime of the Modern Mariner

Drunken Sailor

The Drunken Sailor traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his relationship with Verlaine to his flight into the jungles of Indonesia and the deserts of Yemen and Egypt. Told entirely in Rimbaud’s own words, from a new translation of Le bateau ivre, The Drunken Sailor confirms Nick Hayes’ place as one of the most talented graphic novelists at work today.

The Life of the Poet Arthur Rimbaud in His Own Words

The Drunken Sailor

Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his pal­ette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually a battered guitar, Guthrie finds solace in the ancient lineage of folksong. Hayes charts the musician's course from Oklahoma and Texas towns ravaged by dust and the Depression to boxcars, factory farms, and the migrant camps of California, highlighting Guthrie's dedication to singing American folk tunes and creating his own modern classics along the way. Hayes ends his portrait in 1940, at the pivotal time when Guthrie makes his way to New York and writes "This Land Is Your Land," his iconic anthem tinged with both clear-eyed reality and optimism.

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads

This is the story of a girl and a boy and and a deserted reservoir. The girl wants only to impress her mother, and finds the perfect challenge to prove herself. The boy suffers a tragedy, becomes fixated with a lost memento and makes it his mission to find it. The water is where, one day, the two will meet. Cormorance is a story of an accidental encounter, an unbreakable bond, and the redemptive force of connecting with the natural world. A wordless, purely visual story, it is - like any work by Nick Hayes - a book of the utmost beauty, and a wonder to hold in your hand.

Cormorance

Jeff Hill

Brings together recent historical research on cultural production and reception during WWII, focusing on war-specific agencies such as the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, and on major national institutions including the BBC and the British film industry. Examines how cultural provision was viewed by workers and the labor movement, and looks at the role of established writers and composers. Hayes is lecturer in modern and contemporary history and Hill is reader in historical and cultural studies, both at Nottingham Trent University. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

British Culture in the Second World War

'Millions Like Us'?

The Trespasser's Companion is a short, celebratory and urgent book about the land and our access to it. It is a call to adventure, a love letter to nature and, because in England we are excluded from 94% of the land, a gently seditious guide to trespass. With brilliant immediacy Nick Hayes shows how we can reclaim our lost connection to the land. From how to play in nature to how to leave no trace, this is an inspiring handbook to take out in your pocket. The book also features a host of passionate and expert environmental contributors including Robert Macfarlane and Guy Shrubsole. This Companion echoes the travel guides of yesteryear with beautiful woodcuts integrated throughout. This is a beautiful nature giftbook with a very modern edge.

The Trespasser's Companion

The Trespasser's Companion is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it: by trespassing. We may be excluded from the majority of our land, no less than 92% in England, but bestselling nature writer and trespasser Nick Hayes shows how we can reclaim our lost connection. By engaging with the land through craft and learning and by caring for it, our relationship with the countryside will be better for us, and better for nature. Interwoven are testimonials from expert contributors – farmers and landworkers, activists and authors - each with deeply personal stories of what a connection to nature means for them. With exquisite woodcut illustrations throughout, this is both a love letter to nature and a call to action.

Duncan Brown

For those involved in marketing and sales, this book offers essential analysis of how to identify who has influence, how they apply it, and how marketers can turn it to their advantage. This work is one of the first books to give an overview of one of the fastest growing marketing techniques to have emerged in the last ten years.

Who Really Influences Your Customers?

Influencer Marketing

Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People – men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond their control. Guthrie’s influence lives on, a touchstone for Bob Dylan, The Clash and the protest singers of the Occupy movement today. With a delighted eye, and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayes’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rime of the Modern Mariner brings a legend to life with a generous spirit and crackling moral force its subject would have been proud of.

And the Dust Bowl Ballads

Woody Guthrie

Rob Cowen

A year of looking, listening and noticing across four unique seasons and thirty-five beautifully illustrated poems. The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely. Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes paint a picture of a year caught in the grip of history yet filled with unforgettable moments. A sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved one's hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. The Heeding leads us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, it is a profound meditation to a time no one will forget. 'Rob Cowen, the acclaimed nature writer and author Common Ground, joins forces with printmaker Nick Hayes for this luminous sequence of poems, which forms a meditation on our relationship with the natural world through four seasons of a global pandemic.' - Caroline Sanderson, Editor's Choice, The Bookseller 'Dazzling' ROBERT MACFARLANE ⬤ 'Breathtaking!' DARA MCANULTY ⬤ 'Exquisite' LUCY JONES ⬤ 'Poetic' JOANNE HARRIS ⬤ 'Tender' TIM DEE ⬤ 'Beautiful' WILLEM DAFOE ⬤ 'It glows' JACKIE MORRIS

The Heeding

Icone du mouvement folk des annees 1960, Woody Guthrie est ne en 1912 en Oklahoma. C'est une figure emblematique de la musique populaire americaine. Apres une enfance marquee par d'innombrables tragedies, Woody doit, des l'adolescence, vivre de ses talents de musicien, en jouant dans la rue. Chasse par la misere, il s'installe en Californie au debut des annees 30 ou il acquiert son statut de chanteur contestataire en s'opposant aux milices des entreprises fruitieres de l'Etat.Sa reputation d'agitateur lui vaut nombre de demeles avec la police et la justice. Dans cet esprit, il compose une ballade en l'honneur de Tom Joad, le heros des raisins de la colere de John Steinbeck dont il partage les combats. Dust Bowl Ballads, enregistre a New York en 1940 est son plus celebre album. A cette epoque, il emmenage a New York ou il s'impose comme le plus fameux -Protest Singer-de Greenwich Village.Il decede le 3 octobre 1967, vaincu par la maladie de Huntington. Son folklore protestataire a exerce une influence majeure sur des artistes comme Bob Dylan, Joan Baez ou Bruce Springsteen.Ce magnifique album est une biographie romancee de la vie de Woody Guthrie, un homme engage, un poete, mais surtout le plus grand songwriter de tous les temps.Nick Hayes, son auteur, vit dans l'est de Londres. Il a commence sa carriere comme dessinateur politique dans le quotidien -The Guardian-. Plusieurs fois prime pour ses romans graphiques, il est aujourd'hui l'un des meilleurs auteurs de BD, outre-manche."

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