Dikter

Real-life tales from the front lines of the ambulance service.

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse from the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you calm. Soporifics, Sedatives & Balms for the Spirit; to educe Moments of Reflection & Serenity; to be Present in the Moment; a Calmative for Intention & AttentionIncludes poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edward Thomas, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare and many more. ¿ No bitter pills¿ No adverse reactionsThe Poetry Pharmacy series compiled by Deborah Alma is the perfect prescription for life's ailments. Inspired by the achingly cool Poetry Pharmacy shops in London and Shropshire - social media favourites with a clear focus on promoting wellbeing through the written and spoken word. Each of the 8 themed titles offers an array of poems to inspire, heal and comfort. Whether readers are looking to find solace for times of ill-health, loss and grief, cope with matters of the heart, need poetic inspiration for courage and confidence, or want to find peace and tranquillity in wild spaces, there is a collection for everyone. Perfect for reading aloud or for quiet contemplation, these books are a much needed balm for our busy lives.

The text for this volume of poetry reproduces the first edition of 1917, allowing Hardy's poems to be read as he first gathered them and as the publishers first produced them. This edition also contains an introduction and a bibliography.

This book argues that Shelley was both ahead of and in tune with his time and ours.

This Sweet Rupture unflinchingly explores interwoven themes of family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and the impact of war on personal stories. Rooted in Omar Ramadan's experiences as a son of Lebanese immigrants, and set in Canada, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates, the collection brings together intergenerational exchanges and present-day realities, from sweetened tea preparations to conversations about conflict zones to investigations of Canadian blizzards. The book speaks to Arab father-son relationships and incorporates Arabic, reflecting the hybridity of its speakers and their shifting sense of place. Resonant and intricate, This Sweet Rupture thoughtfully navigates cultural identity, war, memory, and family.

A deep-dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped folklore and literature. Sparked by a campaign to save the ancient forest of Penrhos, an SSSI on Ynys Môn, from being turned into a holiday camp, Ness explores Welsh folklore of trees and her own love for and engagement with the trees and other wild aspects of her home, as well as more common garden flowers, which should be treated with respect (Daffodils are Dangerous). Ness has an ongoing conversation with her native language and some poems are presented bilingually: there is a link to be made between the disregarding of native language and the disregarding of native habitat. Far more than a book of nature poems there is a simmering frustration at the casual way we despoil our environment without any concern for what is destroyed or the ongoing impact of that destruction. No trees harmed in the making of this book, which is printed on woodfree paper.

'The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well' Chinua Achebe'Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty' Isabel Allende'A lion in literature's forest' Maya AngelouA dazzling selection of poems from one of the most beloved American poets, whose distinctive verse resonates around the globeFew poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and 'abundant positivity' that characterise Sonia Sanchez's astonishing body of work.Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez's poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world. Whether it's her iconic haikus, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez's lyric, luminous and 'lovely as chandeliers', thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life's agony and ecstasy. This volume pulls from across Sanchez's diverse repertoire to showcase the multiplicities of the poet's voice - the profound and personal, the firebrand and socially conscious, the playful and formally dextrous, and the musical - to celebrate her as one of the world's most skilled and versatile poets of the past half century.

A selection from fifty years of Merrill Gilfillan's lyrical and vivid poetryMerrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems draws from more than a dozen volumes since his first book appeared in 1970, concluding with three short "poetic diaries" in the tradition of Japanese haibun. Wistful, joyful, resonant with "Season through place, / Place in season, in place," the hundred various poems-landscapes, epistles, "tunes meant for whistling"-are propelled throughout by affinity, reflection, and requital. />/>I think of you/>as the tarts come out />of the oven-Ohio butternuts />from Ohio butternut />trees-and last summer's />ash seeds rattle />in the wind beyond/>the window: small />bat-of-the-eye pleasures />of winter. Deep. Distilled.

From internationally renowned poets and translators Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky arrives this remarkable translation of Lesyk Panasiuk’s account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military.

In Mix-Mix, Dani Putney excavates facets of their mixed-race heritage using reformulated text from the "Asian Romance Guide to Marriage by Correspondence" to consider their relationships with their Filipina mother and late white father, problematizing—but also attempting to understand—the circumstances that led to their parents' marriage across two continents via mail correspondence. In addition, the collection puts queerness and non-binary identity into conversation with heritage, invocations of pop-culture icons, reflections on the speaker's daddy issues, and general explorations of queer sexuality. In Mix-Mix Putney seems to ask, "Why were we born? How do we live with the circumstances of our birth, both historically and culturally?"

In her fifth collection of poems, Ellen Doré Watson lends her supple voice to a multiplicity of characters, each with his or her own particular dilemma, distraction, or disarray: Junie biking home to find a new mom, Edur wondering whether he's anyone's father, a pregnant teen starving herself to lose the fetus, or the widower Lew buoyed by a vision of his wife after her death. With a novelist's finesse and a poet's details, Watson creates lives that resonate with poignancy and urgency. In Dogged Hearts Ellen Doré Watson demonstrates a capacious talent for invention and empathy and, with her incomparable linguistic brio, gives us an unforgettable look at how loss and disconnection can usher in chance-to-change reverie and unexpected veerings towards life.

Jennifer Militello's work is ruminative and lyrical but with an unusually theatrical verve, which is displayed in associative leaps so agile that readers will be exhilarated by the imagination at work (and play) in each poem. This powerfully unified first book grapples with what is simultaneously gigantic and miniscule in human existence: the momentous everyday dramas of love and family.

One of America's most acclaimed younger poets entwines original and scavenged texts, lyric fragment and lyric song, to make a new form-this book-from wild metaphor. A passerine is a bird of the taxonomic order Passeriformes, often called "songbirds" or "perching birds." The passerines are among the most diverse of terrestrial vertebrates, and in his book-length canticle-both aria and elegy-the poet sings like a modern-day St. Francis to the wonder of creation in its splendor and peril.

Poetry from the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian war

In this exquisite, thoughtful and thought-provoking collection, Jenny Hamlett takes us into an interior world that is too often invisible and misunderstood. Deeply grounded in the natural world, communicated with linguistic dexterity and in images that are fresh and precise, Sorry, I forgot to pack my ears moves across registers, moving between moments of justified anger, bewilderment and humour, to create lasting impact. A mature, brave and insightful collection.

Our lives are filled with learned experiences of the world. We explore it to understand how we fit in where we come from, where we are going, and who we are. Mind, Body, Soul, Spirit-this is the Human Being. This is the essence of our identity, the collective consciousness of all who inhabit this vehicle. If you are looking for an exploratory view of life, then you might like this book. Potentially, these verses could guide and assist you on your path. These poems could reflect on what is happening in your life. Through past conditioning, we are locked into old, outdated patterns. This book attempts to explore the human experience. The mind influences the body in a profound physiological and psychological way, known as 'Character Armouring'. Past hurts permeate the muscles, joints, and fascia. We wear our 'Persona' (Armouring) to show others that we are in control and confident, in order to survive. This book also explores Nature, Space, Angels, Spirit Guides, Transpersonal Psychology, and The Child Inside too. I do hope you enjoy my 'chunterings'.

This book is the first English translation of C¿nd¿yan, the pioneer work in a long tradition of Indian-Sufi love narratives.

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats's affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats's poetry anew in the light of this affinity.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing. Consisting of thirty-eight essays by leading scholars, the book covers topics that have long attracted scholarly attention while also responding to recent critical trends. It considers Hopkins's formal innovations alongside his theological and philosophical ideas. Chapters examine his Victorian aesthetic and cultural contexts as well as the significance of his ecological imagination and response to environmental degradation. Hopkins's poetry was not widely known until the 1930s, and the book closes by discussing the distinctive nature of its reception and influence. Informed by original research but accessibly written, the essays enable a fresh engagement with the originality of Hopkins's writing and thought.

In these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy continues today.