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This volume comprises 21 poems covering a wide array of subjects, from astronomy to modern societal concerns. The poems on astronomy intriguingly acknowledge the presence of a creator while staying true to scientific principles and logical reasoning. Some poems mock religious beliefs without specifying any one faith. Love and opportunism are intertwined in one poem, while societal hypocrisy is exposed in others. Humour and deceit are skillfully employed throughout several pieces. The collection deliberately avoids clichéd themes, instead exploring fresh ideas from unexplored realms.

Inspired by rhyming poetry, Hundred Golden Leaves is a masterpiece by author Syamal Roy, who discusses a number of profound and pertinent life subjects. It's as if you have a warped picture of the unseen world and then have to go on a quest to the depths of your psyche to uncover the hidden details. It's about accepting the unpredictability of life and making conscious efforts to retain a sense of steadiness. Learning and experience are the goals of life since they leave indelible marks on the mind and body. Keep reading to be touched by the brilliant insights into different ways of looking at life.

Create your own silver linings.

"Brings together environmental literary criticism and classics, generating new readings of foundational works of Augustan literature as environmental poetry. For classicists, it discloses new aspects of familiar texts, while for environmental literary critics it deepens and complicates the traditions and concepts of environmental literature"--

""Silly me - I forgot to say that I love, Love. && When my mind is not my friend, I break down and cry. I forget that you are real, && These demons are not. Silly me - A lost girl running, Circling in circles. I make no sense in these rhymes, That no longer rhyme. I forget that I only use them to speak When my voice fails me again. Silly me - I'll laugh when the silence is quiet, Too quiet. I only wish that you could read me Like a book. Where my voice is printed in black ink. You forget that I don't like to speak out loud, For fear of hearing my voice quiver, shudder, and sob.""

This edition of Kipling's ""The Song of the English"" was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwise Lights, The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables, The Song of the Sons, The Song of the Cities, and England's Answer. The theme underlying much of this collection, is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord, so long as they obey the Law. This is one of Kipling's earliest verses specifically setting out his vision of the British Empire, and the duties which it imposes on the English (British) people. His definition of 'the English' is wide, certainly embracing the people of the overseas Empire, Australia, New Xealand, Canada, South Africa, but arguably also the Americans. These classic poems are accompanied by thirty incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines - for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term 'Heath Robinson' entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance.

Caleb ParkinâEUR(TM)s dark and mischievous second collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes and bodies, in poems bubbling with the intoxications of hyper-wealth and climate nationalism.

The Tattoo Collector ranges between Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, exploring the intertwined relationship between the body, ecology and class âEUR" where protests, gigs and the tattooed body form a vital line of connection.

Hasib Hourani's debut collection, rock flight, is a book-length poem that follows personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. Searing and fierce, tender and pleading, rock flight moves between poetry and prose, historical events and meditations on language to create a vital interactive reading experience.

This chapbook by Ro Mehrooz is the first time that the work of a single Rohingyan poet has appeared in print in a bilingual edition. The Rohingya people continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Myanmar military, so it is not surprising that Ro's poems are full of anger, anguish and despair, although there are moments of light as he reflects upon the traditions and customs of his people. James Byrne's informative introduction, together with Ro's deeply-affecting poems, paint a stark and unforgettable picture of this war-torn, torture-ravaged and largely forgotten area of Myanmar.

The Conjurer is Pedro Serrano's second book from Arc, and includes work drawn from his three published collections in Mexico as well as unpublished work. These are powerful poems which explore the natural world in all its wonder with a close and meticulous attention that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Serrano's rich and complex lexicon and his mastery of poetic form, metaphor and diction are perfectly captured in Anna Crowe's sensitive and compelling translation - for those who have not encountered Serrano's poetry before, this is an unmissable introduction to the work of one of Mexico's leading contemporary poets.

Dilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience. The poems in this short selection are full of longing, sadness, loss and, in the final poem, anger, as the poet remembers the devastating chemical attack on Halabja in 1988 in which his 'country's hair turned white'.

And do not relinquish the search For that limitless lightSo that in the street, starsMorph into cometsExtract from 'This Place (...)'  HAIRAN is a new anthology of poetry by Iranian women, compiled in the face of the violent attacks on life and liberty that began with the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran in September 2022. Amini was arrested and killed in police custody for not covering enough of her hair in public. Here are 75 poems from a diverse cross-section of contemporary Iranian voices, accompanied by 'hair portraits' taken by the poets. Alongside Sobati and Sarhandi-Williams, HAIRAN was edited by Sepideh Jodeyri, Sepideh Kouti, Anna Krasnowolska, Anahita Rezaei, and Abbas Shokri.

A new selection of Paul Durcan's finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday'He has written immortal poems. I revere him' Michael LongleyFor fifty years the poet Paul Durcan has explored and questioned a world both real and imagined.Steeped in the goings-on of Ireland and preoccupied with its concerns, he has delighted, enriched and unsettled his readers. His prodigious output of more than twenty collections bursts with poems that are courageously personal and passionately spiritual - a body of work that contains multitudes.'The great enemy of art is the ego' says Durcan. 'It keeps getting in the way. One needs the ego to disappear so that I become you; I become the people walking up and down the street.'First published in 1967, Durcan remains the most of companionable of poets. His vivacity and ability to surprise has never been clearer than in this new selection of eighty of his finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday.EDITED BY NIALL MACMONAGLEWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN

this charms the buried light of stars -this deflects bullets - this unblooms a war -In some Filipino clans, parents pass down to each child an agimat, an amulet or charm, in the hope its magic will protect and empower them. In a world of daily pain and loss, Romalyn Ante's second collection asks how do we keep safe what we hold most dear? At the dawn of the pandemic, the poet - a practising nurse in the NHS - is thrown onto the frontlines of the war against COVID-19, and finds herself questioning what it means to fight, and what it takes to heal. Past conflicts swim into the now: when the poet falls in love with a man of Japanese heritage, it forces a reckoning with her family's suffering under Japan's brutal wartime occupation of the Philippines. Elsewhere, we meet the irrepressible, many-breasted goddess Mebuyan, the poet's alter ego. In Philippine myth, Mebuyan nurses the spirits of departed children in the underworld, but here she watches over young people in crisis - a girl who can't stop cutting herself, a teenager who has leapt from a railway viaduct. These are poems of strength and solace - they quiver with heart, feeling a way toward hope.

The Pharmacy is an extended exploration of family, loss, and the indignities of British medical institutions. Building a landscape that is at once influenced by autotheory, life experience of care, and a fervent critique of austerity, this is a fiery second collection from Kat Sinclair. For fans of: Rachael Allen, Amy Acre, Kerry-Anne Mendoza

Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. This is a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great twentieth century poets.