James Garratt: 9 books

What do you know about engines, wagons and animals in China, India, Pakistan, Philippines and Paraguay?Some of you may never have been to these countries so we want to show you some trains and people with their animals who live and work there.Inside our new book you can see photos of trains and try to do the quiz questions. You will be able to check the places on the map.

Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic...

This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics changed over time and across cultures, and are...

NATURE RESERVE ON THE CITY'S EDGE " In this book James E Garratt has written a love story, a tone poem... It's astonishing to think that something this relatively untouched still exists in the Anthropocene Age. But it's not in a fairy tale book, it's in Vaughan [Ontario, Canada]. Garratt...

The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto. Fed by the Oak Ridges Moraine, the Rouge river system has, over generations of time, cut its identity...

In Journeys Into Algonquin Park, Garratt explores interior and exterior landscapes that appear to exist outside the boundaries of space and time. Contains four poem cycles.and photos by the author, all pertaining to explorations within Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Print version is currently available at the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre Bookstore, km 43, Hwy 60.

Poem sequence based on a 1980's solo canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Although the city itself is left behind, some things cannot be evaded, only seen from new perspectives. This is Volume 2 in my Algonquin Park Series, of which Poem To Algonquin Park is Volume 1, and which Shanty...

Poem sequence inspired by the old-time logging era, which extended from 1893 into the 1970's, in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Today, scattered ruins tell of that past. Also, too, a kind of haunting music that is heard by those who visit the Park, and listen carefully.

In 2018 Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, quietly marked its 125th anniversary. The author has been exploring the Park for almost sixty of those years by canoe, camping and hiking. His most recent visit in the autumn of 2018, provided time for reflection, and inspired this poem sequence. It...