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Dyma gyfrol unigol gyntaf y bardd gweithgar Aron Pritchard. Mae Egin yn llawn barddoniaeth bersonol ac yn rhychwantu'r pum mlynedd ddiwethaf. Mae yma amrywiaeth o gerddi, o'r dwys i'r digri, ac mae egin gobaith yn treiddio drwy'r cyfan. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Uplifting debut poetry collection about the difficulties and small joys of unexpectedly finding yourself living with a life-changing illness, and how poetry contributed to the author's recovery. The bibliography acts as a resources section for Long Covid. In 'notes on recovery', the author talks about the interventions that improved her health.

This collection of heartfelt poems explores the profound bonds of family and intricate relationships between siblings, parents, and children. Through vivid imagery and evocative storytelling, the poems capture moments of love, support, and self-discovery, celebrating the enduring connections that shape our lives. These poems portray moments of sibling relationships and the unique rhythms of summer days spent at a family holiday. They delve into the complexities of familial bonds, friendships, envy, and the passage of time, painting a vibrant picture of shared cherished memories. The poems offer a rich tapestry of emotions, from the deep connections in life that make it meaningful to the mysteries of death's arrival. This collection seeks to explore the human condition, love, longing, and the beauty found in both everyday moments and extraordinary voices like Florence Welch's.

A Person, Abbreviated by Jess Conkwright is a critical exploration of identity and self-discovery. Dive into the journey of an insatiable woman as she navigates the complexities of life, love, and personal growth. With raw emotion and lyrical prose, the author guides us into the human experience in a way that questions the nature of our reality. This collection of vignettes invites the reader into intimate exchanges tinged with a longing...for what we cannot always place.Sometimes a moment is more than enough...

"When the mirror is clearer,Our souls become dearer"Welcome to the universe of Morgan Sheridan.Explore the angles and out-takes, the intimacies and the experiences of her thoughts, feelings and the secrets she seeks. Whether you feel as if you have fallen asleep on the bus of life, missed an arrival or departure or were just wondering where ithas got to, you can now refresh your own feelings and feed your ownthoughts by enjoying those by which she is "wired and inspired".If you feel as if your dreams are a lost cause, you can sail upon the ocean of hers, immerse yourself in her verbal streams, escape life's treadmill andstep into the space of silence.Letting her universe fill your soul, readers may discover the treasures deep inevery heart and even step nearer the divine."Scales fall, and now I can see"

In this debut anthology of poems, Leanne Renaud sails effortlessly from the joys of Canadian springtime to mystic interactions with other worlds and even the highs and lows of substance use. Always authentic and emotionally generous Renaud invites readers to join her on a positive journey to healing from childhood trauma and we are happy for her kind reassurance.Passion for Poetry is exactly that, an exhibition of Renaud's ardor for life, love, and words.

Poetry pamphlet by Jay Gao, whose debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet Press, UK, 2022) is a winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.

**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize****Longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award****Soon to be adapted for screen by Lena Waithe and Warner Bros.**An award-winning collection and novella exploring the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthoodAcross three sequences, Joshua Bennett's new book recalls and reimagines social worlds almost but not entirely lost, all while gesturing toward the ones we are building even now, in the midst of a state of emergency, together. Bennett opens with a set of autobiographical poems that deal with themes of family, life, death, vulnerability, and the joys and dreams of youth. The central section, "The Book of Mycah," features an alternate history where Malcolm X is resurrected from the dead, as is a young black man shot by the police some fifty years later in Brooklyn. The final section of The Study of Human Life are poems that Bennett has written about fatherhood, on the heels of his own first child being born. Praise for Joshua Bennett'One of the brightest intellectual and political thinkers of a new generation' Jesse McCarthy'Bennett conjures a spirit of kinship that, illuminated by redolent imagery, borders on mythic' New Yorker'Joshua Bennett's astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable' Tracy K Smith

The stylistic aims of the Alexandrian poets have been much discussed, as has their reliance on literary tradition.First published in 1987, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry covers less familiar ground. Taking the whole canon of Alexandrian poetry as his starting point, Dr Zanker surveys the use of the realistic mode in many such works.

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, religion, health, and time are accompanied by explorations of the construction of the idea (including the self-identity) of Clare through writing and images. The collection also traces influences upon Clare, and considers the ways in which he has influenced subsequent poets in turn. The volume includes a chronology and an invaluable guide to further reading, and provides students with a firm grounding in Clare's writings and his critical reception: this is an indispensable guide to the poet and his work.

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, religion, health, and time are accompanied by explorations of the construction of the idea (including the self-identity) of Clare through writing and images. The collection also traces influences upon Clare, and considers the ways in which he has influenced subsequent poets in turn. The volume includes a chronology and an invaluable guide to further reading, and provides students with a firm grounding in Clare's writings and his critical reception: this is an indispensable guide to the poet and his work.

For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world-the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency-and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.

Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Alex Houen argues that political, religious, and cultural frames of sacrifice continue to play a significant part in shaping how war's reality is shaped and experienced.

Explore the contemporary issues that David Oluwale's story touches upon through poetry, prose and over 40 featured artworks and photographs.Themes of memory, belonging, otherness and optimisim are central to this uplifting book, which, although it refuses to deny the horrors of racism and brutality, also offers a glimpse of a better future.

Returning From Exile by Israel L. Monzon Gonzalez takes readers on a captivating journey of self-discovery and resilience. In this poignant collection of poetry, the author examines the many faces of struggle and the feeling of personal exile from the rest of humanity. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt storytelling, the author explores themes of identity, belonging, and the power of human connection. This gripping, introspective poetry will keep readers engrossed till the very end, as they explore trial, transformation and triumph over adversity with the author. A compelling and thought-provoking read, Returning From Exile is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring pursuit of finding one's place in the world.

I have poured my heart into these words.Emotions that have been kept in for so long now have the chance to speak to others. Oh, what a day to be alive.

Life is not stable. It is dichotomous, ever-changing. No one person can walk forever in the light any more than they can survive relentless darkness. It is a give-and-take, a ceaseless tango of joy and despair. In this moving, deeply personal anthology, the author explores this contrast, baring his very soul in a display of his most intimate emotions.Favourite Profanity is a heartfelt, heartbreaking love letter to life itself. At its core, it tells a tale of relationships: relationships with family, loved ones, strangers, nature, and most importantly, the self, masterfully illustrating both the soaring highs and crushing lows. At once a light, joyful celebration of love of all kinds and a poignant testimony to survival in the face of the darkness that life sometimes has to offer us, this spellbinding volume is one that will stay with you long after you put it down.

Mansour''s late poems chart constellations of desire, femininity, and dream. Considered by Andre Breton to be the preeminent Surrealist of the post-war period, Mansour brings this masculine movement into a feminine realm never-before-imagined. She insists on a forgotten or perhaps vehemently denied eventuality of women''s equality: their ability to do harm, to be violent: ''Why tear fire from the impalpable sky / When it already grows and smolders in me / Why throw your glove into the crowd / Tomorrow is a livid stump.'' In the Glittering Maw is poet C. Francis Fisher''s first published translation and includes a preface by eminent Surrealism scholar Mary Ann Caws.

"Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P. Inman, Chris Vitiello, Yedda Morrison and Christian Bèok, this book shows how a number of vanguardist poets explores the commonalities they detected between nature's processes of creation and their own methods of composition"--

In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children andadults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia''s "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these notebooks provide an intimate look at the daily life and struggles of one of the central figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. While Kharms''s stories have been translated and published in English, these diaries represents an invaluable source for English-language readers who, having already discovered Kharms in translation, desire to learn about the life and times of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power.

Virgil wrote The Georgics in the 30s BCE at a time of political uncertainty in the Roman state and although country matters are to the fore in the selections chosen and translated in this chapbook, there is also from time to time an underlying sense of unease. The passages from Books 1, 2 and 3 deal with farming and animal husbandry and, from Book 4, with bee-keeping. The chapbook ends with the concluding passage of Book 4, Virgil's beautiful telling of the story of Orpheus and Euridice. This translation from the Latin by the poet Fred Beake makes for very entertaining reading.

Michelene Wandor's fifth book from Arc is a book of love poems - and not-love poems. By turns fierce and gentle, passionate and bitter, they push at the boundaries of minimalist language and pack an emotional punch that will remain with the reader long after the book is closed.

Ten poem. Ten poets. Ten earth-shattering encounters.

Aoife Mannix's latest full collection begins with a series of poems that chronicle her recovery from cancer and surgery. In the wake of physical and personal transformation, the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic

A selection of poetry for the spiritual journey whatever faith you may or may not have. Both accessible and honest, it is inspired by classic Anglican poetry and spirituality alongside Biblical texts, other books, ecclesiastical architecture and the natural world. Included is a series of poems inspired by Robyn Cadwallader's novel The Anchoress whence the title is derived. This collection seeks to explore our need for safe or apparently safe anchorage, our experience of seeking it and where and how we might find it. The poems are grouped into four sections entitled Sight, Solitude, Struggle and Solace.