Dikter

This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

A rich collection of poems inspired by the Persian lyric tradition.In The Khayyam Suite, acclaimed poet Charles Martin explores both the profound and the personal in verse that celebrates the spectrum of human experience. At the heart of this collection is a study of the Rubaiyat, the renowned poem cycle attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. Martin pays homage to Khayyam's classical Persian poetic form-the ghazal-by infusing it with contemporary sensibilities, creating a rich tapestry of contemplation and artistry. By seamlessly blending Eastern and Western poetic traditions, Martin offers a unique and thought-provoking perspective on timeless questions that have captivated philosophers and poets throughout the ages. Each long poem consists of forty quatrains mirroring those of Khayyam's.Martin's verses reflect on modern existential dilemmas, environmental crises, and the intricacies of personal relationships. From the haunting feeling of "On the Coming Extinctions" to the stark socio-economic commentary in "On Capital," each poem invites the reader into a contemplative dialogue with the self. Martin's poems are both a mirror and a window to the soul, reflecting personal histories and illuminating the universal human condition. This collection, imbued with the lyrical charm and intellectual depth of Martin's writing, is a profound commentary on love, loss, and the fleeting nature of life.

Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet - from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafes of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people. It is precisely to poets to whom we ought to turn to catch a glimpse, as Shelley once put it, of the 'gigantic shadows futurity casts on the present.''Ruby is a public intellectual with an accessible style and an appealing candor who promises to bring poetry and philosophy together again on the stage of literary criticism.' - The judges of the Robert B. Silvers Prize.

Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of the crows who, aside from fledgling season, fly across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. This durational study echoes their flight, occasionally touching down to reflect on human-crow interactions. Attentive to the great intelligence and perspectives of corvid and non-human communications, the poems in Crowd Source engage historical and strategic examples of how these songbirds gather and disperse. Continuing Nicholson's engagement with the contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned about practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities, caw.

Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to find four metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame, pleasure, waiting, and surveillance. In an extended conversation with Mona Hartoum's + and -, Revolutions asks how young Arab women - who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable - make and unmake their identities.Revolutions works between poetic traditions. It places its response to Hatoum's artwork in a Palestinian and Iraqi lineage, drawing on other artists such as Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma. At the same time, Revolutions looks to feminist Canadian poets like Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, Nicole Brossard, and Syd Zolf in the way it manipulates sources, erases text, and invokes many simultaneously possible readings. Revolutions invites us to read across its poems, finding echoes along the way, turning and re-turning around the circles.

Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical categories) and the theory of poiesis (i.e., making). The dialogues vary. Some are chatty, others theoretical. They model how we might talk, think, and listen together, both to one another and to the sites and greater communities where we are situated. Convivialities investigates how the collected writers and artists craft their works, the contexts in which they make them, the intellectual and artistic histories that inspire their own ways of working, and the cultural issues that are at the core of their practices. And, perhaps most of all, it asks how they continue to create in a world ravaged by climate crisis, economic crisis, settler colonialism, and imperialism.

The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison's life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison.

This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a fresh exploration of its themes and influence.

An eclectic collection of poems that will make you laugh,cry and think. John Eaton sees the world through a unique lens. His insightsspan the world about us, sport, travel, the human psyche,politics, animals, and more. Enjoy his mischievous pen as he challenges self-importance,champions the underdog, and shatters plastic ceilings.

This timely book critically evaluates the life, work and milieu of the Tunisian poet, Ab¿ al-Q¿sim al-Sh¿bb¿ (1909-1934), providing translations and detailed commentaries around his seminal work "al-Khay¿l al-Sh¿r¿ ¿inda al-¿Arab" ("Arabic Poetic Imagination).

The Wind in the Whisper is a collection of introspective and insightful poems that will leave readers with feelings of presence, gratitude, reflection, and self-discovery. All who feel an introspective calling know the beauty and wonder that can be found in their existence in this life and beyond. Here, we celebrate the human condition with its struggles and personal fulfillment.This unique and inspiring book of poetry is structured around the five phases of life and nature, each depicting the 'Sacredness of Life'. These phases - Awakening, Existence, Fruition, Synthesis, and Attainment, guide the reader on a journey of self-discovery and reflection. The poems, written in free verse, convey a profound, uncomplicated truth, resonating inside the reader's heart.Kevin Mullaney, a writer-poet, delves into the subjects of life and death, its labor and love. His works of stained-glass art, created in harmony with these soulful poems, add a unique dimension to the mindful journey they invite you on.Previous books include:Earth & Sky, Heart & SoulA Divine AppointmentThe Poet's Perfume

Acknowledged as a crucial influence on Burns, Robert Fergusson was a remarkable poet in his own right. Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, this edition contains Fergusson's finest poems in both Scots and English, and features an introductory essay, orthography, a section of notes and a glossary.

[TO COME]

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this book argues how Beckett's poetry reconfigures lyrical language to mark the emergence of an anti-expressive poetics.

'So long as you and you and you, venerable and ancient representatives of Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley, are aged precisely twenty-three and propose... to spend the next fifty years of your lives in writing poetry, I refuse to think that the art is dead.'Penned in response to a letter about her novel The Waves from a young poet, John Lehmann, A Letter to a Young Poet answers a request for Woolf to set down her views on modern poetry. Written with observational humour and empathy, the letter leaves the reader laughing in recognition of the errors depicted, with the words 'And for heaven's sake, publish nothing before you are thirty' ringing in their ears.

Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing oral indigenous traditions.

Being a Happy Mind is a book of poetry to help people from young to old find happiness in themselves by taking the time to stop, look around, and appreciate the simple things that our world has to offer. To bring oneself back to the beauty of the "now" - by allowing yourself to become more present in the everyday and take notice of your life and realise there is a lot to say 'thank you' for, to smile about, and most importantly, to share these wonderful little daily pockets of joy, which we have the choice to consider, with others.

British South Asian poetry is flourishing throughout the UK, but it is still not being amply reflected in mainstream publishing. The Third Space project was conceived by award winning artist and poet, Suman Gujral, and has its eye on filling this gap and celebrating the best of the South Asian poetry scene.

A selected poems in translation by one of Mexico's leading poets, taken from five collections of verse across five decades, addressing issues of migration, duality, language loss and the mutability of identity.

The poems in One Little Room enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory.

This Collected Poems spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.