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Dove / Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely-wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembéne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. "Wildplassen" is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an inappropriate occupation of public (urban) space. This collection transfigures the borders of air, city and landscape; language, lyric and page with instability and waywardness. WILDPLASSEN by Dove/Chris Kirubi is a wondrous book. The pages shake, an attribute of syntax that resembles brownian motion. Just as "colour bleeds right through", so does this: a capacity to "tremble" that's both somatic and formal, an improvised set of notations. In fact, kirubi extends the intergenre proposition of the collection itself to emanate "gliss.notes", fragments and lines "transcribed...while attempting to translate," a "flickering close-up of flowers", and so on. This is a stunning and moving work from the verges of poetry, performance and visual art. - Bhanu KapilAfter the rain, Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN meets us in the street, as all the mundane elements of the day world begin to glisten: light diffracting in the damp sheen upon the tarmac, pavements, railings, rainbows appearing in puddles. This poetry encourages us to loiter, or to walk intentionally at the slowest pace in the opposite direction to what racial capitalism would want of us. Only then emerge the small intimacies that Kirubi is attuned to, in the correspondences between sounds, syllables, plants. Their writing forages a quiet philosophy for the page. Pirouettes of emotion --- from this everyday enchantment, to anxiety and grief --- "encourage the recovery of all dreams". Come, pluck up your velveteen ears from beneath your raincoat, and remember to wash your hands. - Nat RahaFor Fans of: Victoria Adukwei-Bulley, Dionne Brand, Momtaza Mehri

Midge Burleigh's evocative poetry collection, Materialised Invisibility, invites readers on a profound journey through the seasons of life, nature, and the human soul. With a keen eye for detail and a masterful command of language, Burleigh crafts verses that illuminate the beauty and complexity of the world around us. From the whispers of the first snowdrops to the echoes of childhood memories, each poem is a testament to the power of observation and introspection. Burleigh fearlessly explores themes of spirituality, mortality, and the search for meaning, weaving together vivid imagery and thought-provoking insights. Whether reflecting on the cyclical nature of existence or confronting the challenges of modern society, Materialised Invisibility is a captivating and transformative reading experience. Burleigh's unique voice and poetic vision will resonate with readers long after the final page is turned, reminding us of the enduring beauty and resilience of the human spirit in the face of life's many mysteries.

In this powerful collection of poetry, author Molli Nicholson bravely shares her journey of surviving domestic abuse and finding the strength to break free. Drawing from her own painful experiences, Nicholson gives voice to the often-unspoken reality endured by so many women. With raw emotion and unflinching honesty, she explores the cycle of abuse, the shattering of self, and the slow path to healing. From the early red flags to the depths of despair, Nicholson's poems paint a vivid and haunting portrait of living with an abuser. Yet amidst the darkness, a resilient spirit emerges, determined to reclaim identity and worth. Her words serve as a lifeline to other survivors, offering validation, understanding, and the hope of a new beginning.

This anthology of eleven stirring tales, composed in melodic rhyming couplets, sweeps readers into a realm where myth intertwines with romance across diverse landscapes: from the Peruvian Amazon to the plains of Africa, the vastness of the Pacific to the spiritual heights of Tibet. Each narrative celebrates the wild, noble beasts that champion the cause of their land: wolves liberating Athens, pumas safeguarding the Amazon, bears emancipating prisoners in wartime Germany, and more. These creatures not only symbolize the spirit of their homelands but also the myths and history embedded within, now imperilled by relentless modernization. Scott's work weaves a poetic tapestry reminiscent of Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner, ' Kipling's 'Just So Stories, ' and the adventurous spirit of Patrick Leigh Fermor, all while channelling Mary Pope Osborne's fascination with myth. It's a literary mosaic, unparalleled in ambition, which speaks eloquently to the urgency of preserving our world's cultural and ecological richness. The stories, though they grapple with themes of loss and environmental decay, also ignite hope for spiritual rebirth and the triumph of nature's indomitable hear

Welcome to My Safe Space, a haven of peace and tranquility that resides within your heart. This imagined sanctuary is a place to plan, dream, and make those dreams come true. Where your desires are met with satisfaction. 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away, ' so they say. But here, a poem a day empowers you to reach for the stars. Filled with vivid verse that speaks to your core, this collection makes you realize imagination transcends the mind: its manifestation lies within your grasp. The atmosphere brims with positivity. A walk on the clouds offers hope. A dance with angels may summon love. You can't help but feel emboldened. Dazzled by kaleidoscopes of color, you become the hero of your story. In this boundless space, you are unlimited, free to be and go wherever you desire. No codes, no keys, no borders or barriers. It exists in your mind, but its magic may leave you forever changed. So, join the club, get inspired, and transform

This collection of poems offers an insight into the joys, challenges, and intimacies of life and love. The author's carefully chosen words create vivid images with beautiful phrases. He invites readers into his personal and internal world, transporting them away from the hustle and bustle of life to quiet, reflective spaces. Speaking from the heart, he shares profound feelings and experiences in a relatable manner.

Rearview unfurls a tapestry of America's transformative canvas during the evocative epochs of the sixties and early seventies. Amidst the burgeoning tides of a new era, the nation navigates through the growing pains that intricately intertwine with the hopes, ideals, and lives of a generation predestined to redefine society's blueprint.As the pages turn, readers are transported through a time-lapse of evolving ideologies and lifestyles that not only mirror the nation's metamorphosis but also herald the dawn of a reimagined social landscape. Through the rearview mirror, the essence of an era that reverberated through the corridors of history comes to life, painting a vivid imagery of a time that sculpted the contours of modern-day America.

Swedish poet Judith Kiros''s widely-acclaimed debut stretches boundaries of genre, race, and gender in an alternative production of Shakespeare''s Othello that sidesteps black death for a multitude of futures. Taking a cue from Derek Walcott''s Omeros, Kiros employs metric verve and critical bite to add to Shakespeare a wide range of historical and contemporary works, producing a meditation on blackness that sets up a new reflective surface at every turn.

Conjurors presents this poet's best work, much of it for the first time.

These short poems, considered as Iraqi haiku, reflect an urgent wisdom beyond their original borders.

Rooted in the land he dwells on, attuned to the ancestral lines of place and body and the resonances between the two, in Aubrac David Batten records our at-oneness with the nature that humanity too often attempts to fragment. Lucid, deeply effective and intelligent, these poems take us into a landscape where the past speaks loudly to the present and to the future, letting us know that we are not alone, not apart. In a year in which the poet himself moves through cycles of chemotherapy, along with the randomness of death, life and renewal re-assert themselves with the movement of the seasons. As he observes nature with a keenness of vision and attention that is present in every line, nature returns the gaze. A collection that bears witness to the human and more than human.

'Gwnewch y pethau bychain - Do the little things' (Dewi Sant/St David) - is how Fiona Owen signs off her communications. And she is a poet who understands that the little things are actually the things to which we should be paying our deepest attention - the small interactions between people, the word that matters, the objects that hold more than memory and, vitally, the land we live on, the air we breathe, the anima/ls and plants we live amongst and with, who teach us not to 'other' them for the sake of our humanity as much as for their sake and their survival. This is a collection that pulses with anima, the unconscious that moves through all life, bubbling up in these exquisitely realised, attentive poems.

This is a collection of poems and journal entries written over the span of seven years that tell most of the story of some of Michael's most formative years. After trying to grieve the loss of his best friend, deal with the addictions his mother suffers, as well as navigating many young love romances, Michael, turns to his old journals and starts collecting the poetry he's written.For the sake of clarity, the Him parts are written to be about one great love but he is made of a combination of many. Despite promising himself to be the one to break his family's generational legacy of trauma and addiction, while alone at a low point, he disappoints himself and proves himself wrong.Michael must now build himself back up from the ground before the dirt can fill his grave with him in it. He must remind himself that everything happens for a reason and that there is no such thing as the wrong person, place, or time because all of those things made him who he is.

Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich's political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich's "interest" in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx's humanistic philosophy on Rich's later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women's Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich's discovery of Marx's humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th century England had very material and embodied consequences. To apprehend the nature of Christ's body-its nature, presence, closeness, and efficacy-for these writers, was also to understand one's own. And conversely, to know one's own body was to know something particular about Christ's.Sandberg provides new insights into how Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer use the reformed eucharistic paradigm to imagine the embodied significance of the sacrament for their own bodies, the bodies of their narrative subjects, and the body of their literary work. She shows the significance of this paradigm was for poets and playwrights at this time to represent the embodied self and negotiate how the body was read, interpreted and understood.

Piya Pal Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1900 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities. From Romantic Byzantium to operatic sultans and vampiric janissaries, the arc of this book takes on a fascinating but often overlooked area of 19th century studies - the encounter with Constantinople/Istanbul, "the diamond between two sapphires" on the Bosphorus and the effect of the city's complicated history on Romantic /Victorian writers and artists. Drawing on unpublished, archival material on Thomas Hope and Julia Pardoe, she provides fresh readings of these writers as well as Byron, Disraeli, Scott and Mary Shelley, among others. Taking up the problems posed by the existence of a global, cosmopolitan empire with its centre in Istanbul and control over borderlands known as "Turkey in Europe," the book examines these issues against the background of the rise of nationalist movements and ethnic affiliations in the 19th century. Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture proposes a new approach to understanding the final century of a significant non-Western, Islamic empire.

I see a pile of the wreckage of a human. But I can still visualize the statue of beauty you used to be; Still, among all the ashes, the tears, the damaged parts, And the cold touch of your buried pain. After all, it was I who demolished you, And it was the sound of your crumbling that awakened me.

A cast of 'Indic-heritage poets' meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles on subjects as various as the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, Shakespearean comedy, Under Milk Wood, The Simpsons and Newcastle United. Daljit Nagra's mock epic scrutinises the legacies of Empire and issues such as power and status, casteism and colourism, mimicry and mockery. What is Britishness now? How can humour help us survive hardship? The result is a capacious 'talkie'/poem/play of resistance and redress whose ludic structures defy boundaries: a story of intertextual and misplaced identities, gods and miracles, celluloid tragedy and blushing romantic desire amid an awkwardly rolling cricket ball and rioting poodles.

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture.

To Touch a Heart is a heartwarming collection of poems that reflect the sincere joys and struggles of everyday life. With touching verses about family, friendship, childhood memories, and the passing seasons, this little pink book invites readers into quiet moments of meaning. While the wider world calls for our hurry and worry, these poems offer respite, beauty, and a tender glimpse of the humanity in us all. Readers will find humor and wisdom within these pages, and perhaps see their own story reflected. More than pretty words that rhyme, these poems aim to delight, to console, to inspire. For any seeking more gentleness in life or longing to be understood, To Touch a Heart offers a sweet retreat where poetry still blooms.

Vanishing Points is Lucia Stupica's fourth book of poetry and comes after a decade of silence in which her poetic voice has become more complex and sensitive to the cracks in time and in the world through which she observes fragments of life - imperfect, painful and real. Her expression has retained its tenderness, establishing a deep dialogue with the world, the past and the present, and with appearances and the things they conceal. In her attempt at a new understanding of the world, Stupica is not writing the story of her own role, but of the role of women as the hidden movers of history, and the role of those, be they a man, a child or a random stranger, who see the experience of the other, and are open to it. These poems of love, loss, mystery and what lies beyond our understanding make for a haunting and memorable collection in Andrej Peric's beautiful translation.

These Spanish-English poems focus on the island nature of Venezuela's Caribbean coast. Its rich observation of physical island-scapes is realised in imagery that strikes both with its freshness and rightness, and its speculative concern with the nature of islands in the Western imagination challenges us to new points of view.

Escaping from the evils of the modern world into the vivid colours of a bird's plumage, Michael Trussler's 10:10 plunges into the mystery and horror of living at the beginning of the Anthropocene. How can there be both terrible violence and extraordinary beauty in the world? How can birdwatching coexist with genocide? How can nature be loved and destroyed all at once? Trussler's poetic voice is delightfully fluid: moments and images from movies, aesthetic theory, and animal life collide in each poem, sometimes in a single line. From lyrics to prose, high art to emails, Trussler sifts through the shards of society to seek refuge in the beauty and strangeness of words, the beguiling richness of images, the intensity of the natural world.