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New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors.

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYNatalie Diaz's highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book AwardPostcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "e;Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden."e; In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: "e;I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible."e; Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope-in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

Bearslayer; A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Hugely influential amongst the Danish "80's poets," Michael Strunge created an incredible body of work before his tragically early death. Speed of Life was originally published in 1978, his first collection of poetry.

Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. The play introduces us to characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of his drowned former seafellows and Nogood Boyo who dreams of nothing at all. It is a unique and touching depiction of a village that has 'fallen head over bells in love'. The First Voice narration reveals the ordinary world of daily happenings and events, while the Second Voice conveys the intimate, innermost thoughts of the fascinating folk of Llareggub.There have been myriad productions of UNDER MILK WOOD over the years and Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tom Jones have all starred in radio, stage or film adaptations.Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth. A true masterpiece that has never been out of print.

"My scars are a compassPointing toward my pains.Please handle with care."True North by Gabrielle G.In this collection of poems, Gabrielle G. embarks on a journey of mental health, going through different stages of dejection while trying to find her way back to whom she used to be.Divided into eleven chapters depicting the ups and downs of depression, Melancholy & Cinnamon shows the hell many of us have been through and the hardship we need to embrace in order to evolve.A must-read for poetry lovers struggling or supporting someone who struggles with mental health.

A poetry collection pulling from the author''s personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image, queer identity, love, joy, memory, myth, and magic. The collection follows a trajectory of 1) exploring identity, avoidance, escapism, and shame, then 2) facing and confronting fears, shame, grief, and self-image, and finally 3) breaking down stigma, searching for joy, finding self-acceptance, and the value of storytelling and sharing as a tool to connect, love, and choose progress.

more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.

A selective yet wide-ranging anthology of concrete poetry edited by curator Nancy Perloff, which redefines what the concrete poetry movement means today.

From a place of solace and chaos comes OF DAISIES AND DEAD VIOLINS, a poetry collection by the renowned S.B. Borgersen, author of WHILE THE KETTLE BOILS and FISHERMEN'S FINGERS. The poems in this marvelous collection sow seeds that burst into unforgettable moments that crack the world open time and time again.From the collection:A Sliver of a Nova Scotia SummerIt dawns on you one morning late in Juneas mayflowers start their fade:soon the lady's slipper orchidswill arrive to tell their messagein gentle pink-tinted voicesas if in secret 'summer's on its way' you know you've yet to see the yarrowthe partridge berry and rhodorabut on the shaded forest floorpainted trillium and Angelicaunfurling ferns and wild irislet you know for sure 'summer has arrived' Monarch butterflies arrive in cloudswith ruby-throated hummingbirdsall this way north from Mexico.Dragonflies and damselfliesflirt hints of purple greensaround still pools 'yes, summer's really here' wild strawberries and blueberriesfor summer picnics on the shoreyou feel the soft white sand beneath your feet and diptoes in the welcomeclear warm ocean. and now you taste,smell, feel, gaze,hear those gentle lapping waves of summer

From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry "rich with political and human resonance." (Ursula K. LeGuin)

An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.

Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world's most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to life from the page, The Language of Food explores the enduring struggle for female freedom, the creativity and quiet joy of cooking and the poetry of food.

An Indie Poetry Bestseller! What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of found poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors - a ritual that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in their own lives into something beautiful. 'I'm sure you could benefit from jumping on a treadmill''Women WANT a male leader . . . It's honest to god the basic human playbook'These are some of the thousands of messages that Kate Baer has received online. Like countless other writers - particularly women - with profiles on the internet, as Kate's online presence grew, so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. These missives from strangers have ranged from 'advice' and opinions to outright harassment. At first, these messages resulted in an immediate delete and block. Until, on a whim, Kate decided to transform the cruelty into art, using it to create fresh and intriguing poems. These pieces, along with ones made from notes of gratitude and love, as well as from the words of public figures, have become some of her most beloved work. I Hope This Finds You Well is drawn from those works: a book of poetry birthed in the darkness of the internet that offers light and hope. By cleverly building on the harsh negativity and hate women often receive - and combining it with heart-warming messages of support, gratitude, and connection, Kate Baer offers us a lesson in empowerment, showing how we too can turn bitterness into beauty.

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions.

Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year, Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over fifty years.

From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.

Peter Banyard (1931-2018) was born in Birmingham and educated in London and Oxfordshire. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1961 and spent the greater part of his working life as teacher and chaplain in St Aloysius'' College, Glasgow. The predominant topics of his poetry are the natural world and especially the Hebridean island of Vatersay. His deftly crafted compositions were clearly inspired by his Victorian Jesuit predecessor Gerard Manley Hopkins. And, like Hopkins, he saw God in everything and good in everyone.

An illustrated anthology of uplifting poetry

From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.