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"Intense questioning marks the poems of this deeply engaging collection as it addresses the separations between aspects of the self, between past and present, between one's ideals and the actual world: 'the struggle to find words for what's happened to the country that grows more unfamiliar with time.' Death, war, loss, and confusion run through complex poems that also evoke the contrary in mountains and trees and flowers - the in-betweenness of experience is very much a motif here. The strength of these poems is their clarity and surety while addressing complex issues and the often painful nature of current life. The poems are also deeply aware that all we have to think with is language and the book captures both the slipperiness and beauty of language: 'sentences running together the vowels in a wet shimmer.' With sharp intelligence, The Distances calibrates the distances that separate and haunt us." -Martha Ronk

"Indelible and deeply resonant, Linda Black's Interior demonstrates a poet at the peak of their powers. This collection constitutes a wondrous neo-Cartesian studio evoking an ars poetica that emphasizes language as both trace and palimpsest. Here, Black explores the intersections of writing, desire and creativity in marvellously fragmented and Frankensteinian ways. In haunting poems, the poet-artist is resur-rected as defamiliarizing and uncanny: 'I rest / my hand outside / myself & draw'. Interior gives priority to improvisation and bricolage, and a questioning semiotics, as it lightly and powerfully sketches the body's relationship to the world. Black employs compelling dualisms to engage with both the breakdown and articulacy of an utterly contemporary language fully attuned to the ineffable: 'In my heart my two loves merge. This is all I can tell you.'"-Cassandra AthertonComments on Then"'Time is of the effervescence', the opening poem of Then, reads like a surreal poetic credo with its oblique imperatives: 'Tolerate the unknown, the intimation'. It reminds me of Kenneth Koch's credo 'Fresh Air' and his insistence that we should 'glance inside a bottle of sparkling pop'. Like Koch, Black also celebrates the 'new poem of the twentieth century', now made fit for the twenty-first. Then is a wow." -Frances Presley, Stride"I simply love this book and could quote from it endlessly. Split into nine sections it's playful yet serious and seriously playful at the same time. These are poems which sing and suggest, slip from idea to idea, confuse your thought processes yet delight the eye and the brain with an abundance of energy, skill and sheer brilliance. There is rhyme and assonance in abundance, all the traditional tricks of the trade yet done in such a way as not to overstate the case and even when this is the case to do it with such bravado and gusto that the reader is helplessly in thrall." -Steve Spence, Tears in the Fence"Then is a collection which speaks to the past, present, and future... Then is multi-faceted in its pictorial, tightly constructed, and lyrical manipulations of language. Black's writing asks its reader not to overthink or attempt to untangle the tricksy language it engages with, but rather to immerse oneself in words and 'Browse for/the time being'. Then offers honest insights into the joyful and traumatic moments of life, emphasising the emotional depth, creativity, and skilfulness of Black's writing." -Eilidh Henderson, Dundee University Review of the Arts

'Across an already diverse and courageously experimental body of work Cave has proved herself a poet and artist always worth anticipating with excitement. The Book of Yona is possibly her most extraordinary collection yet. A dizzyingly erotic, stricken and compassionate queering of the Song of Solomon which channels a displaced voice with hallucinatory clarity. As lucidly framed as it is, I experience a different collection each time I read it: sometimes deeply funny, the way true intimacy resolves into a kind of laughter of astonishment; sometimes quiet and moving in its hymnody and the sense of love as sacred ritual; sometimes burning with its conviction and the anger of the marginalised or censored. The poems draw so naturally on the hysterical-sublime and heightened expression of the Biblical text, juxtaposing this with perfectly pitched contemporary and everyday points of reference which never jar, but enhance the timelessness and force of the emotion. A stunning poetic, theological and erotic achievement, and a collection I know I will return to again and again - for inspiration, permission and insight - for the rest of my career.' -Luke Kennard'Witty and sensual, The Book of Yona invites us into intimacies of the feminine, queer and sacred with a holy jouissance. With verbal elasticity and playful fusions of time and geography, Sarah Cave traces a via negativa through secret truths that were there all along in the half-light of cedar branches, the archives, the anchorage... read and be drawn into companionship, divine encounter, love.' -Phoebe Power'Sarah Cave's collection is, by turns, sinuous, troubling and sensuous. Its central conceit - that Jesus's sister Yona is cursed to live until his return at the Apocalypse - is certainly ambitious, but is handled with real tenderness and humanity. Indeed, Cave interrogates the registers of queer desire, of faith and of bodies without ever losing sight of what Donne calls "Love's mysteries".' -Rachel Mann

Writing this book of poetry was cathartic for me. I've been through a lot in my life, and I really needed to get it out. Sometimes it's the only way you can move past it. I started to feel as if my negative emotions were starting to take over my life.

--Deep time is time / that can not be erased"With empathy and playfulness, with startle and delight, Jaspreet Singh explores the fragility, beauty, and sorrow of the dreaming and waking worlds... a work of remarkable intellect," wrote the poet Donna Kane about How to Hold a Pebble. In Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock, Singh deepens his exploration of climate, language, migration, decolonization, and the Anthropocene with an energy both acrobatic and intimate. Interweaving the personal, local, global, and geologic with hidden histories, these poems invite possibilities and defy neat closures, leaving readers with an indelible view of deep time. An ancestor's words in a diary, a child's chalk drawing, solar panels that smile like an ancient god, the Great Oxygenation Event: the gaze of these poems is vast, eclectic, and awestruck, while also remaining clear-eyed about the futures that await our planet. Her unironed face / smiling on behalf of the earth... You don't have such words in your language / You don't have such words in your language

Animals, birds, nature, love and the human essence interfacing with it and each other. A fine read by a very established writer. This book is divided into four sections all of which are filled with a rich tapestry of words carefully woven into heart matter by the author.

The Long Burnout is the poetic chronicle of a doctor's burnout, beginning with and continuing past the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, burnout is a primary concern facing the medical profession today, and probably all of society. The anxiety created by the virus and its endless variants was amplified by difficulties in caring for people, preexisting pressures, and ever-worsening resource scarcities. And, when things seemed darkest, the author suffered the loss of his father, which added grieving to the ordeal. However, a slow process of recovery began thereafter, thanks to a supportive family, exercise and healthy habits, the catharsis of writing, and the tincture of time. These poems express a year of suffering and healing playing out among existential contexts, our place in a world which we are degrading, and a universe we still can't understand. If only we could reverse our own civilization's long burnout to achieve a respectful state of equilibrium with our surroundings: homeostasis, biologically, or the Buddhist idea of Oneness with the world.

Written in the midst of wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends award-winning poet Stephen Collis's investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering. The fulcrum of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, The Middle hikes the shifting treelines of our warming world to reflect on the way all life is in motion, fleeing the rising heat. Taking up the human-plant relationship in particular, each of The Middle's linked sequences finds itself somewhere on a mountain, in the company of trees (or the ghosts of now absent trees), climbing in altitude, or heading north. Across the poem's three sections, Collis employs various forms of citational practice, rooted in his long engagement with the idea of a "poetic commons" where writing is made out of what one is reading. This practice is a kind of entanglement, a form of literary seed dispersal, where words are blown, carried, and scattered from one textual field to another, akin to the mammals, fish, crustaceans, reptiles, rodents, birds, insects, plants, grasses, and trees in motion on our dangerously heating planet.

What the Wild Replied is the second poetry collection from Becky Hemsley, author of popular poem 'Breathe' which featured in her first book 'Talking to the Wild'.What the Wild Replied takes us through the four seasons from the perspective of human nature. It looks at how we navigate our own winters and embrace our own summers, how we let go during our own autumns and seize the opportunities of our own springtime. It includes poems of hope, healing and help. Designed as a manual for our soul in every season - and every stage - of our life, What the Wild Replied has one main theme; to help us love, understand, forgive and be kind to ourselves and to others. Life can be difficult and overwhelming sometimes, but What the Wild Replied reminds us that we've got this. We are enough.

What the Wild Replied is the second poetry collection from Becky Hemsley, author of popular poem 'Breathe' which featured in her first book 'Talking to the Wild'.What the Wild Replied takes us through the four seasons from the perspective of human nature. It looks at how we navigate our own winters and embrace our own summers, how we let go during our own autumns and seize the opportunities of our own springtime. It includes poems of hope, healing and help. Designed as a manual for our soul in every season - and every stage - of our life, What the Wild Replied has one main theme; to help us love, understand, forgive and be kind to ourselves and to others. Life can be difficult and overwhelming sometimes, but What the Wild Replied reminds us that we've got this. We are enough.

A poetry collection by best-selling poet Becky Hemsley.Inspired by humanity and nature, this book was launched by the viral poem 'Breathe' which resonated with so many people. It is a journey that starts with the whole world and ends with you. These are the bedtime stories we never knew we needed.

A collection of poems direct from the author's authentic voice. These poems will take you on a unique journey of discovering poetry. The Yorkshire poet Alyson E Lee has a unique way of visually describing stories in her poems. She still captures the beautiful way verses are composed but adds her magic, which makes her stand out and be different. Colourful, imaginative words that will warm your heart. Float Away in a Bubble is an unforgettable journey of pathos, humour, love and a hint of mischief! From age six, Alyson has been writing poems, encouraged by her school teacher, mother Valerie Jackson MBE, for whom she is grateful for her inspiration in life. Alyson's school teacher, mother Valerie Jackson MBE, encouraged her to take elocution lessons initially for a correction to a lisp. Alyson then excelled in her speech and drama exams, which included verse, prose, and acting. She continued this in adulthood and started teaching her own students in similar exams with The Trinity Guildhall London with a successful 100% pass rate. Some of her students have gone on to have successful acting careers, including Jessica Barden (The End of the F...ing), Colson Smith (Coronation Street) and Kimberley Walsh. ( Girls Aloud)Her passion is teaching, reading, writing poetry and walking her dog Elvis.

WANT TO EXPLORE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE?Just Below the Surface is David Michaud's first collection of poetry, in which he first pays homage to poets who have inspired him. The remainder is a deeply personal attempt to humbly explore experience and emotions often only captured in one's diary. David's work touches on fear, loneliness, heartbreak, imagination, and nature; in his own words, aiming to provide both himself and the reader a few moments of solace or joy. David Michaud was born and raised in Montreal. He now lives in Calgary .

Libro ganador del IV Concurso Anual de Poesía Lugar Común-Embajada de Italia en Venezuela (2019). "Se habla de un crimen, uno para el que los cuerpos de investigaciones son más ineptos que de costumbre, un crimentranshumano (¿sobrehumano?, ¿infrahumano?). Un crimen animal, tal vez, aunque pudo haberlo cometido una persona; sin embargo, las investigaciones dan un resultado, un resultado que titula este libro. Una convivencia con monstruos y animales. Esta peligrosa diplomacia que Manuel ensaya y logra en este libro, implica que entender lo humano no basta". - Carlos Colmenares Gil.

"This book's title suggests a vocation, an attitude toward language, and oblique reflections that address human fate as much as the most tangible transformations of the poet's country. This discreet phenomenology is hemmed in by pathos-passion and sickness-and by a rigorouswatchfulness." - Miguel Gomes.

Eileen R. Tabios began her "Poems Form/From the Six Directions" partly because she was trying to create a poem in a new way. Creating mixed-media sculptures whose processes engendered verse-poems fit that impetus. But, unexpectedly, the sculpting process made her focus for the first time on working with physical material. As a writer working with imagination and words, she was surprised by the pleasurable frisson of dealing with the tangible as found materials made their way into her mixed-media sculptures. Such materials included old coasters, used magazines, ribbons, recycled cardboard, department store shopping bags, and so on. The sculpting process created a "simmer" in her belly, like the physical effect she often feels when chasing down a poem into written form. She, therefore, decided to try her hand at working more consciously as a visual artist. She hadn't intended to go this route but allowed herself to follow the impulse because such an "opening" manifested what she considers wonderful about all Art and Poetry: how they lead its maker and viewer/reader into new experiences. She would end up creating about a dozen sculptures before sculpting led her to drawing. Her drawings and sculptures were just part of Six Directions, a multidisciplinary andinteractive project that encompassed several performances, exhibitions, and readings in California's Bay Area (San Francisco, Berkeley, and Sonoma). Because of her initial focus on the project's interactive aspects with audience, the Six Directions drawings are the project's least known element. This book offers the entire series of drawings, most of which have never been seen in public.

Flowers of Bitumen (Fleurs du Bitume in French) is the first volume of poetry, published in 1878, by Émile Goudeau, who is best known as the founder the Hydropaths Club, a widely-successful literary club in Paris from 1878-1880, and subsequently as the influential editor-in-chief of the world-famous Chat Noir journal.Léon Bloy, his cousin, says this of him: he "is the lover, at first happy and successively distraught with each passing minute of his own existence, which makes him, at thirty-four years old, madly adored by fifteen million mistresses. When... Flowers of Bitumen [first appeared], I didnʼt understand anything in it... I noticed nothing at all of the extreme nascent superiority of that poetʼs rough outline that was teased out of his marble like Michelangeloʼs unfinished Slave. I called him Mohammad-Goudeau and I made him enter into Byzantium. I cried plaintively that that was decidedly the end of ends, and that the bitumen was going to gobble up the literary Pentapolis of the Occident. That bitumen has become the asphalt of Glory and we are certain to have a great poet hiding amongst us in the nineteenth century...." ("The Fifteenth Child of Niobe," Chat Noir journal, November 3, 1883).

Inside every mother is a host of thoughts that can never be said out loud. But wouldn't we be less lonely if we could? Katherine North brings a rare level of honesty to the experience of motherhood by welcoming all her selves to the table, even the ones a "good mother" is never supposed to admit to. Tracing her journey from single parent to blending families, she shares the joys and agony of loving her family while trying to hold on to herself. Everyone who's ever felt torn by the conflicting demands of love, parenthood, and creativity- while making a life and a living- will find themselves in these pages.

Nothing is more meaningful than family life. This world can seem a beautiful and loving Eden in one moment and the next you can feel buried alive. Your loved ones become sick, or they grow into hellions. Or they don't even make it into this world at all, or they live a long life and then die, leaving you behind. Life is confusing, life is beautiful, life is sometimes overwhelming. Being a mother is at the center of family life, an all-consuming role that sometimes is invisible and other times essential. This collection is about Meade's world, told through the anatomy of family life. Celia, along with her partner Karl, experienced late miscarriage, the adoption of two beautiful girls, alongside brushes with addiction and loss. These poems are based on feelings that sometimes were fleeting and other times endure. They reflect the life of a poet at a certain point of time, as she is growing older and her children enter into adulthood and continue to evolve.

On Being Human is a compilation of original poems by Ghazala Alam. Written in modern Urdu and English, each poem is introduced by an English preamble detailing her inspirations and insights. Accompanied by English transliteration, her poetry is informed by her experiences as an immigrant, woman, and a person of color. This distinct lens on life's challenges also reaffirms her faith in the human capacity to empathize, overcome, and seek justice. With a sensitive, sometimes satirical style, her poems touch upon social issues pertinent to modern, everyday life. Each poem uses simple but elegant language to comment insightfully on fundamental aspects of the human struggle for meaning in the face of adversity and turmoil. Tackling issues such as ego, PTSD, and rejection, as well as true love and generosity, Ghazala's poems strike a deep chord in readers and include a rallying cry for racial justice, a depiction of inner struggles of the mind, and much more.

SHEENA JETSTAR, a beautiful, dazzling, angelic being of light has come to the world to spread messages of Hope, Love and Truth. Her love for all people, animals and all creation are evident in her songs, poems and rhymes. Each of her beautiful messages inspire a greater sense of acceptance, love, understanding and compassion for others Sheena's insights strengthen our faith and understanding of God, He has provided us with free agency to choose our path in this life. Sheena's messages reveal that the forces of light will be victorious in the battle between good and evil that lies ahead. There is a great battle being waged for the souls of mankind. God's truth and perfect justice will prevail in the end. His armies of valiant leaders will thwart the enemy's plans and bring about a future that is hopeful and bright. Good will triumph over evil and ultimately vanquish all dark forces and the enemy of our soul. God's purposes are vast and everyone is a part of His glorious plan.

ନରେନ୍ଦ୍ର କୁମାର ଭୋଇଙ୍କ 'ଧୁନ୍ଦୁକୁଡ଼ା' ସମକାଳୀନ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କାବ୍ୟ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ଏକ ସ୍ପର୍ଦ୍ଧିତ ଉଚ୍ଚାରଣ । ଭାଷା ଓ ପ୍ରକାଶଭଙ୍ଗୀର ପରିଚ୍ଛନ୍ନତା, ତୀକ୍ଷ୍ଣ ଚିତ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ସହିତ ଆଜିର ମଣିଷର ନିଃସଙ୍ଗତା ଓ ଅସହାୟତାର ପରିପ୍ରକାଶ ଏ ସଂକଳନକୁ କରିଛି ସାର୍ଥକ ଓ ସ୍ମରଣୀୟ । --- ଗଣେଶ୍ୱର ମିଶ୍ର ପ୍ରାକ୍ତନ ସଭାପତି, ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏକାଡେମୀ

One can always count on Richard Newman, in his poems and in the lyrics of his songs, to give this tattered world a fair shake but also to give it to his readers strong and straight. In his fine new collection, Blues at the End of the World, even ancient forms are coaxed to sing a gritty, modern ache as Newman tackles topics large and small-abandoned Shinto shrines, new marriage, aging, America's shameful history in the Pacific, how living many years abroad changes a person-in masterful haiku, tanka, and haibun tucked among the sonnets and free verse. Few poets could so viscerally conjure the Saigon smog as a speaker lifts his baby "to the blood orange dawn, / baptizing [him] in beauty frothed with poison," or make a dead dog beautiful as it floats, bloated, around an island in its "funeral shawl of flies." Blues at the End of the World brims with portraits of loss and stubbornness, with delicate reports of a rough world, hewn by sorrow.-Francesca Bell, author of What Small SoundIn Blues at the End of the World, Richard Newman takes us around the globe and deep inside the human heart. With the memory of an exile, he connects the past and present in surprising ways, weaving personal narratives into lush landscapes that capture the flavor and tang of living in new places. Newman navigates between "unhappiness or hope," with humor and humility, erasing borders as he's crossing them-not a tourist, not a native, he is our ideal guide.-Jim Daniels, author of The Luck of the Fall and Gun/ShyIn Blues at the End of the World, Richard Newman leaves home to find a home, but home becomes a continual journey and exploration of self and love that "take[s] root. . . /and thrives like madness." These well-crafted poems show how rich and full life can be where the sea "slaps itself awake" and a "rainstorm has a soul." It's a time of waking to barking wild dogs, sharing donuts with students where having a donut is "a lottery/we only savor if we're lucky." It's a journey of falling in love all over, getting married, fathering a son, and leaving one country for another-and another-and another, with "no escape from war, /the horror veined through worlds hidden." These poems, studded with a variety of styles and forms, make us all want to join the journey. They resonate. -Maryfrances Wagner, 6th Missouri Poet Laureate

"Make me shout . . ." Daphne Solá writes, in her new collection, A Myth in Reverse, "Make me cry out . . ." These are poems of myth and memory, poems that celebrate a life lived through the senses of allegory and legend, and of what might have been. Solá rejoices in beauty whenever it appears in the fleeting world, "a moment, sweet and stretched, like the neck of a swan." -Peter E. Murphy, author of I Thought I Was Going To Be Okay www.stockton.edu/murphywriting Daphne Solá is one of those spiritual writers that the world particularly needs right now, and she expresses her lifetime of wisdom in magnificent poems that prize melodic detail. You can't stop reading her poems because you want to know more of her fascinating life, and you want to learn how to transform beauty into not-specifically-articulated calls for justice and well-being. She captures the best of the universal in the particular, without ever leaving you out as a particular reader! -Barbara Regenspan, author of The Chessmaster's Daughter and Haunting and the Educational Imagination To read Daphne Solá's poetry is to step outside of oneself and into a swirling world of nature, music, and dance, and above all, passion. Hers is a world vibrant with color and textures sprung from a panoply of experience. Be it living in Latin America, New York City, or in country near Ithaca, the poet, herself a force of nature, is always self-aware, humorous, and unabashedly frank. To the wind flying across her pond, she reminds us: "You have to take me as I am/ wayward/ rebellious/the last free spirit." -Carolyn Clark, author of Watershed-new Finger Lakes poems

Ed Ruzicka takes us through "days of tragedy and joy" illuminating jeweled moments under"a tender rain" when "Beads dangle at the tips off slender crepe myrtle branches." Squalls navigates through the disasters of life on the Gulf Coast of storms and floods and more personal wreckage: "I had something I lost. I want / something others have. Tomorrow / isaround one more hard corner." Yet past the hard corners he looks above to find solace "underthe mammoth / teat of a milky aurora..." So that when he gets back down to earth and itsstorms, a plain fact acquires a grace of humble redemption and humor: "I have this, onewheelbarrow full of rain." This is a man rooted in his life who improbably writes poetry inlove of his daughters, against his losses and upon his joys. I like being in Ed Ruzicka's world.You will too.-Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and The Missing JewNothing is too insignificant-a toddler discovering its tongue or a flattened gum wrapper on apath-to evade Ed Ruzicka's eye, nothing too commonplace to resist exploring. Howeversmall its beginning, each poem in Squalls becomes a flood, a story whose banks can't contain the deluge of its images, and yet a story whose images never slow an inexorable push toward a surprising and satisfying finish. Each of these poems is its own intoxication.-Charles deGravelles author of Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run and The Well Governed SonFrom a blind, old dog named Pup to a little girl who sings to it, from a house painter falling inlove, to how the homeless sleep, Ed Ruzicka brings a keen eye and a sympathetic ear to therhythms of life and the forms of poetry. Rain and river and raw love flow through the pagesof Squalls. -Joe Cottonwood, author of Foggy Dog and Random Saints

Maggie Yang is a writer and artist from Vancouver, Canada. Recognized by The Poetry Society and the League of Canadian Poets, her work has been published in The Florida Review, Split Rock Review, Booth, among others. Her art appears in The Adroit Journal.

Synopsis: I love writing, even when it keeps me up at night. It is always fun for me. I hope my readers enjoy reading this collection of poetry. I try to tell the truth in my writing and as you readers all know, the truth can often be brutal, so if any of the content of this book offends, upsets or disturbs any of you, please know that I too am often upset, disturbed and offended by what I write.Autobiography: Joyce Keveren has written 7 novels, one collection of short stories and this is her fourth collection of poetry. You can find her books on Amazon.com and on her writer's website at joycekeveren.com. She is currently at work on another novel.

Pictures of the fleeting moment, capturing more than the eye can see - these are the essence of David Semanki's Ghost Camera.

Carolyn Adams invites you to explore the secret places of the natural world, carrying with you the fears, wonder, and curiosity of what it means to be human. Layered within the four seasons, the intricacies and beauty of flora and fauna in forests, deserts, oceans, and even one's own backyard yield deeper insights into our connections with nature. Witness the quiet calm of a forest clearing, but understand what had to happen to put you there. Watch the tumult of crashing waves with a curiosity for the lives under the surface of that sea. Fly through broad skies and feel the air on your skin. Ultimately, stand beside Adams for a moment and "listen to what this place tells you."

A Life of Light is a journey into the observations of what God did for me when I yielded to Him in obedience. It took a lifetime of determined faith and struggle which brought the fruits of knowing what God had personally for me. Knowing that I used His mind in my thinking, I came to the realization that a personal relationship with God through examination of my life, making the changes needed to please Him, I saw just how He had weaved a tapestry of good things in my life as my evidence of His love for me.