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A collection of poetry for the artists, the hopeless romantics, the philosophers, the hurt and the healing, the dreamers, the wild and the timid. An alternative and edgy collection sure to keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat for what's next to come. Each poem is unique and designed with all of the senses in mind to give you an escape to a new world all your own. Poetry that pushes the bounds of the cosmos, and with fierce intensity all while flirting with whimsy. Each verse its own adventure with its own story however you choose to interpret. Inspirational and endearing, honest and bold. Whether you need a little pick me up, or someone to relate to, a friend, a dream, or just a little magic, this book will be right for you. Take my hand and open the page; adventure awaits. With lots of love from my soul to yours.

By the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid had killed a man for each year he'd been alive. Then he was shot dead in the night by a man he once called a friend.Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Ella Frears' wry, vivid debut collection, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Dominic Berry presents his favourite pieces for performance from his four adult collections with Flapjack Press - Tomorrow, I Will Go Dancing, Wizard, No Tigers and Yes Life - along with new poetry designed to engage and inspire.

First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published in periodicals and written by renowned critics of Tennyson's work. This is a must read for scholars of English poetry and English literature.

In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of Heaney's poems, placing his work within both Irish and Anglo-American traditions and explaining his poetry's complex relation to the political troubles in Northern Ireland.

Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of much recent academic and popular interest. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in Romantic texts from the canonical to the ephemeral, illuminating the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.

Through a series of feminist prose poems, Joanna Fuhrman wrestles with the experience of living online as a non-digital native.

In his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal collection that unearths connections both strong and tenuous among apparently disparate subjects, all percolated with Chappell's signature wit and warm vision. A student's observation that "Poems are how we see with our eyes closed" comes to resemble an icon of sorrow. A stairway to heaven ends with a jug of wine. Memories assume shifting appearances. Often written in traditional sonnet forms, Chappell's poems display astonishing technical skill and indefatigable humanity as they gaze on the challenges of life and the great unknown. A spirited and friendly farewell, Ever After shows an accomplished and much-beloved American writer gracing us with poems of remarkable originality, craft, and insight.

Shannon Ryan's Elephant is a piece of stream-of-consciousness poetry, which invites you to follow her on a journey from trauma to healing. Her spare yet powerful verse is adept at delivering a story steeped in nuance and emotion. The poem follows the speaker from childhood to adulthood, the format thinning and growing, mimicking the speaker's emotional maturing. These textual elements are centred upon the figure of the elephant synonymising protection, healing, and love.In Elephant, Ryan weaves a thoughtful and candid verse converging around the metaphor of the Elephant, and the healing it provides.

In this exquisite collection, the poet allows us into his realm where words dance and emotions soar, sometimes so raw they compel you to read them twice. "The Truest Thing I Know" is a captivating collection of poetry that invites readers on a transformative journey through the depths of human experience, tragic, romantic, full of loss and yearning and notions that all who are part of the human experience will relate to completely. Marshall T Smith is clearly a master at drawing from words the immutable, the unsayable, the words that live only as often untouchable, deep feelings in the soul of every human.

Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire.

Toutoungi's third collection is a tragi-comic journal of grief that, out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of startling wit and hard-won joy.

'One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents' The Times

Ein sterk og gripande oppfølgjar til kritikarroste 'Kvit, norsk mann'Var Brynjulf eit barn som blei selt på tvers av landegrenser? Kan han likevel vere glad for at han blei kjøpt til Norge? For alt han vil er å vere ein del av landet han har vakse opp i, erkjenne det vonde, men også sjå det vakre.Samstundes med at Kvit, norsk mann kom ut, dukka det opp avsløringar om problematiske sider ved adopsjonsindustrien. Desse avsløringane rokkar ved sjølvbildet og identiteten for mange adopterte, også for Brynjulf Jung Tjønn.Sjølv om ein er fødd i eit anna land og med mørk hudfarge, så vil ein likevel berre høyre til. Å vere ein del av det norske. Men kven har Brynjulf vore? Kven skal han vere eller bli? Kva vil det seie å vere norsk?Kvit, norsk mann har kome i seks opplag. Boka er tildelt Kritikerprisen, Ungdommens kritikerpris og Nynorsk litteraturpris. I Norsk kjærleik fortset utforskinga av liknande emna. Men forfattaren finn også nye retningar – i tankane om Noreg og det norske.]]>

Ole-Petter Vaatens diktsamling handler nær sagt som vanlig om livet, døden og kjærligheten på et lite sted, men denne gang går han kanskje enda litt lengre inn i tematikken rundt alderdom og død. Særlig er en kreftdiagnose i nær familie med på å prege flere av diktene. Men dette er også en samling som sier noe om hvor takknemlig han er over livet og ikke minst det å ha barn å være glad i- og som er glad i ham.

Er andre en del av en selv? Arne Hugo Stølans nye diktsamling er en skarp, varmog innsiktsfull katalog over mennesker i hverdagssituasjoner som kanskje ikke erså hverdagslige likevel."STOPPESTEDDu kjenner noen utålmodigerykki det røde båndeten pitstop ved fortauskantender den lille firbentekjæledeggen rigger seg tilAltfor langsomt kommeravleveringen, nederst vedgrunnmurender de ruglete restene avmiddelalderklosteret er bevartsom innstøpningAlltid hellig denne trangentil pauser i dagsløpet, så tid kanryddes til bønnforsakelse kontemplasjonog tarmtømming aldri kanden avskriveseller betraktes som utdatert. Detindreskal bli det ytre og det nedredet øvre; hastig skyfler du dritteninn i plastposenog drarden fornøyde bikkja med degforbi tobakksbutikkenretning togstasjonen ogsøppelkassene ved p-plassenmerket hundelatrine]]>

Selmor er eit episk langdikt om å overleva i ei brutal røynd – andlet til andlet med naturen, men òg side om side.Med eit konsentrert språk forteljast historia om ei kvinne og hennar kamp for tilværa. I ein vêrhard utkant på 1800-talets Island knyt ho garn, dreg på selfangst, trassar den bitande vinteren, amputerer ein fot, saknar mannen sin, ventar på våren. Men det teiknast ikkje berre et bilete av ei kvinne og hennar tunge livsvilkår, gjennom desse motiva kjem òg ein menneskeleg styrke til syne, ein styrke målbar mot dei brutale naturkreftene ho lever i.Gerður Kristný reknast som ei av dei fremste røystene i den islandske samtidslitteraturen. Ho har skrive innan dei fleste sjangrar, både for born og vaksne. For bøkene sine har ho blant anna motteke den islandske litteraturprisen, Alfred Andersson-Ryssts fond og blitt nominert til Nordisk råds litteraturpris. Selmor vart utgjeven i 2022.Knut Ødegård (f. 1945) står bak gjendiktinga. Han har gjeve ut eit førtitals bøker, dei fleste diktsamlingar, men òg skjønnlitterær prosa og faglitteratur. Han er òg aktiv som gjendiktar, særleg av islandsk litteratur. Diktbøkene hans er omsette til 42 språk, og han har fått ei rekke høgtståande prisar og utmerkingar frå inn- og utland.]]>

This open access book introduces readers to the craft of writing iconographic research poetry in a way that is scholarly, yet playful. By tracing the historical foundations of concrete and iconographic poetry, as well as the development of research poetry and poetic inquiry, the book examines the intellectual roots that inform this unique methodological approach.  The book offers a detailed description of the methods that can be used to design iconographic research poetry. It includes step-by-step description of strategies that researchers can use to create iconographic research poetry from qualitative data. By explicating the processes by which data can be represented in the form of iconographic research poetry and offering exemplars, readers will find specific hands-on strategies for creating their own iconographic research poems. The book contains writing exercises designed to help aspiring iconographic research poets exercise their poetic imagination. It also providesqualitative research instructors with suggestions for integrating iconographic research poetry into the classroom.

By spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Germany. Earlier that year the pressure of the situation produced a schism in the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia between Vítězslav Nezval, who wanted to continue to support the Soviet Union, and those who condemned Stalin's show trials, purges, and executions. Nezval chronicles this tumultuous period by embedding it in a paean to Prague, wondering if the city, and everything about the city he loves, will survive the horrors that are about to be visited upon her. With Apollinaire serving as his guide, he introduces us to the cafés and pubs he would frequent, many of which no longer exist, the various neighborhoods he lived in as a destitute student, the parks where he sought solace, and the people he would meet on the street, musing on some of the figures central to his poetics, such as André Breton and Lautréamont. While at times lamenting the changing face of Prague and that Hitler might reduce it to rubble, Nezval takes us into the places that spontaneously spur him to reflect on the issues facing artists of the day and the precarious sociopolitical situation. This translation is of the rare unexpurgated first edition and includes Nezval's photographs and illustrations as well as an appendix that maps out the significant revisions made later, providing additional translations of the longer passages that were inserted as replacement for what was expunged from the original edition.