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This collection of heartfelt poems explores the profound bonds of family and intricate relationships between siblings, parents, and children. Through vivid imagery and evocative storytelling, the poems capture moments of love, support, and self-discovery, celebrating the enduring connections that shape our lives. These poems portray moments of sibling relationships and the unique rhythms of summer days spent at a family holiday. They delve into the complexities of familial bonds, friendships, envy, and the passage of time, painting a vibrant picture of shared cherished memories. The poems offer a rich tapestry of emotions, from the deep connections in life that make it meaningful to the mysteries of death's arrival. This collection seeks to explore the human condition, love, longing, and the beauty found in both everyday moments and extraordinary voices like Florence Welch's.

A Person, Abbreviated by Jess Conkwright is a critical exploration of identity and self-discovery. Dive into the journey of an insatiable woman as she navigates the complexities of life, love, and personal growth. With raw emotion and lyrical prose, the author guides us into the human experience in a way that questions the nature of our reality. This collection of vignettes invites the reader into intimate exchanges tinged with a longing...for what we cannot always place.Sometimes a moment is more than enough...

In this debut anthology of poems, Leanne Renaud sails effortlessly from the joys of Canadian springtime to mystic interactions with other worlds and even the highs and lows of substance use. Always authentic and emotionally generous Renaud invites readers to join her on a positive journey to healing from childhood trauma and we are happy for her kind reassurance.Passion for Poetry is exactly that, an exhibition of Renaud's ardor for life, love, and words.

Poetry pamphlet by Jay Gao, whose debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet Press, UK, 2022) is a winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.

**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize****Longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award****Soon to be adapted for screen by Lena Waithe and Warner Bros.**An award-winning collection and novella exploring the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthoodAcross three sequences, Joshua Bennett's new book recalls and reimagines social worlds almost but not entirely lost, all while gesturing toward the ones we are building even now, in the midst of a state of emergency, together. Bennett opens with a set of autobiographical poems that deal with themes of family, life, death, vulnerability, and the joys and dreams of youth. The central section, "The Book of Mycah," features an alternate history where Malcolm X is resurrected from the dead, as is a young black man shot by the police some fifty years later in Brooklyn. The final section of The Study of Human Life are poems that Bennett has written about fatherhood, on the heels of his own first child being born. Praise for Joshua Bennett'One of the brightest intellectual and political thinkers of a new generation' Jesse McCarthy'Bennett conjures a spirit of kinship that, illuminated by redolent imagery, borders on mythic' New Yorker'Joshua Bennett's astounding, dolorous, rejoicing voice is indispensable' Tracy K Smith

The stylistic aims of the Alexandrian poets have been much discussed, as has their reliance on literary tradition.First published in 1987, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry covers less familiar ground. Taking the whole canon of Alexandrian poetry as his starting point, Dr Zanker surveys the use of the realistic mode in many such works.

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, religion, health, and time are accompanied by explorations of the construction of the idea (including the self-identity) of Clare through writing and images. The collection also traces influences upon Clare, and considers the ways in which he has influenced subsequent poets in turn. The volume includes a chronology and an invaluable guide to further reading, and provides students with a firm grounding in Clare's writings and his critical reception: this is an indispensable guide to the poet and his work.

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, religion, health, and time are accompanied by explorations of the construction of the idea (including the self-identity) of Clare through writing and images. The collection also traces influences upon Clare, and considers the ways in which he has influenced subsequent poets in turn. The volume includes a chronology and an invaluable guide to further reading, and provides students with a firm grounding in Clare's writings and his critical reception: this is an indispensable guide to the poet and his work.

For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world-the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency-and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.

"Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring words that might appear incompatible but become dancing partners in Hillman's artistic vision: metaphor and metonymy; meaning and mystery; magic and morality. First delivered as a series of talks at the University of Virginia, the essays maintain a casual, intimate tone. A consummate artist and technician, Hillman explores a wide array of poetic examples, focusing on method, subject matter, and inspiration to demonstrate how the skills offered by poetry have become critically important for our present moment"--

Returning From Exile by Israel L. Monzon Gonzalez takes readers on a captivating journey of self-discovery and resilience. In this poignant collection of poetry, the author examines the many faces of struggle and the feeling of personal exile from the rest of humanity. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt storytelling, the author explores themes of identity, belonging, and the power of human connection. This gripping, introspective poetry will keep readers engrossed till the very end, as they explore trial, transformation and triumph over adversity with the author. A compelling and thought-provoking read, Returning From Exile is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring pursuit of finding one's place in the world.

I have poured my heart into these words.Emotions that have been kept in for so long now have the chance to speak to others. Oh, what a day to be alive.

"Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P. Inman, Chris Vitiello, Yedda Morrison and Christian Bèok, this book shows how a number of vanguardist poets explores the commonalities they detected between nature's processes of creation and their own methods of composition"--

In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children andadults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia''s "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these notebooks provide an intimate look at the daily life and struggles of one of the central figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. While Kharms''s stories have been translated and published in English, these diaries represents an invaluable source for English-language readers who, having already discovered Kharms in translation, desire to learn about the life and times of an avant-garde writer in the first decades of Soviet power.

Virgil wrote The Georgics in the 30s BCE at a time of political uncertainty in the Roman state and although country matters are to the fore in the selections chosen and translated in this chapbook, there is also from time to time an underlying sense of unease. The passages from Books 1, 2 and 3 deal with farming and animal husbandry and, from Book 4, with bee-keeping. The chapbook ends with the concluding passage of Book 4, Virgil's beautiful telling of the story of Orpheus and Euridice. This translation from the Latin by the poet Fred Beake makes for very entertaining reading.

Michelene Wandor's fifth book from Arc is a book of love poems - and not-love poems. By turns fierce and gentle, passionate and bitter, they push at the boundaries of minimalist language and pack an emotional punch that will remain with the reader long after the book is closed.

Ten poem. Ten poets. Ten earth-shattering encounters.

Aoife Mannix's latest full collection begins with a series of poems that chronicle her recovery from cancer and surgery. In the wake of physical and personal transformation, the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic

A selection of poetry for the spiritual journey whatever faith you may or may not have. Both accessible and honest, it is inspired by classic Anglican poetry and spirituality alongside Biblical texts, other books, ecclesiastical architecture and the natural world. Included is a series of poems inspired by Robyn Cadwallader's novel The Anchoress whence the title is derived. This collection seeks to explore our need for safe or apparently safe anchorage, our experience of seeking it and where and how we might find it. The poems are grouped into four sections entitled Sight, Solitude, Struggle and Solace.

The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron's place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals working in the field and will become invaluable to students and scholars of Byron, Romantic Literature and English literary history more generally.

Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music reinvigorates discussions around the nature of Catullus's lyricism, centring around four musical works from the twentieth century. Stephanie Oade considers how and why musical composers used Catullus's poetry as their stimulus to uncover new ideas about Catullus's poetry.