Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisTwenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the book’s original impact. In these poems—including Wordsworth’s “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”—the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.

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Book SynopsisThe Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake''s ''Tyger'', Coleridge''s ''Khubla Khan'' and Shelley''s ''Ozymandias'' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

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Book SynopsisWords of joy, love, devotion and celebrationDeciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or your loved one''s life can be overwhelming.Poems and Readings for Weddings collects the very best readings by world-renowned poets, bards, playwrights and novelists who have written passionately, thoughtfully and deeply over hundreds of years about love, marriage and commitment.This beautiful collection contains an astonishing range of poems, prose extracts, prayers and songs, all chosen to enhance the occasion, whether they be moving, witty, irreverent, thoughtful or heartfelt.Above all, these words will be recognized as timeless and true.

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Book SynopsisThe work of 21 poets is represented: including Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas.

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Book SynopsisIntroduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet''s Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right.Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, and our land. Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape - London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea - he has collected poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series, while also supplementing the poems included in the programme with his own personal favourites.

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Book SynopsisThe Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general business of wartime. This anthology seeks to showcase not only the harrowingly beautiful poetry born from the conflict, but also the radical changes to style and form that came from the epoch and altered the face of British poetry. Featuring generous selections of famous poets, including Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden, alongside works by civilians and soldiers, the collection offers a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. Tim Kendall''s introduction charts the history of the war poets'' reception, explaining their relationship with their First World War predecessors and some of the reasons why they have never managed to reach such a wide audience. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account which allows poems to be read in their historical context, and every poem is annotated with date of composition, publication history, and a gloss of words and allusions.

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Book SynopsisThis unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition also contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGIES; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; EXPLANATORY NOTES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe First World War holds a unique place in the nation''s history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation''s hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly: their choices are here in this powerful and moving assembly. But this anthology is more than a record of war writing. Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned these same poets of the present to look back across the past and write a poem of their own in response to the war to end all wars. Whether as a reader your interest is in the Great War or the great war poets, or whether it is in the poetry of today, this anthology will hold a special place in your affections, as it remembers and recalls - a and through its commissioned work, renews and honours - the engagement between poetry and this terrible, unworldly of world conflicts.

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Book SynopsisEasily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon.Trade Review"This poetry anthology is impressive because of its carefully lucid headnotes and footnotes, its thematic contents lists and its textual reliability, all of which are a very high order." (BARS Bulletin & Review, July 2008) "The editors have a particular commitment to the role that an appreciation of poetic form can play in critical understanding, and it is on account of this formal detail that the anthology is so valuable. Introductory headnotes elucidate the subtleties of each poem's craft, while footnotes comment on line endings, rhyme patterns, and other features of the text. Some comments are so brilliantly incisive as to deserve separate publication, such as the account of the metre of Christabel: 'each line seems like a stealthy event' (p. 207). Without question, this is by far the best way that any reader could be introduced to these poets, and the anthology is careful not to suggest that an attention to poetic detail precludes other types of investigation. Understanding how a poem creates meaning, however, is the vital first step, and for this reason Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology will doubtless be the standard teaching anthology for many years." Year's Work of English Studies (2010)Table of ContentsSelected Contents by Theme. List of Plates. Note on Texts and Editorial Method. Index of Themes. Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks. Introduction: Romantic Doubleness. Acknowledgements. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, neé Aikin (1743--1825). The Rights of Woman. Inscription for an Ice-House. To Mr. S. T. Coleridge. Charlotte Smith, neé Turner (1749--1806). Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours']. Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. – October, 1784. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. William Blake (1757--1827). from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (from Innocence). Introduction. The Ecchoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. The Chimney Sweeper. Holy Thursday. Nurse’s Song. (from Experience). Introduction. The Clod and the Pebble. Holy Thursday. The Sick Rose. The Fly. The Tyger. Ah! Sun-flower. London. A Poison Tree. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The First Book of Urizen. The Mental Traveller. The Crystal Cabinet. William Wordsworth (1770--1850). Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed. Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned. Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught. Lines written in early Spring. The Thorn. The Last of the Flock. The Idiot Boy. Expostulation and Reply. The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798. The Ruined Cottage. Strange Fits of Passion I have Known. Song: 'She Dwelt among th'untrodden Ways'. A Slumber did my Spirit Seal. The Two April Mornings. The Fountain, A Conversation. Nutting. Michael, A Pastoral Poem. From The Prelude (1805), Book 1. Resolution and Independence. The World is Too Much With Us. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803. Ode (from 1815 entitled ‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’). The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834). The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. Kubla Khan. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christabel. Frost at Midnight. France: An Ode. The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798. The Pains of Sleep. Dejection: An Ode. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824). Stanzas to [Augusta]. [Epistle to Augusta]. Stanzas to the Po. Don Juan. The Dedication. Canto 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822). Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni. Prometheus Unbound, Act I. Ode to the West Wind. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of ‘Endymion’, ‘Hyperion’, etc. Felicia Hemans, née Browne (1793--1835). Properzia Rossi. The Homes of England. The Spirit’s Mysteries. The Graves of a Household. The Image in Lava. Casabianca. The Lost Pleiad. The Mirror in the Deserted Hall. John Keats (1795--1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. The Eve of St Agnes. La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Ode to Psyche. If by dull rhymes our english must be chain’d. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Melancholy. Ode on Indolence. To Autumn. Bright star, Would I Were Stedfast as thou art. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802--38). Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter. A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson. Lines of Life. Felicia Hemans. Index of Titles and First Lines

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of 100 poems, written by physicians, exploring the connections between medicine and poetry.

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Book SynopsisHere is the good stuff: poetry written by women that actually excites the thinking reader. This anthology, spanning work of the last 75 years, will broaden its readers' notions of what defines erotic poetry. For what is more intriguing, more satisfying than strong, self-assured writing? This groundbreaking anthology includes some of our most powerful women writersamong them Sharon Olds, Elizabeth Alexander, Anne Sexton, Dorianne Laux, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Glück. These poets fully demonstrate that, far from being prurient, the erotic can permeate even the most mundane aspects of life, from reading a book to buying clothes.At the same time, the collection affirms the enormous meaningfulness of poetryits ability to express the inexpressible and to illuminate the most private and intimate of human experiences. The poets included here represent different ethnicities, geographies, social classes, and sexual preferences. The onlyTrade ReviewAll We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women was featured in the July 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan "All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women is a breathtaking, eros driven, somatic poetic loveletter to women's bodies. So many of the poets who changed my life and writing live inside this book, and isn't that the truth of it, that poets give our desires and ecstasies back to us? I read it with my whole body, dripping with delight." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan “I absolutely loved these poems and devoured them in one night— like a lover who wants to take her time but can’t. They reminded me of what I first learned stealing Erica Jong off my mom’s shelf when I was a teenager: sex is the force that drives the world, and women writing about it, with all that energy, particularity, sensuality, and humor, is the powerful force that cracks the world open.” ―Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family "It's the verve of the lines in each of these poems that will electrify a reader. [. . .] Many of the poems play with the language of the erotic the same way lovers play, with a potent and beguiling imagination for both what's observed and experienced. [. . .] The anthology's poems tie love and passion together brilliantly, striking readers as much with their music and magic as their erotic energy." ―Apalachee ReviewTable of ContentsALL WE KNOW OF PLEASURE: Poetic Erotica by Women Edited and with an Introduction by Enid Shomer I. THE DISCOVERY OF SEX Woman Reading, KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN In Ecstasy, ERIN BELIEU She Lays, MOLLY PEACOCK Practicing, MARIE HOWE Corinna, Deplaning In Pittsburgh, Looks For Tessera, Her Friend from Summer Camp, STEPHANIE BURT At Seventeen, ELIZABETH ALEXANDER First Sex, SHARON OLDS Stairway to Heaven, JILL BIALOSKY The Sisters of Sexual Treasure, SHARON OLDS Bar Napkin Sonnet #11, MOIRA EGAN Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?, MOLLY PEACOCK Fast Gas, DORIANNE LAUX My Diamond Stud, ALICE FULTON The 4-Barrel Carburetor On a ’72 Chevy Camaro, LORNA DEE CERVANTES “What Do Women Want?”, KIM ADDONIZIO Navy, BARBARA O’DAIR Preference, BETH GYLYS Your Shower, NIKKI GIOVANNI Your Hands, ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ Fishing Seahorse Reef, ENID SHOMER When Man Enters Woman, ANNE SEXTON China, DORIANNE LAUX The Source, SHARON OLDS The French Bed, IDRIS ANDERSON Breasts, MAXINE CHERNOFF Wet, MARGE PIERCY Dream Lover,AMY EDGINGTON Lullaby, MOLLY PEACOCK Orion’s Belt, BRENDA HILLMAN Attraction, ENID SHOMER Space Race, COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSON The Shyness, SHARON OLDS Desire, DEIDRE POPE Skylight, JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN Black Slip, TERRY WOLVERTON First Poem for You, KIM ADDONIZIO The Lovers, DORIANNE LAUX Directions, KATHERINE RIEGEL The Discovery of Sex, DEBRA SPENCER Desire, JANE HIRSHFIELD II. THE ORDINARY DAY BEGINS Kissing Again, DORIANNE LAUX The Ordinary Day Begins, JUNE SYLVESTER SARACENO The Knowing, SHARON OLDS The Purr, MOLLY PEACOCK In the Kitchen, STACIE CASSARINO Trying, ADA LIMÓN Christ You Delight Me, SANDRA CISNEROS The Hummingbird: A Seduction, PATTIANN ROGERS Seamless Beauty, WENDY LEE Downward, ERICA JONG Everything Depends Upon, JANE ANN DEVOL FULLER Eros at Temple Stream, DENISE LEVERTOV The Best Seven Minutes of My Life, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Afternoon, NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSO Curtains of Goldenrod, DIANE ACKERMAN Capitulation, BARBARA GOLDBERG Buttons, CHERYL CLARKE green boy, KAI CHENG THOM Housebound, AMY GERSTLER More or Less Love Poems #7, DIANE DI PRIMA I Love It When, SHARON OLDS Floating Islands, ENID SHOMER Hold Back, ROBIN BECKER I Live My Life by Three Minute Phone Calls, LAURA BOSS In Celebration, ELLEN BASS Something Like Rivers Ran, SANDRA CISNEROS On a night of the full moon, AUDRE LORDE This Corner of the Western World, JENNIFER CHANG Amazon Twins, OLGA BROUMAS The Sad Truth, ELLEN BASS 2 AM, DORIANNE LAUX (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), ADRIENNE RICH Blindfolds, Ropes, SHERYL ST. GERMAIN I Have No Use for Virgins, JANE HIRSHFIELD III. WHEN THIS OLD BODY Gate C22, ELLEN BASS What Humans Do, WENDY VIDELOCK Kisses, KIM ADDONIZIO Your Fingers Are Still, CHRYSTOS Wet, CAROLYN CREEDON Love Poem, AUDRE LORDE Phenomenal Woman, MAYA ANGELOU homage to my hips, LUCILLE CLIFTON Freed Up, WENDY BARKER To Endings, KATHERINE RIEGEL Marriage Without Sex, ELLEN BASS Four Beginnings / for Kyra, OLGA BROUMAS the wounded for healing, KAI CHENG THOM The animal kingdom, MARGE PIERCY Drowning in Paradise, ADA LIMÓN Dulzura, SANDRA CISNEROS Ecstasy, SHARON OLDS After Love, MAXINE KUMIN Afterwards, DORIANNE LAUX Watching You in the Mirror, ALICE FRIMAN Of Gravity & Angels, JANE HIRSHFIELD Integrity, LORNA DEE CERVANTES Searching for the Comet, DIANE ACKERMAN Us, ANNE SEXTON Summer Solstice, STACIE CASSARINO Song of the Current at Cape Horn, DIANE ACKERMAN We Thought of Each Other as Food, ROBIN BECKER mary, LUCILLE CLIFTON The Encounter, LOUISE GLÜCK Foreshadows, BARBARA GOLDBERG The Return, MOLLY PEACOCK The Long Tunnel of Wanting You, ERICA JONG Making Love to You When You're Far Away, ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Feasting, ELIZABETH W. GARBER God/Love Poem, LENORE KANDEL Doomsday, MAURYA SIMON Notes on Desire, EVE ALEXANDRA autopsky, KAI CHENG THOM Untitled (When this old body), GRACE PALEY January Vineyards, RUTH L. SCHWARTZ There's Nothing More, WENDY VIDELOCK

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Book SynopsisElegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax), six elegiac (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Xenophanes, Simonides), and two writing in both forms (Archilochus and Solon). It explores a representative sample of each poet''s surviving work, while also highlighting their variety, and provides an up-to-date commentary on major pieces, including recent discoveries such as Simonides'' Plataea elegy and Archilochus'' Telephus elegy. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as poet and persona, contexts of performance, and various cultural themes (expansion and contact with foreign cultures, social and political revolution, sexuality and gender, rationalism) as well as language, style, metre, and textual transmission. The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as wTrade Review'Readers with WA's book in hand will be well equipped to deal with the riches of Greek elegy and iambus.' Krystyna Bartol, Exemplaria Classica'Allan's commentary is sensitive and well-edited and will offer good guidance to those who want to learn about, or embark on research on, aspects of the history of early Greek iambus and elegy.' Demetrios Yatromanolakes, EIRENE: Studia Graeca et LatinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Elegy and iambus as poetic forms; 2. Performance and mobility; 3. Poets and personae; 4. Society and culture; 5. Language, style, metre; 6. Transmission of the text; Greek elegy and Iambus: A Selection: Archilochus; Semonides; Callinus; Tyrtaeus; Mimnermus; Solon; Theognis; Xenophanes; Hipponax; Simonides; Commentary.

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Book SynopsisCourse Notes is designed to help you succeed in your law examinations and assessments. Each guide supports revision of an undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree module by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining ideal notes. Course Notes will support you in actively and effectively learning the material by guiding you through the demands of compiling the information you need. Written by expert lecturers who understand your needs with examination requirements in mind Covers key cases, legislation and principles clearly and concisely so you can recall information confidently Contains easy to use diagrams, definition boxes and work points  to help you understand difficult concepts Provides self test opportunities throughout for you to check your understanding Illustrates how to compile the ideal set of revision notes Covers the essential modules of study for undergraduate llb aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Initial Matters Chapter 2: The UK Constitution Chapter 3: Constitutional Conventions Chapter 4: Responsible Government and Accountability Chapter 5: Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence Chapter 6: Parliament and Supremacy Chapter 7: Monarchy and Prerogative Chapter 8: The Rule of Law Chapter 9: The European Union Chapter 10: Judicial Review 1: Introduction and Procedure Chapter 11: Judicial Review 2: Grounds for Judicial Review Chapter 12: The Convention and the Human Rights Act 1998 Chapter 13: Freedom of Expression

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of inspiring political poetry compiled by award-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri.

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Book SynopsisThe prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry in English from the shortlist of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Annually, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.

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Book SynopsisHappy Hour is a gorgeous gift book of classic poetry which fizzes with poetry about all kinds of drink, drinkers and drinking place. All this and more is introduced by celebrated wine critic Jancis Robinson. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Many of the most famous poets have weaved the delights and temptations of drink into their verse. In Happy Hour: Poems to Raise a Glass To, there are chapters on whisky and beer, celebrations, why we drink and where we go to do it. Robert Burns is here, of course, alongside Yeats, Keats, Emily Dickinson, Hilaire Belloc, Sara Teasdale, Edward Lear, G. K. Chesterton and many more.

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Book SynopsisWonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book by Ana Sampson is a beautiful collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. Covering everything from the depths of space to the centre of the earth, this beautiful collection includes poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and rivers, birds, dinosaurs, fossils, wildlife, flowers, fungi, insects, explorers and palaeontologists. Each section includes an introduction to the topic with insights into particularly interesting species.The museum has a collection of over eighty million objects and, behind the scenes of its twenty-eight galleries, it holds kilometres of preserved specimens, libraries of rare books and artworks, wonders gathered on some of the most famous voyages in history, rooms packed with pressed plants, warehouses teeming with stuffed animals and freezers full of DNA. As well as a museum, it is a state-of-the-art centre for discovery with over three hundred resident scientists and over ten thousand visiting researchers each year, investigating everything from dinosaurs to life on other planets.This collection is made up of brand new and classic poems, illustrated with botanical drawings and engravings from the museum’s collections.This fantastic collection speaks of the wonder of nature and shows us why we need to look after our incredible planet.Trade Reviewoffers a cornucopia of words about bugs, birds, fossils, fish, plants, people and dinosaurs, of course. Marketed for children, it’s a wonderful, varied collection for all ages -- Bel Mooney * Mail Online *this gorgeously illustrated anthology covers everything from oceans and rivers to fossils. * Red magazine *it’s as awe-inspiring and thoughtful as you’d hope * Indybest *The book is a celebration of our planet and the natural world, and there’s plenty here to inspire children (and adults) to do all that we can to keep it safe, with Gerard Benson’s “A Small Star” and Pascale Petit’s “#ExtinctionRebellion” providing great talking points with our older readers about climate change and what we can all do to help make a difference. -- Sarah Dawson * The Independent *I can't recommend this collection highly enough and will be sharing with colleagues in school as well as suggesting it as a read for our teacher book groups. A WONDERful book! * ReadingZone *the book is a wonder indeed, the poetry giving a genuine sense of the magnificence of the museum’s collections; it’s surprising, inspiring, eye-opening. * Books For Keeps *It would make a wonderful gift for any poetry lover, any animal lover, any planet lover, or anyone with a passion and curiosity for the natural world. It’s a beauty of a book. * Mini Travellers *

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Book SynopsisIf you struggle to get out of bed in the morning, here’s a poetry collection that’s just right for you. Sunrise is an energizing and rousing collection of classic poetry all about purpose, hope and perseverance. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Susie Gibbs.Wise, reassuring words and magical verses conjure up the promise and possibilities of each new day. With contributions from poets such as William Wordsworth, G. K. Chesterton, Ian McMillan, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Edward Lear, the wonderful poetry in Sunrise will inspire its readers to greet each day with optimism and confidence.

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Book SynopsisSilver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation of the great linguistic diversity of poetry and its ability to express passionate love, the most extreme of human emotions. With influential, award-winning poets including Kim Hyesoon, Laura Tohe and Warsan Shire, and languages ranging from Amharic, Akkadian and Ancient Greek to Yankunytjatjara, Yiddish and Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of unlikely love stories and impossible love, love in a time of politics, surrealist love, visual love and free love, offering an intuitive insight into both historical and present-day perceptions of love across cultures. Including over 50 poets, writing on each of the world's continents, this new anthology of poems about love features a diverse range of original poems written in a variety of languages - modern, ancient, endangered and constructed -, accompanied by English translations and commentaries.Poets included in the book: Apollinaire; Nicole Brossard; Augusto de Campos; Catullus; Chaucer; Dante; Robert Desnos; Ali Cobby Eckermann; Goethe; Kim Hyesoon; Louise Labé; Federico Garcia Lorca; Vladimir Mayakovsky; Miklós Radnóti; Kutti Ravathi; Sappho; Warsan Shire; Laura Tohe; Marina Tsvetaeva.Languages included in the book: Akkadian; Amharic; Ancient Greek; Faroese; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Japanese; Latvian; Maori; Persian; Polari; Portuguese; Russian; Sanskrit; Scots; Scottish Gaelic; Serbian; Spanish; Welsh; Yoruba.Foreword by Laura Tohe, the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and Professor Emeritus with Distinction at Arizona State University, who has won awards including the 2020 Academy of American Poetry Fellowship, the 2019 American Indian Festival of Writers Award, and the Arizona Book Association's Glyph Award for Best Poetry.

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Book SynopsisWords can be a way to unlock our feelings. Poetry allows us to be in touch with our emotions and helps us unlock and explore our vulnerability.You'll Never Walk Alone is a collection of the kind of inspirational texts - mainly poems - that can accompany us, whatever we are feeling, from sorrow to delight. The texts are not just about words which can console us or comfort us - though they often do this too. Rather these are poems that allow us to enjoy a full range of emotions. The poems are organised according to the season in which they 'belong': we all have seasons of our minds, be they wintery and dark, or more spring-like and hopeful. Comprising 52 poems, with analysis by Rachel, You'll Never Walk Alone introduces a poem for each week of the year plus tips on bringing poetry into your life. This book will show you how to bring poetry into your everyday emotional reality, where it can be a new tool for wellbeing. And one that means you'll never walk alone.'Like Rachel Kelly, I passionately believe in the power of poetry to reach the soul. In times of heartache and joy, this wonderful anthology will help and delight all through the year. Kelly's brilliant introduction and explanations of each choice make this an indispensable companion, always.'- Bel Mooney, writer, journalist and broadcaster'Rachel's wonderful book offers a carefully curated and wisely annotated selection of poems designed to offer support and solace during the more heart-stopping, heartbreaking, exhilarating, joyful, and unpredictable times of our life.'-MindHealth 360'Healing words for quiet evenings.'- Culture WhisperTrade ReviewKelly's brilliant introduction and explanations of each choice make this an indispensable companion. -- Bel MooneySweet and soulful -- MetroHealing words for quiet evenings -- Culture WhisperThis beautiful book aims to bring poetry into your everyday life. -- REDA lovely collection of inspirational poetry, designed to help you through every occasion, on good days and bad... insightful. -- HELLOA lovely book and a perfect companion for the dark days of winter. -- Beauty BibleGentle, nurturing and thought-provoking. -- HappinessHubUplifting poetry. A perfect present for Christmas. -- Daily MailDivided into four seasons and emotions, Kelly sidesteps any predictably mellow fruitfulness and picks a writer's lesser-known work. There are some classics but plenty of the contemporary and translated works will be new to many. Each entry is accompanied by a pithy analysis and there's a useful biography of each poet at the back. -- Country Life MagazineIn seeking solace and support, poetry is a wonderful balm, as words unlock our feelings. -- Church TimesOffers companionship during our darker, but also our happy times, on the emotional rollercoaster that is life. She points out that we find comfort in the knowledge that we are not alone with our feelings, and poetry can give us a strong sense of our common humanity. She also points out that neurological research shows that poetry speaks to a part of our brains that is more primitive, maybe because poetry has a long oral tradition, therefore eliciting a more visceral reaction, which tends to be more healing to traumatic emotions. -- MindHealth360One of the 2022 books of the year -- The TabletPoetry can be like a salve to the soul if you find just the right one to read in the right set of circumstances. This inspirational and soothing collection, organised according to the season, not only provides great comfort but acts as a friend, too, when there are times to celebrate. As the title suggests, you'll never walk alone when you have this trusty companion by your bedside. -- My WeeklyA poetry book can be a gift of healing, and Rachel Kelly's anthology You'll Never Walk Alone: Poems For Life's Ups And Downs is the perfect present. A true evangelist for poetry as an aid to wellbeing, the mental health campaigner begins, 'Words can be a way to make sense of our feelings', and divides her choices into the four seasons, representing moods of sadness, hope, joy and reflection. The range is engaging, offering old favourites such as Keats and Derek Walcott as well as songs and new writers. Kelly follows each poem with a beautifully concise explanation which will be welcomed by anyone unaccustomed to reading poetry - and bring fresh delight to those who encounter familiar poems anew. The whole book is an essential companion. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *We've loved dipping in and out of You'll Never Walk Alone: A poem book for all life's ups and downs by bestselling author, Rachel Kelly. Really inspiring - it's like a hug in book form. If you're looking for thoughtful mother's day gifts, you won't get much better than this. * UK Mums *The fifth book of poetry by writer and mental health advocate Rachel Kelly, You'll Never Walk Alone is a beautiful, collection of poetry, covering a range of styles and topics. Bringing together poems for each moment of life, including the experience of motherhood, this collection is a beautiful addition to any bookshelf. * Happiful *

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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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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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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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Book SynopsisI like a dog at my feet when I read,whatever his size or whatever his breed.A dog now and then that will nuzzle my handAs though I were the greatest of men in the land,And trying to tell me it's pleasant to beOn such intimate terms with a fellow like me.'The Dog' by Edgar A. GuestThe relationship between us humans and our dogs has inspired many of the world's greatest poets. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, the poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology are a true celebration of the faithful, affectionate, delightful dog. The perfect gift for dog lovers.

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Book SynopsisLove, like the stars, is an eternal theme that poets have cherished since humans first expressed their emotions in writing thousands of years ago.Whether depicting love that is eternal, romantic, sensual, or tragically doomed, poets have captured our most profound emotions in their verses, expressing feelings we often find hard to put into words. This collection features poems that delve into every facet of this powerful emotion, including some of the most renowned love poems ever written.The Pocket Love Poems consists of a moving and timeless collection, including the work of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, John Donne, and Christina Rossetti.Gemini PocketsFrom little guides to soothe your soul to all-access passes to the lives of pop icons, and from quizzes and puzzles for literature lovers to books on food, nature, fashion and more, Gemini Pockets are the perfect fit for your life and interests.

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Book SynopsisDISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Kate Tempest, poets have always been the best at showing us we're not alone, however sh*t things might seem.Funny, reflective, romantic and life-affirming - here is an anthology of poems to remind you to keep on looking at the stars: from that first 'what the f*ck' moment to empowering you to do something about this sh*t and ultimately realising that life is still beautiful after all.Rediscover old favourites and find some new treasures - you might be surprised just how much poetry can help. For fans of The Poetry Pharmacy, The Reading Cure and The Emergency Poet.

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Book Synopsis A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine's nationhood, as told by its writers.Trade ReviewTimely ... an excellent anthology of the work of Ukrainian writers from the past fifty years ... as this collection eloquently shows, Ukraine's writers have forged their own unique cultural identity ... these writers tell the story of modern Ukraine through entrancing meditations on Ukrainian daily life ... powerful -- PD Smith * Guardian *Some of the liveliest and most moving literature in the world is also some of the least known in English. So blessings on editor and translator Mark Andryczyk and the team of expert and eloquent translators he has assembled for bringing us this abundant new anthology of poetry and fiction from Ukraine of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. It's a great public service to enlarge our acquaintance with this indispensable work, an act of moral generosity. But what the reader will be most grateful for is the sheer pleasure of it. -- Lloyd Schwartz, Poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning criticA rich and dramatic anthology that covers predominantly the post-independence period of Ukrainian literature, bringing together writers from a host of generations and genres. From authors whose work has become synonymous with Ukraine's modern-day cultural revival, such as Yuri Andrukhovych, Victor Neborak, and Yuri Vynnychuk, to an array of new voices representing the emerging literary vanguard, this masterfully translated, lucid, and engaging selection showcases the extraordinary power, vitality, and diversity of writing in contemporary Ukraine. -- Maryna RomanetsWhen it comes to writing, freedom is often assumed to mean the freedom to write on political themes without fear of state reprisal. In the formerly Communist countries of Europe, however, the freedom not to write on political themes can be just as meaningful. These fifteen authors bring us stirring reflections on nature, hilarious morning-after surprises, touching spiritual insights, rich family histories, computers and snowy mountains and gay bars and slag heaps. -- Alex Zucker

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Book SynopsisPoets have grappled with the vexed question of what constitutes Englishness since time immemorial, and the poetry of the past century has seen perhaps some of the biggest evolutions in national identity. Contraflow takes a completely new approach to the subject of Englishness, and in this stimulating and entertaining anthology two poetic currents flow against each other, so that different decades merge, well-known stanzas brushing shoulders with more neglected verse. What emerges is an extraordinary mosaic of poetic responses to English history, culture and landscape - satirical, visionary, lyrical, comic, political, meditative - yet one which offers a recognisable picture of a land both united and divided through a hundred years. A Guardian and Sunday Times poetry book of the year.Table of ContentsForeword by Ian McMillan; 'A Conversation about Englishness' by John Greening and Kevin Gardner; Angles of Entry: 2020s: 'Foxglove Country' by Zaffar Kunial; 2010s: 'England, I loved you' by David Clarke; 2000s: 'The only thing far away' by Kei Miller; 1990s: 'Somerset' by Elizabeth Jennings; 1980s: 'England' by Elaine Feinstein; 1970s: 'Earthed' by U.A. Fanthorpe; 1960s: 'England' by Anne Stevenson; 1950s: 'Shipton-under-Wychwood' by Muriel Spark; 1940s: 'An Archaeological Picnic' by John Betjeman; 1930s: 'You that love England' by C. Day Lewis; Country: 1920s: 'Forefathers' by Edmund Blunden; 2020s: 'Daffodils push through in the mild first days of January' by Rebecca Watts, 'The Knowledge' by John Challis, 'The Only English Kid' by Hannah Lowe, 'Greensleeves' by Grace Nichols, 'Self-Portrait as Katharine of Aragon' by Penelope Shuttle, 'Chevening (X)' by Robert Selby, 'The Kingdom' by Jane Draycott, from 'Between the Islands' by Philip Gross, 'South and West' by Matthew Francis, 'For Cousin John' by Raymond Antrobus, 'United Kingdom' by Tom Sastry, 'The Morning After' by David Constantine; Divide: 1930s: 'Birmingham' by Louis MacNeice; 2010s: 'Another Country' by Sean O'Brien, 'Driving through the Pit Town' by Rory Waterman, 'Homing' by Liz Berry, 'Bridge' by Stuart Henson, 'Migration' by Mimi Khalvati, 'Cricket' by Michael Hofmann, 'Walk with Me' by Roger Robinson, 'Etcetera' by Steve Ely, 'Kerrie' by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, 'The Walled Garden' by Sarah Howe, 'Stamping Grounds (Earlier)' by Zaffar Kunial, 'White Cliffs' by Carol Ann Duffy ; Keep Calm: 1940s: 'Still Falls the Rain' by Edith Sitwell; 2000s: 'All Possibilities' by Andrew Motion, 'The Thames Never Breathes' by Katrina Naomi, 'A Map of Rochdale' by John Siddique, 'Dead End' by Glyn Hughes, 'Hung' by Imtiaz Dharker, 'Going Places' by Glen Cavaliero, 'The Road' by Jane Draycott, 'English Zen' by William Scammell, 'Bollockshire' by Christopher Reid, 'Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969' by Lorna Goodison, 'Parade's End' by Daljit Nagra, 'Scene at a Conference' by George Szirtes ; All Change: 1950s: 'Middlesex' by John Betjeman; 1990s: 'A Major Road for Romney Marsh' by U.A. Fanthorpe, 'A View from Stansted' by Brian Jones, 'Home' by Fred D'Aguiar, 'Satellite' by John Greening, 'Tudor Garden, Southampton' by Ruth Padel, 'About Benwell' by Gillian Allnutt, 'Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan' by Moniza Alvi, 'Video Tale of a Patriot' by Glyn Maxwell, 'Cambridge' by Kate Clanchy, 'English Weather' by Wendy Cope, 'Broadmead Brook' by C.H. Sisson; And Be Merry: 1960s: 'The Whitsun Weddings' by Philip Larkin; 1980s: 'The 4.15' by Fiona Pitt-Kethley, 'Lonely Hearts' by Wendy Cope, 'England at Christmas, 1982' by Gavin Ewart, 'Sister of the Planets' by Edward Lowbury, 'Costa Brava' by John Gohorry, 'Apple Gatherers' by Philip Gross, 'Midsummer (XXXVI)' by Derek Walcott, 'Summer in the Country' by Alison Brackenbury, 'Summer Pudding' by Grevel Lindop, 'As the West End Allegro Subsides Today' by Jack Mapanje, 'Wailing in Wandsworth' by Kit Wright, 'A Prayer to Live with Real People' by Anne Stevenson; Recessional: 1970s: 'Three Knights' by Joseph Brodsky, 'The Vanished Places' by Neil Powell, 'Mercian Hymns (I)' by Geoffrey Hill, 'Time Removed' by James Berry, 'Ploughland' by Peter Scupham, 'The Branch Line' by Patricia Beer, 'Strike' by Jon Silkin, 'Gladstone Street' by Charles Tomlinson, 'Reformation' by Anthony Thwaite, 'Returning from Church' by Kathleen Raine, 'At the Castle Hotel, Taunton' by Peter Porter, 'By Rail through the Earthly Paradise, Perhaps Bedfordshire' by Denise Levertov, 'Leavings' by Seamus Heaney, 'Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose' by Geoffrey Grigson, 'The Shoot' by Elizabeth Jennings, 'Last Load' by Ted Hughes; Rebellion: 1980s: 'Rules for Beginners' by Carol Rumens; 1960s: 'Diary of a Rebel' by Rosemary Tonks, 'Adolescence' by Thom Gunn, 'Mrs Albion You've Got a Lovely Daughter' by Adrian Henri, 'Telephone Conversation' by Wole Soyinka, 'A Poem about Poems about Vietnam' by Jon Stallworthy, 'Demo Against the Vietnam War, 1968' by Dannie Abse, 'Nadir' by Molly Holden, 'Elm' by Sylvia Plath, 'What the Chairman Told Tom' by Basil Bunting, 'Homage to a Government' by Philip Larkin; Securities: 1990s: 'Phrase Book' by Jo Shapcott; 1950s: 'Afternoon Tea' by Dom Moraes, 'Eunice' by John Betjeman, 'Wind' by Ted Hughes, 'Watercolour of Grantchester Meadows' by Sylvia Plath, 'The Pot Geranium' by Norman Nicholson, 'The Balloon at Selborne' by Margaret Stanley-Wrench, 'Patriotic Poem' by John Wain, 'A Ballad for Katharine of Aragon' by Charles Causley, 'I Remember' by Stevie Smith, 'Leaving England' by Ingeborg Bachmann; Visionary: 2000s: 'A Vision' by Simon Armitage; 1940s: from 'Little Gidding' by T.S. Eliot, 'A Room at Nightfall' by E.J. Scovell, 'Daybreak' by Lilian Bowes Lyon, 'Son of Mist' by James Reeves, 'Wensleydale' by Patric Dickinson, 'The Island City' by Sidney Keyes, 'In the Backs' by Frances Cornford, 'Voices' by Frances Bellerby, 'The Country House' by Frederic Prokosch, 'Journey to London' by J.C. Hall, 'The Burning of the Leaves' by Laurence Binyon ; Power: 2010s: 'Diagnosis: 'Londonism'' by Rishi Dastidar; 1930s: 'The Pylons' by Stephen Spender, 'A Summer Night' by W.H. Auden, 'After the Jubilee, 1935' by John Squire, 'Children of wealth' by Elizabeth Daryush, from 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice, 'Searchlights and Bombers' by Geoffrey Grigson, 'Instructions from England, 1936' by Valentine Ackland, 'Now as Then' by Anne Ridler, 'The Silent Sunday' by William Plomer, 'The Eight Men' by Richard Church ; Endgame: 2020s: 'Lord of Misrule' by Gregory Leadbetter; 1920s: from 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot, 'Innocent England' by D.H. Lawrence, 'In the National Gallery' by Siegfried Sassoon, 'The Trees are Down' by Charlotte Mew, from 'The Land (Winter)' by Vita Sackville-West, 'A Wish' by Ivor Gurney, 'Tell me not here...' by A.E. Housman, 'Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard' by Thomas Hardy, 'The Sad Shepherd' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'As the team's head brass' by Edward Thomas; Exit Here: 'England, Where Did You Go?' by Holly Hopkins, 'England' by Dennis O'Driscoll, 'Being English' by Peter Daniels; Indexes and Notes: A Note on the Text; Notes on the Poets and Poems; Index of Titles; Index of Poets; Index of First Lines; Acknowledgements; Credits and Permissions

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Book SynopsisMany kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's Aeneid, only to see it from a quite different perspective in Matthea Harvey's whimsical 'Inside the Good Idea'. Longfellow shows us Paul Revere defying an empire from the back of a horse, while Shakespeare's Richard III vainly offers his kingdom for one. Robert Burns's 'Auld Farmer' dotes affectionately on his ageing mare, while Paul Muldoon's 'Glaucus' is devoured by his fierce young fillies. Robert Frost's little horse stopping by the woods is gently puzzled by human behaviour, while Ted Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of horses at dawn, 'grey silent fragments/Of a grey silent world'.Mythical and metaphorical horses cavort alongside vividly real ones in these poems, whether they be humble servants, noble companions, beloved friends or emblems of the wild beauty of the world beyond our grasp.

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Book SynopsisPainting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included here are poems celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', Monet's 'Waterlilies' and Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'; well-known poems such as Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Auden's 'Musée de Beaux-Arts', Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of Achilles and Garcia Lorca's breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador Dali. Allen Ginsberg writes about Cézanne, E. E. Cummings about Picasso, Billy Collins about Hieronymous Bosch, and Joyce Carol Oates about Edward Hopper. Here too are poems that take on the artists themselves, from Michelangelo and Rembrandt to Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol. Altogether, this brilliantly curated anthology proves that a picture can be worth a thousand words - or a few very well-chosen ones.

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Book SynopsisGiven that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. In China,where noblewomen of the Tang dynasty kept crickets in gold cages-countless songs were written in praise of these 'insect musicians'. The haiku masters of Japan were similarly inspired, though spread their net wider to include less prepossessing bugs such as houseflies, fleas and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks, and insects feature frequently in European literature from the 16th century onwards. The poets collected here range from Donne, Marvell, Keats and Wordsworth; Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina Rossetti, to Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald. In translation there is verse by - amongst others - Meleager and Tu Fu, Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Paul Valéry, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado and Xi Chuan. Bees, butterflies and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybirds and glowworms--the miniature creatures that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.

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Book SynopsisFiligree typically refers to the finer elements of craftwork, the parts that are subtle; our 'Filigree' anthology contains work that plays with the possibilities that the word suggests, work that is delicate, that responds to the idea of edging, to a comment on the marginalisation of the darker voice. Filigree includes work from established Black British poets residing inside and outside the UK; new and younger emerging voices of Black Britain and Black poets who have made it their home as well as a selection of the Inscribe poets who we have nurtured and continue to support. They have all responded in compelling ways to the concept of 'Filigree'. Tolu Agbelusi – Sui Anukka – Raymond Antrobus – Lynne E Blackwood – Siddhartha Bose (Sid) – Victoria Bulley – Michael Campbell – Nana-Essi Casely-Hayford – Maya Chowdhry – Rishi Dastidar – Tishani Doshi – Zena Edwards – Samatar Elmi – Christina Fonthes – Patricia Foster – Kat François – Nandita Ghose – Nikheel Gorolay – Keith Jarrett – Maggie Harris – Joshua Idehen – Sumia Jamaa – Pete Kalu – Fawzia Kane – Rachel Long – Adam Lowe – Nick Makoha – Roy Mcfarlane – Ronnie McGrath – Momtaza Mehri – Sai Murray – Selina Nwulu – Louisa Adjoa Parker – Aisha Phoenix – Barsa Ray – Akila Richards – Maureen Roberts – Roger Robinson – Selina Rodrigues – Seni Seneviratne – Ioney Smallhorne – Degna Stone – Hugh Stultz – Ruth Sutoyé – Keisha Thompson – Gemma Weekes

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Book SynopsisA diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English – from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle over the centuries, to London’s bustling streets and a nation obsessed with the weather. Ode to England encompasses a breadth of poetry from our most renowned writers – such as William Wordsworth, D. H. Lawrence and William Blake – alongside verses from less prestigious names which equally capture many inspiring visions of our ‘sceptered isle’. The poems are presented alongside stunning illustrations which pay further tribute to the beauty of this green and pleasant land. The perfect gift for any Englishman or Anglophile, this wonderful collection captures all the beauty and eccentricities of England and Englishness.

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Book Synopsis‘Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern’ – Bel Mooney An anthology of poems to enter the bloodstream and rewild the spirit. As with all life on Earth, the climate emergency, species extinction, ecological disaster, global pandemics, economic collapse, war, genocide and social injustice are all interconnected — how do we face our fears? How do we find the courage to rebel against forces ranged against the Earth? This galvanising collection of poems spans 4,000 years of human history. Ranging from Nikolai Duffy's 'Against Metaphor' and Lord Byron's 'Darkness' to Allen Ginsberg's evocative 'Sunflower Sutra' and Jean 'Binta' Breeze's 'Tweet Tweet'. This book is not just a sanctuary in which to find solace from environmental grief but a manual for psychic resistance in the war against Nature. As Pablo Neruda said, 'Poetry is rebellion.'Trade Review'This anthology is part manifesto for change, part elegy for a burning house, part summoning of an 'inner wild'. But it's also a book of timeless, irrepressible, rebel song. Jean Binta Breeze sings to William Blake, Selima Hill sings to Theodore Roethke and Nan Shepherd. Each song echoes, each chimes. As Paul Evans says in his introduction 'poetry is a quality of language as wild is a quality of nature'. Poetry Rebellion is essential.' * Helen Mort *‘Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern’ -- Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

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Book SynopsisBeing Human is the third book in the Staying Alive series of anthologies. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'. It was followed by a fourth volume, Staying Human: new poems for Staying Alive (2020). The range of poetry here complements that of the first two 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 being human, about love and loss, fear and longing, hurt and wonder. There are more great poems from the 20th century as well as many recent poems of rare imaginative power from the first decade of the 21st century. But this book is also rare in reflecting the concerns of readers from all walks of life. Such has been the appeal of Staying Alive and Being Alive that many people have written not only to express their appreciation of these books, but also to share poems which have been important in their own lives. Being Human draws on this highly unusual publisher's mailbag, including many talismanic personal survival poems suggested by our readers.Trade ReviewA book that makes the heart sing, which shows that the best of today's poetry…is a joy to behold, "charged", as Ezra Pound said, "with meaning to the utmost degree". Being Human, which runs to more than 500 pages, offers a glut of poetry from across the globe and, in so doing, renders redundant the "difficult" tag which so dogs the art. Above all it is a celebration of our capacity to embrace whatever's thrown at us… But subjects do not make poems, poets do. Astley's taste is catholic and inclusive and drawn to those who write with lyrical clarity and a keen eye… Being Human is not easy to summarise. It is a poetic Babel, a library in one volume. -- Alan Taylor * The Herald (Scotland) *Astley is wonderful at selecting poems with the kind of talismanic lines that really speak to people... Not only are the poems clustered by broad theme, with a lively introduction to each section by Astley, but within those groupings they speak to each other, in substance or across time…This collection certainly continues the excellent work of its predecessors, bringing new work and poets to audiences, and drawing new readers to poetry, and at a mere £12 for 500 poems, no one will be deterred from taking a risk. Being Human is stimulating, inspiring, intelligent, witty and life-affirming, the perfect companion on a journey, literal and otherwise. -- Peggy Hughes * Scotland on Sunday *Where Staying Alive and Being Alive were filled with poems that felt exigent, essential (even, in the case of Mary Oliver's subsequently much-quoted "Wild Geese", talismanic), the atmosphere of Being Human, as its title suggests, is more contemplative. Time – its passage and our relationship to it – is the overarching subject, and the section that tackles it specifically, "About time", sits at the heart of the book. Trains and rivers wind their way through the poems, memory is interrogated, and the moments of suspension in which, as Louis MacNeice has it, "Time was away and somewhere else", are rejoiced in… That act of noticing is what poetry ought to do, and what many of the superb poems in this anthology achieve. Let's hear it for modern verse. -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *Neil Astley's indispensable, endlessly surprising trilogy… The newest and last of these contains all the manifold virtues of the earlier two: another startlingly varied, unexpected and entirely accessible collection of contemporary poems - 500 per volume, no small undertaking - exploring the stuff of life, what Louis MacNeice called "this mad weir of tigerish waters/A prism of delight and pain". -- Catherine Lockerbie * The Scotsman *Table of ContentsNeil Astley 17 Introduction 1 Being Human Doris Kareva 22 from Shape of Time Anna Kamienska 23 Funny Kerry Hardie 23 Humankind Rumi 24 The Guest House Micheal O’Siadhail 25 Human Adrian Mitchell 25 Human Beings Julie O’Callaghan 27 The Sounds of Earth Raymond Queneau 28 The Human Species Vernon Scannell 29 Here and Human Ruth Stone 30 Being Human Stephen Edgar 30 Another Country Anna Swir 31 Happiness John Montague 32 To Cease Elizabeth Alexander 33 Ars Poetica #100: I Believe T.S. Eliot 34 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Dennis O’Driscoll 38 The Vigil 2 The stuff of life Michael Blumenthal 40 What I Believe Selima Hill 41 What Do I Really Believe? Sujata Bhatt 42 What Is Worth Knowing John Burnside 43 Anniversary Bei Dao 44 The Answer Julius Chingono 45 As I Go Thomas A. Clark 46 In Praise of Walking Ruth Stone 49 Train Ride Galway Kinnell 50 The Road Between Here and There Rosemary Tonks 51 The Sofas, Fogs and Cinemas Adam Zagajewski 52 To Go to Lvov Jack Gilbert 54 A Brief for the Defense Jane Hirshfield 55 Burlap Sack Edip Cansever 56 Table Oktay Rifat 56 Table Laid Pablo Neruda 57 The great tablecloth David Scott 58 A Long Way from Bread Brendan Kennelly 60 Bread E.A. Markham 61 Don’t Talk to Me about Bread Nikki Giovanni 62 Quilts Ruth Stone 63 Second-Hand Coat Kerry Hardie 64 Helplessness Olav H. Hauge 64 Don’t Give Me the Whole Truth Izumi Shikibu 64 ‘Although the wind’ Didem Madak 65 Sir, I Want to Write Poems with Flowers Charles Brasch 66 Winter Anemones Tracy K. Smith 67 Duende Derek Mahon 69 Thunder Shower Derek Mahon 70 Kinsale Jen Hadfield 71 Daed-traa Raymond Carver 72 Where Water Comes Together with Other Water Vona Groarke 73 The Local Accent Greta Stoddart 74 Counting Bei Dao 74 Midnight Singer Frances Leviston 74 Moon Nâzim Hikmet 76 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Linda Pastan 79 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Louis MacNeice 81 Sunlight on the Garden Peter Didsbury 81 Pastoral (after Ralf Andtbacka) John F. Deane 82 The Colours Lavinia Greenlaw 83 Blue Field Anne Stevenson 84 On Harlech Beach Rainer Maria Rilke 85 Archaic Torso of Apollo Mark Doty 85 A Green Crab’s Shell Coral Bracho 87 Wasp on Water Tua Forsström 87 Amber Jane Hirshfield 88 The Weighing Stanley Kunitz 89 The Layers William Stafford 90 The Way It Is Fernando Pessoa 90 ‘To be great, be whole…’ Toon Tellegen 91 I drew a line Robert Frost 91 The Armful Gregory Corso 92 The Whole Mess… Almost James Fenton 93 The Skip 3 Life history Agha Shahid Ali 96 A Lost Memory of Delhi Sharon Olds 97 I Go Back to May 1937 Anna Swir 98 Woman Unborn Thomas Lux 99 Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child Kate Clanchy 100 Infant Kevin Young 100 Crowning Maura Dooley 104 The Weighing of the Heart Helen Dunmore 105 All the Things You Are Not Yet Louise Glück 106 Lullaby María Negroni 107 The Baby Thomas Lux 107 A Little Tooth Kevin Griffith 108 Spinning Naomi Shihab Nye 108 Shoulders Dan Chiasson 109 Man and Derailment Evan Jones 109 Generations Langston Hughes 110 Mother to Son Terrance Hayes 111 Mother to Son Lorna Goodison 112 I Am Becoming My Mother A.K. Ramanujan 112 Self-portrait Samuel Menashe 113 Autobiography Rebecca Edwards 113 The Mothers Catherine Smith 114 The Fathers Rita Ann Higgins 115 Grandchildren Penelope Shuttle 116 Delicious Babies Anna T. Szabó 117 She Leaves Me Linda Pastan 118 To a Daughter Leaving Home Norman MacCaig 119 Small boy Paul Farley 119 Monopoly Natasha Trethewey 120 Mythmaker Eavan Boland 121 The Pomegranate Imtiaz Dharker 123 How to Cut a Pomegranate Susan Wicks 123 Persephone Robert Wrigley 124 Moonlight: Chickens on the Road Simon Armitage 126 ‘My father thought it bloody queer’ Anthony Lawrence 127 The Drive Robyn Rowland 128 Ausculta Molly Peacock 129 Say You Love Me Pascale Petit 131 Self Portrait with Fire Ants Carol Ann Duffy 132 We Remember Your Childhood Well A.D. Hope 132 Crossing the Frontier Nii Ayikwei Parkes 134 The Makings of You Kathleen Jamie 135 Crossing the Loch Lynda Hull 136 At Thirty Adrian Blevins 136 Life History Lucille Clifton 138 ‘the thirty-eighth year…’ Mary Stanley 140 The Wife Speaks Donald Justice 141 Men at Forty David Campbell 141 Mothers and Daughters Patricia Beer 142 Middle Age Bernard O’Donoghue 143 Nel Mezzo del Cammin Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 143 Approaching Fifty Marie Howe 144 The World Randall Jarrell 144 The Woman at the Washington Zoo Franz Wright 145 Untitled Francesc Parcerisas 146 Shave Kwame Dawes 147 Fat Man Sharon Olds 148 Self-portrait, Rear View Elaine Feinstein 149 Getting Older Arun Kolatkar 149 An Old Woman Dom Moraes 151 from After the Operation Paul Durcan 153 Golden Mothers Driving West Elizabeth Jennings 154 Rembrandt’s Late Portraits Mark Strand 155 Old Man Leaves Party W.S. Merwin 156 Still Morning Samuel Menashe 156 Salt and Pepper Jorge Luis Borges 157 In Praise of Darkness Derek Mahon 158 Ignorance (after Philippe Jaccottet) Yehuda Amichai 159 A Quiet Joy Samuel Menashe 159 Voyage Samuel Menashe 160 The Niche Salvatore Quasimodo 160 And Suddenly It’s Evening Lars Gustafsson 160 The Girl 4 About time Samuel Menashe 162 The Shrine Who Shape I Am Fleur Adcock 162 Water C.D. Wright 163 Our Dust Luljeta Lleshanaku 165 Vertical Realities Elizabeth Bishop 166 In the Waiting Room Moya Cannon 168 The Train Dan Pagis 169 Ein Leben Patricia Hampl 170 This Is How Memory Works Seamus Heaney 171 A Sofa in the Forties Julia Copus 173 Raymond, at 60 Luljeta Lleshanaku 174 from Monday in Seven Days Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 174 The Bend in the Road Luljeta Lleshanaku 175 Memory Ruth Stone 176 Memory Keith Althaus 177 Ladder of Hours Stuart Henson 177 The Price Michael Hartnett 178 The Killing of Dreams Langston Hughes 179 Harlem [2] Rodney Jones 179 Salvation Blues Jorge Luis Borges 180 Matthew XXV: 30 Francis Harvey 181 News of the World George Seferis 181 from Mythistorema Jaan Kaplinski 182 ‘The washing never gets done…’ Yehuda Amichai 183 A Man in His Life Stewart Conn 184 Carpe Diem Emma Lew 185 Riot Eve Carole Satyamurti 185 Sathyaji Rita Dove 187 Dawn Revisited Adam Zagajewski 187 Lava Wisława Szymborska 188 Could Have Yusef Komunyakaa 189 Thanks Philip Gross 190 Caught Iain Crichton Smith 191 Listen Louis MacNeice 192 Meeting Point Rosemary Dobson 193 The Three Fates Philip Hodgins 194 Leaving Alan Gillis 195 Progress Alice Oswald 196 The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards Sheenagh Pugh 198 Pause: Rewind Vasko Popa 199 The Little Box Yehuda Amichai 199 Inside the Apple Jean Follain 200 Life Dana Gioia 201 Nothing Is Lost Toeti Heraty 201 A Woman’s Portrait 1938 Thom Gunn 202 In Santa Maria del Populo Matthew Sweeney 203 Black Moon Roberto Juarroz 204 ‘Life draws a tree’ John Glenday 205 Etching a Line of Trees Sarah Holland-Batt 206 The Art of Disappearing Rainer Maria Rilke 207 Childhood Peter Handke 208 Song of Childhood Peter Handke 210 Angels talking in Wings of Desire George Szirtes 213 Cerulean Blue: Footnote on Wim Wenders Robert Hass 214 Privilege of Being Harry Clifton 216 God in France Czesław Miłosz 217 A Confession Adam Zagajewski 218 Fruit Wisława Szymborska 218 A Note Christine Evans 219 Callers Nissim Ezekiel 220 Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher Henri Thomas 221 Audides Pablo Neruda 221 Keeping quiet Rumi 223 Quietness Lynne Wycherley 223 Apple Tree in Blossom Robert Frost 224 The Oven Bird Frances Horovitz 224 Flowers Denise Levertov 225 The Life Around Us Leslie Norris 226 Burning the Bracken Eeva-Liisa Manner 227 ‘The trees are bare…’ Elizabeth Jennings 227 Song at the Beginning of Autumn Stanley Kunitz 228 The Snakes of September John Burnside 229 September Evening: Deer at Big Basin W.B. Yeats 230 The Wild Swans at Coole Samuel Menashe 231 Autumn Tess Gallagher 231 Blue Grapes Robert Frost 231 Nothing Gold Can Stay Eamon Grennan 232 A Few Facts Edwin Morgan 232 Trio John F. Deane 233 Canticle Margaret Avison 234 New Year’s Poem Norman MacCaig 235 February – not everywhere Tomas Tranströmer 235 April and Silence Paula Meehan 236 Seed Esther Morgan 236 This Morning Louise Glück 237 Matins Eamon Grennan 237 What It Is Kerry Hardie 238 May Katha Pollitt 239 The Old Neighbors Derek Walcott 240 Midsummer, Tobago Norman MacCaig 240 So many summers Mark Wunderlich 241 Amaryllis (after Rilke) Louise Glück 242 Screened Porch Faustin Charles 243 Landscape Jaan Kaplinski 244 ‘Every dying man…’ 5 Fight to the death Jane Kenyon 246 Having It Out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 249 Back Susana Thénon 250 Nuptial Song Ravi Shankar 251 Plumbing the Deepening Grove Lucia Perillo 252 Shrike Tree Miller Williams 253 Thinking About Bill, Dead of AIDS Mark Doty 254 Faith Joan Margarit 257 Dark Night in Balmes Street Joan Margarit 258 The eyes in the rear-view mirror Joan Margarit 259 Young partridge Bill Manhire 259 Kevin Raymond Carver 260 What the Doctor Said Philip Hodgins 260 Death Who Anna Swir 262 Tomorrow They Will Carve Me Jo Shapcott 263 Procedure Nissim Ezekiel 263 Process Janet Frame 264 The Suicides Sylvia Plath 265 Fever 103° Ted Hughes 266 Fever Sylvia Plath 268 The Rabbit Catcher Ted Hughes 269 Life after Death Stanley Kunitz 271 The Portrait Ruth Stone 272 Turn Your Eyes Away Grace Paley 273 This Life Kenneth Patchen 274 I Feel Drunk All the Time Robert Wrigley 274 Heart Attack Roger McGough 275 Defying Gravity Sharon Olds 276 The Race Lawrence Sail 278 At the Bedside John Burnside 279 Marginal jottings on the prospect of dying Rebecca Elson 280 Antidote to the Fear of Death Richard Blessing 281 Directions for Dying Andrew Motion 281 The Cinder Path Marin Sorescu 282 Pure Pain Marin Sorescu 282 ‘What hurts the most’ Marin Sorescu 283 Balance Sheet Marin Sorescu 283 A Ladder to the Sky Marin Sorescu 284 ‘So this is it’ Patricia Pogson 284 Breath Lauris Edmond 285 The pace of change Larry Levis 285 The Morning After My Death William Matthews 286 My Father’s Body Tony Harrison 288 Timer Tony Harrison 288 Marked with D. U.A. Fanthorpe 289 Only a Small Death David Constantine 290 Common and Particular Julia Kasdorf 291 What I Learned from My Mother Amjad Nasser 292 The House After Her Death Douglas Dunn 293 Dining Christopher Reid 294 from The Unfinished Norman MacCaig 297 Memorial R.S. Thomas 298 Comparisons Herman de Coninck 299 Ann Mary Jo Bang 300 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Mary Jo Bang 301 You Were You Are Elegy Mary Jo Bang 302 Ode to History R.S. Thomas 302 No Time Ken Smith 303 Years go by Adrian Mitchell 304 Death Is Smaller Than I Thought Jackie Kay 305 Darling Susan Mitchell 305 The Dead Billy Collins 306 No Time Susan Wicks 306 Branches 6 War and survival Heather McHugh 308 What He Thought Czesław Miłosz 310 Campo Dei Fiori W.H. Auden 312 The Fall of Rome Anthony Hecht 313 ‘More Light! More Light! Irena Klepfisz 314 Dedications to Bashert Paul Celan 316 Deathfugue C.K. Williams 317 Jew on Bridge Carolyn Forché 321 The Visitor Robert Hass 321 I Am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name Is Dimitri Laurie Lee 324 The Long War Miklós Radnóti 324 Letter to My Wife Paul Celan 326 Aspen Tree Ho Thien 326 The Green Beret Doug Anderson 328 Night Ambush Keith Douglas 328 How to Kill Brian Turner 329 Here, Bullet Dunya Mikhail 330 The War Works Hard Yehuda Amichai 331 The Place Where We Are Right Tatjana Lukic 332 nothing else Sarah Maguire 333 The Pomegranates of Kandahar Mourid Barghouti 334 A Night Unlike Others Brian Turner 336 16 Iraqi Policeman Mourid Barghouti 336 Silence Aharon Shabtai 337 War Ronny Someck 337 A Poem of Bliss Taha Muhammad Ali 338 Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower Paul Muldoon 339 Truce Alan Gould 339 A U-Boat Morning, 1914 Gillian Clarke 341 The Field-Mouse Robert Adamson 342 The Goldfinches of Baghdad Lam Thi My Da 343 Garden Fragrance Michael Coady 343 Though There Are Torturers Michael Longley 344 The Ice-Cream Man Andrew Motion 344 To Whom It May Concern Michael Longley 345 Wreaths X.J. Kennedy 346 September Twelfth, 2001 Deborah Garrison 347 I Saw You Walking Alan Smith 348 Kidding Myself in Kuta, Bali: A Pantoum Gyula Illyés 349 While the Record Plays Charles Simic 350 Fear Heberto Padilla 351 In trying times Nâzim Hikmet 352 On Living Tony Curtis 354 Soup Irina Ratushinskaya 355 I will live and survive Jack Mapanje 356 Skipping Without Ropes Priscila Uppal 357 Sorry I Forgot To Clean Up After Myself Nâzim Hikmet 358 It’s This Way Else Lasker-Schüler 358 My Blue Piano David Constantine 359 Soldiering On Ernesto Cardenal 360 ‘For Those Dead, Our Dead…’ Martín Espada 361 Sleeping on the Bus Sargon Boulus 362 News About No One Chenjerai Hove 363 You Will Forget 7 Living in hope John Hewitt 366 from Freehold Patrick Kavanagh 368 Epic Patrick Kavanagh 369 Shancoduff Liam Ó Muirthile 369 The Parlour Ikkyu 370 My real dwelling Adélia Prado 371 Denouement James Merrill 372 The Broken Home Ko Un 375 Back Home Ko Un 375 Hometown Richard Hugo 376 Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg Paul Batchelor 377 Conurbation Olav H. Hauge 378 Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses George Oppen 379 Street Louis Simpson 379 An American Classic Jimmy Santiago Baca 380 from Poem VI Dennis O’Driscoll 382 Them and You John Ormond 383 Cathedral Builders Geoff Page 384 Grit Ali Cobby Eckermann 385 Intervention Pay Day Harry Martinson 389 Cable-ship Martín Espada 389 Imagine the Angels of Bread Nick Makoha 391 Beatitude Dunya Mikhail 392 I Was in a Hurry Nadia Anjuman 393 The Silenced Nora Nadjarian 393 Mother Tongue Partaw Naderi 394 My Voice Partaw Naderi 394 The Mirror Anne Stevenson 395 It looks so simple from a distance… Henrik Norbrandt 395 Local Stanisłav Baranczak 396 A Second Nature Carol Ann Duffy 397 Foreign Farzaneh Khojandi 397 Must Escape Mohja Kahf 398 Hijab Scene #7 Karen Press 399 Application for Naturalisation Imtiaz Dharker 400 Front door James Berry 401 Englan Voice Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze 402 from The arrival of Brighteye Grace Nichols 404 Wherever I Hang Daljit Nagra 405 Look We Have Coming to Dover! John Agard 406 Half-caste Moniza Alvi 407 Half-and-Half Gustavo Pérez Firmat 408 Bilingual Blues Linda Hogan 409 The Truth Is Katia Kapovich 410 Painting a Room Philip Levine 411 The Mercy Seamus Heaney 412 Miracle Hans Magnus Enzensberger 413 Optimistic Little Poem Ivan V. Lalic 413 The Spaces of Hope Lisel Mueller 414 Hope Edith Södergran 415 Hope Imtiaz Dharker 415 Living Space Ruth Bidgood 416 Little of Distinction Pablo Neruda 417 Emerging Brendan Kennelly 418 Yes Adrian Mitchell 419 Yes James Wright 419 Yes, But Langston Hughes 420 Dreams 8 Body and soul Henri Cole 422 Ape House, Berlin Zoo Stephen Dunn 423 With No Experience in Such Matters Lars Gustafsson 424 Elegy for a Dead Labrador Oktay Rifat 426 Looking at the Invisible Stephen Dunn 426 From Underneath Roderick Ford 428 Giuseppe Vicki Feaver 429 The Gun Chase Twichell 430 City Animals Robert Lowell 432 Skunk Hour Elizabeth Bishop 433 The Armadillo Brigit Pegeen Kelly 434 Song Philip Larkin 436 The Mower Judith Beveridge 437 The Caterpillars Ruth Stone 438 Another Feeling Larry Levis 438 The Oldest Living Thing in LA Thomas Lux 439 Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy Eugenio Montale 440 The Eel Les Murray 441 The Cows on Killing Day Gottfried Benn 443 Little Aster David Huerta 443 Poem by Gottfried Benn C.P. Cavafy 444 Body, Remember… Osip Mandelstam 444 ‘A body is given to me…’ Eleanor Ross Taylor 445 Disappearing Act Padraic Fallon 446 Body A.K. Ramanujan 446 A Hindu to His Body Sarah Holland-Batt 447 Pocket Mirror John Updike 448 Mirror Sonnet L’Abbé 448 Theory My Natural Brown Ass Sarah Holland-Batt 449 The Idea of Mountain Brendan Kennelly 450 Proof Wisława Szymborska 451 View with a Grain of Sand R.S. Thomas 452 The Bright Field Mark Strand 453 Keeping Things Whole Alex Skovron 453 Almost Alastair Reid 454 Oddments, inklings, omens, moments Pedro Serrano 455 Feet A.D. Hope 455 The Gateway William Stafford 456 The Gift Kerry Hardie 457 Flesh Julia Hartwig 457 Toward the End C.P. Cavafy 458 The God Abandons Antony Jane Hirshfield 459 Tree Harry Clifton 459 The Garden Olga Broumas 460 Sweeping the Garden John Burnside 461 from Of Gravity and light Michael Laskey 462 Nobody Kenji Miyazawa 462 Strong in the Rain Arundhathi Subramaniam 463 Prayer Dana Gioia 464 Prayer 9 More to love Kim Addonizio 466 You Don’t Know What Love Is Kim Addonizio 466 Like That Jericho Brown 467 Track 1: Lush Life Edwin Morgan 468 Strawberries Arda Collins 469 Low Dorianne Laux 470 The Shipfitter’s Wife W.R. Rodgers 470 The Net Thom Gunn 471 Tamer and Hawk Eliza Griswold 472 Tigers Tony Hoagland 473 Romantic Moment Faiz Ahmed Faiz 474 Before You Came Norman MacCaig 474 True Ways of Knowing E.E. Cummings 475 i carry your heart with me Dana Gioia 476 The Song (after Rilke) W.B. Yeats 476 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Langston Hughes 477 The Dream Keeper Michael Donaghy 477 The Present Sharon Olds 478 This Hour Garrison Keillor 479 Supper Sinéad Morrissey 479 & Forgive Us Our Trespasses Maram al-Massri 480 from A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor Norman MacCaig 482 Sounds of the day Pablo Neruda 483 ‘If I die…’ Annabelle Despard 483 Should You Die First Grace Paley 484 Anti-Love Poem Eavan Boland 485 Love Herman de Coninck 485 For Each Other Lorraine Mariner 486 Say I forgot Alan Dugan 486 Love Song: I and Thou Michael Blumenthal 487 A Marriage Anna Swir 488 Thank You, My Fate 489 Acknowledgements 496 Index of writers 503 Index of titles and first lines

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Book SynopsisTom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. His publications include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets) and, as editor, the anthologies Generation Txt, City State: New London Poetry and Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry (Penned in the Margins, 2006, 2009 & 2010). A regular reviewer for Poetry London, he presented a documentary about the poet Barry MacSweeney for BBC Radio 4 in 2009. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011.Trade ReviewFull of things to divert, entertain and provoke. - The Independent 50 Best Summer Reads Adventures in Form teems with life. It is the start of a new, healthier and more joyous way of looking at the poetic endeavour we live among. It's essential reading right now. - Poetry Review The constraints we chafe against in the creation of 'txt msg poMs' may be unravelling, but the anthology's long-term legacy will be its sense of gusto. Look at this as a pattern book of the possible; it enthuses, and that enthusiasm becomes contagious. - Poetry London Adventures in Form raises fundamental questions, about the value of novelty to poetry, for example, about chance and choice, sense and nonsense, and about the concept of 'voice', in poetry, how it might be revitalised, channelled and challenged. - Poetry Book Society One of the most eye-opening books of the decade. - EyewearTable of ContentsPatience Agbabi Simon Barraclough Christian Bok Colette Bryce Theodoros Chiotis Tom Chivers Emily Critchley Rishi Dastidar Joe Dunthorne Michael Egan Inua Ellams SJ Fowler Giles Goodland Kirsten Irving Nathan Jones Valerie Laws Ira Lightman Toby Litt Roddy Lumsden Sophie Mayer Chris McCabe Ian McMillan Richard Moorhead Paul Muldoon Ruth Padel Nathan Penlington Andrew Philip Richard Price Sam Riviere Hannah Silva Iain Sinclair Steve Spence Paul Stephenson Jon Stone Ross Sutherland George Szirte Chris Thorpe Claire Trevien George Ttoouli Tim Turnbull Jack Underwood Hannah Jane Walker Tim Wells James Wilkes Chrissy Williams Tamar Yoseloff

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of versions by 16 contemporary poets from around the world of the 33 Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio is published to mark the 700th centenary of Dante's death in 1321. With an absorbing Introduction by Nick Havely tracing Dante's influence on countless poets over the centuries, and detailed explanatory notes, canto by canto, this volume is both an outstanding work of scholarship and, for the poetry lover, a superb way into the world of this extraordinary medieval masterpiece.

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Book SynopsisIn Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets, more than 50 poets from all over the world explore the many meanings and connotations of the word ‘home’. Hailing from places as diverse as India and Italy, Poland and Pakistan, Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – as well as the US, the UK and Ireland itself – together they present an updated picture of a changing country while, at the same time, expanding the very definition of ‘writing from Ireland’.The poems gathered here are as various and lively as we might hope for. Some contributors might be said to ‘write home’ in the traditional sense, describing and explaining what they find in the place they now live; for others ‘writing home’ is a determined, creative act of self-definition.For all of them there is the real sense that writing is itself a kind of home-building, not least at a time when so many borders, physical and psychological, are under threat of closure across the world.

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Book SynopsisThe Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. Our Spring 2025 Selections are:CHOICE: Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber)RECOMMENDATIONS: Charles Lang, The Oasis (Skein Press) , Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Dane Holt, Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press), Desree, Altar (Bad Betty Press)SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (Fitzcarraldo Editions)TRANSLATION CHOICE: TBCPAMPHLET CHOICE: TBCYou can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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Book SynopsisThe subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white. This anthology of poems and short fiction aims to address that, with wild and wonderful writing from humour and anger, relief and distress, by women who have experienced menopause, whether naturally or as a result of surgery; with a healthy dose of views from the global majority and the lesbian, bisexual and trans communities. With contributions from Adele Evershed, Alison Habens, Alyson Hallett, Amanda Addison, Anne Caldwell, Anne Eccleshall, Anne Macaulay, Cath Holland, Cheryl Powell, Chloe Balcomb, Claire Booker, Claire Lynn, Clare Starling, Ellesar Elhaggagi, Elizabeth A Richter, Em Gray, Erica Borgstrom, Genevieve Carver, Ginger Strivelli, Helen Campbell, Jane Ayres, Jane Burn, Jane McLaughlin, Jessica Manack, Joanne Harris, JP Seabright, Julie-Ann Rowell, Karen F Pierce, Kavita A Jindal, Kim Whysall-Hammond, Lucy Lasasso, Marina Sanchez, Martha Patterson, Mary Mulholland, Rachel Playforth, Ruth Higgins, Sian Northey, Susan Bennett, Susan Cartwright-Smith, Tessa Lang, Tina Bethea Ray, Victoria Bailey, and Victoria Ekpo.Table of ContentsFrom Menarche to Menopause Cath Holland 8 Pause Rachel Playforth 13 A sudden ending Anne Macaulay 14 My Wild Fires Marina Sanchez 16 The Grandmother Hypothesis Genevieve Carver 17 Be Cool Tina Bethea Ray 18 more the use the womb is put to than the womb itself Jane Ayres 20 Flashes of Kindness Victoria Bailey 21 Women of Your Age Erica Borgstrom 22 Night Sweats Julie-Ann Rowell 24 Red Clover and Black Cohosh Days Anne Caldwell 26 A Cabin in the Woods Lucy Lasasso 27 Washing Mary Jane Ayres 32 Deja vu Sian Northey 34 Shape-shift Alyson Hallett 35 Obit: My Last Egg Susan Bennett 36 Woman's Work Cheryl Powell 37 Relieved Victoria Bailey 39 The Other Side of Nowhere Jessica Manack 40 Flush Anne Caldwell 42 Foreign Land Ellesar Elhaggagi 43 Fairy Tales for the Over Fifties Alison Habens 44 Black Armour Joanne Harris 48 Breakup Helen Campbell 52 my vulva & i used to be friends Jane Ayres 53 Menostop Kim Whysall-Hammond 54 Shamans in Luburbia Kavita A Jindal 55 A Summer Prematurely Here Victoria Ekpo 61 Nuclear Tingle Karen F Pierce 63 Ruby-Red Jewel Martha Patterson 64 HUM PBA CK JP Seabright 65 Over the Bloody Moon-a prose poem Adele Evershed 66 You have been this country I have known Jane Burn 68 Dried Susan Cartwright-Smith 70 Evorel Clare Starling 72 The Change Ginger Strivelli 73 China Anne Caldwell 77 Natural wastage Anne Eccleshall 78 Gutsy Menopausal Woman Chloe Balcomb 79 O Womb Mary Mulholland 80 Silver Swans Amanda Addison 82 Monthly Tessa Lang 84 men-oh-paused - haibun Victoria Bailey 85 Demeter Elizabeth A Richter 86 Her mid-life performance review Ruth Higgins 88 The Farmer's Fire Jane McLaughlin 89 Wilding Em Gray 93 On Discovering a New Energy Source Claire Booker 94 Enough Already Claire Lynn 95

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Book SynopsisLleisiau hanner cant o feirdd yn llifo gydag afonydd Cymru. Pob cerdd yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, wedi'i chyfieithu o'r naill iaith i'r llall. Fifty Welsh poets speak for and with the rivers of Wales. Every poem translated Welsh to English, English to Welsh.

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Book SynopsisCardiff Writers’ Circle was formed in 1947 and is joined here by other local writinggroups, all lending their imaginations to a wide variety of styles, genres, and formats. You may laugh. You may cry. You may gasp at the sheer beauty contained within these pages. But above all, you will be holding a snapshot of the fantastic talent that exists today in Cardiff, city of the dragon.

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Book SynopsisCould there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and - as the climate emergency escalates - it has never been more important to appreciate our vital connection to them. This beautifully illustrated anthology of sixty tree poems is a celebration of our love of trees. With poems by some of the world's best-loved poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, William Meredith and W.H. Auden, The Book of Tree Poems will help you see trees as you've never seen them before. Our natural historians have amazed you with their biology and the ways in which they influence our lives, now it's the poets' turn to make you fall in love with their beauty, strength and character.The Book of Tree Poems taps into the trend for gifty poetry anthologies and is a

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