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Selected Poems Robert Burns Penguin Classics
This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns\'s reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie\'s Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O\' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems Tomas Transtromer Penguin Classics
Over the course of his career, Tomas Tranströmer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden\'s landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century\'s essential global voices. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, his luminous, almost mystical work had been translated into more than 50 languages.Gathering his poems from the early, nature-focused work to the later poetry\'s widening of the scope to take in painting, travel, urban life, and the impositions of technology on the natural world, and stirred throughout by the poet\'s profound love of music, The Half-Finished Heaven is a unique selection from Tranströmer\'s work. It is also, in its way, a deeply intimate one: the poems hand-picked here are not only the most beloved, but also those which were translated in the course of Tranströmer\'s nearly thirty-year correspondence with his close friend and collaborator, the American poet Robert Bly. Few names are more strongly associated with Tranströmer\'s; and few people have understood not only his poetry, but the processes behind it, more profoundly. The result is perhaps the best English-language introduction to this great and strange poet\'s work that there could be. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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Works and Days Hesiod Penguin Classics
\'Stallings\'s new translation of Hesiod\'s Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed\' TLS, Books of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARDA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet A. E. Stallings.Hesiod was the first self-styled \'poet\' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his lazy brother, Works and Days tells the story of Pandora\'s jar and humanity\'s place in a fallen world. Blending the cosmic and the earthy, and mixing myth, lyrical description, personal asides, astronomy, proverbs and down-to-earth advice on rural tasks and rituals, it is also a hymn to honest toil as man\'s salvation. This vibrant new verse translation by award-winning poet A. E. Stallings conveys the clarity and unexpected humour of a founding work of classical literature. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Penguin Classics
A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran\'s The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield.First published in the 1920\'s, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century, and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran\'s Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, of finding divinity through love, blends eastern mysticism, religious faith and philosophy with simple advice. The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today. This edition is illustrated with Gibran\'s famous visionary paintings.Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a poet, philosopher and artist, who stands among the most important Arabic language authors of the early twentieth century. Born in Lebanon, he spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States, where for many years he was the leader of a Lebansese writing circle in New York. He is the author of numerous volumes, including The Garden of the Prophet, The Storm, The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart, The Vision, Reflections on the Way of the Soul, and Spirit Brides. If you enjoyed The Prophet, you might like Herman Hesse\'s Siddhartha, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\'His work goes on from generation to generation\'Daily Mail\'To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware ... of a more intense level of being\'Independent Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Gilded Pocket Edition Arcturus
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda Jonathan Cape Ltd
A sensual, tender collection to be cherished by lovers new and oldPablo Neruda was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. This, his third collection, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada, or, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, was first published in 1924 and attracted international acclaim. Still adored the world over, the collection is ambitiously metaphorical and sensuous. Inspired by Neruda\'s own personal relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is evidence of a genius poet at work. A perfect present for your beloved on Valentine\'s Day. Σελίδες: 68, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm
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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam Penguin Classics
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba\'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one of its most accomplished masters with his touching meditations on the transience of human life and of the natural world. One of the supreme achievements of medieval literature, the reckless romanticism and the pragmatic fatalism in the face of death means these verses continue to hold the imagination of modern readers. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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Endpoint and Other Poems John Updike Penguin Books Ltd
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike\'s work is at its most touching and poignant. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho Penguin Classics
More or less 150 years after Homer\'s Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry. Σελίδες: 160, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman Penguin Classics
A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with revisions by Archie Burnett and an afterword by John Sparrow.\'What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those?\'In this collection, A. E. Housman\'s poems, including\'To an Athlete Dying Young\', \'Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now\' and \'When I Was One-and-Twenty\', conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. Their scope is wide - ranging from religious doubt and doomed love to intense nostalgia for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the life of the soldier - and they are made all the more memorable by their distinctive diction and perfectly modulated rhythm and sound. This volume brings together the works Housman published in his lifetime, A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922), along with the posthumous selections More Poems and Additional Poems, and three translations of extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides that display his mastery of Classical literature.This edition has been revised by Archie Burnett and includes updated notes on the text and indexes of first lines and titles. In his afterword, John Sparrow discusses Housman\'s methods of writing and melancholic temperament.Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.If you enjoyed A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, you might like John Clare\'s Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics. Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Selected Poems: Keats John Keats Penguin Classics
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should ‘be among the English poets after my death’. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earliest known poem ‘Imitation of Spenser’; poems from his celebrated collection of 1820 - including ‘Lamia’, ‘Isabella’, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Hyperion’ - and later celebrated works such as ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. Also included are many poems considered by Keats to be lesser work, but which illustrate his more earthy, playful side and superb ear for everyday language. Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Poems to Learn by Heart Ana Sampson Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
\'Paths of glory\', \'Theirs not to reason why\', \'When you are old and grey and full of sleep\', \'A handful of dust\', \'Shall I compare thee to a summer\'s day\'.___________\'Glorious\' – Tribune\'Superb\' – The Good Book Guide ___________These and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of the poem?An anthology to warm the coldest heart or charm the least romantic soul, this is a collection of poems (or in some cases, extracts) that are not only memorable, but lend themselves to being learned by heart.This is the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry, providing a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved lines remembered from earlier days. Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Point No Point: Selected Poems Sujata Bhatt Carcanet Press Ltd
Sujata Bhatt\'s first book of poems, the award-winning Brunizem, appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (Gujarati), about America and Britain, and about Germany where she now lives. She is, the New Statesman declared, \'one of the finest poets alive\', and alive in a unique way to language, to issues of politics and gender, to place and history. Her\'s is a remarkable complete imagination, generous and at the same time unsparingly severe in its quest for the difficult truths of experience. Σελίδες: 160
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Palace of Oblivion Peter Davidson Carcanet Press Ltd
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson\'s collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between languages and continents, English and Latin, the Spanish Netherlands and Spanish America, the Mediterranean and the north. The title sequence evokes a half-known, half-fantastic, seventeenth century; a shorter sequence transforms contemporary England through the eyes of a spy. The collection ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Erudite and witty, \"The Palace of Oblivion\" is about remembering and inventing out of memory, and provides haunting visions of decay and splendor. Σελίδες: 59
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Watering Can Caroline Bird Carcanet Press Ltd
Caroline Bird\'s two earlier collections were acclaimed for their exuberant energy, surreal imagination and passion - \'a bit of a Howl for a new generation\', wrote the \"Hudson Review\". \"Watering Can\" celebrates life as an early twenty-something. The poems, writes Caroline Bird, \'contain prophetic videos, a moon colonised by bullies, weeping scholars, laughing ducks, silent weddings - all the fertiliser that pours on top of your head.\' The extraordinary verve and compassion of her verse propels us into the anxiety of new responsibilities. Raw but never hopeless, \"Watering Can\" has comedy, wordplay and bright self-deprecation. Σελίδες: 84
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Through the Square Window Sinead Morrissey Carcanet Press Ltd
Sinead Morrissey\'s fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its consequences are rooted in literary and historical contexts - from Aristotle\'s theory of spontaneous generation to Lewis Carroll\'s Alice - that amplify her theme. Infancy is for Morrissey the rich and contested territory in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is disclosed. Σελίδες: 64
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There is an Anger That Moves Kei Miller Carcanet Press Ltd
The six sequences of \"There Is an Anger that Moves\" travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother\'s heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure of a hymn, sometimes to the cadence of a Baptist sermon. Each swells with its own conviction, even when that conviction is doubt. Miller makes us believe in the power of unexpected things: the colour orange, broken coffins, ice cream - and in the transforming power of poetry. From this book, Kei Miller emerges as one of the most compelling and subtle new voices from the Caribbean. Σελίδες: 80
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A Village Life Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
From a fountain where \'all the roads in the village unite\', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain\'s stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. Renowned as a lyrical poet of austere intensity, in \"A Village Life Louise Gluck\" evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision. Her focus is on moments of speculation and reflection in a dreamlike present tense. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm
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Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems Frank O'Hara Carcanet Press Ltd
Frank O\'Hara (1926-66) composed poems \'any time, any place\', collaborating with and inspired by a circle of artists, musicians and poets, immersed in the creative life of New York. For O\'Hara, the city was a place of possibility, both disorientating and exciting, and his poems have an immediacy that draws its energies from the pace and rhythms of city life, and from the contemporary artforms of jazz, film and painting. It is this openness to experience that makes O\'Hara an indispensable poet of the imaginative experience of the modern city. Reviewing this new selection in the Guardian, Charles Bainbridge wrote: \'Frank O\'Hara is a wonderful poet - funny, moving, chatty, engaging, enthusiastic, risk-taking, elegiac, supremely urban - and anything that encourages people to read him is a good thing. His poems have a disarming intimacy, a kind spontaneous enthusiasm and his work proves, with tremendous elan and energy, that you don\'t have to adopt a solemn tone in order to write poetry of seriousness and purpose. As O\'Hara himself says of the nature of writing in the brilliantly comic \"Personism: A Manifesto\": \"You just go on your nerve. If someone\'s chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don\'t turn around and shout, \'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep\'.\" \' Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0428
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Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection \'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it, perhaps in it, / or it carried me as a river carries / a boat\'. In Louise Gluck\'s new collection, night takes on the dimensions of myth, becomes the setting for a sequence of journeys and explorations through time and memory, as the speaker of the poems moves backwards into childhood and forwards into \'the kingdom of death\'. Gluck draws equally on the worlds of fairy-tale, of dream and of waking life, each poem a door into a narrative both haunting and compellingly beautiful. Σελίδες: 80
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Vita Nova Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
Louise Gluck\'s collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. \"Vita Nova\" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life. Vibrant, at times anguished, but never resigned, the voices in this collection are a reminder of both the pleasure and pain which accompany all our relationships. Gluck manages an act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human Hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart it. Σελίδες: 64
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Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery Carcanet Press Ltd
\"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics\' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino\'s famous self-portrait, has become Ashbery\'s best-known poem. It is accompanied here by a number of shorter pieces - playful, witty, elusive. The collection remains one of the most significant poetic achievements of our time. Σελίδες: 80
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Seven Ages Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
Louise Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortals. To read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle\'s metamorphoses into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, down-to-earth. \"The Seven Ages\" is Gluck\'s ninth book, one of her strangest and certainly her most bold. In it - like William Blake\'s mystical Thel - she gazes down at her own death and in so doing forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible. Her act at once defies and embraces the inevitable and is finally mimetic. Over and over, at each wild leap and transformation, flames shoot up the reader\'s spine. In an essay she writes, \"one of the revelations of art is the discovery of a tone or perspective at once wholly unexpected and wholly true to a set of materials\". This truth to materials -language, occasion, antecedent - is the proof of a poem. Σελίδες: 68
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Meadowlands Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
Includes Penelope\'s Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer\'s Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the homecoming. Σελίδες: 80
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Averno Louise Gluck Carcanet Press Ltd
Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck\'s latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Ancient myth is reanimated in the desolation of Persephone\'s laments for the lost warmth of earthly life. Both epic and intimate in scope, \"Averno\" explores the enduring drama of love and death. Σελίδες: 79
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A Woman without a Country Eavan Boland Carcanet Press Ltd
The poems in Eavan Boland\'s new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from generation to generation), the poems look closely at the ways in which we construct one another, and the ways in which - even without country, or settled identity - a legacy of connection and consolation can endure. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm
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Aviary of Small Birds Karen McCarthy Woolf OxfordPoets
An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour and an emergency caesarean, the baby\'s heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a strictly chronological arc, lyric rather than narrative. At the same time, McCarthy Woolf\'s formal experimentation allows an intellectual and metaphysical line of enquiry to emerge. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with the natural world, particularly with water and birds, that allows the author to transcend the experience and honour the spirit of her son. Σελίδες: 88
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Light Song of Light Kei Miller Carcanet Press Ltd
Kei Miller\'s work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as \'Some of the most exciting poetry I\'ve read in years...An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace\'. \"A Light Song of Light\" sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times. The book is in two parts: Day Time and Night Time, each exploring the inseparable elements that together make a whole. Behind the daylight world of community lies another, disordered, landscape: stories of ghosts and bandits, a darkness violent and seductive. At the heart of the collection is the Singerman, a member of Jamaica\'s road gangs in the 1930s, whose job was to sing while the rest of the gang broke stones. He is a presence both mundane and shamanic. Kei Miller\'s poems celebrate \'our incredible and abundant lives\', facing the darkness and making from it a song of the light. Σελίδες: 69
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Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Kei Miller Carcanet Press Ltd
WINNER OF THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognize--even to envy--a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman\'s eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that \"constrict like throats,\" every place-name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found. Σελίδες: 80
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Her Birth Rebecca Goss Northern House
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In 2007 Rebecca Goss\'s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein\'s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella\'s birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: \'Going home, back down / the river road, will be a foreign route without her\'. Σελίδες: 80
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1919 Eve Ewing Penguin Books Ltd
In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it.This most intense of the riots of the USA\'s \'Red Summer\' lasted eight days, resulting in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries; it was a signal and traumatic event which has now shaped the history of the city where it took place for a century. As well as telling the tale of the riot itself and the cruel murder which precipitated it, the poems of 1919 explore its aftermath and bring to vivid life the mass migrations which had set the stage for this violence in the preceding years.Poetically recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city, and using speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to reimagine history, the result is a book which unearths the universal at the heart of the particular, and illuminates the fine line between past and present. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm
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The Half-God of Rainfall Inua Ellams Fourth Estate Ltd
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows Gods often act like men: the same fragile egos, the same unpredictable fury and the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals. She will sacrifice everything to protect her son, but she knows the Gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and misdirected prayers. When that moment comes, it won’t matter how special he is. Only the women in Demi’s life, the mothers, daughters and Goddesses, will stand between him and a lightning bolt. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Sleeping Letters: On Grief, Loss, Healing and Faith Marie-Elsa R. Bragg Vintage
A unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith\'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind of dance. You have to read it\' EDMUND DE WAALWe sat in the kitchen across the small wooden table from each other. She cried like banks bursting, then silence; like winds blowing through her shoulders, chest bouncing, then long shallow breaths. She ruptured and I watched, still, emotionless. \'You must stop crying.\'When Marie-Elsa was just six years old, her mother took her own life. Now, many years later, she returns to that night. Going back to that moment, inhabiting this defining tragedy, allows for an exploration of the grief but also brings healing.Written partly as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father, Sleeping Letters is a way of connecting to past family, an attempt to reconcile with loss, as well as a radical exploration of Marie-Elsa’s own faith. It is an unforgettable book, with a luminous sense of a daughter’s loss.With a Foreword by Rowan Williams‘Truly remarkable... This book carries its readers to a place where inhibitions and fears about loss and death give way to something more hopeful and, in their own way, real’ Daily Telegraph Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell Macmillan Children's Books
In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration, passion and married bliss to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal experiences of the heart and are brought to life with Chris\'s exquisite, intricate artwork.This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Nikita Gill, Carol Ann Duffy, E. E. Cummings, Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen, Derek Walcott, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest, John Betjeman and Roger McGough and many more.Enjoy more poetry with Chris\'s Poems to Live Your Life By, one of the Bookseller\'s best poetry books of the last twenty-five years. Σελίδες: 208, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0312, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Yevtushenko: Selected Poems Yevgeny Yevtushenko Penguin Classics
This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for her son, while ‘Encounter’ depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. ‘The Companion’ and ‘Party Card’ show war from a child’s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko’s famous poem, ‘Babiy Yar’, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Love: Poems to bolster every heart that ever beat Donna Ashworth Black and White Publishing
** Donna Ashworth\'s new book TO THE WOMEN publishes 13th February 2025 **FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWA book for the passionate and warm-hearted among us, Love explores every type of affection and helps us to nurture our most precious connections.This collection invites us to keep space open for the love in our lives and to remember that it can be found in the most unexpected places.From familial ties to friendship and romantic love, these poems show tenderness as a powerful force - even towards yourself.Real readers are falling for Love- \'A poignant, beautiful, and soothing collection of poems\' ***** NetGalley- \'I didn\'t realise how much I needed the words that was on the pages!\' ***** NetGalley- \'Fabulous author whose poems come from her heart and whose words seem to speak the emotions in a way many of us can\'t.\' *****Amazon- \'She is a truly talented writer who is capable of writing words that really speak to the soul.\' *****Amazon Σελίδες: 160, Διαστάσεις: 13.8x13.8cm
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