Poetry / Poems
Smokestack Books Machine Poems
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3TimesRebel Press Ribwort
Book SynopsisRibwort is a space to sit down with your pain and listen. You may think it's not helpful, like a leaf of ribwort on a bleeding wound. The pain will probably be growing more and more acute, but if you face it, if you hold space for it. Eventually it will shrink to the size of a scratch which a leaf of ribwort can help to heal. When we have healed, we become leaves of ribwort for others, so we can sit down with their pain and listen. Listen with compassion and without fear, without getting defensive or running away. This is what keeps us going. In the summer of 2021, Hanna Komar brought the script for this book to a publisher in Belarus. He told her his business was going to be shut down for her protest poems. He couldn't publish them. Since then, almost all independent publishers of Belarusian books in the Belarusian language have had their business suspended or liquidated. Books have been labelled 'extremist' and people have been imprisoned for selling or owning them, while writers ha
£11.69
Valericain Press The Collected Poems of Richard Francis Towndrow
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Valericain Press The Collected Poems of Richard Francis Towndrow
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£14.39
Monitor Books Snagged on red thread
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£11.00
Tube Theatre The Tree Trimmed into a Flagpole and other poems
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£14.20
Spring View Publications Musings
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£999.99
Out-Spoken Press apricot
Book SynopsisApricot is a devastating debut from one of the UK’s brightest and most fascinating poets, written with the urgency of someone who knows they might not make it through the weekend. Katie O’Pray’s is a highly articulate poetics, kicking against the language of convention that would seek to limit us. The improvisational vocabulary at play here engenders both a developed identity and a young identity continuously being made, as each section of the book subverts the questions of mental health practitioners with wisdom and panache. These poems do not just concern the violence of gender, of sexuality, of disability, of addiction, they reinvigorate how these violences can be understood. This is a collection of singular quality.
£10.79
Sharmay Mitchell be the Uplifter: Positive Poems
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Ginninderra Press Bloom
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Ginninderra Press Soldier Boy and the Rural Fundamentalists
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£11.88
Mosaic Press God Damned Avalon: Flash Fiction
Book SynopsisA debut collection of flash fiction from one of the most prominent young Canadian writers of this genre.Trade Review"Paul Edward Costa writes towards the future, his creativity acting as a barometer to coming trends. God Damned Avalon serves as a testament to his command of Flash Fiction and his comfort in the radically changing medium of written words." Brandon Pitts, Author of Tender in the Age of Fury and In the Company of Crows"...an exciting collection of Flash Fiction. Through unusual plots, weird characters, and unexpected shifts, he creates a surreal atmosphere rearranging our concept of time and space." Professor Laurence Hutchman, author and poet"Using paradox, imagery, and symbolism, Paul Edward Costa invites us into what may seem otherworldly at first, but the universe that he so cleverly conjures up in God Damned Avalon couldn't be any closer to the human condition and our unrelenting fate as earthlings. The duality of beauty and pain, of life and death, or hope and despair, is hidden masterfully in the stories of this collection." Efetobore Mike-Ifeta, Poet and organizer of The talent Next Door and the MAKE Open Mic
£13.56
Guernica Editions,Canada math for couples
Book SynopsisIn math for couples, we re-visit the past to discover our place in the contemporary world. A long-dead father watches his daughter work on her Mac, a woman converses with a photo of her young self. Adele Graf leads us on a journey that is rich and hopeful, evoking powerful nostalgia even if we've never been to the places described. When these poems release us back to our current lives, we feel restored to savour the warmth in a "glad red hat" and the love that arrives "still summer lush."
£13.46
Guernica Editions,Canada Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There
Book SynopsisLove Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is divided into 7 sections. The first 5 sections focalize particular geographical regions: Southern Ontario in "The Southern Ontario Gothic Tour," North York in "The Northern Edge of Everything," New York in "Cynic's Guidebook," New Brunswick in "Vanishing Beach," and Antarctica in "Signs in the Southern Hemisphere." Though each section tells a story of people moving through these places, the poems ultimately subvert the expected conventions of travel narrative, directing critical attention to the personae and roles of travellers and to the systems of power at work in each locale. This is a book deeply concerned with psychogeography, the ways that individuals and environments mutually shape one another. Psychgeography comes to the fore particularly in the final two sections of the book, "Animals in Strange Houses" and "Genius Loci." In "Animals in Strange Houses," animals, both human and not, must literally and figuratively reconstruct homes after being displaced by urbanization and ecological destruction. In the final section, "Genius Loci," poems function as both portraits and place studies and reveal the deep intimacy between examinations of persons and places.
£13.56
Talon Books,Canada its th sailors life / still in treetment:
Book SynopsisA pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry, bill bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently since the 1960s worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry. bissett's latest collection since the monumental breth (Talonbooks, 2019), its th sailors life / still in treatment is, using the poet's own words, an epik poetik novel uv langwage n speech confronting thos controlling effekts on us and about acceptans uv loss greef separaysyuns charaktrs in serch uv self liberaysyun n societal equalitee n all th forces against that path. Eschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things (proper nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters; the metric limitations imposed on the possibilities of expression by punctuation; and the illusion of formal transparency imposed on the written word by standard (rather than phonetic) spelling, bissett's expressive assemblages in this collection are like walking thru sum fne lines. The poems in this collection are coupled with stunning illustrations by the author.
£17.09
Talon Books,Canada Witness Back at Me: mis-mothering &
Book SynopsisIn Witness Back at Me, Weyman Chan continues to explore themes of dislocation and belonging by drawing on biography, myth, science, and the everyday. Chan?s poetry is suffused with a collage-like immersion of stream-of-conscious voices, approximating the kaleidoscopic effect of interior thought. Witness Back at Me draws on the childhood loss of Chan?s mother to breast cancer, as a survival mechanism towards an aesthetics of accepted disembodiment, always haunted by a search for nurturing and surrender to some greater being. The poems in this book intertwine polyvocally, building into a liminal biographical metanarrative: the whole point of existence, the author believes, is to luxuriate in the greater being of not-knowing. To accept the historical underpinnings, the brokenness of the world, inside and outside the self, but be in constant communication of both worlds, towards understanding and healing, is the one true meaningful quest.
£11.89
Talon Books,Canada A Brief Celebration
Book SynopsisShort-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2024In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what home is. A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the love and grief that blooms there. In this debut collection, Samantha Nock weaves together threads of fat liberation, desirability politics, and heartbreak while working through her existence as a young Indigenous woman coming of age in the city. The result is a love song to northern cuzzins, dive bars, and growing up.
£12.34
Talon Books,Canada Revolutions
Book SynopsisRevolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum's artwork + and , Revolutions asks how young Arab women who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.
£999.99
Talon Books,Canada Crowd Source
Book SynopsisCrowd Source parallels the daily migration of the crows who, aside from fledgling season, fly across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. This durational study echoes their flight, occasionally touching down to reflect on human-crow interactions. Attentive to the great intelligence and perspectives of corvid and non-human communications, the poems in Crowd Source engage historical and strategic examples of how these songbirds gather and disperse. Continuing Nicholson's engagement with the contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned about practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities, caw.
£14.24
Rock's Mills Press The Ventriloquist: Poetic Narratives from the
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£27.00
University of Calgary Press Dendrite Balconies
Book SynopsisText surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other writers, conversations, and popular media-reassembling textual fragments into poetic sculptures. Blending together conceptual writing and lyric poetry, Braune locates beauty in the chaotic landscape of the urban environment and the digital era. Full of smart, funny, insightful moments, this is a poetic montage that collapses experimental traditions into the noise and clang of urban space, and out of the silent cries of canons and libraries.When the author dies, the reader is born. In Dendrite Balconies, the reader becomes a new author as Braune assembles frenetic, dissociative fragments of language into an aesthetic and sonic whole.
£16.10
Auckland University Press Transposium
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£20.21
Anonymity the Poet Black Print
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£10.06
Nosheen Rao Faasley
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£12.00
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Baldwin's Catholic Geese
Book SynopsisKeith Hutson’s debut collection, Baldwin’s Catholic Geese, looks at the delight and heartbreak of being human through the lens of beloved music hall and variety stars like Hylda Baker and Frankie Howerd, as well as less celebrated, now long-forgotten acts of the past: The Bryn Pugh Sponge Dancers, Macauley’s Leaping Infants, Willy Netta’s Singing Jockeys, and many more. Hutson’s vividly realised portraits bring back to life a whole cast of the extraordinary characters who have entertained us for over two centuries. Comedy is brought into sharp relief by hardship. His Baldwin’s Catholic Geese is a social history chronicle in poems, focusing on what it means for all of us who have to make the most of our luck – the good, the bad, and the bizarre.Trade ReviewThese poems illuminate something timeless about ambition and the human spirit. Keith Hutson is a wonderful talent – his hardworking, technically-assured poems arrive all of a piece centre-stage. -- Carol Ann DuffyKnowing, funny, sad, virtuoso, these compelling sonnets bring theatrefuls of yesteryear vividly to life. Keith Hutson explores art as artfulness, performance as a way of coping, or seeming to. His ad-libs are perfectly timed and if we laugh out loud at his routines, we flinch too at the “imaginary hot fat” of the risks his characters take by being centre-stage. -- Peter Sansom * on Routines *Table of Contents11 The Opener 12 Juvenile 13 Coming On Strong 14 Revival 15 The Fish Fryer 16 No Contest 17 Lady Be Good 18 Hylda 20 Heart 21 Glasgow Empire 22 Bad Impresario 23 Accept No Imitations 24 Family Business 25 My Old Man 26 The Call of the Wild 28 Raising Steam 29 And They’re Off! 30 Night Class 31 The World’s Greatest Whistler 32 Morton Fraser’s Harmaniacs 33 The Man with the Xylophone Skull 34 The Ray Conniff Singers 36 Tiddly Om Pom Pom 37 Slave Song 38 Straight Man 39 Frontiersman 40 The Reluctant Sitter 42 Anthony Howell and His Disenchanted Sow 43 Largesse 44 The Art of Hunger 45 Praise Poem 46 Zazel, The Shooting Star! 47 Without a Net 48 Dr Zhivago 49 Power Sharing 50 The Dancing Quakers 51 Inextricable 52 The Audience 54 Exotica 55 Widow Twankey 56 Burlington Bertie 57 Out from Under 58 Mary Poppins 59 Self Help 60 Saddled 61 Better Out Than In 62 Beyond Belief 63 Crowd Control 64 Engagement 65 Controlled Explosion 66 Le Pétomane 67 Castrato 68 Tragedian 69 Nightmare Scenario 70 Lo! Hear the Gentle Lark 71 Foreign Exchange 72 Counter Culture 73 Brass Band 74 Pleasure Craft 75 Response 76 Bad Rap 77 Roughage 78 Three Sightings of Batman 80 The Hard Stuff 81 Little Wonder 82 Go Gentle 83 Street Cred 84 The Man Who Killed Houdini 85 Here’s Looking at You 86 Lament 87 Buccaneer 88 Double Act 89 Scandal 90 Vintage 91 Clever Bugger 92 Civic Theatre 93 Hostess Trolley 94 Dumbing Up 95 Town Crier 96 Light Brigade 97 Speech Coach 98 A Funny Thing Happened… 99 Dun Roamin’ 100 Confidence Trick 101 Caretaker 102 Immense 103 Above All 104 Vera 105 Eleven, Plus 106 Stepping Out 107 The Belly Dancers of Burnage 108 Crossing the Floor 109 The Highland Live-Wire 110 Hostilities 112 I’m Here All Week! 113 All the Rage 114 Chanteur 116 Memory Man 117 Soul Mates 118 That’s Your Lot 119 Notes 127 Bibliography
£10.80
Poetry Wales Press 163 Days
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£9.49
Granta Books Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
Book SynopsisFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. The collection turns around the long middle poem, using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history, honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area. He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt. Fierce, compelling, and full of astrological reckoning, this book is a 'savage enunciation': 'this is the Congo vertiginous with derangement with its foul & delimited hygiene with its "weaver bird nests" with its sprawling grasslands with its "ghostly voltage" as flares from old oil rigs thus our intelligence forcibly blunted our thought stream injured as culpable integument within this compound negation terror persists snaking its way through interior suppression'Trade ReviewWill Alexander's Refractive Africa is a diasporic invocation of world-historical and cosmological dimensions. Lumumba. Tutuola. Rabearivelo. Each long poem swelters, pulling a dense constellation of national heroes, ruptured worlds, hauntings, and sensory frequencies into its orbit. Through a glissade of luminous dexterity and precision, Alexander maps out a lexical cartography of Africas, real and imagined, lost and recovered. -- Momtaza MehriSince the 1980s, the Los Angeles-based Alexander has mixed politics with mesmeric, oracular lines. Here, three long poems evoke colonial Africa * New York Times *Will Alexander's Refractive Africa crackles with the assurance of a worldview that eschews the studs of "foreign domination'. Referencing African icons, ideologies and injuries, Alexander draws us into a feast of definition and redefinition, with a revelry in language, "alive with ferocious embellishment" -- Nii Ayikwei ParkesThere is likely no poetry more propulsive, visually kinetic, and intricately layered than that composed by Will Alexander... an imaginative realm that is entirely unlike any other, one in which we are immersed in sheer, coruscating energy -- Albert Mobilio * Hyperallergic *This visionary act of "transpersonal witness" to a continent is an Afromodernist epic in the tradition of Kamau Brathwaite's The Arrivants... An incantation against "Eurocentric stultification", Refractive Africa embraces an aesthetic of sprawl and overreach, summoning free-flowing visions of grandeur and desolation * Guardian *...powerful and visionary...The collection sings from the page; it celebrates, it prophecises, and it revels in the great spirits of Africa's national heroes and literary giants. Alexander's writing is awash with innovation, ably straddling a world which is all too familiar, and a sparkling one of imagination... Refractive Africa is a bold and dazzling culmination of his contemporary thinking, and is an astonishing leap into the UK market * The Skinny *A powerful meditation on the colonial ravagings of the continent and the modern quest for resources that continues to tax its wilderness... An electrifying display of narrative power through chiselled poetic lines. * Happy Mag *Alexander's diegesis is one of chimerical fission and transformation... Everything is volatile and alchemical here ... Displaying great lexical elasticity and riverine agility, he choreographs a masterful 'ballet of the forgotten' ('The Congo'), revealing a lexical cartography of incorruptible reclamation * Poetry Review *
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Anthem Press Sexual Violence and Literary Art
Book SynopsisWritten by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work in the areas being examined, Sexual Violence and Literary Art is a wide-ranging study, covering carefully selected works from Ovid through Shakespeare to Pope, Richardson, Shelley, Hardy, Nabokov and beyond. It addresses the necessary complicity of any representation in what is represented, by examining ways in which canonical male writers have attempted to evoke and address representations of sexual violence in poetry, prose fiction, and poetic drama in light of women's philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to these works of literary art.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing
Book SynopsisPoetry can prove a great way into difficult conversations in therapeutic, classroom or family settings. This book is a clear and practical guide to the use of poetry as a therapeutic tool to help explore issues surrounding mental health and emotional wellbeing.The first part of the book provides guidance on different methods of using poetry to open up discussion. The second part consists of a collection of over 100 poems written by the author, on topics such as bullying, anxiety, bereavement, depression and eating disorders, with a range of therapeutic activities that can be used alongside each poem. The third part focuses on ways to support and encourage clients to write their own poetry and includes 50 poem writing prompts and examples.A complete resource for anyone considering using poetry to explore difficult issues, and a creative way of exploring important mental health issues in PSHE lessons, this book will be of interest to youth, school and adult counsellors, therapists, psychologists, pastoral care teams, PSHE co-ordinators and life coaches, as well as parents.Trade ReviewPoetry's many attributes include the capacity to absorb secrets and express pain too deep to talk about. Its ability to be a creative and healing tool for poets of all life stages and ages is as limitless as your imagination. Pooky's timely, easy-to-read and user-friendly book explores how the writing and reading of poetry can be a valuable resource for communicating with the self and others. -- June Alexander, mental health advocate and author of Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating DisordersAt last! A book that values and uses poetry as a therapeutic tool, as a way of helping us make sense of ourselves. Unlike so many stereotypes about poetry, this book is practical, unpretentious and heartfelt, with applications for helping people - young and old - way beyond mental health settings. Pooky Knightsmith has opened a very creative box for us to use. -- Nick Luxmoore, school counsellor and author of Horny and Hormonal, Feeling Like Crap and Working with Anger and Young PeopleIf you are "poetry-impaired" like me, Dr. Knightsmith's book is a revelation. Poetry is a language many of my depressed and suicidal adolescent clients speak fluently, but one I have never had much confidence using in my therapy. This beautiful, honest, and instructive book has given me another tool to use in my work. -- Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago School of Social Work and coauthor of Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and PostventionWhoever you are, whatever you do, here is a profoundly personal and moving insight into the world of emotional and mental ill-health. But this book is much more than that. Whilst many will identify with the dark depths of emotion within her poems, Dr Knightsmith's greatest achievement is in offering teachers, carers and friends not only a valuable resource to enable empathy, but also a starting point to aid and encourage recovery. -- Dick Moore, Retired Head Teacher and Trainer for the Charlie Waller Memorial TrustThis is a remarkable and original book. Pooky's poems, born out of her own experience and that of those she has worked with, offer us real insight into the complexities of living with and recovering from mental ill-health. The careful structure of the book encourages exploration of relevant themes and is a welcome addition to supporting recovery, when used within a therapeutic setting. -- Jessica Streeting MA, School Nurse and Advisor to Public Health England (www.schoolhealthstreet.co.uk)In this informative and powerful text, Pooky shows us how we can find our voice within the poetic words of others and in the creation of our own poetry. Poetry offers a medium of self-expression that captures so much more than words and rationale. As such, poetry offers an ideal place to find empathy, meaning and solace. To believe that "someone else understands, and someone else is listening." -- Dr Helen Street, applied social psychologist and educator, The Positive Schools InitiativeThis is a remarkable resource not only for therapists but also for teachers of English, creative writing and drama. The prompts for discussion are very varied and raise issues of technique and the impact of a writer's choices as well as subject matter. The sections defining poetic forms and providing ways in to writing are brilliant for the classroom, and then there is the astonishing anthology ... -- Jane Bunclark, Head of Academic Drama, West Buckland School, DevonThis is an incredibly impressive and valuable book. Given its powerful and personal insight, it will in my view be perfect for use with professional therapists working one-to-one with clients. While the book is rightly intended for use in a one-to-one setting and not in the classroom, I have learnt much from reading it which will influence my work with the PSHE Association. -- Jenny Barksfield, Deputy CEO and Senior Subject Specialist, PSHE AssociationUsing Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing is a humble guide for both professionals of mental health and the public in general. By providing a heart-warming insight of a very personal experience, Pooky Knightsmith allows the reader to identify himself with the ordinary struggles of human existence in an effortless manner. An undeniable prolific written testimony of ascendancy and bravery, this book is a major trigger to personal change. The reader - and artist-to-be of its own piece of life story - is invited to set himself free of inner criticism and follow its instincts. The book offers an unexpected myriad of creative tools able to facilitate the expression of feelings. A specially worthwhile reading for any mental health professional eager to introduce creative possibilities in the therapeutic context. These tools might well work as the preface of a joint story written between therapist and client. -- Sofia Correia Alegria * SENcology blog *Table of ContentsForeword. Part 1. Using poetry as a way in: Ideas, strategies and techniques. I. Using poetry as a therapeutic tool. II. Poetry as a vehicle to discuss our feelings less directly. III. Poetry as a means for reflection. IV. Poetry as a means of exploring what we could do next. V. Poetry as a way to show someone how we're feeling. VI. Poetry as a reassurance that we are not alone in how we feel. VII. Writing poetry as part of recovery. Part 2. An anthology of discussion starting poems. I. Abuse and Bullying. Same Lyrics, Different Song. Cyberbullied. Iron Gaze. The End, Maybe. Abused. Frozen Out. Walking Away. Betrayed. II. Anxiety and Panic. Anxiety. Feelings of Anxiety. Panic Rising. Stage Fright. Panic Attack. Scared. Sleepless Nights. Ruled by Anxiety. III. Loss and Bereavemment. A New Hand to Hold. Before and After. Healing Hand. Leftover Love. Life Unbidden. But You Died. Nana's Wishes. Last Week's Flowers. Is It Better to have Loved and Lost. Scars. IV. Depression. the Tree Who Couldn't. The Shadow. Dark. Head Fight. Numb. Creeping Ivy. Rose Tinted. Matter over Mind. And So She Drank. Highs and Lows. Peaks and Ditches. Good Days, Bad Days. Don't Step into the Darkness. Outwardly Smiling. Other Worlds. The Same but Different. Always Falling. V. Eating Disorders and Body Image. Please Eat. A Father's View. Conversation with an Anorexic. Boy Anorexic. Recovery. FAT. Anorexia. Grandmaster or Life?. Hollows. The Girl and the Mirror. Scales. If You Could See What I See. Shopping for Magic. VI. Obsessions, Compulsions and Intrusive Thoughts. Intrusive Thoughts. The Voice of Hate. Recoevring Fate. Imaginary Friends. Invasive Thoughts. VII. Self-Harm. Fading Scars. Again. Conversation with a Self-Harmer. Finding Ways to Belong. Fresh Blood. VIII. Suicide. By His Own Hand. That Day. Beautiful Nature. Late. Do Not Fall. IX. Recovery. The Crest of a Wave. Kintsugi (Beauty in Broken). Marble in Jar. Thinking Forwards. X. Supporting and Listening. Helping Hand. Calmer Waters. A Disappointing Visit. Self-Esteem. Listening Ear. You Didn't Ask. How Are You?. Cuddles: The Best Medicine. It's Not Easy Being Friends Sometimes. Depression. Help Me to be a Better Friend. Trying to Help. Kind Words are Not Always Heard. Hidden Scars. Healing Hold. Part 3. Encouraging and Enablling Therapeutic Poetry Writing. I've never written a poem before. I'd rather write prose. I don't know anything about poetry.What I write will be rubbish. I don't know what to write. I don't have time. I'm too embarrassed to show anyone. Enjoy the process!. I. Poetic Forms. Form 1: Haiku. Form 2: Sonnet. Form 3: Acrostic. Form 4: Golden Shovel. Form 5: Terza Rima. Form 6: Rubáiyát. Form 7: Anaphora. Form 8: Pyramid. II. Poetry Prompts. Prompt 1: Dear me...Prompt 2: Something that scares you. Prompt 3: Confusing figure of speech. Prompt 4: A Haiku from your window. Prompt 5 - The last line changes everything. Prompt 6 - An unlikely thank you. Prompt 7 - An antidote to nightmares. Prompt 8 - First phrase, last phrase. Prompt 9 - Open with a question. Prompt 10 - The street where you grew up. Prompt 11 - Light and dark. Prompt 12 - No punctuation. Prompt 13 - Describe a smell. Prompt 14 - The meaning of life. Prompt 15 - School days. Prompt 16 - A set of instructions. Prompt 17 - Admiration acrostic. Prompt 18 - Rhyme and reason. Prompt 19 - How we met. Prompt 20 - Strip tease. Prompt 21 - Love is...Prompt - 22 - One word title. Prompt 23 - Fragile friendships. Prompt 24 - Extended metaphor. Prompt 25 - Your 100th birthday. Prompt 26 - Time difference. Prompt 27 - Screensaver. Prompt 28 - Apology. Prompt 29 - Simple pleasures. Prompt 30 - Twelve lines long. Prompt 31 - Doors. Prompt 32 - Favorite color. Prompt 33 - Good news. Prompt 34 - Life lesson. Prompt 35 - New beginning. Prompt 36 - Reprimand. Prompt 37 - Pyramid. Prompt 38 - Forwards backwards. Prompt 39 - Climbing. Prompt 40 - Heirloom. Prompt 41 - The wrong response. Prompt 42 - Loss of sense. Prompt 43 - Stigma. Prompt 44 - Harm and Hope. Prompt 45 - Controversial. Prompt 46 - Happy sad. Prompt 47 - Unlikely Haiku. Prompt 48 - Twenty nine. Prompt 49 - Holding hands. Prompt 50 - Random word.Final Thoughts from Pooky.
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Tonya Baldwin Freedom (A Southern Girl's Truth)
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CompletelyNovel.com Impressions of an English Woodland
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Olympia Publishers Fifty Poems
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Cinnamon Press The Care Line
Book SynopsisPoetry pamphlet on the theme of Parkinson's Disease
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Cinnamon Press All the Different Darknesses
Book SynopsisAll the Different Darknesses explores our sense of what lies within or beyond the everyday, taking inspiration from the lives of objects, as well as familial memories and disturbances emerging from '... the different darknesses'.
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Cinnamon Press Life’s Stink and Honey
Book SynopsisLynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. With hints of fairytale and gothic, she writes precise and poignant poems embracing what is often overlooked or peripheral – a father who drives the snowplough, a childless woman seeking consolation from a Sheela-na-gig. This collection is alive with horses, crows, deer, and as the title suggests, bees; all points north. — Jay Whittaker Enhanced by her apt and confident use of Scots, which glimmers like gold leaf throughout, Lynn Valentine’s poems weave the ethereal with the everyday, and reveal to us a glimpse of the natural and unnatural world we stride and stumble through. From council workers to prophetic aunts, Mills and Boon to the winter solstice, the poems here are full of making do and doing without, of childhood and childlessness, of the grief of loss and the grief of absence. This is a special collection, and a wonderful debut. — Aoife Lyall Lynn Valentine is a fearless writer who tackles the great unspeakables head-on — bereavement, loss, childlessness, exile; and yet it’s not death that prevails in these poems, but rather the sovereignty of life and, with all its gifts and with all its heartbreaks, the obstinate beauty of the living world.— John GlendayTrade ReviewLynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. With hints of fairytale and gothic, she writes precise and poignant poems embracing what is often overlooked or peripheral – a father who drives the snowplough, a childless woman seeking consolation from a Sheela-na-gig. This collection is alive with horses, crows, deer, and as the title suggests, bees; all points north. — Jay Whittaker; Enhanced by her apt and confident use of Scots, which glimmers like gold leaf throughout, Lynn Valentine’s poems weave the ethereal with the everyday, and reveal to us a glimpse of the natural and unnatural world we stride and stumble through. From council workers to prophetic aunts, Mills and Boon to the winter solstice, the poems here are full of making do and doing without, of childhood and childlessness, of the grief of loss and the grief of absence. This is a special collection, and a wonderful debut. — Aoife Lyall; Lynn Valentine is a fearless writer who tackles the great unspeakables head-on — bereavement, loss, childlessness, exile; and yet it’s not death that prevails in these poems, but rather the sovereignty of life and, with all its gifts and with all its heartbreaks, the obstinate beauty of the living world. — John Glenday
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Cinnamon Press Vital Signs
Book SynopsisVital Signs draws on the inspiration of the medical vital signs in three parts-'Body', 'Pulse' and 'Breath'-each with nine poems that explore romantic love, death and the experiences of grief and loss in a poetry that is as embodied, pulsing with life and rhythmically breathing.
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Independently Published From a Wild Woman: Love & healing poems - Poèmes
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Lulu.com Poetic Law: The Temple of the Poet
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Xlibris Us Sweet and Sour Candy
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Xlibris Us Yellow Elder
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Xlibris Us Tangled Thoughts
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Xlibris Us The Flight of the Ex-Worm and Other Poems
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Xlibris Us Mr. Nobody the Man with a Broken Dreams
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Xlibris Us Unique V-Turnal: Book 2
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Xlibris Us Prelude to a Groovy Road Trip: A Collection of
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Life Is Strange But Keep Kindness In Range
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Life is full of Moments
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Webs and Irises
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