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Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love-tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. "Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go," she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible-encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

Revitalising conversations surrounding environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of voices is both urgent and inspirational.

How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

Ever since Eve plucked a tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, the fruits of the earth have been essential to human culture and the stories we tell about our world. Poets from ancient times to the present have celebrated the harvest of our gardens, fields, and orchards.The delectable cornucopia of poems harvested in this volume includes many beloved old chestnuts, such as Robert Frost's 'After Apple-Picking', Emily Dickinson's 'Forbidden Fruit a flavor has', Gwendolyn Brooks's 'The Bean Eaters', and the famous chilled plums in William Carlos Williams's 'This Is Just to Say'.

The story is told through a series of beautiful and playful poems that describe the journey of a cardinal flying to a calm garden. From the happy splashing in the birdbath to the playful interactions with other animals, every poem captures the cardinal's liveliness. The narrator, who sits in his chair with a pipe and a window to watch the world go by, narrates the cardinal's flights and capers with affection and reflection. In different seasons and weather, from scorching summer to light rain, the cardinal becomes the protagonist, the symbol of the struggle and freedom. Its presence after a brief absence is welcomed with relief and happiness while its absence is associated with anxiety. The cardinal's encounters with a curious cat also introduce an element of humor, which is a part of nature's grand scheme. These verses give the poems the themes of friendship, desire, and the cycle of nature. In each stanza, the poet conveys the conflict between human interference and the cardinal's free-spiritedness while leaving the reader with a sense of unity and interdependence in the garden's dynamic environment.

There's a young woman stood in an emerald meadow in a wind-swept dress, amidst a field in spring, waiting to be taken by the hand to the great season's blossoming tree. Yet, before any of this may happen, there is the longing, the anticipation, the hopefulness upon winter's end, where it'll be warmer tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. There's a young man willing to drive out to all corners of the Earth, walk when the tank empties, swim when there's a river to traverse, and fly when an ocean stands in the way, all to bring the two of them home.

"This is life, and you don't have to get it right all the time."Beeha, in her collection of poems, paints life together with the greys and blues to the sunny yellows, the yearning bubbles to the sober realities, from the nostalgia of cherished memories to creating new ones. 'Life through her eyes' delves into the dynamics of relationships - friends, family, lovers, and even one with self. Exploring the intricacies of perfectly imperfect connections, the poems sing a melody of wishes and sorrows, hope and heartbreaks, bringing a blanket of comfort to everyone.For people you adore and for people you miss, for you.With love.