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In her newest poetry collection, The Butterfly Will Rise, published poet, author and traveler Emily Barrus explores many topics including: healing from trauma, traveling, nature, pain etc. Her first poetry collection, Breathe, included some of her first poems while she went through a healing process from trauma in her life. The Butterfly Will Rise while still dealing with pain is focused on the rising from it and flourishing.

Life is always. That is the premise of this book: in life we have no beginning-of which on earth we have no memory-and we have life of no end-of which again, on earth, we cannot fathom. In the middle of this eternal is an arc, where our existence is embodied on earth. This book presents those corporeal moments in the arc, where we live out our "minutes." We come into the arc at birth, and at death we leave the arc. This is the story, in poetry, about a family's time --their minutes-in the arc.

Ashton Harper's collection, Always Something Heartfelt: Life, Love, and Heartbreak, is a myriad of human experiences captured in lyrical verse. As tributes and eulogies, the poems in this collection capture the "Maybe I'll kiss your lips, gently," potential love to the "Is this what heaven feels like?" daydreamy love to the "But I've always wanted you," unrequited love. From the highest of romance-filled highs to the lowest of loneliness lows, and everything in between, the poet's honest and vulnerable journey leads by example, inviting readers to come to this collection as their whole, full-spectrum-of-emotional selves. With urgency and a deep understanding of what it is to celebrate and grieve genuine connection, Harper unabashedly explores the unmapped terrain of life, and the relationships made and lost along the way, with fierce language and visceral storytelling.

Poetry that stirs the soul to longing, to appreciate home, family, and even disappointments.She_ruptive poetry disturbs the thought process from the ordinary to looking and pushing past common boundaries into the deeper and spiritual side of things. Her poetry demonstrates that it is okay to want better, to seek understanding, to love freely, and to acknowledge but not dwell on pain and the processes that we are carried through for healing and restoration. Some are whimsical, playful, painful, but all healing. Get yourself a copy and enjoy the wordsmith that is She-ruptive... get a copy for a friend also.

Seher marks the beginning of the day, which means nothing but the morning and Safar defines the journey that falls ahead! When you begin with the day and you go ahead do infinite things throughout the day before the dawn that might resemble the title of this book! Safar - The journey is yet another part of the lovely 2 language combination poetry which is combined together to form an anthology. If the morning doesn't mark the beginning of your happiness, then find it in the journey ahead.

"Rainbow-A spectrum of poems is a collection of poems "will appeal to both, the worldly wise and naïve people. The reader will span from a 9year old to a 90 year old.I ts like a family film one can watch again and again.You will find all the ingredients appealing to your myriad emotions in an entertaining and appealing way. Given the kind of education the author has had and the life experiences she has gone through, its her take on life and it's various colors. Seeing the simple things in life and writing it will a twist is her forte..Happy Reading and and seeing the Rainbow because its raining experiences of life, some funny, amusing and some with a dash of lemon to them......

Los cambios son esenciales en la vida, tenemos que viajar mutando junto a ellos como lo hacen cada una las estaciones cuando transforman los paisajes a lo largo del año; desde que inicia el año en invierno, pasando por la primavera, verano y acabando con el otoño.Con poesía, prosa, relatos, sentimientos y recuerdos, me he parado en cada estación para luego continuar el viaje con más impulso.Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a este tren que es la vida.

Poemas de vida, amor y muerte, son un conjunto de poemas en los que la autora deja ver reflexiones e impresiones que tiene en determinados temas de la vida. Estos poemas, además, en su mayoría cumplen con regularidades formales conla que se caracteriza la poesía versificada respecto al ritmo y la métrica.

These poems show remarkable style, and a wide diversity of theme. The intense creative power shown by the poet makes its presence felt in all these poems. All poems are full of remarkable verbal felicity. Apt phrasing and verbal condensation leave no doubt in our minds that the poet's achievement in this poetry collection is quite a feat. The poet with strong imagination is able to create the song of the soul in these poems. This poetry collection stands as a testament to the poet's literary prowess. The combination of style, thematic diversity, and the ability to craft a compelling "song of the soul" makes it a noteworthy and enjoyable read for those who appreciate the beauty and power of well-crafted poetry.

The poems included in this book show a wonderful wealth of original thought. The flights of the poet's imagination are quite impressive and remarkable. We find here bold and new images. The poet with strong imagination is able to create the song of the soul in these poems. The most remarkable characteristic of these poems is that the poet has aptly avoided banal epithets and false elegance.

The book "Love Language" is a collection of love poems, quotes and short prose.Through words, matthew lovehall is attempting to paint a picture of how he perceives his muse.It was written from a state of being that was both healed and filled with love.It is recommended reading this collection when being in a similar vibration, in order to resonate more deeply with the message.If you currently are, or have the desire to be in a healthy & loving relationship, this book might be for you.

What does Vancouver's Downtown Eastside look like through the eyes of an artist-an artist who also happens to have Down syndrome? The heart of Pretty Amazing is the unexpected story of Teresa Heartchild finding herself as an artist and poet. Previously, Teresa's artistic expression was discouraged and ridiculed. Her opening poem, I Am Alive, packs added punch when you know that her future was written off a few years ago when she lived in Ontario. Teresa was forced into an Ontario nursing home against her will. The health-care system had wrapped her in-as disability advocate Paul Young aptly describes it -"a cocoon of impossibility." Against her wishes, Teresa's liberty and freedom were traded for a single bed in an end-of-life nursing home. It was a violation of her human rights. She did not want to be there. Teresa had things to do, places to go, and people to meet! In the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Teresa has found her voice. It is a voice that talks about feeling "butterflies," but still finds the courage to fly.

Knock-knock! Who's there?Ultimately for all, it will be age. At first, it seems like a bad joke--needing a cane, memory loss, more care, forgetting even one's own name. In KNOCK-KNOCK, Lewis creates the persona of an older physician who should've known what's in store. Sometimes the reality is grim, but there's humor, love, and even romance in his inventive and poetic story-telling. "Lost-and-found / is not a planned / destination." Yet we all eventually find ourselves there."Old age is no joke. The body breaks down; the mind wanders away. For many, if not most, aging is existentially challenging and physically demeaning. And yet Owen Lewis' KNOCK-KNOCK finds a variety of entry points into this penultimate human experience. The eighteen poems (in the numerology of the Kabbalah, life) gathered here range from mild ruminations on the disconcerting experience of losing and forgetting inconsequential things, to more intense poems, exploring critical conditions: impaired ambulation, deterioration of vision, cardiac failures. Like all good healthcare providers, Lewis - a medical doctor, himself - is always writing toward the fear of mortality that lies at the heart of aging, and that frightens most of us, nearly to death. Through poetic storytelling, deep empathy, psychological courage, and a gimlet eye, he finds both solace and meaning (and yes: sometimes humor) in this phase of life."--Kate Daniels"KNOCK-KNOCK is a sophisticated chapbook about aging and the brain by a prize-winning poet and professor of psychiatry. The poems come to the reader in a variety of shapes, moods and sounds. The book opens with the speaker's tender first encounters with such age-related issues as the use of a cane for mobility and the occasional challenges of memory. Music is an important element (and subject) in the subsequent poems about more serious symptoms and the fears they inspire. Only a clinical expert in diseases of the mind could have constructed the drama of the scenes that follow."--Michael SalcmanPoetry.

In this striking collection of poems, Joel Bettridge crafts a poignant mix of lyrics, half-stories, epigrams, speculations, histories, and songs to study how evolution, especially that of people, is guided more or less by magic. OF SPECIES documents the relentless transmutations of our human selves and the environments we inhabit; reveals the facts coded in myths, prayers, and rituals; unearths the forgotten gods who live in gene pools, artifacts, and biomes. These poems map our created and changing world, offering a vision for how to belong now to what we are on the brink of losing."'Awake, awake: look awry, look new, ' insists Bettridge's new breathtaking collection, OF SPECIES. Gods, gullies and crevasses, Homo georgicus and horses, bark beetles, and more, all burrow out from the 'artifacts of light' that are these poems. Too fierce to be pastoral, too urgent to be elegiac, this collection widens the imagination of what nature poetry might be, what it must do. Some books are meant to be read--this one wants to be lived."--Richard Deming, author of This Exquisite Loneliness"Bettridge's collection invites the reader into an entangled existence where we have permission to be curious and intimate about everything: What even is a species or an animal body without other species or other animal bodies? What is the unlearning required for a human to see beyond the categories of human and nonhuman, to look beyond categories at all? 'What is the ambition of grasses? / What dreams as they throng / With the winter in abeyance?' The conversations that emerge from these questions are perhaps the conversations we should all be having more often. Beautiful and expansive, OF SPECIES is a significant work."--Janice Lee, author of Separation Anxiety"OF SPECIES begins with a knock-out introduction, 'HORSES, ' in which the poet confesses that horses in two beguiling illustrations by artist Rick Bartow have begun speaking to him, initiating him into a world of metamorphosis, one that he duly records in a series of stunning theriophanies--of beast, of person, of divine power. This book is a marvel of formal and tonal shifts that Joel Bettridge manages with enviable ease, from the stateliness and earnestness of the 'Transmutations' that initiate each new section to the magical open-form free verse interspersed by the short, pungent epigrammatic poems the poet has been dazzling us with for years. In this daring collection, Bettridge has devised a creation mythology for evolution and it really sings. A masterful book!"--Peter O'Leary, author of The Hidden Eyes of ThingsPoetry. Nature.

Piquant Short Stories and Succulent Poems is about a journey through life as a child and an adult. People of all ages and backgrounds can learn from someone else's growing trials.Some of the poems and short stories can help someone who may not have a close friend or has a nonexistent relative.Piquant Short Stories and Succulent Poems is like a little guide with a twist of laughter. This book serves as a relief for me through hurt and smiles. It will also provide enlightenment and insight to another reader who has purchased it.The south was (Gwendolyn Roscoe) aka G. Roscoe's home region. She was raised by her mother, who was a cafeteria aid, and her father was a sharecropper and a construction worker. She graduated from Roxbury Community College in Boston, Massachusetts, with a degree in Associate of Science.Her ninth-grade teacher, Mrs. Charley, encouraged her to write. At age 13, she produced her first piece. Her first plays were Slaves Not for Sale and Our Trip to China, a short narrative.Her enthusiasm for writing increased tenfold. The book "Piquant Short Stories and Succulent Poems" is a combination of both fiction and non-fiction."I hope you enjoy reading my short stories and poems!"

"A poetry collection that is both visceral and vulnerable, Blast Radius tackles the complexity of serving in the military and questions whether anyone can return "... home / safe and sound." Douglas E. Self employs psychological twists and raw physicality to shed light on the battleelds we carry within. A surprise at every turn, these musical lines will knock the wind out of you, in the way only a skilled poet can." -Tina Parker, author of Lock Her Up

Here I am, at the crossroadsOf thought and memory and sensationAwaiting the curtains to rise.The ink, in the penOf unbridled spiritSpeak and question-and speak some more.An omnibus collection of 80 free-verse poems written across decades by award-winning author Shirley Siaton, When I Bleed Words tells the riveting story of a young woman's journey through life.Each piece is an evocative, eye-opening treatise from her heart, soul, and blood. Each verse is an honest, unpretentious testament to a world rife with beautiful intricacies, tribulations, and triumphs.This is the special hardcover with dust jacket edition, a true collector's item.

The winner of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, selected by Divya Victor.Breaking the silence and collective amnesia around the Indonesian mass killings of 1965.To this day, there exists a black hole of silence in Indonesia's socio-political climate in acknowledging the 1965 Indonesian mass killings as what they were-tragedy. Jeddie Sophronius' Interrogation Records is a rare docupoetry collection that explores and calls into question the 'official' narratives revolving around the 1965 massacre. Also known as "The Communist Purge," the massacre resulted in the slaughter of members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and anyone accused of affiliations to it-many of whom were civilians-by the Indonesian army. Throughout the collection, the voice of Sophronius' speaker/researcher is quiet but always present, contending with the aftermath of state violence and silencing, in a masterful blend of personal and collective history, memory, and remembering. Sophronius presents both authoritative and artistic language in the same plane, urging us to consider how documents, archives, and testimony may hold affective power and excavate a different truth. Within a climate of silence and erasure, Interrogation Records is a remedy of collective amnesia.

Verb Benders Slam Poet's 1st collection of poems

The title of this volume, Gentle My Heart, was taken from one of the haiku in its pages, and is representative of what the reader will find within.Accented with creative illustration from artist Sue Geiger's talented hand, this collection of verse speaks of care and concern, happiness and longing, and appreciation and admonition. At once powerful and irrestible while reflecting accurately the gentle nature of its writer, there is something for everyone to identify with and enjoy.

In joy and terror all at once, the shining elegies and buoyant lovepoems of I Tell You This Now by Daniel Lawless unfold. Lawlesshas the uncanny ability to create piercing elegies that behave liketender breakup poems. His love poems are no less sublime. (Afterminutely describing a farmer's vintage tools, he dissolves them tolingerie... The result is a love poem that ends both very far yet veryclose indeed to those historical implements.) One of the deeppleasures of reading I Tell You This Now is that you never knowquite where you're going until you get there. And getting theremeans getting it: the shock of gorgeous and gruesome recognitionin each upturned world in Daniel Lawless's remarkable poems.-Molly Peacock

Memory and myth. Cigarettes and summer nights. Worship songs and circle pits. don't call us punk because we hate that traverses the backroads ofAmerica's suburbia in the days before smartphones and AirPods at the very time of life when the aimless youth are waking up to their disillusionment atthe world their parents were planting for them. These starkly direct poems speak to the human need for authentic community and escape before theydrown in middle-class expectations. The characters, places, and times are pulled from a lived experience and expanded into a universal narrativearound the search for something sustainable and true. Adam Oyster-Sands has written a love letter to punk and to those who wove in and out ofthe various shows, record shops, skate spots, and fast-food joints of his formative years. Whether you've spent a Saturday night in a circle pit andSunday morning in a church pew or not, don't call us punk because we hate that speaks to anyone who, at the exact right time, found their people inthe unexpected places beyond the boundaries of a world passed to them through the stories they inherit.

Skirting arranges poems in columns that provide multiple reading routes, giving the reader opportunities to make and create a series of ways to engage with and understand the text. This system of arranging and rearranging the poem is explored within the texts too, these poems circle around their subject without naming the events explored. The poems skirt around a figure, event and thoughts, trying to get close to a difficult subject without being able to fully articulate or fix it to the page. Skirting is many attempts at using language to describe and locate.

The Poets is a novella in the form of a census. It is a cavalcade of poets real and imagined. Young poets take their first steps into print and find a voice which they attach to their name. They travel through their middle years-marrying, making babies, divorcing, winning prizes, losing face. And at last they age, burnishing their reputations and settling scores as they face their readers' scrutiny and their own mortality. /// "A stunning river of words."-Sara Pirkle, author of The Disappearing Act "A collective biography of all the poets in our midst-the famous, the infamous, the obscure, and the quotidian. Sentence by sentence, The Poets reveals the poetic in the prosaic, and the various ways that art reveals the human in both." -Pedro Ponce, author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess: Stories "It's rare to find a genre-defying work that is by turns-and sometimes all at once-absurdly comedic, straight-faced satirical, psychologically insightful, and unexpectedly heartbreaking. The Poets is such a work, and readers are bound to see-somewhere in its fun-house mirrors-their worlds, their neighbors, themselves."-Joseph Fasano, author of The Dark Heart of Every Living Thing

Chameleon and other poems is a collection of poems covering a wide range of themes on family, romance, nature, religion, protest, politics, human nature and gender. They are poems that look inwardly, reflect and appreciate all aspects of life.

The January-February 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes dark essays on Eastern Europe in 1939, on sentimental ecology, the culture wars, and Byron through selected letters; discovering the radical American poet Steve Malmude with Miles Champion; overhearing the Mexican poet Darí o Jaramillo in conversation with God (Richard Gwyn's translations); and new poems by the Pulitzer laureate Carl Phillips. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.

Torridge River Gallery is a celebration of the North Devon Countryside, its characters, its rich, wild nature and its glorious river. David Curtis describes the experience of growing up in the village of Beaford, with the farming community, his neighbours and birds and animals his close companions. The depth of feeling in these poems is reflected in the singular imagery of Cressida Lowery's illustrations.

For Antonatie Jemwa, The Journey, "...depicts the reality of events that each individual can relate to; it points out to positivity in the grand experience of life as it unfolds each chapter, just as each season, in a lifetime." Informed by faith, the poems have a common theme of love, of how enhancing and revitalising it can be, and yet at the same time so fragile. Grouped under headings like 'Family', 'Dreams', 'Character' and 'Gone', Jemwa shines a light on our interactions with the world, both metaphysical and real, which make The Journey a lottery that perhaps can only find an understanding through faith. The Journey is a meditation, a sensitive look at our condition through the instrument of poetry.

This second anthology of women's poetry by UK, US and international poets follows the resounding success of Tabula Rasa, Linen Press, 2023. Here areprofound, surprising and moving poems that explore the theme of relationshipsbetween women and others in their lives who have touched them briefly, orforever. New voices join acclaimed writers.

In the mid-19th century, Grimsby docks was perhaps the most modern such facility in Britain, its fishing boom occurring during the latter part of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, right up until the 1960s the docks was a lively, thriving place.Sixty years later, and fewer than one hundred of the area's buildings remain; three quarters of these are unoccupied - or impossible to now occupy. Although some regeneration of the part of the docks known as 'The Kasbah' is being pursued, this area of Grimsby is now one of the most deprived wards in the country.Grimsby Docks is an examination of this modern-day industrial landscape through photography and poetry.