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Poetry Wales Press A Darker Way
Book SynopsisGrahame Davies? s A Darker Way ?is a collection of poems and songs which traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith. Including ? Sacred Fire? , set to music for King Charles? coronation, these poems are steeped in curiosity, self-questioning and compassion.
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Poetry Wales Press Portrait in Mustard
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Canterbury Press Norwich Love, Remember: 40 poems of loss, lament and hope
Book SynopsisThe bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.Trade Review'The most wonderful anthology of poetry I have ever come across in my life.' -- Methodist Recorder
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Vintage Publishing Ash Keys
Book SynopsisMichael Longley (Author) Michael Longley's thirteen collections have received many awards, among them the Whitbread Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and Sidelines: Selected Prose in 2017. In 2001 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal. In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he and his wife the critic Edna Longley live and work. In 2022 he was awarded the prestigious Feltrinelli International Poetry Prize for a lifetime's achievement.Paul Muldoon (Foreword By) Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, including Howdie-Skelp.
£11.70
Cinnamon Press In the Shadow of the Yew
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£9.49
Cinnamon Press Alone with Seoul
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Carcanet Press Ltd Coco Island
Book SynopsisCoco Island is an integrous first collection from the Jamaican poet and novelist Christine Roseeta Walker, exploring the bittersweet effects of a postcolonial world.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Passion
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Carcanet Press Ltd A Letter to the Dead
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Seagull Books London Ltd Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man. Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times. Table of ContentsIntroductionFrom 'We Can’t Get Used to Dying' (1953)From 'Witches Wheelgrind Their Dentures' (1966)From 'Enunciations' (1993)From 'Apprenticeships' (1978)From 'Repression: A User’s Manual' (1980)From 'The Last Collection' (2002)From 'The Laughing God' (2008)
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Seagull Books London Ltd Piano in the Dark
Book SynopsisPoetry from an especially deft magician of words. This latest book of wonders from Nancy Naomi Carlson fixes upon one of the few defenses we have to confront the body’s betrayals—our words. Though in the end, even the world’s last word “forgets its name . . . has no word for this forgetting.” At once vulnerable and open, tempered and tempted equally by the erotic and the empathic, such dualities limn these affectingly beautiful and lyrical poems. Carlson’s lines, entreating as Scheherazade, “weave chords / into tales within tales, whirlpools within seas” to save her life. Indeed, music has no need for voice or harp, as “in anechoic chambers, you become / the only instrument of your worldly sounds,” echoing Mozart’s credo “that music lies / in the silence between notes.” In a world scarred by pandemics, wars, and violent tribalism, the givens are gone—“talismans we clung to, believing / we might be spared in some way / by marking our doors / with our own sacrificial blood.” In these unflinching free and formal verse poems, Carlson seduces us with the promise of the joy yet to be had, were we to look in the right places. Trade Review"A 'must-read' Editor's Choice." * Poetry Daily *Table of ContentsI(Sub)ContextsThe Last WordAn Excess of DreamingThe Half-Life of MemoryTranslating the BodyComing ToSequelaeCalder’s MenagerieLockdown Aubade on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Birthday[Everything in nature contains its violence]VigilancePainted MoonHow Skies FallInward LookingFeast of TabernaclesSmall GriefsAfter I Swallowed the Willow TreeTranslating the DeadIIThree Years Post-ChemoMannequin HeadQuarantine: Day 40Tintoretto BluesDay 166Viva the VagusAubade: Day 50On the Fourth Platonic VirtueOut of an Absence of CautionAfter I Xeroxed the SkyMy Goyishe Ex-Husband[If soil can resurrect daffodils]Forever-BoundGood SenseDecreationThis Life We FollowWhy Sturgeon LeapIIIBy Any Other NameOde for Three ExesStill Life in OrangeAnt HillsIn Defense of PolyamoryBookendsEtiologyTrisomyDog StarIn Other WordsWe Weren’t So Jewish ThenThe Graffiti ArtistOdalisqueSequoiaNocturneCorpse FlowerFinding/Keeping the Beat
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Seagull Books London Ltd Maili Chadar or The Stained Shawl and Truth and
Book SynopsisTwo plays exploring the dark side of power and the human cost of injustice. What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? What happens when people in power lose their moral compass, and truth becomes a casualty? This volume brings together two recent plays by eminent Indian theater personality Shanta Gokhale that address these burning questions. Maili Chadar; or, The Stained Shawl: A Tragedy in Four Acts traces the regression of the protagonist from the idealism of his youth to the cynicism of a man who has but one goal in lifepower at all costs. Along the way, he develops a megalomanic sense of destiny for which he is willing to lose all that he has ever loved, in the process becoming an exemplar of the proverbial worm in the apple called democracy. In Truth and Justice: Four Monologues, women from different places and times speak of what men in power have done to them in the name of their hatred for the otherfrom the Dreyfus affair that rocked France in the
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Town I Never Told You About
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Fitzcarraldo Editions Goatsong
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Troubador Publishing A Plethora of Poetry and Prose
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Troubador Publishing Ltd The end
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Nick Hern Books The Brightening Air
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Nick Hern Books Porn Play
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Everyman Fruits of the Earth
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Canongate Books Bloodshot Monochrome
Book SynopsisBloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in 'Problem Pages', playing out noir dramas in 'Vicious Circle', or capturing moments of her own life in perfect snapshot, Agbabi's verse is sublimely lyrical and spiked with gleeful humour.Trade ReviewPraise for Transformatrix:A rising star. * * Observer * *Thrilling. Has a multi-dimensional richness. It's a bold, brassy work. * * Independent on Sunday * *Draws on rap, jive and disco rhythms as much as the formal subtleties of free verse. Agbabi is a fine poet, and her linguistic wit carries satirical fire. * * Daily Telegraph * *Combines cutting satire and outright celebration. * * Big Issue * *[Patience Agbabi's] love of the English language, and finding new ways she can subvert it, shines through. Honest, darkly funny and endlessly creative, she takes the sonnet, chats it up, tattoos it, gives it some motherly advice and then sends it away again. -- Claire Sawers * * The List * *Still as hard-hitting on contemporary themes of race, sex and identity as she was when she published her first collection . . . combines the mastery of the tools of her poetic trade with contemporary and very personal themes . . . Her words are crisp, clear and beautiful to read. * * Sunday Business Post * *Agbabi frisks the sonnet in a way it's never been frisked before . . . Thrumming with energy and verve, she brings the stage to the page in her tight rhythms and adherence to rhyme . . . A confident, confluent performance from a master of "lyrical slang". -- Peggy Hughes * * Scotland on Sunday * *Charged with passion, wit and sheer inventiveness. * * New Internationalist * *Moving, in a subtle, understated way; it's characteristic of how Agbabi embeds the profound within the simple . . . These poems - really choppy, rap-inspired prose locked into the 'straitjacket' of the sonnet - showcase Agbabi's considerable wit . . . an adept and engaging take on cultural in-betweenness. * * Poetry London * *
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Carcanet Press Ltd Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognize--even to envy--a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that "constrict like throats," every place-name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found.Trade Review"Raise high the roofbeams, here comes a strong new presence in poetry... Kei Miller's voice speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority." --Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and professor, University of Michigan
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Nick Hern Books Here We Go
Book SynopsisA short play about death by Caryl Churchill. A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends? Caryl Churchill's play Here We Go was premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.Trade Review'Provocative and startling… I was mesmerised' * Evening Standard *'Exquisitely atmospheric… [has] a black humour that resonates far off, like the mad laughter of the cosmos' * Time Out *'Many plays confront death. A few deal with the process of dying. Caryl Churchill's new work manages, in 45 minutes, to encompass both. It not only confirms her ability to experiment with dramatic form but, more importantly, acts as a chilling reminder of our own mortality... a striking memento mori for an age without faith' * Observer *'This is unforgettable. You feel as though you've aged a decade as the light gradually fades' * Independent *
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Nick Hern Books The Fall
Book Synopsis‘Imagine being him. Every day you wake up. You’re tired. Your body doesn’t work properly… You said it – you’d kill yourself.’ Two teenagers sneak into an old man’s home for a secret meeting. A young couple try to build their future whilst looking after an ailing parent. A care home offers its residents the opportunity to unburden their children. James Fritz's play The Fall takes a funny, moving and candid look at young people’s relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care. It was commissioned and premiered by the National Youth Theatre at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2016, and revived at Southwark Playhouse in 2018. Trade Review'Takes a candid look at young people's relationship with their elders, mixing humour with a deeper contemplation of life and death… delicately outspoken writing' * Broadway World *'[A] short, sharp shock of a play... youth theatre at its most mature, and most dazzling' * Guardian *'Perfectly pitched as a play for young actors... sets a new standard for youth theatre' * The Stage *'Intelligent, absorbing... confirms Fritz as a major new voice in British drama' * The Reviews Hub *'It's dreamlike, but gritty at the same time, and gripping... it's a little glimpse of a faintly dystopian future that hits home because it doesn't take things too far... what's impressive about Fritz's writing is that he manages to horrify with his vision of human coldness, and yet it's not propaganda: it recognises that there are no simple statements to be made.' * Exeunt *
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Haywire: New & Selected Poems
Book SynopsisLuljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these histories intertwine and influence her childhood memories and the retelling of her family's stories. Sorrow, death, imprisonment, and desire are some of the themes that echo deeply in Lleshanaku's beautiful poems. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.Trade Review'Luljeta Lleshanaku is a pioneer of Albanian poetry. She speaks with a completely original voice, her imagery and language always unexpected and innovative. Her poetry has little connection to poetic styles past or present in America, Europe, or the rest of the world. And, interestingly enough, it is not connected to anything in Albanian poetry either. We have in Lleshanaku a completely original poet' - Peter Constantine. 'Luljeta Lleshanaku's poems take place in a melancholy landscape of mountain villages, chestnut trees, and collapsing futures where spring kills solitude with its solitudeA" and the only emotional expression not considered a sign of weakness is impatience. The place of her poems is like a zero point that can only look out from itself in all directions at once. But the poet looks inward beyond paradox, and, instead of judgment, she finds recognition. In Lleshanaku's work, geography and soul are charted on the same map. The rhythms of her new poems are expertly managed to enact vulnerability and withdrawal. Her lines stretch out and suddenly retract into fragments with the sensitivity of snail horns.' - Forrest Gander, citation for the 2009 International Kristal Vilenica Prize 'These impressive poems carry a poignance much like the first buds of spring, a mark of survival and insistent life. In this bewildering human world such articulate determination proves again our common faith. Luljeta Lleshanaku speaks to us one and all' - Robert Creeley
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Vintage Publishing Poem for the Day: One
Book SynopsisThis book features 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and Kipling, to contemporary poets such as Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, Maya Angelou and Thom Gunn.Trade ReviewThis book is a dream, a revivalist campaign, a challenge, a fundraising vehicle, a book of days and an anthology, all in one * Guardian *It's a brilliant concept and should give a lot of pleasure to all ages * Daily Mail *The poems are a delight, some never anthologised before * Independent on Sunday *A very good and varied collection, with delightful oddities * The Times *
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Everyman Garden Poems
Book Synopsis* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black and white pattern on each spine * Full cloth, flexible covers * Sewn Binders * Silk Ribbon Markers and Headbands * Gold Stamping on front and spine * Decorative patterned endpapers * Newly designed typographic settings in classic typefaces * Portable format-size 61/4 x 4 ins (15. 75 x 10. 25 cm) * Cream-wove acid-free paper * 256pp each volume
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Carcanet Press Ltd New Collected Poems Eavan Boland
Book SynopsisA new and updated version of the 'Collected Poems of Eavan Boland', Ireland's pioneering premier female poet.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Coriolanus: Third Series
Book SynopsisThis Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an army to take his revenge on Rome. He finally concedes to the pleas of his mother to spare the city and leaves only to be publicly killed by his former allies. Peter Holland is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford upon Avon and President of the Shakespeare Association of America. He is a pre-eminent international scholar. His comprehensive Introduction and commentary notes open up the language, themes and ideas in this complex yet richly rewarding play for the student and teacher. The play is discussed in its historical and critical contexts and its theatrical history is analysed too.Trade ReviewThis is a mighty powerhouse of a work: passionately outward-looking in its engagement with the play's afterlife in theatre, poetry and film ... Holland's style is delightfully engaging and inclusive ... This is a remarkable piece of scholarship, and an indispensable work for anyone wishing to understand Coriolanus better. -- Jane Kingsley-Smith, Roehampton University, UK * Around the Globe *Holland’s edition offers an idiosyncratic and entertaining version of Coriolanus that is suited to a play that poses relatively few textual problems, demonstrating that even a play that only exists in one early witness is reproduced differently in each edition, performance and re-reading ... The edition is a triumph of careful work, and testament to the importance of aligning theatrical, linguistic and historical approaches in the careful preparation of an edition. -- Peter Kirwan, UK * Editionen in der Kritik *This is a rich and creatively suggestive Coriolanus edition that does justice to the play as product of a complex social, stage, and literary history and as an equally complex cultural performance text. -- Barbara Correll, Cornell University, USA * Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen *Great introduction - strong on political context and topicality, and great treatment of the new Fiennes movie adaptation. The best modern edition of Coriolanus on the market. -- Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia, UKTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Coriolanus in the 1930s Beginnings Reading Dating: Writing and Performance Voting and Citizenship Coriolanus and Early Modern Politics Shaping the Play Coriolanus Rethought: Brecht, Osborne, Grass Filming Coriolanus (2011) THE PLAY Longer Notes Textual Analysis Appendices: 1. Coriolanus in Performance: A Skeletal History 2. Casting Coriolanus Abbreviations and References Index
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Candlestick Press Fourteen Festive Sonnets
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FROM YOU TO ME The Book Of Upside Down Thinking: a magical &
Book SynopsisThe Book Of Upside Down Thinking, by the famed Liverpool poet Brian Patten, is a magical collection of verse written in Morocco and inspired by traditional folk-tales and stories from the Near and Middle East, many dating back as far as the eleventh century. This beautifully designed collection features colourful hand-drawn tile illustrations alongside Brian's original poems, which show the world from a different, and unexpected, perspective. The Book Of Upside Down Thinking is published fifty years after the anniversary of the publication in 1967 of `The Mersey Sound', the ground-breaking poetry collection co-written with fellow-Liverpudlians, Roger McGough and the late Adrian Henri. Witty, contemporary and written in accessible language, the collection transformed the landscape of British poetry. With many award-winning poetry and children's books published since, Brian is set to turn our thinking on its head once more in The Book of Upside Down Thinking.Trade Review'I love the book...these short poems pack a punch...and lure you back for a second look...and a new thought, and a wry smile. 'Bel Mooney; 'A clever, quirky and intriguing squint at human nature' Val Hennessy
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CB Editions Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle
Book SynopsisKaty-Evans Bush's third full collection addresses the present chaotic political times with anger, intelligence, humour and a bracing honesty that lets no one off the hook.
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Two Rivers Press The Weather on the Moon
Book SynopsisTurning Manet on his head, entering the thoughts of a post prandial lion, viewing and buying a ‘snorting’ Hot Rod, imagining life on a modern-day Titanic, wondering what happens to the story after a book is finished or what a sonnet written by a modern day Shakespeare might look like, 'The Weather on the Moon' ranges across art, music, philosophy, literature and poetry, politics, history, science and the natural world to encounter what it’s like to be alive. Bubbling away throughout this intense, sometimes humorous, sometimes quirky, always compassionate poetry is a joy in language, its possibilities, and music. As Graham Hardie writes, his work ‘fuses many elements into one short space: pathos; wit; dexterous use of simile and metaphor; a heightened imagination; an ability to make poetry from the commonplace.’Trade Review‘The humanity of the poems lies in the “momentary turmoil” that for Robin Thomas characterizes life, and which his cast of real and imaginary characters share. History becomes a matter of moments – of awareness, suffering, injustice but also absurdity and beauty’ – Janice Dempsey; ‘The “homely” formal qualities of these well-made poems belie a mystery, a strangeness, a reckoning. The speaker at the end of “Danger Zone” advises us not to spend too long in a place of sanctuary: it’s amongst "the danger and delight of the world you need to be”’ – Julian Stannard;
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Tharpa Publications Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: How to
Book SynopsisAn ancient poem for modern times Transform ordinary self-centeredness into loving kindness and altruism Transform ordinary confused views into profound wisdom Become a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, seeks enlightenment to benefit all living beings This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the great Buddhist Master, Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading the verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moving us from suffering and conflict to happiness and peace, and gradually introduces us to the entire path to attaining the supreme inner peace of enlightenment, the real meaning of our human life.
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Stewed Rhubarb Press Vestigial: Poems after Alasdair Gray's Lanark
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The Islamic Texts Society Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study
Book SynopsisThe vibrant tradition of West African Arabic poetry is dominated by the genre of madih, that is, poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhammad. This genre of poetry has been mostly ignored in Western scholarship and dismissed as mere ''pious praise'' lacking any significant intellectual content. In Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection, Dr Oludamimi Ogunnaike challenges the misconceptions around West African madih poetry and addresses the scope and depth of this genre; he not only explores its rich lyrical nature and its foundations in the Qur''an, Hadith, pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry, but also its inextricable link to Sufism and Sufi doctrines of cosmology, ontology and epistemology. Drawing on Sufi traditions and practices, the author expounds on the various ways in which West African madih poetry both describes and facilitates the ultimate fulfilment of the human potential, the Perfect Human (al-Insan al-Kamil) or the attainment of the Praiseworthy Station (al-Maqam al-Mahmud) of which the Prophet Muhammad is the highest example.Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection includes translations of numerous extracts from madih poetry (accompanied by the original Arabic); while the Appendix presents a selection of complete poemsthe most popular and influential poems of this tradition. Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection is an opportunity for readers to gain access and appreciation of a unique genre of spiritual Islamic poetry, and, given that it includes the original Arabic, also enables the recitation of the poetry for devotional purposes.
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Fel y Moroedd
Book SynopsisYn y cerddi hyn mae Sioned Erin Hughes yn rhannu'r modd y mae hi'n cario ei phlentyndod i bob man ac yn rhyfeddu ar foroedd bywyd. Dyma gyfrol agos atoch chi sy'n rhannu'r pwysigrwydd o fod yn agored i'r athrawon o'n cwmpas fel pobl, byd natur ac anifeiliaid. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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Valley Press House with the Mansard Roof
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Eyewear Publishing A Wounded Deer Leaps The Highest
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Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd The Alderbank Wade
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Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd He Sings the Broken Cities
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Poetry Book Society POETRY BOOK SOCIETY AUTUMN 2023 BULLETIN
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 and exclusive interviews with all the selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Harry Josephine Giles, Arji Manuelpillai and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Autumn 2023 Bulletin magazine features poems, reviews and commentary from the PBS Autumn Choice Daljit Nagra whose playful mock epic Indiom (Faber) re-examines empire, language and class in India. The Translation Choice Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler, crosses between industrial, rural and suburban landscapes of East Germany in Pitch & Glint (And Other Stories). Mary Jean Chan delves into queer identity, SARS and Hong Kong in her luminous second collection Bright Fear (Faber). Jacqueline Saphra considers her Jewish identity in Vevel's Violin (Nine Arches Press). US poet Terrance Hayes brings us formal innovation and powerful testimony in So to Speak (Penguin) and we celebrate the astonishing lifetime achievements of Mary Oliver in her new selected poems, Devotions (Corsair). You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.Trade Review"The Bulletin is a thing of beauty" - Sarah H, PBS Member
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Little Betty We Will Be Fine
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Nine Arches Press Be Feared
Book SynopsisJane Burn’s new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from the Snow Queen to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of translation and transformation, of finding a voice radiant with both curses and psalms.Rebellious, bloody, and encroached upon by violence, Burn’s poetry examines survival, abuse and healing. Intensely imaginative, these incantatory poems rework fairy-tale and folklore and hold up enchanted mirrors to the everyday truths of being a working-class autistic woman, daring to become, claiming her own magnificent, unstoppable fluency and spell-making power.
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems of the Soil
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems from Norfolk
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Salamander Street Limited Chicken!: New revised 2020 version
Book SynopsisNew revised 2020 version It's Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikes. Give or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great... that is until one morning when Chris has a puncture and Tammy agrees to walk with him. They’re late and in a hurry. They decide to race. Chris runs out across a busy main road and then flips open his smart phone to dare Tammy to do the same in front of a fast-approaching car... Chicken! has been performed 5,876 times, averaging nearly one performance a day since the original version was written in 1992. This new 2020 version includes many updated references, a brand-new foreword by Adrian New, of StopWatch Theatre Company, more funny lines and a new decision for the actor to make at the end! Suitable for: Key Stage 2 audience. Key Stage 3, 4, 5 performance, BTEC course as part of the TiE unit (a companion DVD/download showing the complete professional TiE programme is also available) Duration: 45 minutes approximately Cast: The play has 9 main characters: 4 male, 3 females and 2+ of either sex. It can be doubled by 2m 2f “A powerful play with a surprising twist.” Charles Vance, Amateur Stage “[The] performance was lively, skilful, well-paced and enjoyable. Excellent participation, explored lots of issues pertinent to Year 7, including bullying and peer pressure as well as road safety.” Mrs S Scantlebury, Head of Year 7, Chipping Norton School, OxfordshireTrade Review"A powerful play with a surprising twist." -- Charles Vance * Amateur Stage *
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Burning Eye Books A New Game
Book SynopsisJemima Foxtrot’s highly anticipated A New Game whirls you through a world of vivid images, hedonism, memory and wonder as it celebrates and investigates the minutiae of everyday life. Full of wry humour and written with a bold elegance, Jemima Foxtrot proves that there is no subject that can’t inspire a poem. Foxtrot specialises in joy and this book makes you smile as much as it makes you think.
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Smith|Doorstop Books The Rake
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