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"Catching a Ride on Creation" invites readers on a poignant journey through the poetic landscapes of nature, relationships, the sacred, and hope. Within these verses, the author reveals an intimate dance with life experiences, as if plucking inspiration from the ether. Gratitude permeates the pages, as the act of capturing these fleeting verses becomes an integral part of the author's existence. Unconstrained by a specific style, the poems organically find their form, mirroring the purpose they serve. Simplicity is celebrated, with the author eschewing clever wordplay in favor of profound sincerity. Each poem unfolds like a glimpse into the author's soul, resonating with the universal themes that weave the fabric of human connection. "Catching a Ride on Creation" promises not just a reading experience but a shared exploration of the profound simplicity that threads through life's tapestry.

The fourth full-length collection of poems by Irish poet Patrick Cotter, Quality Control at the Miracle Factory reflects the dark times of its writing, moving with unease through the world.

Silk Work is the debut collection by Imogen Cassels, a Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Weaving multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and documenting, the poems in Silk Work are an exercise in language's inbuilt, radiant futility, which is both its suffering and its joy.

An electrifying debut collection exploring langage and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love-tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. "Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go," she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible-encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

Revitalising conversations surrounding environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of voices is both urgent and inspirational.

How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

Ever since Eve plucked a tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, the fruits of the earth have been essential to human culture and the stories we tell about our world. Poets from ancient times to the present have celebrated the harvest of our gardens, fields, and orchards.The delectable cornucopia of poems harvested in this volume includes many beloved old chestnuts, such as Robert Frost's 'After Apple-Picking', Emily Dickinson's 'Forbidden Fruit a flavor has', Gwendolyn Brooks's 'The Bean Eaters', and the famous chilled plums in William Carlos Williams's 'This Is Just to Say'.

The story is told through a series of beautiful and playful poems that describe the journey of a cardinal flying to a calm garden. From the happy splashing in the birdbath to the playful interactions with other animals, every poem captures the cardinal's liveliness. The narrator, who sits in his chair with a pipe and a window to watch the world go by, narrates the cardinal's flights and capers with affection and reflection. In different seasons and weather, from scorching summer to light rain, the cardinal becomes the protagonist, the symbol of the struggle and freedom. Its presence after a brief absence is welcomed with relief and happiness while its absence is associated with anxiety. The cardinal's encounters with a curious cat also introduce an element of humor, which is a part of nature's grand scheme. These verses give the poems the themes of friendship, desire, and the cycle of nature. In each stanza, the poet conveys the conflict between human interference and the cardinal's free-spiritedness while leaving the reader with a sense of unity and interdependence in the garden's dynamic environment.

There's a young woman stood in an emerald meadow in a wind-swept dress, amidst a field in spring, waiting to be taken by the hand to the great season's blossoming tree. Yet, before any of this may happen, there is the longing, the anticipation, the hopefulness upon winter's end, where it'll be warmer tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. There's a young man willing to drive out to all corners of the Earth, walk when the tank empties, swim when there's a river to traverse, and fly when an ocean stands in the way, all to bring the two of them home.