Poetry / Poems
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Pedestrian
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Dont Play with the Madness
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Wanchese The Angler The White Face of Satan and
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ornamental Expressions The Yellow Butterfly
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Goodnight Mum
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Kintsugi
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Beyond Life Verses
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£14.39
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The NineTailed Fox
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Through My Eyes
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£14.39
Smokestack Books Greedy Cow
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£7.59
Out-Spoken Press flinch & air
Book SynopsisFlinch & Air is a unique exploration of Asian female identity. Reflecting on culture, politics, language and society in and beyond Hong Kong, this is a book of remembrance, courage, resilience and sacrifice. Touching on the current Hong Kong mass demonstrations, the 2019 Extradition Treaty, and the stories of her female elders Flinch & Air positions Asian women at the centre of the page.
£7.60
Smokestack Books Dummy!
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Olympia Publishers Christopher Powell
Book SynopsisThis collection of poetry conveys the vibrant thoughts and memories of an artist lost in beauty; the beauty of the meadows, the water, little shops, curious animals, and the people who pass along the way. From sweet bakery shop romances, to legends of swashbuckling pirates, this collection bursts with fantasy and adventure that throws you from the comfort of an ordinary street, to the dangerous escapades of gun-slinging ants. In this familiar yet surprising world, the domestic meets the surreal as each poem takes you on a trip through nature, history, tragedy, and unbridled joy, twisting in the most unexpected of directions to showcase every corner of this brilliant world. The artist recreates, with the great care of a painter, the things he has seen in the hope of capturing it forever, and thereby "sharing his heart with the future".
£14.39
Ebury Publishing The Path to SelfLove
Book Synopsis''A sanctuary of comfort and self-discovery'' VEX KINGSelf-love is doing the fun things, but also practising the hard ones. Self-love is going travelling, but self-love is also coming home. Self-love is about where each new day takes you - because sometimes you feel like hiding away from everyone, and sometimes you feel ready to take over the world.''Whether you''re hoping to overcome loss or heartbreak, set healthy boundaries or find resilience when things don''t go as planned, Ruby Dhal''s gentle and open-hearted voice will help you cultivate self-love to transform all aspects of your life.Using a mixture of nurturing prose poetry, personal stories and hard-won insight, exercises and journaling, The Path to Self-Love will empower you to access your inner strength, trust in yourself and build the life you deserve.
£15.29
Birlinn General To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives
Book SynopsisNursing staff throughout the world have endured an unprecedented increase in distress, anxiety and depression. Physical and mental health have come under attack from anxiety, depression, elevated blood pressure and increased stress hormone production. More than ever, the importance and urgency of initiatives which promote nurses' and midwives' wellbeing should be emphasised. Pocket Poetry: Poems for Nurses and Midwives is a companion of poems intended to provide encouragement and consolation to those on the frontline of our care sector. The poems themselves explore the meaning of nursing, midwifery and compassion in order to promote new nurses' and midwives' self-care and wellbeing. The poems in this selection demonstrate the empathy and benevolence crucial to the profession, and include works on the relationship between nurse and patient, as well as the meaning and fulfilment of nursing for those who have chosen that career.
£6.99
Birlinn General In a Time of Distance
Book SynopsisWhat really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar, and descriptions that will make you laugh and realign your view.This collection reminds us to look at the world differently, to stop once in while and look up at the sky.
£11.40
Alma Books Ltd Beowulf: Dual Language and New Verse Translation:
Book SynopsisOf unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in their sleep. The most important Old English poem, and the first known major poem written in a European vernacular, Beowulf is a unique and compelling mix of sixth-century historical events, Christian commentary, Germanic myth and Anglo-Saxon culture. The poem is presented here in a dual-text format with a new translation by multi-award-winning translator J.G. Nichols.Trade ReviewThe whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
£9.25
Carcanet Press Ltd Ice
Book SynopsisThe author turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. This book also includes the 'asked for' and commissioned poems, and the Guardian spreads Clarke has written during her time as National Poet of Wales.
£9.45
Carcanet Press Ltd Parallax
Book SynopsisThe T S Eliot Prize-winning fifth collection of poems by the inaugural Belfast laureate, and one of Northern Ireland's greatest female poets.
£9.45
Green Books Trees be Company: An Anthology of Poetry
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Exact Change,U.S. The Book
Book SynopsisThe French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: probably his most famous pronouncement is 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.' The Book was Mallarme's total artwork, a book to encompass all books. Frequently quoted, sometimes excerpted, but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction, the scaffolding of a cosmic architecture intended to reveal 'all existing relations between everything.'Trade ReviewA new language so we may continue toward new and newer forms of poetry — that is true poetic innovation. -- Marcella Durand * Hyperallergic *What a feast of Mallarmé we are treated to, with really persuasive translations of two major and important texts of this poet, who is without any doubt, quite certainly, the most important carryover from the poetry of the nineteenth century to our present and our future, in poetry and in life. -- Mary Ann Caws * Brooklyn Rail *
£13.29
Medieval Institute Publications The Middle English Breton Lays
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.Table of ContentsPreface General Introduction Sir Orfeo Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Lay le Freine Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Sir Degaré Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Emaré Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Sir Launfal Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Sir Gowther Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Erle of Tolous Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Sir Cleges Introduction, Select Bibliography, Text, Notes Appendix A Marie de France, The Lay of the Ash Tree Appendix B Marie de France, The Lay of Sir Launfal Appendix C Sir Landevale Glossary
£17.50
Wrecking Ball Press Sometimes I'm So Happy I'm Not Safe
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Wrecking Ball Press Take Me Up The Lighthouse
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Luath Press Ltd Pure Dundee
Book SynopsisThis is a new and powerful collection of poetry written by native Dundonian Gary Robertson in his own distinctive tongue - the Dundonian dialect. Robertson's comical style of poetry tackles every aspect of living and growing up in a Scottish town, from working the night shift to logging on to myspace. With humour he is able to explore the darker side of Dundee with poems that highlight gang violence and the abuse of drink and drugs in a way that enlightens without alienating. This colourful and honest verse comes unashamedly from the streets to offer a unique view of Dundee and its people from one of its own.
£7.59
Bristol Books CIC Poets Walk
Book SynopsisA vibrant collection of poetry from some of the region's best-loved poets. The project, supported by Clevedon Litfest, invited local poets to respond to themes explored in the poems of Tennyson (In Memoriam) and Coleridge (Aeolian Harp), most associated with the town. The resulting poems are collected here.
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Signal Books Ltd The Seven Seas: Voyages in Verse and Colour
Book SynopsisThe Seven Seas is a celebration of the sea, and of the seven oceans on earth, in poetry and painting. The land, the seven continents of our planet, usually takes centre stage with its diverse populations of flora and fauna, and humanity - ourselves. But this book gives first place to the water, the element that covers some seventy per cent of the earth's surface, and the life above and within it. The volume is organised to reveal the nature and character of the seven oceans ('the seven seas', as poets have traditionally called them) and the principal ports that link them as one vast waterway. It contains a series of seven voyages which together comprise one extensive and imaginary tour of the world, encircling the globe three times at different latitudes and visiting both the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans at the northern and southern extremes. After a lively Foreword and a learned Introduction, describing the ocean today and its history, the sea-routes and landfalls of the voyage - and also providing a short account of the arts of poetry and painting - the book is arranged in seven chapters representing each of 'the seven seas' in turn, beginning and ending at Greenwich. The imaginary voyage explores the North Atlantic first, followed by the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, then the Antarctic, before turning northwards again to tour the South Atlantic, passing through the Panama Canal to reach the South and North Pacific, and finally the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic and North Sea, before returning home. Each port of call is characterised in Sandra Lello's delightful illustrations and thoughtful verses from the pen of John Elinger, who are each experienced travellers and cruise-lecturers.
£11.99
Dedalus Press As If By Magic: Selected Poems
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Nine Arches Press Ticker-Tape
Book SynopsisFrom politics to pop, from the UK to California, wherever digital heartbeats flutter and stutter, Ticker-tape is a maximalist take on 21st century living. Rishi Dastidar’s first full collection showcases one of contemporary poetry’s most distinctive voices, delivering effervescence with equal servings of panache and whiplash-quick wit.Here is sheer madcap ingenuity and also impressive breadth; ranging from odes of love to deconstructed diversity campaigns and detonations of banter’s worst excesses, plus appearances from ex-SugaBabes, a shark who comes to tea, to the matters of matchstick empires and national identity. Ticker-tape is bold, adventuresome and wry – an unmissable and irrepressible debut.
£8.99
Vintage Publishing Odes
Book Synopsis‘Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.’Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the YearOpening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, each episode and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such poems as ‘Ode to My Sister’, ‘Ode of Broken Loyalty’, ‘Ode to My Whiteness’, ‘Blow Job Ode’, ‘Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This Window’, Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her – the ‘Sheffield Mountain Ode’ for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces here – Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.Trade ReviewOlds’s descriptive gift is like a fire hose of frankness…undeniably powerful. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times *Olds’s inspired new collection alerts us to taboos we barely think about ordinarily…These odes, because they illuminate what it is to live inside a body and survive its outrages, are useful – and beautiful too. -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian *[An] inspired new collection… She writes…with a driven perkiness… Throughout, there is a bold sexiness that goes beyond sex, that borders on camp, fey or funny… Marvellous odes… Beautiful. -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian Weekly *[It is] interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring. -- Charlotte Mendelson * Observer, Book of the Year *Her new collection, Odes, is an exquisite follow up [to Stag’s Leap.] * Daily Telegraph *
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HarperCollins Publishers Wild Words: How language engages with nature: A
Book SynopsisThe book showcases 75 beautiful words evocative of the wild, from all around the world, that describe natural happenings in nature. It includes words that describe weather, or a feeling you have when in nature as well as sensory words that explain the smell or sound of a place. The words used to express what is seen in the world are vital to an appreciation of it – language is a key component in the call of the wild. As words vanish from a language, it follows that what they describe may disappear. Words deepen understanding of what is seen, and what is seen comes more vividly to life through the words used to describe it. As the natural world and the time spent in it diminish in the face of modern life, it’s more vital than ever to recall it into being with the magic of language. Each of the 75 words will have a 100-word description, including its pronunciation, a geographical/historical/cultural background, as well as reflecting on the emotional/mindful response the natural phenomenon can inspire. Each word will be paired with an illustration Examples of words: Mångata. Sweden. Noun. The path of light that the moon makes on water. Sugar weather. Canada. Noun. A period of warm days and cold nights – the perfect weather to start the sap flowing in maple trees. Rudėnja. Lithuania. The way nature begins to feel as autumn takes hold and the vestiges of summer disappear. Komorebi. Japan. Noun. Beams of sunlight filtering down through the trees.
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Monochords
Book SynopsisReturning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, written at a rate of about 10 a day: the Monochords, each line an essential observation of a moment; a personal archive of time past, present and future.In London in 2020, during a period of Covid confinement, artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio began responding to Ritsos’ words through linocut images: an experiment in entering the space opened by each poem, rendering it in line and shape; a daily ritual that accompanied her along a strange year of exile from life.'Yannis Ritsos composed monochorda, single-line poems, as antidotes to the concocted complexities silencing truth. Chiara Ambrosio’s linocuts, beautifully intermingled with Ritsos' words, add their own ascetic harmony to his monochorda thus boosting their pertinence to our dissonant age.' – Yanis Varoufakis'This meditative book is an inspiring act of repair twice over, for ordeals of seclusion, threat, and tedium past and present.' – Marina Warner'A major poem by one of the greatest European poets of the past 100 years, in an exemplary translation & with a further superb expansion into a year's journey of linocuts make this book a vessel that holds urgently needed communal life-force.' - Stephen Watts
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems from the Peak District
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Broken Sleep Books Springing from the Pews
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Tippermuir Books Limited Beyond the Swelkie: A Collection of New Poems &
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Tangent Books Between The Cracks
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i2i Publishing Across the Line
Book SynopsisForged on the fields of a 1970s council estate and telling a story 55 years in the making, these beautifully crafted poems take you on an unflinching journey. Spanning five decades and crossing three continents, Anthony Brough’s debut collection of poems brings to life, with visceral and tender clarity, his journey from a scruffy working class kid, to inspirational teacher and sharp social observer Reflecting both Mancunian and Liverpudlian working class roots, Across the Line provides stolen glimpses of what it felt like to grow up on an everyday estate, with nature and the post-industrial landscape the setting for the trajectory of a life. With typical Northern lyricism and humour, these poems take you on a journey through the natural world, allow you to bask in the warm glow of developing friendship and occasionally leave you stunned with their brutal honesty. The poems found within Across the Line are a heartfelt exhortation to challenge all that corrals us and instead embrace the adventures that life provides.
£10.43
Smokestack Books Autumn Manuscripts
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Smokestack Books Anxious Corporals
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Smokestack Books Attempts on Death
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Tangerine Press Only Poets Piss in Sinks The Uncorrected Billy Childish
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CavanKerry Press Dialect of Distant Harbors
Book SynopsisThis poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship. With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family. Dipika Mukherjee’s poems redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world. “A grievous vastness to this world,” she writes, “beyond human experience.” As the world recovers from a global pandemic and the failure of modern government, these poems are incantations to our connections to the human family—whether in Asia, Europe, or the United States. Dialect of Distant Harbors focuses on what is most resilient in ourselves and our communities.Trade Review“Mukherjee's latest poetry collection is a penetrating, intercontinental and reflective sheaf of poems on aging, illness, faith, and family written in a keen diasporic music. Mukherjee is skilled in various poetic forms. Her vision is clear and her sensory awareness of the stuff of human experience is stunning. As she says, ‘sometimes the third eye is a camera, / sometimes a fist to the heart.’” * Maya Marshall, author of ‘All the Blood Involved in Love’ *“Mukherjee’s masterful lyricism and storytelling complicate the immigrant narrative: ‘hundred is the sum of me. . . I have a hundred ways to be.’ From her native Delhi to her adoptive Chicago, to New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur, and beyond, her poetic kaleidoscope refracts the self like ‘the light of many Buddhas carved into stone, holy and potent.’ Lush, fierce, and tender, these poems sing of family and childhood, love and loss, while grappling with cultural identity, migration, womanhood, and race. If, as Czeslaw Milosz says, language is the only homeland, then to read this book is to rediscover that beloved yet elusive soil, and ‘to live again in that house on stilts, taste / the sharpness of anchovies / dried on bamboo vines.’” * Angela Narciso Torres, author of ‘What Happens Is Neither,’ ‘Blood Orange,’ and ‘To the Bone’ *“Whether writing ghazals or haibuns or unpacking the brutality of recent historical events, Mukherjee’s collection is a hybridic journey of translations, storytelling, reportage, lyrical unfoldings, and acts of witness. Language and lineage take center stage as the palimpsest of memory, history, and utterance is explored. Though steeped in elegies for the dead, Mukherjee’s book is also praise-filled and empowering as she guides us through a detailed terrain of muslin petticoats, Weird Al, Calcutta heat, and ‘black diamonds under bare feet,’ as well as the rich odors of smeared chutney, woodsmoke, and ink. By the end, I feel Mukherjee’s ‘benediction / in the prickle of my scalp.’” * Simone Muench, author of ‘Orange Crush’ and ‘Wolf Centos’ *“Among contemporary poetry exploring the complicated subject of ‘where I’m from,’ Mukherjee’s work stands out in these frank, fast-moving, and musical poems. She takes us into worlds of food, fragrance, and ‘goddesses,’ as well as ‘women / who bury infant girls in the ground, into / milk vats to drink until they drown.’ Her poems reside in Chicago, Calcutta, Delhi, and Door County, Wisconsin, as intimate as they are political. A woman relaxes on a downtown sidewalk enjoying an impromptu concert by a street musician, and a mother arriving at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport is panicked when her nine-year-old son is led away for an inspection of his ‘foreign passport.’ A poem takes its epigraph from the widely publicized gang-rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in imagining a communal shawl, ‘stained,’ by physical evidence and memory, worn by all women who experience sexual violence. As a poet with a doctorate in Sociolinguistics, Mukherjee enjoys and honors languages, occasionally mixing in Bengali, her ‘chalice of magic.’ She has a well-tuned ear and feel for form, knowing when to write in tight, alliterative lines, when to swing across the page, and when to write in the prose of a haibun. Reading this book is a sensory pleasure, musically and visually.” * Debra Bruce, author of ‘Survivors’ Picnic,’ ‘What Wind Will Do,’ and ‘Sudden Hunger’ *"Mukherjee’s work is kaleidoscopic in its scope and emotion, a thoughtful examination of migration, belonging, and recovery in a profoundly racist world that leaves room for the full range of emotions associated with resilience. Alternating between wonder, love, and at times even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors is a remarkable achievement in making sense of our modern world through verse." * Chicago Review of Books *Table of ContentsWanderlust GhazalBangkok, 1956SleepDreamscapes: HaibunBuddham Sharanam GachchamiAwshukh; DiseaseMonsoon; DelhiK Block, Chittaranjan ParkGoing back to where I’m fromTurn awayThis ShawlRewoundAfter the Ice-stormA QuestionThese Words Once Danced in Red JootiesPrinters Row, ChicagoWhile his Guitar Gently Weeps, I turnAt Door County, WisconsinDynamiteDescent from the Winter GardenDreamers, 2017Foreign PassportSay The NamesDeath, A CrowSupermoon in AprilLearning not to ApologizeSaudadeBenign NegligenceMigration, Exile...These Are Men’s WordsThe Dialect of Distant HarborsA Diptych at the SeasideKeeping the FaithHindustani Musalmaan: An Indian MuslimSempiternal FireAmsterdam!Guan Yin in the HuangshanMountain EchoesIt may have been the third glass of wineDamp Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Pankti)Aphorisms from the Malay Archipelago
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Ugly Duckling Presse Bribery
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Dzanc Books Dont Do It We Love You My Heart
Book Synopsis“Fink’s a better guide than Dante had through our hells and heavens.” - Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and LitIn a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and personal experience.In Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart, Jonathan Fink interweaves a welcome range of poetic styles including expansive, narrative poems, shorter, lyrical poems, and intricate one-sentence poems that are sustained over multiple pages to deliver his most intimate collection to date. Charting changing national and personal landscapes, Fink’s writing explores such diverse subjects as growing up in West Texas at the conclusion of the Cold War; ekphrastic poems about the paintings of Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft; the intuitive language he shares with his infant daughter on a quiet evening before she falls asleep; and the famous story of a suicide prevented on the George Washington Bridge—the jumper stayed by the man who tells him, “Don’t do it-we love you, my heart.” The imperative, urgent compassion conveyed in the stranger’s command thrums through all the poems in this collection, compelling the reader outward to deeper connections and lived empathy.
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Black Ocean Echo's Errand
Book SynopsisLyrically inventive, ekphrastic poems that interrogate art, race, and humanity’s dark history.These poems stress the weight of what it means to speak from and in an already “known” world. In this debut collection from Keith Jones, the opening poems tarry with and think alongside the paintings of Cy Twombly. If Twombly is a painter of the Middle Sea, this song series conjures the longue durée of the Middle Passage. The poems then turn to resituate a “you” and “I” in a world, our world, disfigured by false and deathly approximations of the “human.” Perched on the jagged-edge of how many known and unknown catastrophes, how do we remake, rethink, reimagine, repair in language and act our relations to one another and to the earth? In the thinking and feeling of these poems, the great recursive swirling arcs of Twombly’s painterly line recur and intersect.Beyond the materiality of Twombly’s paint, beyond the materiality of the poem, we arrive at a profound place of thought, a kind of state, perhaps a republic of many worlds, alive to all our relations and how much they matter.Trade Review“The poetry of Keith Jones never loses velocity as a skimming gleam of consciousness just short of earth. Shortness of breath where the ladders of written words go up and down at the same time, not messages, or facts you can contradict, the errands they are on are like boomerangs of wind and echoes of elven hammers and javelins. We live in echo time.”—Fanny Howe“In Keith Jones’ world, we can only know by feeling. Both generous and violent—as being beat, beaten, and slapped by the surrealist’s hand—the poems capture the weary, needy state of human body: what it is to have a body, to need love, to feel pain. Jones’ voice comes across, always, like an oracle’s beating heart, like a prayer whispered at the altar of the word.”—Anaïs Duplan
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Wakefield Press Great Liberty
Book SynopsisA previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly Surrealist writings in his oeuvre. Surrealism provided Gracq with a means of counteracting his disturbing wartime experiences; his newfound freedom inspired a new freedom of personal expression, and he gave the collection an appropriate title, Great Liberty: “In the occult dictionary of Surrealism, the true name of poetry is liberation.” Gracq the poet rather than the novelist is at work here: Surrealist fireworks lace through bewitching modernist romance, fantasy, black humor and deadpan absurdism. A later, postwar section entitled “The Habitable Earth” presents Gracq as visionary traveler exploring Andes and Flanders and returning to the narrative impulse of his better-known fiction. Julien Gracq (1910–2007), born Louis Poirier, is known for such dreamlike novels as The Castle of Argol, A Dark Stranger, The Opposing Shore and Balcony in the Forest. He was close to the Surrealist movement, and André Breton in particular, to whom he devoted a critical study.
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Button Poetry Birthright: Poems
Book SynopsisA heartbreaking archive of place and placeness.
£14.39
OR Books Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism
Book SynopsisA collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality.Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put together an extraordinary list of poets taking a feminist stance against the new authority. What began as an informal collaboration of like-minded poets—to be released as a handbound chapbook—has grown into something far more substantial and ambitious: a fully fledged anthology of women’s resistance, with a portion of proceeds supporting Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.Representing the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, this collection unites powerful new writers, performers, and activists with established poets. Contributors include Denice Frohman, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maureen N. McLane, Joyce Peseroff, Mary Ruefle, Trish Salah, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, and Rachel Zucker.Trade ReviewPraise for Women of Resistance Cited by Autostraddle as one of the "Queer and Feminist Books to Read in 2018" "Here we have 49 women and men and queers and inter-sexuals throwing their everything at this moment in time when the patriarch is really shaking, and it looks like he’s about to tumble down. We’ve got this shiny new book. People are scared that nothing will be left after he falls except a bunch of poems. Pick up this glowing book as you’re crawling through the rubble, and poem by poem and page by page you’ll begin to know that you’ll be okay. You’re in there, and so are your friends. You won’t starve, you’re safe and strong thanks to all these proud, funny, violent, trembling words. Start memorizing. Cause the future is here and this stuff is true." — Eileen MylesTable of ContentsPart I: Kiss Me, Kate - Sandra Beasley Female - Kimberly Johnson The Children's Chorus - Jacqueline Jones LaMon Civil Rights - Jacqueline Jones LaMon The Ride Home - Jacqueline Jones LaMon Over Mate - Ruth Irupe Sanabria Image - James Allen Hall Wedding Dress - James Allen Hall Good & Evil Shoes - Jan Beatty Getting a UTI - Laura Theobald Untitled - Laura Theobald Rib - Hope Wabuke Skin II: Firebird - Hope Wabuke Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits - Rachel Zucker And Still I Speak of It - Rachel Zucker Part II: January, after El Niño - Ryka Aoki 13 - Aracelis Girmay To the Husband - Aracelis Girmay Elegy with a White Shirt - Cynthia Dewi Oka Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion - Joyce Peseroff A Woman and Her Job - Elizabeth Clark Wessel That's Where You Disappear - Monika Zobel Of the Swan - Jericho Brown The Legend of Big and Fine - Jericho Brown Ladies Weekend in Brooklyn - Danielle Chapman To the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job - Elizabeth Acevedo dowry - Safia Elhillo zihour - Safia Elhillo after - Safia Elhillo Part III: If 2017 was a Poem Title - Mahogany L. Browne Heritage - Kaveh Akbar Poem for Suheir Hammad - Trish Salah Ode to the Pantsuit - Lauren Alleyne Madame X-- - Lauren Alleyne Matriot Acts - Anne Waldman Am Ha'aretz - Rosebud Ben Oni Stanzas for the Resistance - Todd Hearon The March - Achy Obejas Meanwhile - Maureen McLane Heidenröslein - Maureen McLane Hagar in the Wilderness - Tyehimba Jess To the breasts when it's over-- - Ellen Hagen To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh was a wilderness blooming-- - Ellen Hagen Kiss of the Sun - Mary Ruefle Lucky Ladies Sestina - Jill McDonough Accident, Mass. Ave - Jill McDonough
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