Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Hats
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£7.41
Arachne Press What Meets the Eye?: The Deaf Perspective
Book SynopsisA tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it./Beloved: It’s not that I am/unwilling to be seized by sound,/ everyday I am undone by it. Khando Langri Our poets and authors were given the theme of Movement. They have intepreted this in many ways: movement as communication and connection, mobility, and stillness, being moved emotionally, movement within and after Lockdown, freedom of movement, and being part of a political movement. Poems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing writers. Our theme is movement. Stories and poems from Alison Campbell, Ayesha B. Gavin, Bryony Parkes, Charlie Swinbourne, Clare-Louise English, Colly Metcalfe, David Callin, Dee Cooke, Diane Dobson, DL Williams, Elizabeth Ward, Emma Lee, Hala Hashem, Janet Hatherley, Jay Caldwell, John Kefala Kerr, John Wilson, Josephine Dickinson, Julie Boden, Khando Langri, Ksenia Balabina, Liam O'Dell, Lianne Herbert, Lynn Buckle, Maggie Arbeid, Marilyn Longstaff, Maryam Ebrahim, Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford, Melanie Jayne Ashford, Rodney Wood, Sahera Khan, Samantha Baines, Sarah Clarke, Sarah O Adedeji, Sophie Woolley, Terri Jade Donovan.
£9.99
UEA Publishing Project 30 Poets: UEA MA Poetry Anthology: 2021
Book SynopsisFeaturing work by: Amna Alamir • Chloe Bettles • Eleanor Burleigh • Hetty Cliss • Abigail Craig • Sam Davidson • Rose Francklin • Gabrielle Griot • Alex Hillman • Maya Hough • P. B. Hughes • Elke Huismans • Alex Innocent • Lauren Kania • Viv Kemp • Prerana Kumar • Sam Newcombe • Mariana Peña Feeney • Christopher Perry • Max Purkiss • George Richards • Jesse Smith • Tim Snell • Kiera Summer • Tristan·E • Alex Wood
£8.99
Verve Poetry Press Language Is A Queer Thing
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£7.00
Parthian Books Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry
Book SynopsisThis collection with parallel texts in Italian and English gives the English-reading audience a sense of the great variety of the present poetic scene in Italy with a selection of twenty-one of the most representative contemporary poets. Contemporary Italian poetry offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most representative poets from different backgrounds: academics, working-class writers, editors, journalists, performers, travellers and professional translators. The poets who appear are: Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Dome Bulfaro, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Chandra Livia Candiani, Milo De Angelis, Matteo Fantuzzi, Fabio Franzin, Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Gualtieri, Andrea Inglese, Rosaria Lo Russo, Valerio Magrelli, Guido Mazzoni, Umberto Piersanti, Laura Pugno Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Ida Travi, Luigi Trucillo, Patrizia Valduga, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto and Lello Voce.Trade Review'a vital window into the soul of our neighbours in this post-Brexit Europe' - Poetry Wales; 'These are excursions I intend to keep making, poets whose work I hope to find more of and enjoy.' - Tears in the Fence; 'a welcome addition to the bookshelves' - World Literature Today
£13.50
Smith|Doorstop Books Spit Out the Myth: Three Sheffield Poets
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£7.12
University of Wales Press A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh poems of romance,
Book SynopsisA fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms. Featuring twelve pieces dating from the fourteenth century to the present, this absorbing collection deliberately veers far from clichéd verses with its poems of regret and of mourning; straight love and gay love; bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.
£9.49
The Emma Press Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood
Book SynopsisA child is born and everything is made anew. In this blur of new beginnings there are tears and laughter, new words and new silences: this is an unmaking and remaking of the self. From short stories about unnerved fathers and lost mothers, to poems about 'half-built Lego palaces' and friends who share their deepest secrets, Blood & Cord is a raw exploration of new parenthood. Voicing silenced conversations about loss, grief, and loneliness, as well as the joys and laughter that are part and parcel of becoming a parent, the stories told within offer a refreshingly honest account of life after new life. This collection is a hand in the dark, offering comfort and solidarity to any new parent. Edited by Abi Curtis, with prose pieces from Naomi Booth, Jennifer Cooke, Rebecca Goss, Daisy Hildyard, Caleb Klaces and Malcolm Taylor, and poems from Liz Berry, Rachel Bower, Tommy Brad, Janine Bradbury, Ruth Charnock, Abi Curtis, Paige Davis, Gail McConnell, Elizabeth Hogarth, Alex McRae Dimsdale, Sandra Simonds and Sylvie Simonds.Trade Review'Many kinds of parenthood are presented in this superb new collection of poems and stories. Mothers and fathers convey the spectrum of ways in which the self is remade by parenthood, the 'complete subjugation' of this task - bodily, mentally, spiritually - tearing apart the boundaries of love for which new language is required. Thankfully, the writers herein are more than up to this otherwise monumental task. New and experienced parents alike will find solace and resonance in this wonderful book.' - Carolyn Jess-Cooke
£10.79
Poems and Pictures Ltd The Virus Poems
Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 virus outbreak of 2020 will forever be a pivotal part of human history. The impact was global and affected everyone on the planet. Here, in the UK, we managed the coronavirus in similar ways to other countries but also with a degree of Britishness that has defined us for centuries. Not that it was all good and it raised many issues about our culture and values. Hundreds of thousands caught the virus and many thousands died. The impact on the nation, on families and our very own NHS was palpable and at times, almost too much to bear. A Facebook group in Marlow was set up to help people, to communicate and provide support to anyone that might need it. It became incredibly important for many and it was here that Mike started writing 'The Virus Poems'. The journey began and ended sixty seven days later on the 31st May 2020. When you read just one poem it might touch you or amuse you. It is when you consider every subject that, without knowing, this has become a walk through our time in 'Lockdown' as this period will be forever known. We have also included alongside every poem an extract of the news headlines of the day to help you put the poems into some context.
£9.74
Haymarket Books Like a Hammer
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£17.95
Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth Century
Book SynopsisThe publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years.The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.)The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.Trade ReviewPraise for The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose:“There are many good things to be said about The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose—not least that it comes to help relieve a quarter-of-a-century’s dearth of decent anthologies, that it covers the whole century, and that it includes a number of women writers…This ambitious and thoughtful anthology deserves a large audience.” — Tom Clayton, Regents Professor of English, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsJOHN CHAMBERLAIN Letters The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613) LANCELOT ANDREWES A Sermon Preached Before the King’s Majesty at Whitehall (1609)NICHOLAS BRETON The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616) An Atheist or Most Bad ManA Wanton WomanA Quiet WomanAn Unworthy Lawyer FRANCIS BACON Essays (excerpts) Of TruthOf Simulation and DissimulationOf Marriage and Single LifeOf LoveOf Seditions and TroublesOf TravelOf EmpireOf the True Greatness of Kingdoms and EstatesOf PlantationsOf Masques and TriumphsOf StudiesOf Studies Aphorisms (excerpts) The IdolsIdols of the TribeIdols of the CaveIdols of the Market-placeIdols of the TheatreApplication of the Method KING JAMES VI/I A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)AEMILIA LANYERTo the Virtuous ReaderLADY MARGARET HOBY The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)JOHN DONNE Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts) IV. ExpostulationV. MeditationXVII. MeditationXXI. Meditation The second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626) WILLIAM LAUDDiary (excerpts)ELIZABETH CLINTON, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery (excerpts)ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts) Democritus Junior To the ReaderLove of Learning, or Overmuch Study THE OVERBURIAN CHARACTERA Good WomanA Fair and Happy MilkmaidA WatermanA PrisonerTHOMAS HOBBES Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)The IntroductionChapter XIIIChapter XVIIChapter XVIIIChapter XIXChapter XXChapter XXIChapter XLVIIA Review, and Conclusion LADY ELEANOR DAVIES The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)SIR ROBERT FILMER Patriarcha (excerpts)Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times WILLIAM BRADFORD History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) Book I, Chapter 9Book II, Chapter 19 ANNE CLIFFORD The Knole Diary (1603-1619) (excerpts) 160316161617 BENJAMIN LANEY The Study of Quiet, in Two SermonsA Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall, March 18, 1666 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Advice to Charles II (excerpts) For TradeFor Ceremony and OrderThe Errors of State and Their RemediesThe Recreations for Your Majesty’s People EDWARD WINSLOW Good News from New England (excerpt) The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth RACHEL SPEGHT A Muzzle for Melastomus To Joseph SwetnamOf Woman’s Excellency THOMAS EDWARDS Gangraena (1646) (excerpt) The Catalogue of Errors KING CHARLES I A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)BATHSUA MAKIN An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts) To her Highness the Lady MaryCare ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in LearningPostscript WILLIAM WALWYN The Bloody Project (1649)JOHN EARLE Microcosmography To the ReaderA ChildA SurgeonPaul’s Walk OWEN FELLTHAM Resolves Of PuritansOf PovertyOf WomanOf Poets and PoetryA Rule in Reading Authors SIR THOMAS BROWNE Religio Medici To the ReaderThe First Part (excerpts)The Second Part (excerpts) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial Chapter 1 (excerpts)Chapter 2 (excerpts)Chapter 5 JOHN MILTONfrom The Reason of Church Government (1641)Areopagitica (1644)Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA The Queen’s LetterThe Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s most excellent Majesty from Holland EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts) The Character of William LaudThe Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665—6 GERRARD WINSTANLEY A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)The Diggers’ SongANNE BRADSTREETTo My Dear ChildrenJEREMY TAYLOR A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpt) Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt) Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole lifeOf daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bedReasons for a daily examination SAMUEL BUTLERA Romance-WriterA RabbleMARGARET FELLWomen’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the ScripturesLAWRENCE CLARKSON (CLAXTON) The Lost Sheep Found (1660)RICHARD OVERTONThe Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649SIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)ABRAHAM COWLEYExtracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656Of SolitudeOf ObscurityOf My SelfABIEZER COPPE A Fiery Flying Roll and A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)JOHN EVELYN The Diary of John Evelyn (extracts) The RestorationThe Fire of London LUCY HUTCHINSON The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A FragmentMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE The Philosophical and Physical Opinions To the Two Universities Nature’s Pictures Drawn by Fancy’s Pencil to the Life The Loving Cuckold Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places An Oration for Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration against Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts) MARY HOWGILLA Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called ProtectorLADY ANNE HALKETT The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)KATHARINE EVANS AND SARAH CHEVERSThis is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth’s Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)JOHN AUBREY Brief Lives (excerpts) Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Venetia Digby (1600-33)Thomas Fairfax (1612-71)Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Robert Hooke (1635-1703)Andrew Marvell (1621-78)Sir Robert Moray (d.1673)John Milton (1608-74) DOROTHY OSBORNE The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Saturday, January 8, 1653Thursday–Saturday, June 2–4, 1653October 1653October 1653Saturday, February 4, 1654Saturday, February 11, 1654March 18, 1654 JOHN BUNYAN Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)The Pilgrim’s Progress (excerpt) Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair KING CHARLES II The Declaration of Breda (1660)ANTHONY À WOOD The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (extracts) Notes on Oxford during the InterregnumThe Restoration Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)Robert BurtonJeremy Taylor JOHN LOCKE An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt) Of Enthusiasm GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX A Character of King Charles II (excerpts) Of his ReligionHis Amours, Mistresses, &cHis Conduct to his MinistersOf his Wit and ConversationHis Talents, Temper, Habits, &cConclusion SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt) The Fire of London ROBERT SOUTHEcclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of StateMARY ROWLANDSON The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts) The First RemoveThe Second RemoveThe Third RemoveThe Fourth RemoveThe Eighth RemoveThe Twentieth Remove THOMAS SPRAT The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts) A Proposal for Erecting an English AcademyTheir Manner of Discourse THOMAS TRAHERNE The Third Century (excerpt)APHRA BEHNLove Letters by Mrs A. BehnThe Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of ImaginationPIERRE-ESPRIT RADISSON Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659—60 (excerpts)BISHOP GILBERT BURNET History of My Own Time The Restoration Reign of King Charles II ELINOR JAMES Mrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled A New Test of the Church of England’s Loyalty (excerpts)COTTON MATHER Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)ELIZABETH JOHNSONPreface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions.Written by Philomela A MISCELLANYLETTERSOliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine WaltonCharles I to Prince RupertEleanor Gwynne to Laurence HydeJohn Evelyn to Sir Christopher WrenINFORMATION FROM THE SCOTTISH NATION to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)THE PUTNEY DEBATESThe Putney Debates: The Debate on the FranchiseTHE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I The King’s Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of JusticeThe Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King A TRUE RELATION, of the Inhumane and Unparallel’d Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)THE GENTLEWOMAN’S COMPANION (1673) The Introduction What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a GentlewomanOf the Government of the EyeOf Speech and ComplementOf Wanton Songs, and Idle BalladsWhat Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDPassed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to theSacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society (1683)INDEXESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
£45.55
Broadview Press Ltd Sexing The Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook
Book SynopsisA unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as to provide an interactive study of these issues, the collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion.Literary works by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Turner, and many others are juxtaposed with criticism and historical documents, many of which were previously out of print or unavailable. Selections include Marshall McLuhan's 1967 article "The Future of Sex" and excerpts from Stan Persky and John Dixon's Kiddie Porn, SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe, and Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale.Trade Review“I read this brave book in a canoe. A tribute both to its Canadianness and to Cavell and Dickinson’s balancing act in assembling this rich stew of literary nuggets and historical analysis. Sexing the Maple will be an indispensable resource for any future exploration of sexuality and gender in English Canada whether through a cultural or a historical point of view. Indeed its provocative lesson is that the two cannot be separated in any serious excursion into sexuality in this country or any other. Canonical and non-canonical, queer, queering and beyond, here is a sturdy paddle for those upcoming rapids.” — Thomas Waugh, Concordia University“Sexing the Maple takes sex out of Canada’s cultural closet. Richard Cavell and Peter Dickinson have assembled an outstanding anthology with fiction and poetry by leading Canadian writers, rare and out-of-print material, and a superb selection of critical articles. The historical and cultural range of topics is impressive, covering the gamut of Canuck sex from anti-masturbation tracts and weird sex in Canadian film to reproductive laws and transgender surgery. This is the first book to theorize and document how stories about our sexualities articulate our sense of Canadian nationhood. The research is impeccable, the theorizing trailblazing, the writing compelling. This book is bold, ambitious, and provocative.” — Irene Gammel, Ryerson UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSex and Canada: A Theoretical IntroductionSex and the FamilyAlice Munro, “Family Furnishings,” Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)Ivan E. Coyote, “Just Like My Dad,” Boys Like Her (1998)Gertrude Pringle, from Etiquette in Canada (1949)Michael Bliss, “‘Pure Books on Avoided Subjects’: Pre-Freudian SexualIdeas in Canada,” Historical Papers (1970)Mariana Valverde, “Families, Private Property, and the State:The Dionnes and the Toronto Stork Derby,” Journal of CanadianStudies 29.4 (1994–95)Sex and MediaIrving Layton, “The Improved Binoculars,” Collected Poems (1971)Persimmon Blackridge, from Prozac Highway (1997)Nicole Markotic, from Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (1995)Marshall McLuhan and George B. Leonard, “The Future of Sex,”Look Magazine (1967)Katherine Monk, from Weird Sex and Snowshoes (2001)Sex and MedicineDerek McCormack, “Stargaze,” Dark Rides (1996)Trish Salah, “Surgical Diary,” Wanting in Arabic (2002)Patricia Baird, et al., Proceed with Care: Final Report of the Royal Commissionon New Reproductive Technologies: Summary and Highlights (1993)John Colapinto, from As Nature Made Him (2000)Sex and GenderDorothy Livesay, “On Looking into Henry Moore,” Collected Poems (1972)Jane Rule, “The Killer Dyke and the Lady,” Outlander (1981)Daphne Marlatt, from Ana Historic (1988)Lyndell Montgomery, “Border Crossing: On the Edge,” Boys Like Her (1998)Roberta Hamilton, “Representation and Subjectivity: Women as SexualObjects,” Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on CanadianSociety (2004)Sex and RaceSKY Lee, from Disappearing Moon Café (1990)Ian Iqbal Rashid, “An/other Country,” from Black Markets, White Boyfriendsand other acts of elision (1991)Gregory Scofield, from Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a MétisChildhood (1999)Martin Cannon, “The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality,” CanadianJournal of Native Studies 18.1 (1998)Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz, “‘It was Only a Matter of Passion’:Masculinity and Sexual Danger,” Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays inFemininity and Masculinity in Canada (1999)Sex and ReligionTimothy Findley, from Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)Leonard Cohen, from Beautiful Losers (1966)Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)Nancy Christie, “Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatizationof the Family in Post-War Canada,” Households of Faith (2002)Iain A.G. Barrie, “A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers,Pedophilia, and the Media,” Sex, Religion, Media (2002)Sex and the LawMichael Turner, from The Pornographer’s Poem (1999Lynn Crosbie, from Paul’s Case (1997)Jane Rule, Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial (1995)Gary Kinsman, “‘These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species’:The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexualityin Canada,” The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996)Stan Persky and John Dixon, from On Kiddie Porn (2001)Sources
£51.30
Academic Studies Press Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine
Book SynopsisThe armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. In addressing these themes, the poems also raise questions about art, politics, citizenship, and moral responsibility. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.Trade ReviewFeatured in the TLS (June 22 2018)"Maksymchuk and Rosochinsky note in their introduction that poetry has often been used in the service of political power.""...Through their collection, they "sought to patch together the pieces of this disintegrating world".""The kind of poetry included in these collections is the antithesis of propaganda; these poetic dialogues are a valuable reminder that there is nothing immutable about Russian-Ukrainian enmity." "The words and images create an impression of a shimmering landscape that keeps shifting and changing. It is these moments that move us most – the moments when things no longer make sense, but are about to start making sense again. Meanings change, old words acquire new connotations, language itself wrings out of the usual course and meanders. In principle, there is nothing strange about language evolving to describe the changing reality. What’s uncanny is how quickly this happens. It’s like watching a blossom burst out of a bud, open and close rapidly a dozen of times, wilt away, and disappear, all in a matter of seconds. War puts language change in fast-forward." - Poetry International Online“These are poems in which the spirit of creative imagination, free expression, emotional clarity, and ethical courage reigns supreme.” – Stephanie Sandler, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Preface Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky Introduction: “Barometers” Ilya Kaminsky ANASTASIA AFANASIEVA she says we don’t have the right kind of basement in our building You whose inner void from Cold She Speaks On TV the news showed from The Plain Sense of Things Untitled Can there be poetry after VASYL HOLOBORODKO No Return I Fly Away in the Shape of a Dandelion Seed The Dragon Hillforts I Pick up my Footprints BORYS HUMENYUK Our platoon commander is a strange fellow These seagulls over the battlefield When HAIL rocket launchers are firing Not a poem in forty days An old mulberry tree near Mariupol When you clean your weapon A Testament YURI IZDRYK Darkness Invisible Make Love ALEKSANDR KABANOV This is a post on Facebook, and this, a block post in the East How I love — out of harm’s way A Former Dictator He came first wearing a t-shirt inscribed “Je suis Christ” In the garden of Gethsemane on the Dnieper river A Russian tourist is on vacation Fear is a form of the good Once upon a time, a Jew says to his prisoner, his Hellenic foe KATERYNA KALYTKO They won’t compose any songs, because the children of their children April 6 This loneliness could have a name, an Esther or a Miriam Home is still possible there, where they hang laundry out to dry He Writes Can great things happen to ordinary people? LYUDMYLA KHERSONSKA Did you know that if you hide under a blanket and pull it over your head How to describe a human other than he’s alone The whole soldier doesn’t suffer A country in the shape of a puddle, on the map Buried in a human neck, a bullet looks like a eye, sewn in that’s it: you yourself choose how you live I planted a camellia in the yard One night, a humanitarian convoy arrived in her dream When a country of — overall — nice people Leave me alone, I’m crying. I’m crying, let me be the enemy never ends every seventh child of ten — he’s a shame you really don’t remember Grandpa — but let’s say you do BORIS KHERSONSKY explosions are the new normal, you grow used to them all for the battlefront which doesn’t really exist people carry explosives around the city way too long the artillery and the tanks stayed silent in their hangars when wars are over we just collapse modern warfare is too large for the streets my brother brought war to our crippled home Bessarabia, Galicia, 1913–1939 Pronouncements MARIANNA KIYANOVSKA I believed before in a tent like in a nest we swallowed an air like earth I wake up, sigh, and head off to war The eye, a bulb that maps its own bed Their tissue is coarse, like veins in a petal Things swell closed. It’s delicious to feel how fully Naked agony begets a poison of poisons HALYNA KRUK A Woman Named Hope like a blood clot, something catches him in the rye someone stands between you and death like a bullet, the Lord saves those who save themselves OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA eastern europe is a pit of death and decaying plums don’t touch live flesh he asks — don’t help me I Dream of Explosions VASYL MAKHNO February Elegy War Generation On War On Apollinaire MARJANA SAVKA We wrote poems Forgive me, darling, I’m not a fighter january pulled him apart OSTAP SLYVYNSKY Lovers on a Bicycle Lieutenant Alina 1918 Kicking the Ball in the Dark Story (2) Latifa A Scene from 2014 Orpheus LYUBA YAKIMCHUK Died of Old Age How I Killed Caterpillar Decomposition He Says Everything Will Be Fine Eyebrows Funeral Services Crow, Wheels Knife SERHIY ZHADAN from Stones“We speak of the cities we lived in . . .” “Now we remember: janitors and the night-sellers of bread . . .” from Why I’m not on Social MediaNeedleHeadphonesSectRhinocerosThey buried him last winter Three Years Now We’ve Been Talking about the War“A guy I know volunteered . . .”“Three years now we’ve been talking about the war . . .” “So that’s what their family is like now . . .” “Sun, terrace, lots of green . . .”“The street. A woman zigzags the street . . .” “Village street – gas line’s broken . . .”“At least now, my friend says . . .” Thirty-Two Days Without Alcohol Take Only What Is Most Important A city where she ended up hiding Afterword: “On Decomposition and Rotten Plums: Language of War in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry” Polina Barskova Authors Translators Glossary Geographical Locations and Places of Significance Notes to Poems Acknowledgements Acknowledgement of Prior Publications
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Faber & Faber The Finest Music Early Irish Lyrics
Book SynopsisIn a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland''s rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are presented in their classic incarnations by literary giants from both sides of the Irish Sea: in examples by W. H. Auden, Flann O''Brien, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Montague, Robert Graves and Frank O''Connor. But the anthology is much more than a survey of canonical texts; through a series of specially commissioned poems, fresh eyes are brought to bear on these ancient poems: by Seamus Heaney and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, by Paul Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie, by Ciaran Carson and Christopher Reid, and many others. The experience is enhanced still further by the enabling hand of Riordan himself, in a sweep of exquisite translations of his own made especially for this publication. Unforgettable and inspirational, a book for giving and for keeping: The Finest Music by some of the art-form''s f
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Orion Publishing Co For the Love of Dogs 20 Individual Notecards and
Book Synopsis20 notecards with envelopes featuring artwork from The Book of Dog Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the canine companions inspired by the poems of William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy among others, alongside short quotations from the works on the back. Beautifully packaged in a presentation box. The cards are blank inside for your personal message.
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Orion Publishing Co For the Love of Dogs 25 Postcards
Book Synopsis25 postcards featuring artwork from The Book of Dog Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the canine companions inspired by the poems of William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy among others, alongside short quotations from the works on the back. Beautifully packaged in a paperback case. Each card has space on the back for your personal message.
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Birlinn General Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island
Book SynopsisAn island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and bereavement sit cheek-by-jowl with evocations of drowned sailors, corporeal and ghostly. Praise poems alternate with diary entries and holiday postcards. Others cover stretches of water: Corrievreckan, say, or the Minch. And while there is a recurring sense of island heritage, and of belonging, the poet's feet need not be actively on island soil or on the deck of a fishing-boat. In Other Worlds editor Stewart Conn has sought poems to set readers' hearts racing through a sharpening of memory or in opening new vistas and evoking new worlds and states of mind from Orkney and Shetland to the Hebrides, to Mull and Iona, Arran and Ailsa Craig; from St Kilda and Luing to Inchcape, the Torren rocks and the Isle of May.Trade Review'Captures the essence of the isles' -- Maggie Ritchie * Sunday Post *'An island can mean different things to different people, from a place to take a break from the polluted city air to a way of life, shaped and governed by nature… this anthology encapsulates all these feelings, expressed in verse, to paint a mosaic of island life' -- Megan Amato * Scottish Field *'A celebration of Scottish islands and all they have to offer, from their glorious landscapes to the friendliness of their inhabitants, as well as their significance in Scottish history' * Ileach *'Immerse yourself in rich depictions of island flora and fauna, haunting vistas and human experiences of island life from Orkney to the Hebrides' * Scots Magazine *'I feel as though I opened the anthology and the Scotland that I love poured out' -- Lynn Davidson'Stewart Conn's editing deftly captures the many contradictions of island life, both its richness and its restrictions… Other Worlds is a collection to be revisited' -- Kirsteen Bell * Oban Times *
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Eland Publishing Ltd England
Book SynopsisThis is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. England, as every fan of Flanders and Swan will know, hasn't really got a national song. This collection more than fills the gap. Despite the worldwide spread of the English language in the wake of the Empire, the poets of England were always more interested in personal freedom than political conformity. Those rallying cries from the pens of Blake, Byron and Brook are as relevant as ever. Armed with the clarion calls of Milton and Shakespeare, "England" still calls upon us to do our duty: to cleanse our land of a media monoculture linked by a spreading cancer of motorways, hypermarkets and a rootless, heartless international capitalism that rots the spirit.
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Harvard University Press Ghazals
Book SynopsisMir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished Urdu poet, composed his ghazals in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero and death is preferred to the beloved’s indifference. Ghazals offers a collection of Mir’s finest work.
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Princeton University Press All the World on a Page
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University of Nebraska Press Modern Sudanese Poetry
Book SynopsisSpanning more than six decades of Sudan’s postindependence history, this collection features poetry by some of Sudan’s most renowned poets. Trade Review“No list of writing from Sudan would be complete without poetry, and this is a well overdue collection. The excellent selections cover the last six decades and include most of the classical names such as Mohammed Abdul-Hayyand Mahjoub Sharif, as well as some of the younger writers working today. It fills a yawning gap and, hopefully, will inspire others to pursue the same course.”—Jamal Mahjoub, The Guardian “This is an unprecedented accomplishment not only in translation of modern Sudanese poetry but also scholarship on its history, evolution, poetics, and aesthetics. . . . This book is a great addition to the library of Arab poetry in translation that should appeal to scholars and the general public with interest in Arabic poetry.”—Salah M. Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor of Africana Studies and History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University“Sudanese literature has long been a significant contributor to Arabic and world letters and culture. The thoughtful, provocative introduction in this anthology, combined with the clear-eyed lyric transformation of the poems into English, honor poetry everywhere. Just as in Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, or the United States, the weight of collective history and ethnic and linguistic diversity emerges to forge these Sudanese poems into art, both bound to and liberated from the national frame. Details matter, nuance is essential. And yet the story of Sudanese poetry is the story of poetry all over the world. From blaze to breeze, this is a beautiful book.”—Fady Joudah, Palestinian American physician and author of the poetry collection The Earth in the AtticTable of ContentsForeword, by Matthew Shenoda Acknowledgments Introduction: Notes on Modern Sudanese Poetry Khalil FarahMy Beloved Aazza Muhammad el-Mahdi el-Magzoub Wedding Parade Idris Jamma’A Poet In the Spring of Love Mohammed el-FayturiDig No Grave for Me A Roaming Dervish’s Stanza Yaaqut al-Arsh Jayli Abdel RahmanMigrating from Sai Mohyiddin FarisThe Wharf and the Walkway Rhythms The Horse and the Wind Homeland Taj el-Sir el-HassanAn Afro-Asian Song El-Nur Osman AbbakerThe Exile and the Kingdom Mohammed el-Makki IbrahimA Drib of Your Nectar A Farm on the Hill Two Love Poems and a Carnival Songs for October Mustapha SanadThe Old Sea The Lost Violins Abdel Raheem Abu ZikraDeparture at Night The Night Girl Ali Abdel QayyoumWho Triggered the Stone’s Tongue? Muhammad Abdul-HaiThe Signs Ode Kamal ElgizouliEncounter Whispers A Cell the Size of New Year’s Eve Monologue Aalim AbbasThe Pre-Eruption Silence Mahjoub SharifThe Homesick Sparrow Crazy in Love with You I Say It without Fear Buffoon! Mahgoub KbaloThe Golden Scythe Song Deng Malo: A Biography Pastoral Scriptures Fidaili Jamma’The Silent Rose A Sun on the Window Walking a Tightrope Abdulqadir AlkutayabiThe Shores of Your Eyes I Miss Something Mohammed el-Hassan Salim HimmaidUncle Abdur Raheem Nura and the Time-Tested Dream Hashim SiddigA Story of a Revolution A Tale of the Rose and the Street Azhari Mohammed AliA Starting Point Al-Saddig al-RaddiSongs of Solitude Rawda el-HajHeart’s Confessions A New Ebb in the High Tide Season Rugaia WarragA Frosted Cry A Tribute to Winter The Spider’s Text: Millennium Messages to Life Khalid Hassan OthmanAll Alone Najlaa Osman EltomUnder Abundant Shades Tuesday’s Dilemma An Acacia Bush in Labor Mamoun EltilibThe Fall of Angels Boi John AwangWrapped in Grief Hatim Al KinaniSkies Nylawo AyulOn the Bank of River Sobat An Amulet for the Mango Tree Notes References List of Contributors
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Seagull Books Under a Pannonian Sky
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Milkweed Editions You Are Here
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.” -Margaret Renkl, New York Times“A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.” -Los Angeles TimesPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers. In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature p
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
Book Synopsis"Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, as well as by many lesser-known writers from all periods and places. The anthology opens with a series of poems on human life and spiritual sustenance, starting with Rumi: 'This being human is a guest house./Each morning a new arrival...'. The poems which follow explore many ways of keeping body and soul together, offering food for thought on knowing yourself, living with nature, who or what is God...All are universal illuminations of the meaning of life, speaking to readers of all faiths as well as to searchers and non-believers. "Soul Food" shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation.Trade Review'These poems illuminate the path of life.' - Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times 'These poems will reconnect you with happiness, kindness, beauty and joy. They will teaqch you how to be here, now, fully aware and alive... Buy this book! You will be investing in happiness for days - and even dark lonely nights - to come.' - Anne Ashworth, Universalist: The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Group 'A friend gave me a copy of Soul Food as a gift... I thought it was so good that I gave it away to another friend within a matter of days, and bought myself a new copy, which I also gave away... I continue to buy copies for friends... I have read this book through from beginning to end a number of times now, and each time I am left with my spirit uplifted and a wondrous sense of warm joy in my soul. Not only is each poem fine, but reading the whole collection reads feels like the privilege of sharing another human's spiritual journey for a while.' - Henry Morgan, The Merton Journal 'Soul Food is an extremely attractive book. Of all the books lying about my house, more visitors have been drawn to wanting to borrow this than any other... It contains work by many of my favourite poets, but more importantly it whets my appetite with new discoveries... I recommend buying copies to keep and give away.' - Chris Kinsey, Envoi ‘Soul Food, like another Bloodaxe anthology, Do Not Go Gentle: poems for funerals, captures the elusive overlapping oval in the Venn diagram of poetry-that-is-serious and poetry-that-breaks-your-heart.’ – Martin Wroe, Church TimesTable of ContentsSoul Food includes Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Coleman Barks, William Blake, John Burnside, Paul Celan, Chuang-Tzu, Emily Dickinson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jane Hirshfield, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kabir, Jane Kenyon, Lal Ded (Lalla), DH Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Czeslaw Milosz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Amrita Pritam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, St John of the Cross, Edith Södergran, Anna Swir, Wislawa Szymborska, Shinkichi Takahashi, RS Thomas, and many others…
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Smokestack Books A Blade of Grass
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Hodder & Stoughton Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
Book SynopsisTHE PERFECT NIGHTTIME READ - DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT''S SLEEP*Introduced by Lucy Mangan* Recommended by RED magazine *''Dreamy'' STYLIST''Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some ZZZZs.'' THE SUNTales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night''s sleep. This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind.Sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives it is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to put down your smartphone, stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away. From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield
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Harvard University Press Carmina Burana Volume II
Book SynopsisCarmina Burana, the largest surviving collection of secular Medieval Latin verse, features poems on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. This new, two-volume presentation of the medieval classic makes the anthology accessible in its entirety to Latin lovers and English readers alike.Trade Review[Traill] brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript…These are, indeed, translations worth having…The DOML Carmina Burana is a wonderful resource. -- Thomas C. Moser, Jr. * Speculum *
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Harvard University Press Latin Pastoral Poetry
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Penguin Books Ltd The First Poems in English Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisA collection of the finest and earliest poems composed in English, from tales of battle to love songsThis selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.For more than seventy years, Penguin hTrade ReviewMichael Alexander is much the best translator from Old English. His Penguin Beowulf is much to be recommended, but so too is the volume entitled The First Poems in English -- A.N. Wilson
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Penguin Books Ltd The Poem of the Cid Dual Language Edition Penguin
Book SynopsisOne of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical fact, the tale seethes with the restless, adventurous spirit of Castille, telling of the Cid's unjust banishment from the court of King Alfonso, his victorious campaigns in Valencia, and the crowning of his daughters as queens of Aragon and Navarre - the high point of his career as a warmonger. An epic that sings of universal human values, this is one of the greatest of all works of Spanish literature.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authori
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Penguin Books Ltd Minor Notes Volume 1 Poems by a Slave Visions of
Book SynopsisThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithA Penguin ClassicJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradTrade Review“You feel you’re meeting them on a human level. The book is slim and portable, as the best poetry books are (…) Bennett and McCarthy, in their introduction, set out their criteria for inclusion in ‘Minor Notes.’ They list things like ‘minimal appearance’ in anthologies and ‘very little, if anything, in the way of secondary literature focusing on their work.’ But it becomes plain that they chose these poets because they still speak across generations. This is a passion project.(…) This is a reclamation project that goes through you like a spear.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, both scholars of African American literature, aim to widen the canon of Black poetry by spotlighting poets who have been overlooked (…) giving readers an understanding of their unique voice and poetic concerns. (…) David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Anne Spencer, and other poets interrogate everything from labor politics to friendship in finely wrought lyrics that delight and surprise, prompting the reader to wonder how these geniuses could have been sidelined for so long.” —Poets & Writers“The first in a series recovering the out-of-print words of Black poets whose work shaped the 19th and 20th centuries, Minor Notes, Volume 1 draws a bright line between the creations of the past and those of today’s bards. Curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, while featuring a foreword from former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, the book centers clear, resonant voices—like that of Angelina Weld Grimké’s, who ruminates joyfully on the beauty of living in a Black body.”—Essence
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Penguin Books Ltd Austerity Measures
Book Synopsis''I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other''s hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed''- Elena Penga, ''Heads''''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world''- Stamatis Polenakis, ''Elegy''Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and originality are being written by native Greeks, émigrés and migrants alike. They grapple with the personal and the political; with the small revelations of gardening and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration and economic crisis.In Austerity Measures, the very best of the writing to emerge from that creative ferment - much of it never before translated into English - is gathered for the first time. The result is a map to the complex territory of a still-evolving scene - and a unique window onto thTrade ReviewAusterity is a self-defeating economic policy which has taken an ugly toll in Greece. The silver lining is that, along with the mass unemployment and the rise of Nazism that it engendered, austerity also occasioned a cultural renaissance. This volume of multilingual poetry is a splendid example: living proof that the Greek crisis is of global significance. It deserves aninternational audience. Now! -- Yanis Varoufakis"Wherever I go, Greece wounds me," said George Seferis, the Nobel prize-winning poet born in 1900. There have been wonderful generations of Greek poets since his day. Ancient Greek poems, the Classics, are the basis of Western poetry. For Anglophone readers, they need re-voicing in every generation: brilliant English versions of Homer, from James Joyce to Derek Walcott and Alice Oswald, help us re-hear them. Today's Greek poets, however, have a special relationship, of a peculiarly charged and conflicted intimacy, with these founding texts. The light these poets work in, and the language they speak, are still the light and the language of Homer and the great tragedians. Austerity Measures, appearing as Greece faces new difficulties and suffering, offers a newly poignant, imaginative and resonant body of work. The wonderfully inventive translations reveal a different Greece to English readers: one that does not cancel the past but builds upon it -- Ruth PadelOne of the few benefits of turbulent historical moments is that they tend to give rise to a new cultural efflorescence. Nowhere is this more obvious than in this fascinating anthology, which gathers together a remarkably rich, resourceful range of poetic idioms in response to a common sense of moral and political emergency -- Terry EagletonKaren Van Dyck has collected an extraordinary group of poets and translators who are bound to put Greek poetry on the map again. I've seen it happen twice in my life: with the Generation of the Thirties that included Cavafy, Seferis, Elytes and Ritsos, and that reached world recognition; and again, during the Dictatorship of the Colonels, when the group that appeared in the Harvard anthology Eighteen Texts (1972) and others living under censorship earned international recognition with the help of accomplished translators. Now, during another crisis in the country, we find exciting new voices emerging, and I am convinced that they are once again saying something no one else is saying. Call it the knowledge that emerges from the underside of devastation and the creative illumination that comes with tragedy, but something is going on in Greece that we aren't seeing in the news. I give this anthology my strongest support -- Edmund KeeleyKaren Van Dyck's Austerity Measures is a timely trove of new Greek voices that reverberates with urgency and authority, girded with hard-earned truth and a deep seeing necessary for our twenty-first century. Here's a language that goes for the gut and the heart, an earthy sonority. It holds us accountable for what we witness and feel in a time of globalism. This marvellous compendium of lived imagery speaks freely -- Yusef Komunyakaa
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SPCK Publishing Love Set You Going
Book SynopsisAn unmissable anthology of touching, humorous, quirky, disconcerting, affirming, erotic and intriguing poems, sensitively interpreted by Janet Morley - renowned poet, critic, theologian and teacherTrade Review[Morley’s] comments are gentle, meditative, and perceptive. She avoids the overly devotional and sentimental, and has a gift for picking out the killer line or the telling stanza. * Church Times *[On OUR LAST AWAKENING] Morley writes with clarity and without simplification. Her theology is humane, experiential, and fed by the same poetry of scripture which Donne held so close. Morley’s God is not some object of our knowledge but the deepest cause for our wonder, through death as much as through life. She doesn’t unweave the poems by over-commenting on them, but allows enough unsaid for them to continue their work. I think Donne would be more than happy to have this book named after one of his own reflections on "our last awakening". -- Mark Oakley, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral * Church Times *As always [Morley] is both alert to the literary nature of the poems she discusses and also profound, drawing the reader into meditating on what is being said without seeking to be at all "preachy" or to push a particular religious message. -- Michael Cayley * Julian Meetings Magazine *[On HAPHAZARD BY STARLIGHT] Janet Morley has the great gift of being able to write simply and succinctly about a poem in a way that invites the reader into the heart of the poem. A fine poet herself, and one of the best liturgical crafters of prayer in our time (her first book, All Desires Known is, to my mind, one of the best collections of prayers in the modern era), Morley brings to her writing the poet’s sensitivity to language, the critic’s capacity to analyse and interpret, the theologian’s discernment of the sacred with the teacher’s ability to communicate insight in fresh and memorable ways. -- Nicola Slee[On THE HEART'S TIME] Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing. * The Times *Morley takes a poem, interprets it and applies it, marking a pilgrimage of the heart . . . each interpretation making me feel as if I was gently taken apart and remade anew. * Church Times *There’s a freedom and rashness in these poems sometimes lacking in religious writing. A wonderful idea, and nicely done. * The Tablet *[On ALL DESIRES KNOWN] A beautiful book, made newly useful. * thegoodbookstall *
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University of Washington Press A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available todayThis volumea completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetrybrings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as canonical as well as some who have been newly discovered or reevaluated in recent years, each selected for their distinctive voice and inimitable style. Also, for the first time, contemporary song lyrics are included as poetry. This diversity of perspectives, along with its geographic reach and expansive timeframe, make the anthology a much-needed contribution to the study of Chinese poetry and world literature. With short biographies of t
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Little, Brown & Company This Is the Honey
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of anthems for our time, at turns tender and piercing, and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Claudia Rankine, Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Amanda Gorman, Terrance Hayes, and Nikki Giovanni, This is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy. This essential collection, in the tradition of Dudley Randall''s The Black Poets and E. Ethelbert Miller''s In Search of Color Everywhere, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, resistance, and praise. Jacqueline A.Trimble likens Black woman joy with indigo, tassels, foxes, and peacock plumes. Tyree Day, Nate Marshall, and Elizabeth Acevedo reflect on the meaning of home through food, from Cuban rice and beans to fried chicken gizzards. Clint Smith, Rachel Long, and Cameron Awkw
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WW Norton & Co Singing School
Book SynopsisA bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past.Trade Review"Singing School is nothing like the usual anthology of safe and sane selections. Instead, it is a gathering of poetry designed to stimulate the young and startle the old practitioner, with a surprise around every corner. Where else might you find Sterling Brown's 'Harlem Happiness' next to Queen Elizabeth I’s 'When I Was Fair and Young,' and two poems away from Plath's 'Nick and the Candlestick'?…a book that will instruct and charm every reader." -- Alicia Ostriker"Robert Pinsky is, everyone knows, one of the great poetry teachers of our time. The tone of his discussion always combines patience and delight, and he is especially valuable to us because the knowledge he imparts is systematic—to read one of his explications of a poem is to understand something more about all the poems you'll read from that moment on." -- Tony Hoagland
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Cambridge University Press Di Serambi
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Vintage Publishing A Little Aloud
Book SynopsisThe Reader Organisation (TRO), founded by the charismatic Jane Davis, is a national charity dedicated to bringing about a reading revolution by making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with literature on a deep and personal level. Their 'Get Into Reading' read-aloud groups reach people who may not otherwise read, including people living in deprived areas, the mentally or chronically ill, older people living in Care Homes, prisoners, recovering addicts and excluded children. The organisation started on Merseyside but has since expanded across the UK and beyond. Angela Macmillan has worked at The Reader Organisation since its inception and runs several 'Get Into Reading' groups.Trade ReviewI've always known that reading aloud was one of the paths to greater happiness in life. It's rather pleasing to hear of research backing this up convincingly. But reading aloud isn't medicine to be swallowed to make one feel better. It's pleasure. Pure pleasure -- Stephen FryReading aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would be a better place -- Philip PullmanBeing read to is the beguiling beginning of learning to love reading - it opens the door to absolutely everything and anything we might want to do in life -- Joanna TrollopeReading aloud brings health and happiness: guaranteed! I urge you to buy this book, read the wonderful (and funny, surprising, thought-provoking) pieces collected here to someone you care for and see the results for yourself -- Fiona PhillipsI read to stroke victims so know first-hand the power of good that reading aloud can do. This first-rate collection is a real treasure trove and I can't recommend it highly enough -- Richard Briers
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Beijing Street Voices Poetry and Politics of
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McFarland & Company On Human Flourishing A Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisGreat literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of harmony and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense.
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University of Arizona Press When It Rains
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MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PR New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023
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Penned in the Margins City State New London Poetry
Book SynopsisCity State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.Featuring poems by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Trade ReviewWe are offered London as a test case for a new diversity of means and manner, from sassy performance scripts to the solid blocks of densely disjunctive language characterised as innovative or avant-garde. [City State proposes] a central space that is also the meeting place of many edges. - Philip Gross, Poetry London City State is [a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. Though diverse, the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation, escapism, breathlessness. - Helen Mort, Pen PusherTable of ContentsJay Bernard Caroline Bird Ben Borek Siddhartha Bose Tom Chivers Swithun Cooper Alex Davies Inua Ellams Laura Forman Christopher Horton Wayne Holloway-Smith Kirsten Irving Annie Katchinska Amy Key Chris McCabe Marianne Munk Holly Pester Heather Phillipson Nick Potamitis Imogen Robertson Jacob Sam La Rose Ashna Sarkar Jon Stone Barnaby Tidman Ahren Warner James Wilkes Steve Willey
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Lautus Press Strings of Pearls A Collection of Poems
Book SynopsisThese poems are inspired by the seductive sparkle of jewels and jewellery. Every culture since time immemorial has understood the importance of jewellery, and every jewel tells a story, so this book of 'pearls' is not only for poetry lovers but also for anyone who has ever treasured a piece of jewellery.Trade ReviewTatler/Vogue/Oxford Times (already promised)Table of ContentsRobert Graves The Necklace: Helen Dunmore Greek Beads: Kathleen Jamie The Brooch: Menna Elfyn Brooch: Robert Herrick A Ring Presented to Julia : George Crabbe A Marriage Ring: Inscription inside a watch: Eithne Cavanagh The Necklace: Gillian Clarke Amber: Colette Bryce The Wearer: Julie O'Callaghan Opals : Alicia Stubbersfield Jane's Pearls: Moniza Alvi Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan: Simon Armitage from The Book of Matches: Victoria Redel Bedecked : Ted Hughes The Locket : Edna St Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had: Grevel Lindop My Grandmother's Opal: William Strode A Necklace: Carol Ann Duffy Warming her Pearls: Emily Dickinson I held a jewel: Chang Chi The Chaste Wife's Reply: H D The Flowering of the Rod: Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches: Arthur Weir A Mother's Jewels: T S Eliot A Game of Chess: William Shakespeare from A Lover's Complaint: Jane Draycott Pearl: Eithne Cavanagh A Beading of Words: Traditional Nursery Rhymes: Louisa May Alcott Here is the Bracelet: Christina Rossetti Precious Stones: Dorothy Parker The Choice : Traditional Birthstones: C P Cavafy For the Shop: James Fenton Nothing: Sally Evans Whitby Jet: Gillian Clarke Welsh Gold: Fleur Adcock Blue Glass: Robert Graves The Uncut Diamond: Elizabeth Jennings The Diamond Cutter: Alfred Teynnyson from Morte d'Arthur: Geoffrey Chaucer from Romaunt of the Rose: Carol Ann Duffy Rings: Robert Graves A Lost Jewel: Sally Evans Brooch Found at Redcar: John Keats from The Eve of St Agnes: Thomas Moore Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore: Ruth Fainlight Nacre: Kit Wright In Memory of a Beautiful Jeweller: Leysa Lowery String of Pearls: Robert Graves A Bracelet: Sarah Maguire The Invisible Mender (My First Mother): Alice Walker We Alone: Harold Monro Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Tess Gallagher from Two Bracelets: Matthew Francis Of Diamonds: Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia: Homer from The Odyssey (trans by Robert Fagles): Robert Melliard Jewellery: Sasha Moorsom Jewels in my hand
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLV Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition 45 The Pushcart Prize Anthologies
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Cambridge University Press A Hellenistic Anthology
Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries BC, the Hellenistic period. It is intended to make available to undergraduates and graduate students a selection of texts which are for the most part not easily accessible elsewhere. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epic. An introduction provides cultural and historical background, and a full commentary elucidates problems of language and reference in the texts. In this second edition, many notes have been rewritten and the bibliography has been updated. The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15), and is now more than 2000 lines in length.Trade Review'This A Hellenistic Anthology - now issued as a second edition, with a greater contribution from Theocritus - is a welcome addition to the Green-and-Yellow series. The Introduction manages to convey a lot of information in a relatively short space … We then have the Commentary. [Hopkinson] introduces each poet, at greater or lesser length with a terse bibliography. The notes are a model of their kind: relevant, concise, precise … This is unequivocally excellent.' Colin Leach, Classics for All'I feel confident that Professor Hopkinson will continue to live on as a 'brilliant and devoted teacher' in this and in his other well-received publications.' James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Irish Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Irish Women''s Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women''s poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women''s poetry through many prisms mythology, gender, history, the nation and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women''s poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.Trade Review'Thanks to ground-breaking volumes such as this one, the radiant light of women's poetry will no longer be extinguished and obscured. One of the achievements of this volume is the decision to describe the literary scene not only by drawing on well-known major figures but also by including often overlooked or under-researched writers, depicting a cultural panorama of complexity and multiplicity. ' Pilar Villar-Argáiz, Estudios Irlandeses'a comprehensive overview covering everything from medieval Ireland to the present day.' Erin Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement'… highly recommended …' Pauline Harrison, Women's WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction: why foremothers? Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley; 1. The reception of Irish women poets Anne Fogarty; 2. Women in the medieval poetry business Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha; 3. Seventeenth century women's poetry in Ireland Danielle Clarke and Sarah McKibben; 4. The oral tradition Tríona Ni Shíocháin; 5. Archipelagic Ireland: women's anglophone poetry from the eighteenth century Sarah Prescott; 6. Irish Romanticism Catherine Jones; 7. Mary Tighe in life, myth, and literary vicissitude Stephen Behrendt; 8. Masculinity, nationhood and the Irish woman poet, 1860–1922 Lucy Collins; 9. The eclipse of Dora Sigerson Matthew Campbell; 10. Between revivalist lyric and Irish modernism Sarah Bennett; 11. The other 'northern renaissance' Jaclyn Allen; 12. Rematriating mid-century modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon Moynagh Sullivan; 13. Accidental Irishness and the transnational legacy of Lola Ridge Daniel Tobin; 14. Crisis and renewal: Irish-language poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Daniela Theinová; 15. The poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and the indivisibility of love Patricia Coughlan; 16. Voices from limbo: Biddy Jenkinson David Wheatley; 17. Bilingual poetry Kenneth Keating; 18. Catholicism in modern Irish women's poetry Catriona Clutterbuck; 19. 1970s–80s feminism Kit Fryatt; 20. The art of fabrication: reading Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin Maria Johnston; 21. Eavan Boland, history and silence Guinn Batten; 22. Paula Meehan and the public poem Kathryn Kirkpatrick; 23. Formalism and contemporary women's poetry Tara McEvoy; 24. Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh Nerys Williams; 25. Irish women's poetry beyond the now Anne Mulhall.
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Dundurn Group Ltd Brilliance Is the Clothing I Wear
Book SynopsisA diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction compiled from writers in the mental health and addiction communities.The latest in InkWell Workshops' groundbreaking anthology series, this volume features poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from twenty-eight talented writers who are participants in the workshops. Led by accomplished professional writers with unruly minds, InkWell is a liberatory project that offers free creative opportunities to people with mental health and addiction issues. With themes of nourishment and desire, madness and connection, grief and hunger for a new world, these are fierce writings from the margins: honest, defiant, funny, and wise.Trade ReviewThe authors of the pieces collected in this anthology are clad in brilliance ... Through their collective vulnerabilities and sensitivities, they seek to guide and welcome us into a community of bravery and battered hearts. * Roxanna Bennett, winner of the Trillium Award for Poetry *By sharing their truths in this polished, triumphant collection, [the contributors] prove their moments of darkness don't define them. * Quill & Quire *
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