Poetry anthologies (various poets)
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Illness
Book SynopsisFrom interactions with hot oncologists to life-threatening hospital stays to a really bad case of glandular fever. Whether a diagnosis is life-altering or treatable, a total surprise or painfully invisible, The Emma Press Anthology of Illness explores what we wish people knew about being ill, and whether finding that 'new normal' is ever possible.
£10.00
P2D Books Limited Fourteen poems: Issue 2
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£9.37
Scotland Street Press HAIRAN
Book SynopsisSepideh Jodeyriis an award-winning Iranian poet and translator living in Washington DC, USA. She is the author of 11 books.Sepideh Kouti is an Iranian poet, author, translator, and editor. She began her literary career in 2000, authoring entries for the Encyclopedia of Persian Literature. Previous works include On the Heights of Despair (translation) and The Creeping Shadow of Objects.Anna Krasnowolskais a Professor and esteemed specialist in Persian literature and Iranian culture. She was Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies (1999-2002), and Head of the Department of Iranian Studies (2000-17) at Jagiellonian University.Anahita Rezaeiis an award-winning Iranian writer and literary critic living in Tehran, Iran. Previous works include
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PCCS Books We Are the Change-Makers: poems supporting Drop
Book SynopsisThis is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress. In October 2016, Jo Watson launched A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) – an international campaign to challenge the culture of psychiatric diagnosis and the labelling of expressions of emotional distress as medical disorders. Since then hundreds of people have attended AD4E events all over the UK, and thousands have joined the campaign Facebook group ‘Drop the Disorder!’ What began as a shout of protest has become an international roar. Poetry has long been used to give voice to resistance and to drive change in all kinds of social movements, and it is a central aspect of this campaign as well. It has been at the heart of every AD4E event and, more recently, several online poetry events have brought together poets and poetry-lovers from across the globe under the Drop the Disorder! banner. We Are the Change-Makers is a collection of these and other poems that seek to describe the otherwise inexpressible and challenge the power of psychiatry that misrepresents and medicates what it does not understand.Trade Review'What a rollercoaster of emotions! These are poems of truth, pain and power reclaimed. I salute the poets for their courage.' Deborah Alma, Emergency Poet and founder of the Poetry Pharmacy; 'These are the voices of the rebel souls, the truth tellers, the defiant and the righteous...This book is rich, full and will take you on a journey with no turning back. You will be transformed forever.' Akima Thomas, OBE, founder and clinical director, Women and Girls Network. / ‘What a rollercoaster of emotions! These are poems of truth, pain and power reclaimed. I salute the poets for their courage.’ Deborah Alma, Emergency Poet and founder of the Poetry Pharmacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Jo Watson, Decolonising distress - Sanah Ahsan, Fuck the DSM - Jyl Anais, Burgundy - Jasmine Gardosi, I work within the crisis team - Amanda Bueno de Mesquita, Nocebo effect - Dr Julie Carter, Tilt - Ruth E. Dixon, More and less all of this - Lydia Daisy, Self-discovery - Mica Gray, Drop the disorder! - Jo Watson, Act of war - Jyl Anais, On the Inside - Martha Enticott, Open the can of worms - Tracey Farrell, The Killing of Susan Kelly - Dorothy Dundas, Crazier than me - Ruth E. Dixon, Everyday magic - Dr Julie Carter, I mistook myself for a scientific label - Dr Peter Gordon, Dis-ease - Kathleen Halley Angus, No apology in pathology - Sally Fox, Six verses - Viv Gordon, A penny dropped - Ruth E. Dixon, When daisies talk - Mica Gray, Jump start - Jyl Anais, I remember - Wendy Badger, They think - Toni Hurford, All of this disorder stuff - Jo Watson, Look into my eyes - Sue Irwin, Smart move - Jackie Hagan, It could have been me - Jen Yates, Drop the disorder haiku - Amanda Bueno de Mesquita, I can see you (but you are so very far away) - Ruth Jackson, Let's stop pretending - Brian E. Levitt, I'm gonna run - Viv Gordon, In this moment - Mitzy Sky, Empire - Jo McFarlane, Your chemical embrace - James Moore, The object of my hate - Anonymous, Battle weary - Sally Fox, Dignity cannot be taken four times a day - Dolly Sen, Don't blame the canaries - Matthew Morris, A million conversations about 'ECT' - Jo Watson, Other than personality disorder, what term could you use to describe these people? - Clare Shaw, Labels - Jacky Power, Text book - Dr Peter Gordon, Manipulation - Jo McFarlane, I am a storm - Erin Stevens, What if psychiatry has got it all wrong? - Dr Jessica Taylor, Revenge of the crazy wimmin - Leah Harris, Watching the sun rise from her chair - Ruth E. Dixon, Everything you have ever lost - Joelle Taylor, Trauma-reducing not trauma-inducing - Dr Karen Treisman, Unlabelled - Jo McFarlane, I do not believe in silence - Clare Shaw, Fuck you - T.O. Walker, I'm with her - Jo Watson.
£17.23
Tilted Axis Press Again I Hear These Waters
Book SynopsisMiyah poetry is a literary movement of protest poetry by Bengali-Muslims living in the chars (low-lying islands prone to floods and erosion) of Assam. 20+ poets document stories of love, loss, and injustice, celebrating contemporary lives beyond mere victimisation.
£10.44
Arc Publications Poetry of the Holocaust: An Anthology
Book SynopsisThis powerful, unique collection contains poems written not only by members of Jewish communities in Europe (representing the largest group persecuted by the Nazis), but also poems by people who were targeted on other grounds. Some belonged to political or religious groups who openly opposed the Third Reich, or they were homosexual, or members of communities such as Sinti and Roma, or they were perceived by the Nazis as disabled. The work in this anthology originates from across Europe, and has been translated from many different languages. Most translations are specifically for the anthology, or have not appeared elsewhere. This wide-ranging volume gives a sense of the variety of Holocaust victims, and their poetic responses to the Holocaust; from the haunting to the primal. It covers the Holocaust in three distinct time periods; At the Beginning; Life in, Ghettos, Camps, Prisons and the Outside World; Life Afterwards.
£13.49
Arc Publications I Am a Rohingya
Book Synopsis“The Rohingya poets gathered here for the first time in English hold a mirror to the light for the rest of humanity, flashing their poems of misery and warning from the genocidal zone and refugee camp of Cox’s Bazaar. Their songs are more accurate than news reports for word of the plight of the most oppressed. These are poems that begin with the fragrance on the bird’s handkerchief and end by walking among the mass graves. They write from a dire present to a possible future, wondering in their peril if the world outside was too quiet to hear them. Let the world not be quiet, let the world listen to these poems.” Carolyn Forché“I Am a Rohingya implores the world to listen to the spirit of a people who have experienced some of the worst human rights abuses on the planet. These poems have no alternative but to speak out, they are from a crisis that must be addressed. There is brilliance in here!”John Kinsella
£9.49
Smith|Doorstop Books A Commonplace
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£15.46
Valley Press Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency
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£11.69
Eyewear Publishing The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021
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£13.49
Verve Poetry Press Eighty Four: Poems on Male Suicide,
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£10.79
Parthian Books Modern Bengali Poetry: Desire for Fire
Book SynopsisThe seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred years of this poetry from the two Bengals—the eastern Indian state and the country of Bangladesh— represented by over fifty different poets and a multitude of forms and styles.
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The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic
Book SynopsisThe Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart-racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a 21st century readership. The featured poets twist traditional stories, set the rule books on fire, and know that to truly surprise and unnerve, you may have to traverse some wild, remote places...
£9.50
Merlin Unwin Books A String of Pearls: Landscape and literature of
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Nine Arches Press After Sylvia
Book SynopsisAfter Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. Published by Nine Arches Press in October 2022, the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath’s birth through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond.After Sylvia is shaped around five inspiring chapters, each exploring a key Plathian theme: Nature, Rebirth, Womanhood, Mothers & Fathers and Magic. Co-edited by Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett, contributors include Mona Arshi, Emily Berry, Mary Jean Chan, Heather Clark, Pascale Petit and Jacob Polley.This vital anthology sets out to help dispel the myth of Sylvia Plath as tortured genius destined to her fate, by expressing the power and complexity of her work, legacy and reputation as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.Full list of contributors: Moniza Alvi, Romalyn Ante, Mona Arshi, Polly Atkin, Tiffany Atkinson, Sally Baker, Colin Bancroft, Emily Berry, Nina Billard Sarmadi, Caroline Bird, Sharon Black, David Borrott, Mary Jean Chan, Heather Clark, Angela Cleland, Jane Commane, Sarah Corbett, Jonah Corren, Gail Crowther, Mari Ellis Dunning, Samatar Elmi, Ruth Fainlight, Daniel Fraser, Rosie Garland, Victoria Gatehouse, Rebecca Goss, Annie Hayter, Gaia Holmes, Ian Humphreys, Julie Irigaray, Bhanu Kapil, Victoria Kennefick, Martin Kratz, Zaffar Kunial, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Carola Luther, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roy McFarlane, Nina Mingya Powles, Mark Pajak, Caleb Parkin, Pascale Petit, Jacob Polley, Niamh Prior, Shivanee Ramlochan, Clara Rosarius, Devina Shah, Penelope Shuttle, Jean Sprackland, Laura Stanley, Paul Stephenson, Degna Stone, Dorka Tamás, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Peter Wallis, Tom Weir, Sarah Westcott, Merrie Joy Williams, Sarah Wimbush, Tamar Yoseloff.
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Nine Arches Press Primers Volume Seven
Book SynopsisIn 2023, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a seventh time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Katie Hale as selecting editor. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Jade Cuttle, Antonia Taylor and Laura Varnam. Primers Volume Seven now brings together a showcase from three distinctive poets, exploring everything from mudlarking and making a mossary', to the borderlands of conflicts and a bold retelling of an Old English epic. Through lively engagement with language, deep connection to place and time, and the unearthing the stories of myth, history and peoples, these revealing poems offer an insightful collection of new work from some of poetry's most talented emerging voices.
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Seven Rooms
Book SynopsisSeven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts, and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK, and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and total creative freedom.Table of ContentsFeaturing, in order of appearance ... Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamas, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raul Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Atlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sa Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin, Levina van Winden, Aram Saroyan, Glykeria Patramani, Will Oldham, Antonio Tabucchi, Yasmine Seale, Elizabeth Harris, Nina Mingya Powles, Isabel Galleymore, Makiko Faruichi, Jason Shulman, Jeffrey Vallance, Preti Taneja, Stanley Schtinter, the Wayne Koestenbaum papers ( Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library), Sophie Seita, Ralf Webb, Jonathan Chandler, Iain Sinclair, SJ Fowler, Cass McCombs, David Grubbs, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Pere Joan, Thomas Bunstead, Adrian Bridget and John Divola. With a foreword by Dominic J. Jaeckle & Jess Chandler, and an afterword by Gareth Evans.
£17.00
Candlestick Press Almanac: Twelve Poems for 2022
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£7.41
Candlestick Press Ten Poems from Welshpool: Deg Cerdd o’r Trallwng
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£7.41
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
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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
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Smith|Doorstop Books Spit Out the Myth: Three Sheffield Poets
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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.
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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
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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.
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Haymarket Books Like a Hammer
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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
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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
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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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