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The Rabbit God: protector of queer hearts across East Asia. Can this ancient myth help rewrite our tomorrows?Hongwei Bao's debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet's own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer identity.These are poems which hop energetically over any and all borders. Scenes of everyday heartache give way to fireworks of rage and joy, while intimate examinations of relationships and desire sit alongside politically charged pieces - as the poet contrasts injustices from ancient China with those from present-day England.In verses alive with longing and resistance, Bao's poems ask: what does it mean to love, defy, and bloom as a queer, Asian soul in our ever-changing world?

The sixth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between. Including contributions by Jenny Carter, Helena Fornells, Mica Georgis, Matthew Halliday, Aria Hughes-Liebling, Mira Mattar, Alex Mepham, Duncan Montgomery, c.f. prior, Oisín Roberts, James Rodker, Agnieszka Szczotka, Jack Young and more.

The Apothecary of Flight is a heady flight into the art of poetry itself: its vital importance as a tool for expression; for understanding and translating the self; for articulating the sheer force and joy of poetry and the way, for a person with autism, it can hold and celebrate both the smallest and weightiest of life's experiences.

Small Moon Curve is an intimate poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. In this compelling testimony, the narrator discovers a surprising, powerful affinity with Tess of the DâEUR(TM)Urbervilles.

Sidetracks, Bei DaoâEUR(TM)s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poetâEUR(TM)s first long poem and his magnum opusâEUR"the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language.

This collection of poems was written as a result of addiction counselling. My psychologist suggested that when I felt like I was going to relapse, due to strong emotions, to find something I was passionate about to distract me. I have always had a passion for photography, so I combined that with getting my emotions down on paper. There are so many people with mental health problems and I want them to know that everyone does in some way, and that's OK.

A scintillating debut meditating on love, parental addiction and loss, from a new voice in British poetry.

This collection is a visceral depiction of the difficult love between a father and son and what happens when that love is lost. In his debut, Thomas Stewart examines the death of his father whilst exploring questions of grief, guilt, mental health, identity, sexuality and masculinity.

In Axonas/Axis, Curtis gives voice to the experience of trauma and recovery through the poetic language of imagery rather than graphic detail, attempting to convey the fundamental twist in the narrative - perhaps even a breakage - that needs to be mended through a synthesis of mind, heart and body working towards the integration of the whole. The whole self. Using Ancient Greek words/concepts and mythology as a springboard to launch into her own personal etymology - the origin and intimate meaning of words dear to her - juxtaposed against what we commonly expect from that word. Ultimately, these poems attempt to tread on Holy ground, the territory where symbol is created from suffering and metaphor from the muscle of language, the territory of healing and wholeness.

This ground-breaking and lyrical first collection from Scottish Jamaican poet, Jeda Pearl, offers unique perspectives on race, disability, chronic illness, landscape and belonging.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of John Dryden, the most important poet, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist of the later seventeenth century.

Terence MacSwiney is most famous as the central figure in one of the great hunger strikes in world history, which culminated in his death in October 1920, aged 41, in Brixton prison, London, after a fast of 74 days. For many years prior to his demise, however, he had been an active participant in the intense cultural and political debates that characterised Irish life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a range of genre choices as the classical authors from whom she has drawn so richly throughout her enormously creative body of work.

Explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm played a role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. It studies the writings of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Lady Mary Wroth, John Donne, and John Milton, amongst others.