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Kareem Parkins-Brown's highly-anticipated pamphlet is an audacious and richly plural celebration of friends and selves, present and otherwise. In Parkins-Brown's hands, language bends like an illusionist's spoon - a dazzling, fisheye-lens distortion of daily grief, absurdity and communion - while reminding us always that the trick is to carry on living.

'My mother was an oak treemy dad a garage mechanicMy father was a field of wheatmy mother the Prime MinisterMy mother was an innkeeperand my father a lonely cactus...'Suzannah Evans' new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our own rage and complicity in nature's destruction. He shows us nature's delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.

Yvonne Baker has the ability to conjure a world that is at once recognisable and fresh. In this two-part collection we travel with those whose migration brings new worlds and loss in equal amounts. Who do we become in a different place separated from a land that still calls us? Who do we become if we remain behind? Baker interrogates these questions in sequences alive with vivid details, illuminated with affection and empathy. Here lives flutter down in fragments, a shelter is built of story, and unwritten rules for the poor are exposed. Here Irish aunts and other saints leap from the page, ready with an umbrella, making a holy show of themselves, or finding peace in the deep waters of the heart. Themes of belonging, memory and what haunts us run through all of Yvonne Baker's work, and her gift is to bring new perspectives to the questions we ask about what forms us, how we navigate a shifting world and how we remember those we love yet never fully know. At the heart of this collection that tends a sacred fire:'Time judders slowly slides forward accelerates'.

Spells brings together contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them so that it might be remade anew.

Debut poetry collection by Rebecca McCutcheon.

A collection of poems reflecting Thomas Hardy's tumultuous marriage to Emma Gifford.In many of his poems, the great Dorset poet and novelist Thomas Hardy referred to a certain romantic courtship, a marriage which became progressively more problematical, and finally to a bereavement in which a man loses his wife. So, who was Hardy writing about? The clue is to be found in his early poems, where the names of several locations in North Cornwall are mentioned, this being the very same place which featured in Hardy's courtship of Emma Gifford, who was to become his first wife.The poems raise certain questions. Given that Hardy and Emma gradually drifted apart so that in the end they lived mainly separate lives, albeit under the same roof, why was he so grief-stricken when she died, bearing in mind that their marriage was so unsatisfactory?How did Hardy cope as he passed through the various stages of grief, which he articulated so poignantly and expressively in his poems? These stages are recognized today, thanks to the work of Swiss-US psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and US expert on grieving and loss, David Kessler.Finally, how did Hardy survive and come out the other side, and can his experience be a guide to others who find themselves alone and bereft after losing their partner?

This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse from the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - these poems will bring you tranquility.Poems to take you outside; for finding solace and tranquility in wild spaces; poems of earth and sea and weatherIncludes poems by W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Edna St Vincent Millay,D. H. Lawrence 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 tranquility 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.

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 reassurance. Poems as Panaceas; for days when the world is too much with us; for Immediate Reassurance and Remedies to Lift the SpiritsIncludes 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 tranquility 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.

This Handbook presents forty-four groundbreaking chapters that explore Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent...In the Welsh seaside town of Llaggerub, night is moving in the streets. Its inhabitants are lost in the land of dreams: old Captain Cat catches up with his drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards the draper is consumed by mad love for Miss Price the dressmaker, and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard whips the ghosts of her two late husbands into shape. As the sun rises, the 'dismays and rainbows' of each character are played out within the cycle of one day, intertwining voices and lives, dreams and reality. By turns tender, hilarious and beautifully lyrical, Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices' is his most beloved work and a landmark of Welsh literature.

The first book-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book establishes Mendelssohn as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape. Mendelssohn was herself incarcerated in Holloway Women's Prison between 1971-76, and her bold and inventive poetry is haunted by forms of enclosure and driven by the desire to escape. Informed by extensive original archival research, this book reads Mendelssohn's late modernist lyric alongside the poetry of her avant-garde influences and contemporaries, including Nancy Cunard, Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Riley, restoring to view lost works and lost literary networks.

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fictional, devotional prose and life writing.Elizabeth Ludlow explores how, through this process, they articulated what it means to pray, and thereby understand one's place in a world of individual and communal bodies. The eight women writers discussed - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Josephine Butler, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dora Greenwell, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Procter and Christina Rossetti - provide accounts of prayer that stress the only way to experience and respond to something of the transcendent is through embracing lived experience and through a recognition of the connectedness of all bodies. In detailing how these writers engage with new ways of thinking about faith, desire and the material world, Ludlow argues that they offer models for ethical modes of being in the world and pave the way for later theologies of embodiment.

An absorbing and innovative biography of Ireland's national poet by a new literary talent.

Boken innehåller texter med ackord skrivna av Mikael Gårdhagen

Författaren Wang Jibing är en budbärare med en sammanlagd resa på 150 000 kilometer, motsvarande att springa fram och tillbaka längs Kinesiska muren 15 gånger. Under dagarna med pendling genom staden har han sett många människor som kämpar för överlevnad, som budbärare, migrantarbetare, barnvakter och städare. Som en trubadur från arbetarklassen registrerar Wang Jibing hans och deras svåra situationer och deras värdighet som arbetare. I de intensiva tiderna skrev han dikter på cigarettaskar och tidningspapper, vilket är folksånger på arbetsplatsen, livliga och skarpa. Vissa av dem blev slumpmässigt delade på internet och väckte oväntad empati. Denna bok är den första publikationen av hans dikter i samling.

Embark on a universal voyage through the rich tapestry of human experience, a narrative that mirrors your own life's saga. This book captures the essence of existence, our collective tales of joy and sorrow, love and loss, and the myriad decisions that shape our days. From the rollercoaster ride of adolescence to the serenity of our twilight years, each chapter resonates with a truth you've lived: the thrill of love, the search for self, the grief of goodbyes, and the introspection in life's quiet moments. The author weaves these shared threads into a story that feels deeply personal, reflecting the shifting landscapes of our lives. Readers will see themselves on these pages, finding comfort, inspiration, and a reflection of their journey in a life that, while unique, is connected by common threads to all. This story promises to tug at your heartstrings, provoke thought, and perhaps draw a tear or a smile, reminding you of the profound simplicity of being human.

In this powerful and moving collection, Vietnam War veteran Every Man bares his soul through poetry that vividly captures the fear, anguish, camaraderie and haunting memories of war. With stark imagery and raw emotions, these verses transport the reader to the jungles of Vietnam, inside the mind of a young soldier thrust into unimaginable horrors. His words give an unflinching look at the brutal realities of combat and its lifelong aftershocks, including the challenges of returning home to a society that doesn't understand.Covering his tours of duty and the decades that followed, these poems grapple with themes of survival, grief, alienation, and the struggle to heal from the physical and psychological trauma of war. While the Vietnam War is the focal point, many of the poems draw parallels to other conflicts and deliver a thought-provoking commentary on war in general. This timely and timeless collection is a must-read for veterans, their loved ones, and anyone seeking to better understand the true costs of combat and the resilience of the human spirit. A Soldier's Poems ensures that the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans and the realities they faced will never be forgotten.

The poems in Natalie Ann Holborow's Little Universe are an exploration of tumultuous human emotions and nature's ever-present rhythms.