Poetry / Poems
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers From a heart with soul
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Carcanet Press Ltd 100 Days
Book SynopsisWhen in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of the changing seasons as well as the pandemic. As organising and generating principle for the essays he chose the alphabet, and the result is a stimulating kaleidoscope of topics from Aachen to Zoos, passing by Alexandria, Luciano Berio, Ivy Compton-Burnett, reflections on his own early works The Echo-Chamber and Flow, Langland's Piers Plowman, the idea of repetition in life and art, and much else. Josipovici reminds us that he has previously 'plundered episodes in my life to illustrate the intertwining of memory and forgetting, the desire to remember and the need to forget', and here he has someone say to him: 'You don't seem to be afraid of revealing a great deal about yourself.' 'I don’t think I feel it that way,' he responds. 'I can "reveal" precisely because it does not seem to be part of me. It seems to belong to someone else, a writer I have lived with, an immigrant I have known.' Loquacious, funny and incautious, this surprising book is in effect a kind of expressionist self-portrait as well as a meditation on a hundred days of the pandemic.Trade Review'Gabriel Josipovici is one of our most brilliant writers - every new book is an event to look forward to.' - Deborah Levy, Man Booker Prize Nominee
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Iron Bridge
Book SynopsisFrom Sussex to Mexico, the poems in Rebecca Hurst's debut collection travel far and wide, documenting tensions between embodied and inherited landscapes.
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Olympia Publishers I Wrote A Lesson in Poetry
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Olympia Publishers Wonderboy
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Olympia Publishers Love is Fcking Hard
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Olympia Publishers 101 Animal Universes
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Olympia Publishers Little Lost Girl
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Olympia Publishers Like a mad woman shitting
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Seagull Books London Ltd Collected Poems
Book SynopsisBernhard’s Collected Poem is a key to understanding Bernhard’s irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writings—even down to his last will and testament. Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought and increasingly personal verse, with such titles as On Earth and in Hell, In Hora Mortis, and Under the Iron of the Moon. Bernhard’s early poetry, bearing the influence of Georg Trakl, begins with a deep connection to his Austrian homeland. As his poems saw publication and recognition, Bernhard seemed always on the verge of joining the ranks of Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, and other young post-war poets writing in German. During this time, however, his poems became increasingly more obsessive, filled with undulant self-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory, bardic voice utterly estranged from his country, all of which resulted in a magisterial work of anti-poetry—one that represents Bernhard’s own harrowing experience with his leitmotif of success and failure, which makes his fiction such a pleasure. There is much to be found in these pages for Bernhard fans of every stripe.Trade Review"Fans of Bernhard already know him for having an incredibly idiosyncratic, hypnotic, philosophical style in his many novels, plays, and massive autobiography. This unprecedented (in the English language) collection of his poetic output now offers an entirely new vantage on what made Bernhard such a classic writer. A major book, and a long awaited one, this should not be missed." * LitHub *Table of ContentsEarly Poems (1952–1956)On Earth and in HellIn Hora MortisUnder the Iron of the MoonThe Insane The InmatesAve VirgilLater Poems (1959–1963)AfterwordAppendix: Frost (Manuscript C)
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Seagull Books London Ltd études
Book SynopsisA diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria’s best-known contemporary voices. Exploring longing, lust for life, aging, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, études is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayröcker’s almost daily entries give us a unique view into the interplay between desire and her motivation for writing. In Mayröcker’s case, she writes both to keep a vanished world present and to exploit the possibilities of being present for constant experimentation. The poems in this volume are not only studies of how the mind works, moving from fragment to fragment, but also experiments with techniques of repetition, typography, collage, and quotation. Mayröcker transforms the humble page into spaces of radical openness. After all, she says, a poem is that which “opens everything up.” Each poem is date-stamped, and each date acts as a kind of permission for Mayröcker to pour in everything from notes on doctor’s visits to gorgeously structured elegies to obsessively repeating fragments of memory that act upon the whole like bits of recurring melody. Rarely before has the intimate process of writing been so exquisitely laid bare than in études. Traversing the boundaries of literary forms with Mayröcker’s distinctive style, this important volume strikes an admirable balance between playfulness and serious inquiry.Trade Review"Mayröcker’s dense, allusive poetry, with all its alternatively beatific and disconsolate language, can be seen as a culmination of the European cultural tradition... richly passionate, elegiac, and mystically personal." * Rain Taxi *
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Seagull Books London Ltd Shining Sheep – Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig’s latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, Shining Sheep is not just visual poetry—it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.Table of ContentsZippelonikaO awakeZ how to wake her loser mamaI the problem isP grownP on good days Zippelonika is a bouncy castle / with crenelations, a slide and flat blue insides E because L ZippelonikaO PixiN ChoraleI why is everything starting to swayK Drinking SongA QuestionSeven Marian Songs with HyenaVII KapuzinerbergVI of HélèneV song for two voicesIV over your little faceIII maulsII look here!I EchoThe Silent Songs of the WallsIIIIIIFire Earth Water LeapI FireII EarthIII WaterIV LeapRhapsody of LosingShining BodiesMurmurations. Little Choral Piece with BracesGuidance on Laughing at a DistanceClimate change is here, now. But we are also here, now. And if we don’t act, who will?From the WaterOf LosingThe Tongue is a Needle. And I am True North. Telling lies.Open ArmsInternal Report of a Russian spy-software on the up to the minute state of its unsuspecting informant, Codename: Cents (leaked) sa?nd 'b?dizwe were herebittersweet ode-zine 1 (N)bittersweet ode-zine 2 (J)Friedrich Hölderlin, reworkedDaniel dreamsLamentations in VI RoundsRound IRound IIRound IIIRound IVRound VRound VIThe Songs of the Radio TowerAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct V? Closing CreditsShining ThanksTranslator’s Acknowledgements
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Seagull Books What Now Is Now Is Now
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Troubador Publishing An Inevitable Journey
Book SynopsisThe sadness of losing a pet affects people from all walks of life, ages and situations. Pet ownership enriches people’s lives, and so the loss of a pet – a member of the family – can be devastating. While there is an abundance of advice discussing pet care, training, the idiosyncrasies of particular animal breeds and celebrations of the lives of pets, the loss of a pet is often seen as ‘inevitable’ and left unaddressed. This can be a shattering experience and not always recognised by those with less understanding of the bond between humans and their animal companions. An Inevitable Journey seeks to reassure owners that it is perfectly natural to grieve the loss of a much-loved pet through a collection of prose, quotations and poetry through each stage of the process, for example: Grief, Missing, Strength, Guilt, Depression, Longing, Acceptance, Memories, and finally, Moving On. Each page is flagged for easy reference, depicting each particular stage of this journey. The greater the love we have for our pets, the greater our grief upon losing them. The aim of this anthology is to guide bereaved owners from despair through to hope.
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Olympia Publishers Elephant
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Olympia Publishers Passion for Poetry
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Olympia Publishers The Ouch in Touch
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Olympia Publishers Texts I Deleted B4 Sending
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Olympia Publishers More than a Marathon, Touching the Edges -- A
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Olympia Publishers A Variety of Poems
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Olympia Publishers Words With Trees
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Olympia Publishers Poems, Sonnets and Short Stories
Book SynopsisFrom sonnets on the very nature of love life and death; a selection of poems on parenthood, nature, and God; a horror story that will chill your very bones; to a madcap tale of Fruit Ninjas taking on some familiar (but well-disguised) faces. This collection of poetry and prose has it all; something for absolutely everyone.Thomas Rowan''s style flips effortlessly from soul-searching philosophy to the creation of terrifying monsters in gothic mansions and zany gaming-style adventures and all of it very readable.
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Olympia Publishers Inside the Dark
Book SynopsisInside the Dark is Holden Reyes first published collection of poetry. In this candid and melancholy oeuvre, Reyes confesses his struggles with finding his own identity in a confusing and lonely society, steeped in restricting norms. Creatively experimenting with formatting and layout, Reyes sparse and scattered verse reflects the emptiness of anxiety and depression that threatens to consume many of its sufferers.Inside the Dark shares the message that no matter how far in the depths of regret one may feel, you are not alone in this journey, and Reyes invites you to take the first step to reconciling and healing from the darkness.
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Olympia Publishers Songs of Awakening Life
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Olympia Publishers Internal Angles
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Olympia Publishers Love Lust and Romanticism
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Olympia Publishers This... Is About Life... Lay Your Burdens Down
Book SynopsisLife, love, death, and human rights are just a few of the universally important topics covered in Randi Owens'' poetry collection, This... Is About Life... Lay Your Burdens Down. There is no limit to the breadth of ideas explored by Owens as she delves into issues as complex as Roe vs Wade, handling the content with a prevalent sense of balance, which serves to be a breath of fresh air, balancing the political with the personal.After a lifetime of varied experiences, such as growing up in the foster care system, and serving in the United States Air Force, Owens brings a wisdom to her musings that will affect anyone who reads.
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Olympia Publishers From Mine to Yours
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Olympia Publishers The World of the Lost
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Olympia Publishers Pieces Left for the Morning
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Olympia Publishers The Skylark The Flight of the Alauda Arvensis
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Olympia Publishers Howl of the Ocean
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Olympia Publishers Radical Rhyme
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Olympia Publishers Gather Together
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Olympia Publishers Idols of the Imagination
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Olympia Publishers Musings of an ExSomething
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Olympia Publishers A Kings Collection of Life Poems
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Rhymes like These
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Arsenal Pulp PR Crohnic
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Olympia Publishers Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse
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Olympia Publishers When the Soul Speaks the Heart Breaks
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Olympia Publishers Roaming Reflections Mind Flow
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Olympia Publishers Stages of Grief Brought on by a Narcissist
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Olympia Publishers From My Younger Self
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Olympia Publishers Poetry for Fun
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Olympia Publishers The M Collection
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Olympia Publishers Something To Be Said
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Olympia Publishers Proverbs and Poems
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