Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems issue 14 a queer poetry anthology
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Fourteen Publishing Hemisferio Cuir
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Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems Issue 15 a queer poetry anthology
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Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems issue 16 a queer poetry anthology
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Griots Lounge Publishing Canada African Urban Echoes
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Wordville Celine's Salon - The Anthology Vol 2: 2
Book SynopsisCeline's Salon is a literary cabaret famous in London since 2016. This collection of poetry, short stories and lyrics gathers work from 29 inspirational writers from Glasgow, Derry, Tenby and London. Sharing poetry with a strong sense of place and character, this anthology includes Welsh-language poetry, Glaswegian poetry as well as English verse and song lyrics. Representing the most interesting writers in each of these cultural melting pots, Celine's Salon - The Anthology Vol 2 is a literary road trip, hosted by writer and performer Celine Hispiche. With new writing from established poets as well as original new voices, this is the second in the series of Celine's Salon - The Anthology. With work from 29 individual contributors. Sit back and enjoy the show.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Curtain Raiser 1. Celine Hispiche 3 Part One: Glasgow 2. Lesley O'Brien 9 3. Jo D'arc 11 4. Frank Rafferty 15 5. Thomas McColl 17 6. Ashley Chapman 21 7. Katharine Macfarlane 23 8. Pinky 29 9. Mark McGhee 32 Part Two: Derry 10. Frank Rafferty 37 11. Michael Groce 40 12. Mel Bradley 42 13. Valerie Bryce 44 14. Keiran Goddard 47 15. Ronan Carr 48 16. PBJ 51 17. Niall O'Mianain 54 18. Juanita Rea 57 19. George Houston 59 20. James King & Ann McKay 62 Part Three: Tenby 21. Ros Moore 66 22. Celine Hispiche 71 23. Susie Wild 74 24. Heather Moulson 78 25. Kevin O'Dowd 81 26. Billy Parker 82 27. Anonymous 86 28. Siobhan Lancaster 87 29. Nerys Beattie 90 30. Bob Reeves 94 CURTAIN Acknowledgements 98
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Muswell Press Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology
Book SynopsisThe anthology will be published in May 2023, just ahead of Pride. Containing 30 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. Entry is open to anyone, without restriction. Submissions will open on 15th August and close on 1st October 2022. Winning authors will be notified in November 2022.Trade Review"Celebrating queer love...multiple, fleeting, varied'. Kevin Brazil TLS. 'Beautiful writing, original ideas and a few suprises'. Matt Cain. 'A great initiative'. Paul Burston, author, journalist, curator of the Polari Salon"
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Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems Issue 9: a queer poetry anthology
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Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems Issue 10: a queer poetry anthology
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Fourteen Publishing fourteen poems Issue 12: a queer poetry anthology
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Ian Gouge New Contexts: 5
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Pilot Press Responses to Forbidden Colors by Felix
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Pilot Press Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1
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Pilot Press Truant
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Pilot Press Responses to Love's Work (1995) by Gillian Rose
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£11.40
Pilot Press Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)
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Pilot Press Responses to Untitled (Eye with Comet) (c.1985)
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Poetry Translation Sarah Maguire Prize Anthology 2022
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Out-Spoken Press State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian
Book SynopsisHow do we think of ourselves as poets? How does our race, our home(s), and our cultural heritage, shape our sense of belonging, our ways of seeing or experiencing the world? How can we learn from and offer support to each other? State of Play brings together conversations between an international line-up of poets, taking place over the course of a year, to offer rich insights into these questions and the ways a life lived in many places can invigorate one’s writing. With themes ranging from the sense of home and racialised expectations, to community and language, as well as the process of writing poetry, these creative discussions delve into the complexities and diversity of identity in the days of global citizenship and cultural diaspora.‘Multiple yet singular, the conversations here reveal the complexities of poetic language as a space of becoming rather than being, of identities sharply focusing under the weight of plurality, the forces of migration and the long tethers of home and empire. This book makes a critical intervention in the shaping of diasporic writing, turns us away from the outworn frameworks to demand bolder and more imaginative ways of reading. Let these conversations begin urgent ones elsewhere about how language is made and how it remakes us as global subjects speaking together.’ —Prof. Sandeep Parmar, Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool and Founder of Ledbury Critics of Colour.‘State of Play reminds us of the global reach of English-language poetry and poetics, whose production is not limited to the predominantly white Anglophone countries of the so-called West and reminds us of the ongoing legacies of British colonialism underlying even such seemingly neutral concepts as home, everyday life, and poetics.’ —Prof. Dorothy Wang, author of Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry & convenor/co-founder of Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK)‘Giving voice to a diverse and multi-generational choir of distinctive voices, this anthology offers rare and intimate insights into the creative challenges of writing poetry now and the vital importance of dialogue as a free space for the play of ideas and critical thinking.’ —Prof. Susheila Nasta, Founder of Wasafiri, Magazine of International Contemporary Writing‘State of Play draws together a sparky and inspiring array of conversations between East and Southeast Asian poets situated across continents and borders. The different interactions are characterised by their commitment to exchange and reciprocity even where the poets meet for the first time only through the medium of these conversations. Editors Jennifer Wong and Eddie Tay have done a superb job of bringing together a rich spectrum of topics including nomadism, childhood, diaspora, race, belonging, the question of what it is to be creative, and all-important issues of language-choice and self-translation. I wager that no reader interested in poetry will not find excitement in this vibrant anthology.’ —Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
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Central Avenue Publishing [Dis]Connected Volume 2: Poems & Stories of
Book SynopsisThis highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of current day.[Dis]Connected Volume 2 presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other; offering their work to the next poet who tells a story based on the concept presented to them.With contributions from: Alicia CookTyler Knott GregsonCourtney PeppernellNoah MilliganKomal KapoorN.L. ShompoleCaitlyn SiehlK. Y. RobinsonRaquel FrancoWilder Following the first book [Dis]Connected, [Dis]Connected Volume 2 is a mixed media presentation of connection and collaboration.
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Central Avenue Publishing Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2024
Book SynopsisImagine if you could have the best debut poetry from the widest variety of up-and-coming poets in one, single place. A compilation of fresh faces from all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize assembles a swathe of standout poetry and delivers it straight to your bookshelf. A collaborative effort between poets from all corners of the world and all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize presents a collection of poetry like no other. Rife with heartache, longing, laughter, and life, this book captures the spark of creativity and the vastness that is the human soul within its pages. This collection contains stories that are funny, some that are sad, some that are beautiful—and all that are true. Diverse in content and rich in talent, this is a testament to the art of poetry, and a reminder that the act of writing comes from the act of living, and when we create, we allow ourselves to see and be seen.
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Central Avenue Publishing The Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2025
Book SynopsisImagine having access to the finest debut poetry from a diverse array of emerging poets, all conveniently compiled in a single volume. The second instalment of The Central Avenue Poetry Prize maintains the exceptional standard set by its inaugural edition.Representing a collaborative effort among poets worldwide and from various backgrounds, this second volume offers a poetry collection unparalleled in its depth and breadth. Within its pages, readers will find a tapestry of emotions—heartache, longing, laughter, and the essence of life itself—each poem capturing the essence of human creativity and experience. From humorous anecdotes to poignant reflections, from tales of beauty to moments of raw truth, this collection celebrates the multifaceted nature of poetry. It serves as both a tribute to the art form and a poignant reminder that writing is an extension of living—an act of self-expression that allows us to both reveal and connect with others.
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Guernica Editions,Canada The Heart Is Improvisational: An Anthology in
Book SynopsisPoets attribute an array of roles and capacities to the involuntary muscle and catalyst of our storied lives. The heart becomes a repository of erotic and familial love and a sanctuary for memory. In this collection, poets explore the flux of the heart's responses and instigations: the heart's tender overtures, its joyous pulse, its mating call for the other, its changeable temperament, its final tick in freeze-frame. Among the poets featured: Kenneth Sherman, Lorna Crozier, Marilyn Bowering, Roo Borson, Patrick Lane, Charles Bukowski, Rita Dove, Eugénio de Andrade, John Barton, Robyn Sarah, and Mary di Michele.
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Biblioasis Best Canadian Poetry 2021
Book Synopsis“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Ken Babstock Manahil Bandukwala Courtney Bates-Hardy Roxanna Bennett Ronna Bloom Louise Carson Kate Cayley Kitty Cheung Dani Couture Kayla Czaga Šari Dale Unnati Desai Tina Do Andrew DuBois Paola Ferrante Beth Goobie Nina Philomena Honorat Liz Howard Maureen Hynes George K Ilsley Eve Joseph Ian Keteku Judith Krause M Travis Lane Mary Dean Lee Canisia Lubrin Randy Lundy David Ly Yohani Mendis Pamela Mosher Susan Musgrave Téa Mutonji Barbara Nickel Ottavia Paluch Kirsten Pendreigh Emily Pohl-Weary David Romanda Matthew Rooney Zoe Imani Sharpe Sue Sinclair John Steffler Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Arielle Twist David Ezra Wang Phoebe Wang Hayden Ward Elana Wolff Eugenia Zuroski Jan Zwicky Trade ReviewPraise for the Best Canadian Poetry Series “[These] books are must-haves for libraries, schools, and intellectually well-intentioned bedside nightstands across the country.”—Quill & Quire “The wide range of writers, forms and themes represented here make it a great jumping-off point for readers who might be interested in Canadian poetry but are unsure about where to start.”—Globe and Mail “Buy it, or borrow it, but do read it.”—Arc Poetry Magazine “A magnet, I think, for the many people who would like to know contemporary poetry.”—A.F. Moritz, Griffin Poetry Prize winner “An eclectic and diverse collection of Canadian poetry . . . a wonderful addition to anyone’s bookshelf.”—Toronto Quarterly
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Biblioasis Best Canadian Poetry 2022
Book SynopsisSelected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021.“My goal,” writes guest editor John Barton of his long career as a literary magazine editor, “was always to be jostled awake, and I soon realized that I was being jostled awake for two—myself and the reader … I came to understand that my job description included an obligation to expose readers to wide varieties of poetry, to challenge their assumptions while expanding their taste.” In selecting this year’s edition of Best Canadian Poetry, Barton brings the same catholic spirit to his survey of Canadian poems published by magazines and journals in 2021. From new work by Canadian favourites to exciting new talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems to challenge and enlarge your sense of the power and possibility of Canadian poetry.Featuring:Leslie Joy Ahenda • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Tawahum Bige • Stephanie Bolster • Susan Braley • Moni Brar • Jake Byrne • Helen Cho • Conyer Clayton • Lucas Crawford • Sophie Crocker • Michael Dunwoody • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Tyler Engström • Triny Finlay • Elee Kraljii Gardiner • Lise Gaston • Susan Gillis • Beth Goobie • Patrick Grace • Laurie D. Graham • River Halen • Eva H.D. • Louise Bernice Halfe—Skydancer • Sarah Hilton • Karl Jirgens • Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph • Penn Kemp • Jeremy Loveday • Randy Lundy • Helen Han Wei Luo • Colin Morton • Jordan Mounteer • Samantha Nock • Kathryn Nogue • Michelle Porter • Rebekah Rempel • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Richard Sanger • Nedda Sarshar • K.R. Segriff • Christina Shah • Sandy Shreve • Adrian Southin • J.J. Steinfeld • Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang • Eric Wang • Tom Wayman • Jan ZwickyTrade ReviewPraise for the Best Canadian Series“The wide range of writers, forms and themes represented here make it a great jumping-off point for readers who might be interested in Canadian poetry but are unsure about where to start.”—Globe and Mail“A superb collection of national thinkers, crackling with insight on the issues of the age.”—Chatelaine“The arrival, late in the fall each year, of [this] collection is always cause for fanfare.”—Quill & Quire“The legacy for Canadian literature in the Best Canadian Stories series can’t be overstated. For years the collection has been the place to discover Canadian writers.”—Winnipeg Free Press“Best Canadian Stories … combines both emerging and established voices for a fascinating glimpse at the most exciting short fiction coming out of this country.”—Open Book
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the
Book SynopsisWriters from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food will bring to the table some of Canada's best contemporary writers, celebrating all that is unique about Vancouver's literary and culinary scene. Punctuated by beautiful local food photographs, interviews with and recipes from some of our top local chefs, each of these short pieces will shock, comfort, praise, entice, or invite reconciliation, all while illuminating our living history through the lens of food. Sustenance is also a community response to the needs of new arrivals or low-income families in our city. Writers will be donating their honoraria to the Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program. A portion of sales from every book will to towards providing a refugee or low-income family with fresh, locally grown produce, and at the same time will support BC farmers, fishers, beekeepers, and gardeners. Award-winning chefs, poets and writers in Sustenance include: Frank Pabst (Chef, Blue Water Café), Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Mark Winston, Susan Musgrave, Lorna Crozier, Thomas Haas (artisan chocolatier), Meeru Dhalwalla (Chef, Vij's and Rangoli), Ayelet Tsabari, and Adèle Barclay.
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Caitlin Press Sweet Water
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Jonathan Ball Publishers SA Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of
Book SynopsisA unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the grave.' But what of the past half-century of protest poetry in South Africa, a rich tradition born in response to colonialism, and fed by apartheid and a faltering democracy?In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, over fifty years of protest poetry are gathered in one single volume, bringing together some of the most remarkable and thought-provoking poems that have emerged from struggle. The animating impulse behind this collection of old and new voices is 'decolonisation', a term which has regained prominence over the last few years. It allows us to perceive how different South African poets have placed their work in the world, and how that work might relate to the struggle for radical social transformation.Compiled by award-winning literary critic Wamuwi Mbao, this collection includes established voices such as HIE Dhlomo, Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Mongane Wally, Serote, Sipho Sepamla, and Es'kia Mphahlele, as well as prominent contemporary poets such as Vangile Gantsho, Lebohang Masango and Sihle Ntuli.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems
Book SynopsisWar never stops. There have been two world wars since 1914 lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace. This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, as victims or anguished witnesses. It chronicles times of war and conflict from the trenches of the Somme through the Spanish Civil War to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust; and in Korea, the Middle East, Vietnam, Central America, Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan and other so-called "theatres of war". There are poems from years when the world was threatened by all-out nuclear war and more recent poems written in response to international terrorism. Editor Neil Astley has selected many of the poems from his Staying Alive trilogy - the anthologies Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human - but has added many others from elsewhere to create this deeply moving testament to humanity caught up in a hundred years of war. Like the trilogy, this is a world poetry anthology featuring poets from a variety of nations writing from different perspectives, experiences and cultures. Where possible, the poems from each war or conflict are presented chronologically in terms of when they were written or set, building up a picture of what individual poets from different nations were experiencing at the same time, either on the same battlegrounds or in other parts of the world (including the home front), with, for example, British, French and German poets all writing of shared experiences in opposite trenches during the five-month Battle of the Somme. At different stages of each war there are also poets responding events in their own countries. For example, in just one three-month period, from August to November 1944, Polish poets join the Warsaw Uprising, Miklos Radnoti is herded on a forced march from Serbia to Hungary (where he is killed), other Hungarian poets witness deportations to camps, Dylan Thomas voices the anguish of Londoners under V-bomb attack, and Louis Simpson is a foot soldier caught up in the chaotic Battle of the Bulge. Just as the original Hundred Years' War in the 14th and 15th centuries was actually a series of nationalistic conflicts rooted in disputes over territory, so it has been in the wars fought over the past century, but with even worse suffering inflicted on countries and people subjected to warfare and mass killing on a scale unimaginable in any earlier time. And yet amidst all that horror, there are individual voices bearing witness to our shared humanity, somehow surviving the folly with defiance and hope, yet often aware that the lessons of history are rarely passed on from one generation to the next. As Germany's Gunter Kunert writes in his poem 'On Certain Survivors' in which a man is dragged out from the debris of his shelled house: 'He shook himself And said Never again. At least, not right away.'
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd My Voice
Book SynopsisAs this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you will find 111 brilliant poems translated from 27 different languages (ranging from Arabic to Zapotec: all the original scripts are included) by 45 of the world's leading poets. Arranged on a journey from exile to ecstasy, these powerful poems have been co-translated by some of the UK's best-loved poets including Jo Shapcott, Sean O'Brien, Lavinia Greenlaw, W.N. Herbert, Mimi Khalvati and Nick Laird. Founded by Sarah Maguire, the Poetry Translation Centre aims to transform English verse through engaging with the rich poetic traditions of the UK's recent immigrant communities for whom poetry is of overwhelming importance. Reading these Somali, Afghan, Sudanese and Kurdish poets (26 countries are represented), you will understand why their scintillating and heartbreaking poems inspire such devotion.Trade ReviewThis groundbreaking anthology extends the territory of English poetry through a series of generous translations that make welcome the magnificent poetic traditions of many communities now settled here. -- Carol Ann DuffyBrilliant translations, done by brilliant poets, working with brilliant scholars. -- Christina Patterson * The Independent *
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Ten: the new wave
Book SynopsisTen: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to promote diversity and quality in British poetry, initiated by the writer Bernardine Evaristo. The poets follow on from the first group to take part in this scheme, whose work was published in Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra's anthology Ten: new poets from Spread the Word (2010). Most of those poets have gone on to win awards and have their poetry collections published. The new poets in this anthology are Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Adam Lowe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire. These poets have backgrounds in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, and their work draws on their multicultural heritage and tapestry. Many of them also work across art forms and have enjoyed success as playwrights, graphic artists and even in the martial arts. Talented, adventurous and culturally rich, these poets will open up new landscapes for the reader.Trade ReviewThese ten exciting poets record with confidence and vigour a tune rarely heard on these shores and this collection of their work is a boost to the body of contemporary British poetry. -- Carol Ann DuffyWhat fantastic poets they are: all those cultures, all that craft. -- Bernardine Evaristo
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Lifesaving Poems
Book SynopsisInspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question. Giving himself the constraint of choosing no more than one poem per poet, Anthony began copying poems out, one at a time, as it were for safekeeping. He asked himself: was the poem one he could recall being moved by the moment he first read it? And: could he live without it? Then he posted each poem on his blog and said why he liked it. Word spread and soon his blog had thousands of followers, everyone reading and responding to the poems he talked about - and sharing his posts. Now Lifesaving Poems has turned into an anthology, not one designed to be a perfect list of 'the great and the good', but a gathering of poems he happens to feel passionate about, according to his tastes. As Billy Collins says: 'Good poems are poems that I like'. Anthony's popular personal commentaries are included with the poems. There are Lifesaving Poems by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, Carol Ann Duffy, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Marie Howe, Jaan Kaplinski, Brendan Kennelly, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Norman MacCaig, Ian McMillan, Derek Mahon, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jo Shapcott, Tomas Transtromer, Wislawa Szymborska, and many, many others.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Centres of Cataclysm: celebrating 50 years of
Book SynopsisCentres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world’s most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, MPT has constantly introduced courageous and revolutionary poets of the 20th and 21st century to English-speaking readers. Ted Hughes thought of MPT as an ‘airport for incoming translations’ - from the whole world, across frontiers of space and time. These are poems we cannot do without. The anthology is not arranged chronologically but, from a variety of perspectives, it addresses half a century of war, oppression, revolution, hope and survival. In so doing, it truthfully says and vigorously defends the human. In among the poems are illuminating letters, essays and notes on the poets, on the world in which they lived and on the enterprise of translating them.Trade Review‘MPT seeks a real diversity of voices: women and men equally, different centuries, countries, races, creeds, languages, cultures, ideas. The very essence of the founding principle was: Your view is not the only one.' - David & Helen Constantine ‘The burning heart of cataclysm at the centre of the anthology is drawn out; through translation, migration and exile, it is transplanted into another soil. The word spoken under duress becomes a word of affirmation: a protection and a stating of our own humanity.' - Sasha Dugdale ‘MPT is the Fifth International, anyone who wants to change the world and see it changed should join.’ - John Berger 'Always informative, tactfully surprising, the new impressive MPT continues, undaunted, to advance through formidable language barriers.' - Dannie Abse 'MPT forms a unique and invaluable service.' - Andrew Motion
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession
Book SynopsisPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation Irish-English dual language edition This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering the work of 26 poets from the past century. It includes poems by Pádraig Mac Piarais and Liam S. Gógan from the revival period (1893-1939), and a generous selection from the work of Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máire Mhac an tSaoi, who transformed writing in Irish in the decades following the Second World War, before the Innti poets – Michael Davitt, Liam Ó Muirthile, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Biddy Jenkinson – and others developed new possibilities for poetry in Irish in the 1970s and 80s. It also includes work by more recent poets such as Colm Breathnach, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Micheál Ó Cuaig and Áine Ní Ghlinn. The anthology has translations by some of Ireland's most distinguished poets and translators, including Valentine Iremonger, Michael Hartnett, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Bernard O'Donoghue, Maurice Riordan, Peter Sirr, David Wheatley and Mary O'Donoghue, most of them newly commissioned for this project. Many of the poems, including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's anguished response to the bombing of Hiroshima, 'Aifreann na marbh' [Mass for the dead] have not previously been available in English. In addition to presenting some of the best poetry in Irish written since 1900, the anthology challenges the extent to which writing in Irish has been underrepresented in collections of modern and contemporary Irish poetry. In his introduction and notes, Louis de Paor argues that Irish language poetry should be evaluated according to its own rigorous aesthetic rather than as a subsidiary of the dominant Anglophone tradition of Irish writing. Irish-English dual language edition co-published with Clo Iar-Chonnachta. [Leabhar na hAthghabhala is pronounced Lee-owr-rr ne hathar-bvola].Trade ReviewEvery so often... a book arrives which shows the possibility of reconsidering and reconceiving the way poetry works in Ireland: Leabhar Na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession (Cló Iar-Chonnacht/Bloodaxe) is one of those books… This is a terrific, open introduction to a century of Irish-language poetry and its connections and conjunctions animate the debates and breakthroughs and experiments, successful and otherwise, that comprise our living tradition. * The Irish Times *
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Home Front: Bulletproof • Stateside • Clamor •
Book SynopsisEven in peacetime, many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas. As mothers or wives they live in a state of separation, from husbands, sons or daughters in permanent danger - or so they feel - as well as from an often alienating everyday world of people who have no idea of what anxieties and fears grip them every minute. They also find themselves switching back and forth between two time zones, between the present moment and what might have been happening several hours ago in the Middle East. Home Front presents the poetry of four such women, Bryony Doran and Isabel Palmer, both mothers of young British soldiers serving in Afghanistan; and two American poets, Jehanne Dubrow, wife of a serving US naval officer deployed to the Persian Gulf and other conflict zones, and Elyse Fenton, wife of a US army medic posted to Iraq. It brings together four full-length collections by these writers; those by the two British poets are debut collections first published in full in this book. The poems in Bryony Doran's Bulletproof tell a chronological story, from her son's unexpected decision to join the army through his tours in and returns from Afghanistan. Covering every emotion from fear to fury, yet lifted by humour and details of everyday domestic life, these are poems written to preserve a pacifist mother's sanity as each day plays itself out. They show her coping with The News, her fantasies, his short spells of home leave, and her realisation that both are imprisoned in a modern myth. The narrative in Isabel Palmer's Atmospherics begins with seeing her only son go to war in Afghanistan soon after his 21st birthday in 2011 and ends with his final, safe return in 2015. His role there was to lead foot patrols and to operate machines for detecting improvised explosive devices. While he was on tour, she wrote one poem every week reflecting on their experiences. The earlier poems appeared in Ground Signs (Flarestack Poets, 2014), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Driven by intellectual curiosity and emotional exploration, the poems in Jehanne Dubrow's Stateside (2010) are remarkable for their subtlety, sensual imagery and technical control. The speaker attempts to understand her own life through the long history of military wives left to wait and wonder, invoking Penelope's plight in Homer's Odyssey as a model but also as a source of mystery. Dubrow is fearless in her contemplation of the far-reaching effects of war but even more so in her excavation of a marriage under duress. At times quiet, at others cacophonous, the poems of Elyse Fenton's Clamor turn a lyric lens on the language we use to talk about war and atrocity, and the irreconcilable rifts - between lover and beloved, word and thing - such work unearths. Originally published in the US - but not in the UK - in 2010, Clamor was the first book of poetry to win Britain's Dylan Thomas Prize.Trade ReviewRuth Padel on Bryony Doran's Bulletproof: 'A unique collection, telling a story as old as poetry itself but also horribly contemporary. Spare, compassionate, calmly crafted and sometimes funny, but also gripping and very moving, the poems introduce us to a dry, fresh and unmistakably original voice.'; Denise Saul & Luke Kennard (PBS Bulletin) on Isabel Palmer: 'A powerful poetic sequence... Several poems are close to heartbreaking... Ground Signs is an emotionally raw, uncompromising portrayal which is nonetheless crafted by a uniquely lyrical sensibility, and it's that ability to handle the material with such care which gives the sequence its power.'; Sam Hamill on Jehanne Dubrow's Stateside: 'The formalities of structure - rhyme and metre - play against the formalities imposed upon the life of a military wife. There are poems in marching metres and poems that provide counterpoint to those rhythms, but, most of all, hers is a fully experienced suite, fully composed in every sense of that word, both intimate and public, an accomplished book. She is a contemporary Penelope whose tale is epic.'; Dorianne Laux on Elyse Fenton's Clamor: 'The astonishing paradox of Elyse Fenton's Clamor lies in its raw, disturbing subject matter: the Iraq war, the body's destruction, desolation, and grief, set against an achingly beautiful love poetry... Fenton deftly and unabashedly tells a story of passion and doubt, of the terrible waiting and an otherworldly reunion, what we are capable of doing to and for each other, and what we do to endure.'
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East
Book SynopsisLand of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt's song 'John North'), the book maps the region in poems relating to past and present, depicting life from Roman times through medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of mining and shipbuilding up to the present-day. The anthology has modern perspectives on historical subjects, such as W.H. Auden's 'Roman Wall Blues' and Alistair Elliot on the aftermath of the Battle of Heavenfield in the 7th century, as well as poets from past ages, starting with Caedmon, the first English poet, writing in the 8th century. There are classic North-East songs from the oral tradition of balladeers and pitmen poets alongside the work of literary chroniclers like Mark Akenside from the 18th century, followed by evocations of Northumberland by decadent gentry poet Algernon Charles Swinburne contrasting with grim tales of life down the pit by Tommy Armstrong, Joseph Skipsey and Thomas Wilson in the 19th century. The region's favourite tipple is championed by 18th-century poet John Cunningham in his eulogy 'Newcastle Beer', while 200 years later, Tony Harrison's defences are 'broken down / on nine or ten Newcastle Brown' in his 'Newcastle Is Peru' (1969). Durham is celebrated in a 12th-century priest's poem but is a trinity of 'University, Cathedral, Gaol' for Tony Harrison. The River Tyne flows through poems by Wilfrid Gibson, James Kirkup, Michael Roberts, Francis Scarfe from early to mid-20th century, while the region's dialects (from Northumbrian to Geordie and Pitmatic) are heard in poems by Basil Bunting, William Martin, Tom Pickard, Katrina Porteous and Fred Reed. Other modern and contemporary poets and songwriters featured include Gillian Allnutt, Peter Armstrong, Peter Bennet, Robyn Bolam, George Charlton, Julia Darling, Richard Dawson, the Elliotts of Birtley, W.N. Herbert, Alan Hull, James Kirkup, Mark Knopfler, Barry MacSweeney, Sean O'Brien, Rodney Pybus, Kathleen Raine, Jon Silkin and Anne Stevenson, as well as poets who've spent time in the North-East, such as Fleur Adcock, David Constantine, Fred D'Aguiar, Frances Horovitz, Philip Larkin, Michael Longley and Carol Rumens, writing highly memorable poems in response to the place, its people and their stories. The book's introduction is in two parts, with Rodney Pybus covering the historical background and Neil Astley the last 50 years. This emphasises the importance of the oral tradition during the centuries when little "written poetry" of note was produced in the region. There are also fascinating commentaries on key historical figures by the late Alan Myers.Table of ContentsVin Garbutt 14 John North Neil Astley 15 Land of Three Rivers: 1 Rodney Pybus 18 The Poetry of North-East England (1966) Andy Croft 30 Writing on Teesside: 1 (2010) Neil Astley 33 Land of Three Rivers: 2 Basil Bunting 38 What the Chairman Told Tom Andy Croft 40 Writing on Teesside: 2 (2010) LAND OF THREE RIVERS W.H. Auden 45 from New Year Letter Lilian Bowes Lyon 47 The Glittering North Mark Akenside 47 from The Pleasures of the Imagination A.C. Swinburne 49 Northumberland Basil Bunting 52 from Briggflatts Fred Reed 62 Springan HADRIAN’S WALL W.H. Auden 64 Roman Wall Blues Rudyard Kipling 65 The Roman Centurion’s Song Wilfrid Gibson 66 On Cawfields Crag Wilfrid Gibson 67 Chesterholm Wilfrid Gibson 67 The Watch on the Wall Frances Horovitz 69 Poem found at Chester’s Museum, Hadrian’s Wall Frances Horovitz 70 Rain – Birdoswald Frances Horovitz 71 Vindolanda – January Frances Horovitz 72 Brigomaglos, a Christian speaks… Frances Horovitz 73 The Crooked Glen Roger Garfitt 74 The Hooded Gods Gareth Reeves 75 Stone Relief Housesteads Esther Jansma 76 AD 128 Katrina Porteous 77 This Far and No Further Alistair Elliot 89 After Heavenfield Peter Armstrong 89 Between Greenhead and Sewingshields JARROW Bede 91 On Caedmon U.A. Fanthorpe 93 Caedmon’s Song Norman Nicholson 94 Caedmon Kathleen Raine 95 Northumbrian Sequence Anne Stevenson 104 Jarrow Carol Rumens 105 Jarrow Alistair Elliot 106 Talking to Bede W.N. Herbert 111 Bede’s World Jake Campbell 113 On Not Finding Bede Tom Kelly 114 Monument Tom Kelly 115 The Time Office, 1965 Tom Kelly 116 The Wrong Jarrow BORDERERS Traditional 117 The Battle of Otterbourne Fleur Adcock 121 Hotspur Peter Armstrong 127 Borderers Pippa Little 128 from Foray: Border Reiver Women 1500-1600 129 The Cheviots 129 Alicia Unthank’s Ark 130 The Robsons Gone 131 Truce Day Linda France 132 The Spur in the Dish Robyn Bolam 132 Raiding the Borders Katrina Porteous 134 Borderers Fred Reed 138 Northumborland (2) A.C. Swinburne 138 A Reiver’s Neck-Verse A.C. Swinburne 139 A Jacobite’s Exile (1764) NORTH TO SOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND Traditional 142 Old Border Rhyme Wilfrid Gibson 142 The Cheviot Traditional 143 Dunnie’s Song John Mackay Wilson 143 The Tweed Near Berwick Katrina Porteous 145 from Tweed Vincenza Holland 147 The Harbourmaster’s Daughter Anne Ryland 148 Midsummer Night, Berwick Peter Bennet 149 Duddo Stones Rodney Pybus 149 Routing Linn, Northumberland Linda France 151 Acknowledged Land Paul Summers 158 acknowledged land Tony Harrison 159 Stately Home Sir Walter Scott 159 from Marmion Wilfrid Gibson 162 Lindisfarne Katrina Porteous 163 Holy Island Arch Matthew Hollis 164 Causeway Cynthia Fuller 164 St Cuthbert on Inner Farne Andrew Waterhouse 165 Making the Book Katrina Porteous 167 A Short History of Bamburgh Fred Reed 168 Bamburgh Wind A.C. Swinburne 169 Grace Darling Michael Longley 172 Grace Darling Katrina Porteous 172 Charlie Douglas Katrina Porteous 174 The Marks t’ Gan By Katrina Porteous 175 Stinky Wilfrid Gibson 176 Dunstanborough Katrina Porteous 177 from Dunstanburgh Alistair Elliot 181 Deposition Katrina Porteous 182 Alnmouth Gillian Allnutt 184 At the Friary in Alnmouth R.V. Bailey 184 Druridge Bay Traditional 185 Felton Lonnen Basil Bunting 185 The Complaint of the Morpethshire Farmer Paul Batchelor 187 Butterwell Fred Reed 188 The Pit Heap Pippa Little 190 Seacoaling Tony Harrison 191 The Earthen Lot Traditional 192 The Blackleg Miner James Henry 193 ‘Two hundred men and eighteen killed…’ Joseph Skipsey 195 The Hartley Calamity Joseph Skipsey 198 The Collier Lad Joseph Skipsey 200 Get Up! NORTH TYNE, REDESDALE, COQUETDALE Robert Roxby 202 from The Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel Billy Bell 205 Winter on the Carter Fell James Armstrong 207 Wild Hills O’ Wannys Tom Pickard 209 The Raw Robert Hunter 212 Epitaph for Ned Allan Fred Reed 212 Northumborland (1) Basil Bunting 213 ‘Stones trip Coquetburn’ Colin Simms 214 from Hen Harrier Poems Colin Simms 214 ‘There are, were, four couples south of Cheviot…’ Colin Simms 214 ‘Formerly on traditionally-managed haughland…’ Colin Simms 215 Katharine Macgregor – of The Sneep, Tarset Colin Simms 215 ‘The cadence of a Strathspey, played slow…’ Peter Armstrong 216 Between Lord’s Shaw and Pit Houses Wilfrid Gibson 217 Sundaysight Wilfrid Gibson 218 Hareshaw Wilfrid Gibson 218 Hareshaw Linn Peter Bennet 219 Hareshaw Linn Billy Bell 220 An Old Shepherd’s Adventure at Bellingham Philip Larkin 223 Show Saturday Peter Armstrong 226 Bellingham James Armstrong 227 The Kielder Hunt Christy Ducker 228 How Mackie Did the Drowning, Plashetts Colin Simms 229 ‘Out, Northumberland, Out!’ Traditional 230 The Water of Tyne TYNEDALE, SOUTH TYNE, NORTH PENNINES Wilfrid Gibson 231 In Hexham Abbey Wilfrid Gibson 232 The Abbey Tower Wilfrid Gibson 233 Devilswater Wilfrid Gibson 234 Mother and Maid Terry Conway 235 Fareweel Regality Wilfrid Gibson 236 Fallowfield Fell Lauris Edmond 236 At Bywell Lilian Bowes Lyon 237 Allendale Dog W.H. Auden 238 Allendale Lilian Bowes Lyon 239 A Rough Walk Home W.H. Auden 241 The Old Lead-mine W.H. Auden 242 Rookhope (Weardale, Summer 1922) W.H. Auden 242 The Pumping Engine, Cashwell W.H. Auden 242 The Engine House W.H. Auden 243 Lead’s the Best W.H. Auden 245 The Watershed Jon Silkin 247 Killhope Wheel, 1860, Co. Durham Jon Silkin 248 Strike Jon Silkin 249 Spade Pru Kitching 250 Killhope Pru Kitching 251 What’s It Like Up There? Dorothy Long 252 Road Barry MacSweeney 253 No Buses to Damascus Barry MacSweeney 253 Cushy Number Colin Simms 254 High Fells, April 2011 Colin Simms 255 Where Rise Watters of Tyne, Tees, Wear NEWCASTLE John Cleveland 256 News from Newcastle Tony Harrison 260 Newcastle Is Peru Brendan Cleary 265 Newcastle Is Benidorm Ellen Phethean 266 Bacchantes Julia Darling 266 Newcastle Is Lesbos W.N. Herbert 268 The Entry of Don Quixote into Newcastle upon Tyne W.N. Herbert 270 Song of the Longboat Boys John Cunningham 271 Newcastle Beer Rodney Pybus 273 ‘Our Friends in the North’ George Charlton 275 A Return to Newcastle Robyn Bolam 275 Hyem Robyn Bolam 276 Moving On Julia Darling 277 Satsumas Julia Darling 278 A Short Manifesto to My City Julia Darling 278 Old Jezzy Anna Adams 279 The Wild Life on Newcastle Town Moor Michael Roberts 280 Temperance Festival, Town Moor, Newcastle W.H. Auden 281 from Twelve Songs Richard Kell 281 Traditions W.N. Herbert 284 The Hoppings Tony Harrison 284 Divisions Fred Reed 286 Brazen Faces Kathleen Kenny 286 Grainger Market John Challis 288 Gift of the Gab Fleur Adcock 289 Street Song Anonymous 290 A riddle on the steeple of St Nicholas’s Cathedral, Newcastle Peter Hebden 290 Thin Riddle Joan Johnston 292 On Falling Up Dog Leap Stairs Rodney Pybus 292 Salvaging Rodney Pybus 294 The Side Mark Knopfler 294 Down to the Waterline Bernardette McAloon 295 Mistress of the Crown Traditional 296 The Keel Row Traditional 297 Do-li-a Alan Hull 297 Fog on the Tyne Jimmy Nail 298 Big River James Kirkup 300 Tyneside, 1936 Rodney Pybus 301 Bridging Loans Rodney Pybus 307 Passed By Rodney Pybus 308 Down the Town Robyn Bolam 309 Where Home Started Tom Pickard 310 The Devil’s Destroying Angel Exploded Barry MacSweeney 312 I Looked Down on a Child Today Kayo Chingonyi 314 Baltic Mill Jen Campbell 314 Treading Water Ellen Phethean 315 The West End Stevie Ronnie 316 Rebuilding the West Edward Chicken 317 from The Collier’s Wedding Gillian Allnutt 322 About Benwell Gillian Allnutt 323 After the Blaydon Races Geordie Ridley 324 The Blaydon Races W.N. Herbert 325 The Blazing Grater, or, The Olympic Torch Passes Through Tyneside Andy Croft 326 from Great North Richard Kell 328 Cutty Sark Race, 1986 W.N. Herbert 330 Zamyatin in Heaton Sean O’Brien 331 Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright GATESHEAD Thomas Wilson 332 from The Pitman’s Pay Joe Wilson 335 Maw Bonny Gyetside Lass Tom Pickard 336 Gateshead George Charlton 337 Gateshead Grammar Mark Robinson 338 Angel of the North Jen Campbell 339 The Angel Jen Campbell 340 Angel Metal NORTH TYNESIDE Michael Roberts 341 H.M.S. Hero James Kirkup 341 Tyne Ferry: Night Francis Scarfe 342 Night Fishing Francis Scarfe 343 Trawlers William Watson 343 When the Boat Comes In Sting 344 Island of Souls A.C. Swinburne 346 The Tyneside Widow Traditional 348 Bobby Shafto William Lisle Bowles 349 Written at Tynemouth, Northumberland… Wilfrid Gibson 349 The Coast-Watch James Kirkup 350 Balloons in Sunrise James Kirkup 351 The Harbour: Tynemouth Michael Blackburn 352 The North Sea at Tynemouth Helen Tookey 352 At Tynemouth Peter Mortimer 353 View Mike Wilkin 354 Cullercoats Fred D’Aguiar 355 Whitley Bay Sonnets U.A. Fanthorpe 359 Tyneside in Winter R.V. Bailey 360 Whitley Bay Mark Knopfler 361 Tunnel of Love SOUTH SHIELDS James Kirkup 363 The Town Where I Was Born James Kirkup 364 View from the North East Francis Scarfe 365 Miners Francis Scarfe 366 Tyne Dock Francis Scarfe 367 Tyne Dock Revisited Francis Scarfe 368 In Memoriam Francis Scarfe 369 The grotto James Kirkup 370 Marsden Rock Francis Scarfe 372 The Knocker-up James Kirkup 372 The Knocker-up James Kirkup 373 View from the Town Hall, South Shields James Kirkup 374 Spring in the Public Gardens James Kirkup 375 The Old Clothes Stall, South Shields Market James Kirkup 376 South Shields Town Hall in Snow James Kirkup 378 The Old Library, Ocean Road, South Shields Jen Campbell 379 Cross-hatch WEARSIDE Traditional 380 The Lambton Worm Lewis Carroll 382 The Walrus and the Carpenter William Martin 386 His Bright Silver William Martin 389 Song of the Cotia Lass William Martin 391 Wiramutha Helix William Martin 407 Song James Kirkup 408 Penshaw Pastoral Johnny Handle 409 Jack Crawford Ron Knowles 411 Where in This Wind Tom Pickard 411 Ship 1431 Tom Pickard 412 What Maks Makems William Martin 414 A19 Hymn Jake Campbell 418 A184 Hymn DURHAM Anonymous 419 Durham Gillian Allnutt 420 Arvo Pärt in Concert, Durham Cathedral, November 1998 William Martin 422 Durham Beatitude Tony Harrison 423 Durham James Kirkup 425 Durham Seen from the Train Katrina Porteous 426 Durham Cathedral Mark Robinson 426 Durham Cathedral S.J. Litherland 428 Durham in February Heidi Williamson 428 River Wear, Durham David Constantine 429 ‘But with a history of ECT’ David Constantine 430 The Pitman’s Garden CO. DURHAM Traditional 431 Rap ’Er te Bank Tommy Armstrong 432 The South Medomsley Strike Tommy Armstrong 433 The Durham Lock-out Wilfrid Gibson 435 The Ponies John Seed 436 from Brandon Pithouse Anne Stevenson 443 Forgotten of the Foot Anne Stevenson 445 Salter’s Gate Dora Greenwell 446 To a Remembered Stream, and a Never-Forgotten Friend Dora Greenwell 447 Lilies J.C. Grant 449 A Camp in Chopwell Woods James Kirkup 451 Chester-le-Street from the Train James Kirkup 451 View of Ferryhill Richard Dawson 451 The Ghost of a Tree Peter Armstrong 453 A695 Hymn Peter Armstrong 454 Among the Villages Gillian Allnutt 454 The Singing Pylons Cynthia Fuller 455 Esh Winning Cynthia Fuller 456 Lost Landscape Cynthia Fuller 457 Deerness Valley J.S. Cunningham 458 North George Charlton 460 Sea Coal Bill Griffiths 461 The Box-Eggs Bill Griffiths 463 The Strike Anna Woodford 464 Two Up Two Down Mark Robinson 465 Dalton Park/Murton Jock Purdon 466 The Easington Explosion Katrina Porteous 467 The Pigeon Men Eddie Gibbons 468 Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963 TEESDALE Sir Walter Scott 469 from Rokeby Thomas Babington Macaulay 474 A Jacobite’s Epigraph Richard Watson 475 from My Journey to Work W.H. Auden 479 The Engine House Andrew Young 479 In Teesdale Lindsay Balderson 480 High Force to Low Force Anne Hine 481 Low Force Pat Maycroft 481 Cockfield Fell in Winter Pauline Plummer 482 Whorlton Lido Anonymous 483 A Darlington rhyme John Horsley 483 Darlington Fifty Years Ago Marilyn Longstaff 485 Darlington Gordon Hodgeon 486 North Tees Epiphany Mark Robinson 487 Teesdale, Thornaby MIDDLESBROUGH Angus Macpherson 489 from Cleveland Thoughts; or, The Poetry of Toil A.E. Tomlinson 492 Furnaces Wilfrid Gibson 493 Cleveland Night Wilfrid Gibson 494 Fire Andy Croft 495 Sunlight and Heat Andy Willoughby 500 The Cold Steel Keith Porritt 500 Smelter Maureen Almond 503 The Works Mark Robinson 504 Dockside Road, South Bank Mark Robinson 505 Teesport, Redcar Jo Colley 506 Peg Powler Bob Beagrie 506 Cook, The Bridge and the Big Man Bob Beagrie 507 Occasion for Keeping Shtum Angela Readman 508 Acklam Rainbow Angela Readman 509 Easterside ’59 Angela Readman 509 Easterside ’89 Maureen Almond 510 Boro Babe Jo Colley 511 Boro Girl CLEVELAND Andy Willoughby 512 from Between Stations Pauline Plummer 513 On the Gare at Night Andy Croft 514 Redcar Sands Gordon Hodgeon 514 Potato Sellers – Cleveland Pauline Plummer 515 Saltburn FAREWELL Sean O’Brien 516 from Never Can Say Goodbye Traditional 517 Bonny at Morn 518 Acknowledgements 523 Index of writers 525 Index of places
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Ten: poets of the new generation
Book SynopsisTen: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included Sarah Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; Mona Arshi, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2016; and Warsan Shire, who collaborated with Beyonce on her visual album, Lemonade in 2016, which featured many of Shire's poems. This latest anthology in the Ten series will not disappoint readers hoping to discover more exceptional talent. It includes poets with even more diverse backgrounds ranging from Somalia and Nigeria through to Jamaica and the multiculturalism of Macau, and features the first poet from Latin America. These are poets who interrogate race and explode any ideas of a page/stage divide. Fierce, unexpected, sometimes beautiful and always passionate, here are ten poets to savour and enjoy. The poets included are: Raymond Antrobus, Natacha Bryan, Leonardo Boix, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Will Harris, Ian Humphreys, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Momtaza Mehri, Yomi Sode and Degna Stone. The Complete Works III is directed by Dr Nathalie Teitler, with thanks to Arts Council England for their generous funding. Copublication with The Complete Works III.Trade ReviewAs well as being a literary endeavour, Ten: Poets of the New Generation is a form of activism and a show of solidarity in which established voices stand up for and celebrate lesser-known ones. The Complete Works project has changed the literary world measurably, letting in variety not just of race, sex and cultural identity but also of voice, form, attitude, outlook and experience... a wonderfully accessible showcase for thrilling new talent and, overall, a joy to read. -- Bidisha * The Poetry Review *
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive
Book SynopsisStaying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This fourth Bloodaxe world poetry anthology offers poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 500 more ‘real poems for unreal times’, with a strong focus on 21st-century poems addressing current issues. The range of poetry here complements that of the first three anthologies: hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world; poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit; poems about what makes us human, about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder; talismanic poems which have become personal survival testaments for many. There’s a strong focus on the human side of living in the 21st century in poems from the past two decades relating to migration, oppression, alienation and the individual’s struggle to hold on, stay connected and find meaning in an increasingly polarised world. Staying Human also draws on poems suggested by readers because they’ve been so important in their own lives, as well as many poems which have gone viral after being shared on social media because they speak to our times with such great immediacy. And there are poems from around the world written just recently in response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.Trade ReviewThese poems distil the human heart as nothing else… Staying Alive celebrates the point of poetry. It’s invigorating and makes me proud of being human. -- Jane CampionStaying Alive is a book which leaves those who have read or heard a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive. -- John BergerI love Staying Alive and keep going back to it. Being Alive is just as vivid, strongly present and equally beautifully organised. But this new book feels even more alive – I think it has a heartbeat, or maybe that’s my own thrum humming along with the music of these poets. Sitting alone in a room with these poems is to be assured that you are not alone, you are not crazy (or if you are, you’re not the only one who thinks this way!) I run home to this book to argue with it, find solace in it, to locate myself in the world again. -- Meryl StreepTable of ContentsNeil Astley 17 Introduction 1 Staying human Tom Leonard 22 Being a Human Being Patrizia Cavalli 22 ‘Here I am, I do my bit…’ Göran Sonnevi 23 ‘Whose life? you asked’ Fernando Pessoa 24 They Spoke to Me of People, and of Humanity John Barr 24 Bonsai Master Audre Lorde 25 A Litany for Survival Robert Pinsky 26 Samurai Song Zeina Hashem Beck 27 You Fixed It Janet Fisher 28 Life and Other Terms Vincenza Holland 29 Excuse Me U.A. Fanthorpe 30 A Minor Role Pippa Little 31 Against Hate Tatamkhulu Afrika 32 The Woman at the Till Ellery Akers 33 The Word That Is a Prayer Danusha Laméris 34 Insha’Allah David Friedland 35 Blind man Danusha Laméris 35 Small Kindnesses Mimi Khalvati 36 Smiles Mimi Khalvati 37 The Brag Nikola Madzirov 37 When Someone Goes Away Everything That’s Been Done Comes Back Ellen Bass 38 Gate C22 Naomi Shihab Nye 39 Gate A-4 Fred D’Aguiar 41 Excise Thomas Kinsella 42 Mirror in February Charles Simic 42 Mirrors at 4 a.m. Zhang Zao 43 Mirror Rachael Boast 44 Desperate Meetings of Hermaphrodites Werner Aspenström 44 You and I and the World Kaveh Akbar 45 What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around Tim Liardet 46 Self-Portrait with Aquarium Octopus Flashing a Mirror M. Vasalis 47 The IJsselmeer Dam Stewart Conn 47 Conundrum Valerio Magrelli 48 Vanishing Point Richard Siken 49 Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede Marjorie Lotfi Gill 50 Gift Patrizia Cavalli 51 ‘I’m pretty clear, I’m dying…’ Lawrence Sail 51 Recognition Tracy K. Smith 52 Nanluoxiang Alley Dzifa Benson 52 Self Portrait as a Creature of Numbers Wisława Szymborska 53 A Contribution to Statistics Gennady Aygi 55 People Linda Anderson 56 Sanctuary Judith Herzberg 56 The Way Anna Swir 57 The Same Inside Martín Espada 58 Rednecks Natalie Diaz 59 The Beauty of a Busted Fruit Suji Kwock Kim 59 Monologue for an Onion Nadine Aisha Jassat 60 The Years Nadine Aisha Jassat 61 Let Me Tell You Jessica Traynor 62 In Praise of Fixer Women Marie Howe 63 Magdalene Afterwards Marie Howe 65 One Day Tishani Doshi 65 Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods 2 Ten Zillion Things Mark Strand 68 Lines for Winter Linda Pastan 68 Imaginary Conversation Jack Gilbert 69 Failing and Flying Gillian Clarke 70 Snow Vladmír Holan 71 Snow W.N. Herbert 71 Breakfrost Derek Mahon 72 Rising Late Michelle O’Sullivan 74 What Was Mistook Michelle O’Sullivan 74 Lines John F. Deane 75 The Red Gate Alison Brackenbury 75 So Ellen Bass 76 Any Common Desolation Lisel Mueller 77 In Passing Leanne O’Sullivan 77 A Healing Hanny Michaelis 78 ‘It’s terrible…’ John F. Deane 78 The World is Charged David Butler 79 And Then The Sun Broke Through William Stafford 80 You Reading This, Be Ready Hanny Michaelis 80 ‘Over the years…’ Deryn Rees-Jones 81 Meteor Tuvia Ruebner 81 Wonder Blake Morrison 82 Happiness Jack Underwood 82 Happiness Ruth Stone 83 Wanting Mikiro Sasaki 84 Sentiments David Ferry 84 Lake Water Randall Jarrell 86 Well Water Seamus Heaney 87 A Drink of Water Lani O’Hanlon 87 Going to the Well Denise Levertov 88 The Fountain G.F. Dutton 89 The Miraculous Issue George Szirtes 90 Water Moya Cannon 91 Introductions A.E. Stallings 91 Olives Jan Wagner 92 quince jelly Louis de Paor 93 Marmalade Sarah Lindsay 95 If God Made Jam Craig Arnold 95 Meditation on a Grapefruit Aleš Šteger 96 Chocolate Aleš Šteger 97 Egg Thomas Lux 98 Refrigerator, 1957 Connie Bensley 99 Cookery Mary Ruefle 100 Timberland Matthew Dickman 101 The World is Too Huge to Grasp Linda Gregg 102 Let Birds Imtiaz Dharker 103 Carving Alice Oswald 104 A Short History of Falling Aracelis Girmay 105 Ars Poetica Ruth Sharman 105 Fragments Carlos Drummond de Andrade 106 The House of Lost Time Vera Pavlova 107 ‘If there is something to desire…’ Luis Muñoz 107 Leave Poetry Boris A. Novak 108 Decisions: 11 Carlos Drummond de Andrade 109 Absence Mairéad Byrne 109 Facing the Music Ruth Sharman 110 Hilltop Dennis O’Driscoll 110 Nocturne 3 Innocence and experience Malika Booker 112 Cement Malika Booker 113 Erasure Tracey Herd 114 Happy Birthday Sinéad Morrissey 115 Fairground Music Sharon Olds 116 To Our Miscarried One, Age Thirty Now Dorothea Lasky 117 The Miscarriage Fiona Benson 118 Sheep Derry O’Sullivan 119 Stillborn 1943: Calling Limbo Deirdre Brennan 120 Born Dead Noelle Lynskey 121 Still Born Sandeep Parmar 122 An uncommon language Aoife Lyall 124 Sounds of that day Aoife Lyall 125 Ubi Sunt Catriona Clutterbuck 126 Her Body Rebecca Goss 126 The Lights Ciara MacLaverty 127 ‘That’s Quite a Trick If You Can Pull It Off’ Fiona Benson 128 Prayer Hannah Sullivan 128 from The Sandpit after Rain Mona Arshi 129 Delivery Room Doireann Ní Ghríofa 130 Inventory: Recovery Room Justyna Bargielska 130 Different rose Zoë Brigley 131 Star / Sun / Snow Doireann Ní Ghríofa 133 Jigsaw Puzzle Jack Underwood 133 William Rebecca Goss 134 Last Poem Fiona Benson 135 Hide and Seek Ellen Cranich 136 Blasket Sound Niall Campbell 137 Night Watch Niall Campbell 138 February Morning Liz Berry 138 The Republic of Motherhood Rebecca Goss 140 My Animal Fiona Benson 140 Ruins Moya Cannon 141 Milk Esther Morgan 142 Latch Ailbhe Darcy 142 After my son was born Hollie McNish 143 Embarrassed Stephanie Norgate 146 Miracle Lauris Edmond 147 Late song Peter Sansom 148 Mini Van Sharon Olds 148 I Cannot Say I Did Not Katharine Towers 149 Childhood Lucille Clifton 150 daughters Jane Clarke 150 The trouble Brenda Shaughnessy 151 I Wish I Had More Sisters Ann Gray 153 I wish I had more mothers Gretchen Marquette 154 Want Tess Gallagher 155 With Stars Tess Gallagher 156 I Stop Writing the Poem Jane Clarke 156 Hers Naomi Shihab Nye 157 Shoulders Olivia McCannon 158 New Road Leanne O’Sullivan 159 My Father Asks Why Leanne O’Sullivan 160 The Cord Naomi Shihab Nye 161 Supple Cord Gwendolyn Brooks 162 a song in the front yard Tracy K. Smith 162 The World Is Your Beautiful Younger Sister Penelope Shuttle 163 Outgrown Carol Ann Duffy 164 Empty Nest Anna Enquist 165 All at Once Inua Ellams 165 Swallow Twice Jacob Sam-La Rose 166 Never Jacob Sam-La Rose 166 The Other End of the Line Jericho Brown 168 Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 169 As a Human Being Doireann Ní Ghríofa 170 Tooth Anne Michaels 172 from Correspondences: a poem Abigail Parry 176 The Quilt Safiya Sinclair 177 Family Portrait Pascale Petit 178 My Mother’s Love Pascale Petit 179 Her Harpy Eagle Claws Pascale Petit 180 My Wolverine Jacqueline Bishop 181 Snakes Selima Hill 182 from Grunter Selima Hill 185 from Sunday Afternoons at the Gravel-pits Shivanee Ramlochan 188 from The Red Thread Cycle Zoë Brigley 190 The Eye in the Wall Nicki Heinen 191 Solent Ward, Royal Free Hospital, 2008 Aria Aber 192 Asylum Sasha Dugdale 194 Asylum Sasha Dugdale 195 ‘Perhaps Akhmatova was right’ Xidu Heshang 196 Fictionalising Her Tony Hoagland 197 Personal 4 After Frank O’Hara Frank O’Hara 200 The Day Lady Died Rita Dove 201 Canary John Burnside 201 The Day Etta Died Clare Pollard 202 The Day Amy Died Nick Flynn 203 The Day Lou Reed Died Ian McMillan 205 The Evening of the Day Pavarotti Died Anjum Hasan 205 The Day No One Died Frank O’Hara 206 Autobiographia Literaria Safiya Sinclair 207 Autobiography Geoff Hattersley 208 Frank O’Hara Five, Geoffrey Chaucer Nil Simon Armitage 208 Poem Martina Evans 209 I Want to Be like Frank O’Hara Phoebe Stuckes 210 Kiss me quick Frank O’Hara 211 Katy Roger Reeves 211 Someday I’ll Love Roger Reeves Ocean Vuong 212 Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong Frank O’Hara 213 Why I Am Not a Painter Maria Barnas 214 Why I Am Not a Painter Matthew Sweeney 215 My Life as a Painter Adam Zagajewski 216 Describing Paintings 5 Harmony and discord John Hegley 218 A Declaration of Need Robert Wrigley 218 A Lock of Her Hair Jackie Kay 219 High Land Marie Howe 220 Low Tide, Late August Katharine Kilalea 220 You were a bird Sarah Lindsay 221 The Arms of a Marvelous Squid Warsan Shire 222 for women who are difficult to love Jericho Brown 223 Colosseum Jericho Brown 224 Of My Fury Caroline Bird 225 Marriage of Equals Joan Larkin 226 Want Chen Chen 227 Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls Mary Jean Chan 229 // Jane Clarke 230 Vows Miriam Nash 231 Love Song for a Keeper Seamus Heaney 232 Scaffolding Valerio Magrelli 232 The Embrace Vidyan Ravinthiran 233 Aubade Leanne O’Sullivan 233 Leaving Early Leanne O’Sullivan 234 Note Alex Dimitrov 235 Some New Thing Eavan Boland 236 Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary Hester Knibbe 236 Yes Dick Davis 237 Uxor Vivamus… Dick Davis 238 Making a Meal of It Wendy Cope 239 To My Husband Wendy Cope 239 One Day Anne Haverty 240 Objecting to Everything Elaine Feinstein 242 A Visit Tara Bergin 242 Wedding Cake Decorations Ranjit Hoskoté 242 Couple Rebecca Perry 243 Windows Joan Margarit 244 Love is a place John Challis 244 The Love Fleur Adcock 245 Happy Ending Kei Miller 246 Epilogue Conor O’Callaghan 246 Kingdom Come Vona Groarke 247 Ghost Poem Phoebe Stuckes 248 Gold Hoop Earrings Phoebe Stuckes 249 Attempt Cynthia Huntington 250 For Love Bobby Parker 251 Working Class Voodoo Melissa Lee-Houghton 252 Love-Smitten Heart Louis Jenkins 255 Fish Out of Water Sarah Holland-Batt 255 No End to Images Patrizia Cavalli 256 ‘Very simple love that believes in words…’ Natalie Shaw 257 Like when we went to the cinema that time Darío Jaramillo 258 from Impossible Loves Darío Jaramillo 258 Mozart on the Motorway Michael Longley 259 Ceilidh Derek Mahon 260 Aran Paddy Bushe 261 The Rolling Wave Seamus Heaney 262 The Given Note Gerard Fanning 262 That Note Seamus Heaney 263 Song Adam Zagajewski 264 Music Heard with You Elizabeth Burns 265 Listening to Bach’s B Minor Mass in the Kitchen Lars Gustafsson 266 The silence of the world before Bach Adam Zagajewski 266 Chaconne Jane Hirshfield 267 Even the Vanishing Housed Tomas Tranströmer 268 Schubertiana Tomas Tranströmer 270 Allegro Gregory Orr 270 To Be Alive 6 Mortal hurt Tomas Tranströmer 272 The Half-Finished Heaven Jan Erik Vold 272 The Fact That No Birds Sing Galway Kinnell 274 Wait Louise Glück 275 from Averno Caroline Bird 276 The End of the Bed Caroline Bird 277 A Surreal Joke Ken Babstock 278 As Marginalia in John Clare’s The Rural Muse Lieke Marsman 279 The Following Scan Will Last Less Than a Minute Lieke Marsman 279 The Following Scan Will Last One Minute Lieke Marsman 280 The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Jo Shapcott 281 Of Mutability Ilyse Kusnetz 282 Harbinger Julie O’Callaghan 283 No Can Do Wayne Holloway-Smith 284 ‘the posh mums are boxing in the square…’ Anna Swir 285 My Body Effervesces Robert Hass 286 A Story About the Body Max Ritvo 286 Poem to My Litter Max Ritvo 288 Heaven Is Us Being a Flower Together Max Ritvo 289 Cachexia Mark Doty 290 Michael’s Dream Ana Ristović 291 The Body Elaine Feinstein 292 Long Life Ruth Stone 293 The Excuse Finuala Dowling 294 At eighty-five, my mother’s mind Finuala Dowling 295 Widowhood in the dementia ward Finuala Dowling 295 Birthday in the dementia ward Judith Herzberg 296 Old Age Roger McGough 296 The Wrong Beds Geraldine Mitchell 297 Sneak Geraldine Mitchell 297 How the Body Remembers Elise Partridge 298 from The Book of Steve Menno Wigman 298 Everyone Is Beautiful Today Michael Longley 299 Age Thomas Lynch 300 Refusing at Fifty-two to Write Sonnets Dermot Healy 300 As You Get Older Mary O’Malley 301 A Lift James Fenton 302 For Andrew Wood Vijay Seshadri 303 Bright Copper Kettles Anne Stevenson 304 Anaesthesia Elise Partridge 305 Last Days Michael O’Loughlin 306 In This Life Zaffar Kunial 308 Prayer Adil Jussawalla 308 Mother’s Ninety-fourth Birthday Menno Wigman 309 Body, my body Janet Ayachi 309 Spooning Stars Matthew Sweeney 310 The Tube Kerry Hardie 311 Ship of Death Sara Berkeley Tolchin 312 Burrow Beach Helen Dunmore 313 My life’s stem was cut Helen Dunmore 314 Hold out your arms Lorna Goodison 316 My Mother’s Sea Chanty Vicki Feaver 316 You Are Not Sharon Olds 318 In the Temple Basement Emily Berry 319 The photo that is most troubling is the one I don’t want to show you Annemarie Austin 320 from Country Annemarie Austin 320 What My Double Will Steven Matthews 321 Last Christmas Cracker Kerry Hardie 322 After My Father Died Valérie Rouzeau 322 from Vrouz Bernard O’Donoghue 323 Ter Conatus Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 324 The Morandi Bridge Jay Whittaker 325 The call Jay Whittaker 325 Bed fellow Ruth Fainlight 326 Oxygen Mask Ruth Fainlight 327 Somewhere Else Entirely Elaine Feinstein 328 Beds Imtiaz Dharker 328 Screen-saver Imtiaz Dharker 329 Passport photo Imtiaz Dharker 330 Say his name Gillian Clarke 330 Honesty Katie Donovan 331 Off Duty Eunice de Souza 331 Advice to Women Ron Koertge 332 Lily Wisława Szymborska 332 Cat in an Empty Apartment Theresa Lola 333 Tailoring Grief Wisława Szymborska 334 The Day After – Without Us Billy Collins 335 Helium Mary Ruefle 336 Trust Me Lucie Brock-Boido 337 Soul Keeping Company Dean Young 338 Street of Sailmakers Denise Riley 339 Listening for Lost People Dennis O’Driscoll 340 Then Julie O’Callaghan 341 Beyond Julie O’Callaghan 341 Cyber You Alison Brackenbury 342 All 7 Interesting times Selina Nwulu 344 We have everything we need Derek Mahon 345 Insomnia Colette Bryce 346 Helicopters Jennifer L. Knox 347 Drones Colette Bryce 348 Belfast Waking, 6 a.m. Doireann Ní Ghríofa 349 On Patrick Street Imtiaz Dharker 350 Flight Radar Jean Sprackland 351 CCTV Jasmine Ann Cooray 352 Call Centre Blues John Cooper Clarke 352 Bed Blocker Blues David Constantine 354 Pity Jacob Saenz 355 Sweeping the States Jane Commane 356 Midlands kids Sarah Howe 357 On a line by Xu Lizhi Jeong Ho-seung 358 Death of a Cellphone Sabeer Haka 358 Politics Sabeer Haka 359 Mulberries Paul Farley 359 Hole in the Wall Zohar Atkins 360 Song of Myself (Apocryphal) Tim Turnbull 361 Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn Caitlín Nic Íomhair 363 Praise the Young Jessica Mookherjee 363 Ursa Minor Theresa Muñoz 364 Be the first to like this A.E. Stallings 365 Like, the Sestina 8 Roots and routes Deryn Rees-Jones 368 Home Nina Bogin 368 Initiation, II Maura Dooley 369 Dancing at Oakmead Road Eavan Boland 370 Nocturne Tom French 371 The Last Light Peter Sirr 371 from The Rooms Jane Clarke 374 Who owns the field? Kirun Kapur 374 Anthem David Dabydeen 375 Catching Crabs Aleš Debeljak 376 A Letter Home Stanisław Barańczak 377 If China Arundhathi Subramaniam 378 Home Moniza Alvi 378 And if Vidyan Ravinthiran 379 Ceylon Vidyan Ravinthiran 380 My Sri Lankan Family Daljit Nagra 380 Our Town with the Whole of India Roger Robinson 382 To His Homeland Elisabeth Sennitt Clough 382 Potato Season Mir Mahfuz Ali 383 My Son Waits by the Door Alberto Ríos 384 We Are of a Tribe Vahni Capildeo 385 Going Nowhere, Getting Somewhere Imtiaz Dharker 386 Chaudhri Sher Mobarik looks at the loch André Naffis-Sahely 387 Vanishing Act André Naffis-Sahely 387 An Island of Strangers Adam Zagajewski 388 The Three Kings John Agard 389 Checking Out Me History Sujata Bhatt 391 A Different History Karin Karakaşlı 392 History-Geography Amir Darwish 393 Where I come from Imtiaz Dharker 394 Minority Luis Muñoz 395 The Foreigner Hama Tuma 396 Just a Nobody Amarjit Chandan 396 In This Country Keki Daruwalla 397 Migrations Beata Duncan 399 The Notebook Mina Gorji 400 Exit Adam Zagajewski 401 Refugees Wisława Szymborska 402 Some People Bejan Matur 403 Night Spent in the Temple of a Patient God Bejan Matur 404 The Moon Sucks up Our Grief Ribka Sibhatu 406 In Lampedusa Musa Okwonga 408 Hundreds of cockroaches drowned today Azita Ghahreman 408 The Boat That Brought Me Carolyn Forché 409 The Boatman Linda Gregerson 410 from Sleeping Bear Naomi Shihab Nye 411 Mediterranean Blue Kimiko Hahn 411 After being asked if I write ‘the occasional poem’ Reza Mohammadi 412 Illegal Immigrant Moniza Alvi 413 Flight Fadwa Soulieman 414 For Lana Sadiq Audre Lorde 415 Diaspora Philip Gross 416 The Displaced Persons Camp Teresa Samuel Ibrahim 416 Longing Teresa Samuel Ibrahim 417 The last train across Ariat Bridge Warsan Shire 418 Conversations about home Sabeer Haka 420 Home Gabeba Baderoon 420 I Cannot Myself 9 Empathy and conflict Kwame Dawes 422 Land Ho Edward Baugh 422 A Nineteenth-century Portrait Kevin Young 423 Reward Martín Espada 425 How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Gwendolyn Brooks 426 We Real Cool Terrance Hayes 427 The Golden Shovel Wanda Coleman 429 American Sonnet: 94 Terrance Hayes 429 American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes 430 American Sonnet for the New Year Patricia Smith 431 That Chile Emmett in the Casket James Berry 432 Travelling As We Are James Berry 433 In-a Brixtan Markit Elizabeth Alexander 434 Smile Patricia Smith 435 10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine Jericho Brown 436 Bullet Points Danez Smith 437 the bullet was a girl Evie Shockley 438 supply and demand Dean Bowen 439 mi skin Kayo Chingonyi 440 The N Word Natasha Trethewey 441 Flounder Natasha Trethewey 442 Help, 1968 Hannah Lowe 443 Dance Class Hannah Lowe 443 Sausages Rita Dove 444 After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed Raymond Antrobus 445 Jamaican British Anthony Anaxagorou 446 Cause Anthony Anaxagorou 447 Departure Lounge Twenty Seventeen Claudia Rankine 449 from Citizen Claudia Rankine 450 from August 4, 2011 / In Memory of Mark Duggan Roy McFarlane 453 from …they killed them Danez Smith 454 dinosaurs in the hood Thomas McCarthy 456 Slow Food Imtiaz Dharker 456 A Century Later Remco Campert 457 Poetry Leanne O’Sullivan 458 Safe House Ilya Kaminsky 459 We Lived Happily during the War Ilya Kaminsky 460 In a Time of Peace Luis Muñoz 461 Breathing Fatimah Asghar 461 If They Come for Us Solmaz Sharif 463 Look Lorraine Mariner 465 Thursday Chrissy Williams 466 The Burning of the Houses Ishion Hutchinson 466 The Garden Major Jackson 468 Selling Out Jay Bernard 470 Clearing Jay Bernard 471 + Jay Bernard 471 – Roger Robinson 472 Doppelgänger Roger Robinson 473 The Portrait Museum Roger Robinson 474 The Father Valerio Magrelli 474 The Boundary André Mangeot 475 Bellwether Deborah Moffatt 475 Eating Thistles Choman Hardi 476 Dispute Over a Mass Grave Choman Hardi 477 A Day for Love Seamus Heaney 478 Chorus from The Cure at Troy 10 The future? Nick Drake 480 Stranger Thing Sarah Westcott 481 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Maura Dooley 481 Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide Polly Atkin 482 Colony Collapse Disorder Frank Báez 483 Exodus Mikeas Sánchez 484 What Is It Worth? David Constantine 484 Dominion Dom Bury 485 The Body’s New Weather Patrick Deeley 486 Two Hundred Million Animals Patrick Deeley 487 The End of the World Jack Underwood 487 Alpha Step Chase Twichell 488 Birdsong Chase Twichell 489 Herds of Humans David Tait 490 By Degrees David Tait 490 The Virus at My Window Imtiaz Dharker 491 Cranes Lean In Peter Sirr 492 Ode Gerda Stevenson 493 Hands Amit Majmudar 494 An American Nurse Foresees Her Death Imtiaz Dharker 494 Seen from a Drone, Delhi Imtiaz Dharker 496 Seen from a Drone, Mumbai Ruth Padel 497 Still life with a map of the world outside the window Joshua Bennett 498 Dad Poem Nick Drake 499 The Future 501 Acknowledgements 510 Index of writers 517 Index of titles and first lines
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin
Book SynopsisWhen he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: 'There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today...That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.' As part of a fifty year anniversary and celebration, this anthology gathers poets from both sides of the Atlantic to address the challenges set out by Dr King. It's a shock to think how little has changed, and that Martin Luther King could well be speaking right here, right now. In the spirit of Dr King and his work as a humanitarian and activist, this anthology brings together poems that offer powerful testimonies to the urgent issues Dr King defines and represents the polyphony of voices that speak in resistance to our continuing problems of racism, poverty and war. Featuring poems by Claudia Rankine, Grace Nichols, Yusef Komunyakaa, Moniza Alvi, Rita Dove, Daljit Nagra, Imtiaz Dharker, Fred D'Aguiar, Oliver de la Paz, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, John Agard, Patricia Smith, Jericho Brown, Toi Derricotte, Vahni Capildeo, Carl Phillips, Sarah Howe, Elizabeth Alexander, Ishion Hutchinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marilyn Nelson, Mimi Khalvati, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Pinsky, Bernardine Evaristo, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Major Jackson, Tim Seibles, Choman Hardi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Shazea Quraishi, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sandeep Parmar, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rae Paris, Kendel Hippolyte, Amali Rodrigo, Zaffar Kunial, Rishi Dastidar, Raymond Antrobus, Mai Der Vang, Martin Espada, Inua Ellams, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Gregory Pardlo, Edward Doegar, Degna Stone, MacDonald Dixon, Ada Limon, Philip Metres, Nick Makoha, Nathalie Handal, Lauren K Alleyne, Kevin Bowen, Bashabi Fraser, Satchid Anandan. Co-publication with Newcastle University.Trade ReviewConsisting of poems by almost 90 writers… it is not so much a book of poems about Martin Luther King as about the causes for which he lived and died…. This very strong collection is full of powerful individual poems. -- Andy Croft * Morning Star *
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Mapping the Future: The Complete Works
Book SynopsisIn 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry – an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo – played a significant role in this change. Supporting 30 poets from 2008 through to 2020, The Complete Works produced an unprecedented number of prizewinners, including the Forward Prizes (3), T.S. Eliot Prize (2), Ted Hughes Award (2), Somerset Maugham Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. TCW Fellows have also gone on to judge every major poetry award, and to take on significant roles in academia and translation, publishing over 40 collections. The Complete Works has become the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry. Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers the programme has supported, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf. It also includes highly personal and politically engaged essays re-drawing the map of British poetry by 10 of the 30 poets, touching on some of the most significant topics of our time. Mapping the Future is not just a magnificent anthology of some of the best UK poets, it is also an exploration on how poetry in Britain has become much more inclusive over the past 15 years: what has been won, and what is still being fought for. This anthology offers a timely insight into British poetry and how the voice of the ‘other’ continues to take centre-stage in pivotal times. Mapping the Future is edited by poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, editor of the second two Ten anthologies in The Complete Works series, with Dr Nathalie Teitler, director of The Complete Works.Table of Contents9 Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 12 Introduction by Nathalie Teitler 18 Preface by Karen McCarthy Woolf ROUND 3 Raymond Antrobus 25 The Perseverance 27 Horror Scene as Black English Royal (Captioned) Leo Boix 29 A Latin American Sonnet 29 A Latin American Sonnet III 30 Eucalyptus Omikemi Natacha Bryan 32 Sirens 33 Home Victoria Adukwei Bulley 35 Declaration 36 Pandemic vs. Black Folk 37 Dreaming is a Form of Knowledge Production Will Harris 39 ‘In June, outrageous stood the flagons…’ 40 The Seven Dreams of Richard Spencer 42 Scene Change 44 ‘Take the origin of banal…’ Ian Humphreys 47 The grasshopper warbler’s song 48 Swifts and the Awakening City 50 The wood warbler’s song Momtaza Mehri 52 Fledglings 54 I AM BRINGING THE HISTORY OF THE KITCHEN SINK INTO OUR BEDROOM AND YOU CAN’T STOP ME 55 Imperatives Yomi Ṣode 57 Exhibition 2.0 59 12:05 in North London, Thinking about Kingsley Smith 60 An Ode to Bruv, Ting, Fam and, on Occasion, Cuz & My Man Degna Stone 63 Walltown Crags 63 Proof of Life on Earth 65 over {prep., adv} Jennifer Lee Tsai 67 About Chinese Women 71 The Yellow Woman ROUND 2 Mona Arshi 75 Yellows 76 February 78 Arrivals 79 from My Little Sequence of Ugliness 80 from The Book of Hurts Jay Bernard 82 Clearing Kayo Chingonyi 86 Kumukanda 86 The Colour of James Brown’s Scream 87 Nyaminyami: ‘water can crash and water can flow’ 88 Nyaminyami: epilogue Rishi Dastidar 90 The Brexit Book of the Dead 91 Time takes a moment 92 Neptune’s concrete crash helmet Edward Doegar 94 from The English Lyric I 94 from The English Lyric II 95 After After Remainder Inua Ellams 97 from The Half God of Rainfall (Act One, Book I) Sarah Howe 102 Sometimes I think 103 Relativity 104 from In the Chinese Ceramics Gallery Adam Lowe 109 Gingerella’s Date 111 Elegy for the Latter-day Teen Wilderness Years 112 Reynardine for Red Eileen Pun 115 Studio Apartment: Eyrie 116 Longways / Crosswise Warsan Shire 120 Backwards ROUND 1 Rowyda Amin 125 Genius Loci 125 We Go Wandering at Night and Are Consumed by Fire Malika Booker 130 My Ghost in the Witness Stand Janet Kofi-Tsekpo 135 Yellow Iris 136 Streets 136 The Wilton Diptych Mir Mahfuz Ali 138 Isn’t 139 My Salma Nick Makoha 142 Hollywood Africans 143 Mecca 144 JFK Shazea Quraishi 147 The Taxidermist attends to her work 149 In the Branches of your Voice Roger Robinson 152 Halibun for the Onlookers 153 Woke 153 Lisbon 154 Returnee 155 Blood Denise Saul 157 The Room Between Us 158 A Daughter’s Perspective 159 Stone Altar 160 Golden Grove Seni Seneviratne 162 Lightkeeping 163 The Devil’s Rope 164 The Weight of the World Karen McCarthy Woolf 166 Excerpts from Un/Safe ESSAYS Raymond Antrobus 173 Bird Song and Resonance Mona Arshi 179 Writing through a Pandemic Leo Boix 185 Multilingual Writing and Translation: A Poetics of Resistance Jay Bernard 190 Manifesto: Stranger in the archives Malika Booker 194 She Will Name Herself Ghost: She Will Haul Up a Poetic Courtroom and There Shall Be a Reckoning Rishi Dastidar 205 Wanted: a screwball poetics. On why we should try to find comedy in poetry Will Harris 216 Bad Dreams Nick Makoha 218 The Black Metic Momtaza Mehri 224 An Emptying: A Gathering Karen McCarthy Woolf 228 It is lovely when…Diaspora poetics & the zuihitsu Inua Ellams 239 On time, money and music 246 Acknowledgements
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Soul Feast
Book SynopsisSoul Feast is a companion anthology to Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times. This is a book to keep by the bedside or to keep with you when travelling.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd A Bird Called Elaeus
Book SynopsisInA Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems fromThe Greek Anthology, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by around 300 authors.The Greek Anthologyis a marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, a colossal continuity and variety from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine.ForA Bird Called Elaeus? his small anthology of the vast original ? David Constantine has gone particularly not just to the renowned love poems but also to poems that treat man?s dealings with the earth, his work and trades there, the creatures other than himself who inhabit it and the divinities whose care it is. Through his translations, Constantine brings already urgent poems closer to home and our drift towards the Sixth Extinction. For the Ancient World was not populated by humans harmless to Mother Earth, not at all: often they, like us, did the worst their means enabled them to do. Still there were laws.These things you must not do. Doing them nevertheless was understood as transgression of laws beyond the human laws. You offended Demeter at your peril. Understand that how we like, it?s the same now. And the peril is infinitely greater, threatens to be final, consuming the innocent with the guilty.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Versus Versus
Book SynopsisThis eclectic anthology brings together one hundred deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the international arena, from emerging voices to world-renowned authors, and offers an urgent redress, unpicking many misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
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Octopus Publishing Group The Magic Hour
Book SynopsisThe perfect desert island book. Adam NicolsonReading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach...Charlotte Moore, a writer and former English teacher, has loved poetry all her life. Keen to be able to read and talk about poems with others, she set up a weekly poetry club for anyone interested to join her round her fireplace.This book brings together a selection of the Tuesday Afternoon Poetry Club''s favourite poems, some well-known, some less so. The poems are grouped into themes - from home and lovers, to war and the planets - each framed with a little context from Charlotte and delightful insights from members of the group.The Magic Hour offers a source of lifelong pleasure and nourishment, with words to delight and console, while reminding us of moments of personal significance.
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MX Publishing The Art of Deduction: A Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisThe Game is Afoot! A collection of art, poetry and writing from fans of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson. From the deadly Moriarty to domestic life of Holmes and Watson, the Art of Deduction showcases some of the greatest talent from arguably the oldest fan base in the world. Raising awareness for the www.saveundershaw.com campaign and royalties to Help For Heroes.
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Collective Ink Bard Song
Book SynopsisBard Song is a collection of poetry, mostly in medieval Welsh and Irish metres, and reflections on the nature of the Bard in early Celtic society and the role of poetry within modern Druidry and polytheism generally.Trade ReviewThis little book is a joy to savour and digest, Robin succeeds in explaining the complicated nature of Poetic metering with ease and delicious humour which displays his passion and intrigue of the subject. This gem expresses Robin's love of the poetic and his deep connection to tradition and the Gods. I recommend you curl up under the duvet with a box of chocolates and devour this lovely little book. (Kristoffer Hughes, Head of Anglesey Druid Order, author of 'Natural Druidry')
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The Mercier Press Ltd Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School
Book Synopsis'Favourite Poems We Learned at School' and its companion volumes 'More Favourite Poems We Learned at School' and 'Favourite Poems We Learned at School as Gaeilge' are enduring bestsellers in Ireland. The illustrated edition takes forty of the most popular poems from the three volumes and juxtaposes them with classic photographs of children, schoolrooms and teachers of times past - some humorous, some quirky, some poignant. The anthology contains such gems as "The Village Blacksmith", "Daffodils", "Sea Fever" and "All Things Bright and Beautiful", which readers will remember with affection from their own schooldays. It is truly a collection to treasure.
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Liverpool University Press Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisThis unique anthology of poetry written by women in Ireland 1870-1970 includes more than one hundred and eighty poems by fifteen women of diverse backgrounds, experiences and creative aims. Challenging the assumption that little poetry of note was written by women during the period, this rich and original collection reveals the range of their achievement and the lasting value of their work. Some of these women were prolific writers in many genres, others wrote poetry for a brief period only: all produced imaginative and memorable work that sheds new light both on the lives of women and on the development of poetry in Ireland from the late nineteenth century onward. The poetry in this anthology reflects the political and social crosscurrents of the time—the divided loyalties, spiritual questioning and intellectual curiosity that shaped these women’s lives. There are personal concerns too, and a desire to combine the expression of feeling with attention to the craft of poetry itself. Some of these voices will already be known to readers: poets such as Katharine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth were widely published during their lifetimes and have been regularly anthologised in the years since. Others will be discovered here for the first time, offering fresh insights into the inventive and forward-looking work of these women. From the nationalist ballads of Elizabeth Varian to the modernist lyrics of Sheila Wingfield, these poems show the range and accomplishment of poetry written by women in Ireland between 1870 and 1970.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a strong, serious and necessary book. It sets out a hitherto hidden history of poetry, 'an unsuspected lane leading / Into the unimaginable', written by women in Ireland across two centuries, contradicting the received narrative of Irish poetry.' John Mcauliffe'[...] there is much here that will be fresh to readers or is made new by its juxtaposition with contrasting writers. ...Poetry by Women in Ireland provides an invaluable opportunity to reassess our understanding of Irish literature's history and its present.'Irish Literary SupplementTable of Contents Introduction A Note on the Texts Elizabeth Varian (b.1821, wrote 1851–1896) Emily Hickey (b.1845, wrote 1881–1924) Katharine Tynan (b.1858, wrote 1885–1931) Dora Sigerson Shorter (b.1866, wrote 1893–1918) Eva Gore-Booth (b.1870, wrote 1898–1926) Emily Lawless (b.1845, wrote 1902–1913) Susan L. Mitchell (b.1866, wrote 1906–1926) Alice Milligan (b. 1866, wrote 1908–1953) Winifred M. Letts (b.1881, wrote 1913–1972) Eileen Shanahan (b.1901, wrote [1921]–1979) Mary Devenport O’Neill (b.1879, wrote 1929–1967) Blanaid Salkeld (b.1880, wrote 1933–1959) Sheila Wingfield (b.1906, wrote 1938–1992) Freda Laughton (b.1907, wrote1945–?) Rhoda Coghill (b.1903, wrote 1948–2000) Appendix 1: Women Poets 1870–1970 Appendix 2: Chronology Bibliography Index
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