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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Gardyn Levington (Author), Andreana Boatta (Illustrator)You're a writer. Did you know? Ready . . . Set . . . Come on, let's go! Rebecca Gardyn Levington inspires everyone to find joy in writing--in any and all forms--in this rhyming picture book. Her inspirational approach celebrates imagination and self-expression, proving everyone can be a writer if they find what's "right" for them. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 ...

Finding Grandmama God: And Talking Things Over With Her - Paperback

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by Mary Feagan (Author)FINDING GRANDMAMA GOD is a book of poems and illustrations that are about finding and having conversations with my inner divine feminine grandmother. She is my kind, self-nurturing inner voice, my true self. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 11 x 8.25 IN Publication Date: December 21, 2023

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by Giles Andreae (Author), David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)This delightful collection of poems includes fun rhymes about the creatures who live in and around the ocean. Children will delight in the snappy poems and colorful illustrations about whales, walruses, penguins, polar bears, stingrays, and sharks.Author BiographyGiles Andreae is an artist, illustrator, writer, and poet. He often writes under the names of "Purple Ronnie", and "Edward Monkton", and is the author of the best-selling titles...

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by Carla Rachel Sameth (Author)Secondary Inspections, Carla Rachel Sameth's first full-length poetry collection, explores the life of the mother with loss and nuance as the book's central figure simultaneously deals with a son's addiction and a mother's dementia and death. These twin trials are approached in the context of a flawed and celebrated humanity that is authentic, rewarding, and difficult. The seasons of grief also look backward on the experience of recurrent miscarriages, shining a...

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Report copyright infringementby Oquirrh Keyes (Author)Before the silence came the fire. Careless Whispers is the second book in the Quiet Whispers trilogy by award-winning poet Oquirrh Keyes. Where The Quiet Calendar captured the grief of ending, this collection reveals what burned before the ashes settled. These 46 poems trace the arc of a decade-long affair - from the first spark of desire to the slow unraveling of everything it touched. Written with unflinching honesty and dark humor, Care...

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by John Carey (Author)A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book Review What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be ...

Everything Is Waiting for You - Paperback

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by David Whyte (Author)The title of David Whyte's fifth volume of poetry is an apt description of its contents. Everything, he points out, is indeed waiting for us, including our own demise and the demise of those we love. In less eloquent hands, this wisdom might feel burdensome, but in Whyte's language and imagery, these poems convey the beauty inherent in impermanence. Its second chapter, Thresholds, charts the experience of death of a loved one, and Friends, Marriage, Chances and Returns ...

Walt Whitman's Little Book of Selected Quotes: on Life, Love, and Poetry - Paperback

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by Helios Publishing (Author)"O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!" Walt Whitman Discover the wisdom and inspiration of Walt Whitman's quotes, conveniently compiled for you to read anytime. Ideal for reading at your lei...

An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year

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Report copyright infringementby Jane McMorland Hunter (Author)Celebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From beloved pets to majestic wildlife, and even the first dog in space, animals have long been a source of inspiration for poets across the ages. Animals are evocative of so much--the awe we feel seeing a skylark soaring along a breeze, the fear instilled in us by predators hunting big game, or the deep love we might feel for a pet. Our...

Seuss-Isms!: A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out...and Those Already on Their Way

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Report copyright infringementby Dr Seuss (Author)Dr. Seuss's New York Times Best Selling book of inspiring quotes is now available in a large-trim jacketed edition! Featuring classic art and cherished quotes from thirty-six of Dr. Seuss's most beloved works, including Oh, the Places You'll Go!, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who!, The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, this book full of valuable advice is a must-have for every age. Whether someone ...

All Worked Up: Ventings in Verse on Corporate Life, Bosses, Colleagues, and Other Vexing Stuff - Hardcover

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by A. Martin Block (Author) Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2024

The Awakening of Intelligence - Paperback

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by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Author)This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti's teachings is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher's thought. With among others, Jacob Needleman, Alain Naude, and Swami Venkatasananda, Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition; the need for awareness of 'cosmic consciousness; the problem of good and evil; and traditional Vedanta methods of help for different levels of seekers. Number of Pages: 544 Dimensions...

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by Anne Bateman (Author)In this award-winning pamphlet, Anne Bateman takes us on journeys, both geographical and emotional. The images in Tattvas are vivid and resonant. There's a strong sense of connections, whether to land or people, communicated with phrases that make us hold our breath as we read. And there is a formal openness to the work that lets in space for us to accompany the author and make our own journeys. An effective and accomplished sequence from the author of My Body Remember...

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Report copyright infringementby Yvonne Baker (Author)From its tentative first word ('perhaps') to the final phrase, realising 'here is no journey / only attending to stones- / like a story told yet again / by an old friend', the reader is immersed in a woodland that is alive with quiet yet profound epiphanies-the way we live and die; the way we might weave narratives that change our stories. In this liminal place, which is both a real woodland and an internal space, we learn that 'What matter...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandy Nalani McDougall (Author)2024 Elliot Cades Awardee 'Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. 'Āina hānau--or the land of one's birth--signifies identity through intimate and familial connections to place and creates a profound bond between the people in a community. McDougall's poems flow seamlessly between 'Ōlelo Hawai'i and English, forming rhythms and patterns that im...

This Line is Not For Turning - Paperback

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by Jane Monson (Editor), Carrie Etter (Author), George Szirtes (Author)An Anthology of contemporary British prose poetry by writers such as George Szirtes, Luke Kennard, Carrie Etter, Andy Brown, Anthony Rudolf, Robert Vas Dias, Kate North, Richard Gwyn, Pascale Petite and Jane Monson. Compelling and elegant, Jane Monson has assesmbled a definitive anthology for this borderline form. Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 17, 2015

Water Rolls, Water Rises/El Agua Rueda, el Agua Sube - Paperback

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by Pat Mora (Author), Meilo So (Illustrator)Lasting Connection Title, Book Links Junior Library Guild Selection Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Green Earth Book Award Short List, The Nature Generation Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators...

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by Kay Syrad (Author)[P]oems like delicate essays, in the sense of attempts-circling, being-with, tentative and tender [...] poems like seed heads, fragility and delicacy, balanced, a symmetry [...] seeding more thinking [... a tender] engagement with moss, air, horizon, the political, the scientific, the human, the non-human and the spaces-between where these things meet. The space on the page, within the poems, and between the poet writing and the world observed, is so delicately balanced.-...

Morning Lit: Portals After Alia - Paperback

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by Omar Sabbagh (Author)In his most personal collection yet, Omar Sabbagh brings a concentrated gaze to bear on turbulent emotions. Morning Lit is a deep and sustained exploration of fatherhood, marriage and bereavement: of love and its shadow side, which is loss. Crammed with symbolism, it is a work of maturity both emotional and poetic. - Fiona Sampson Omar Sabbagh offers his readers deeply contemplative-and even more deeply felt-windows into both the seemingly relentless tensions and nea...

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by G. W. Colkitto (Author)In Clyde: my river G W Colkitto takes us on an extended journey that travels as much through time as place. Deftly weaving together scenes from childhood to adulthood, from family to social commentary and politics with a river that is itself as much a character as the parents, brothers, royalty and worker who populate these poems, Colkitto conjures a tone that is at once wistful and precise; that is both astute and deeply humane. Whether working with long declamatory...

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by Sue Lewis (Author)Sue Lewis's Journey has the ability to combine a conversational tone with exquisite phrases and images that surprise without any need for showiness. The quiet elegance of the poems, the sound patterns and pressure on language combine with a sensibility of the fragility of life that nonetheless refuses to be crushed. There's a yearning ache in these pieces that remains unsentimental and leaves space for what isn't or can't be said; an intelligence that pays attention to th...

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by Jane Monson (Author)Each of Jane Monson's quietly immersive prose-poems is a light cast on the different facet of a vulnerable, interdependent world. Inanimate things are as charged with sensation and volition as the human minds and bodies that respond, sometimes painfully, to their disorder. This writing leaves us with no choice but to see more clearly; it enables us to care a little more. - Philip Gross Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 03, 2022

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by Ian Marriott (Author)In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical 'pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe natur...

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by David Underdown (Author)Jigsaw, David Underdown's delightful and diverse new collection, comes together to offer fresh ways of looking at the world, always sane and at the same time quietly transcendent.Whether reflecting on an encounter in the natural world or on significant moments in the story of a human life, Underdown pays attention to those small things that turn out after all to matter most. With a light step, he approaches the delicate wreck of a robin, follows a treecreeper's hunt...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Josephy (Author)It's winter, 1553. A small Italian hill town is under siege... In this narrative of uncommon endurance Alex Josephy inhabits place and people with lively precision. Told in the voices of women, including a chorus, a nearby mountain and the fortress herself, the uniting voice of the pamphlet is a 'girl', through whose eyes we see the minute details of life under immense stress and feel the nuances of loss, hunger and uncertainty. Again Beho...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Helen Wooldridge (Author)Drawn into the fields through Patricia Helen Wooldridge's meticulous observation, our minds breathe alongside the poet's. Within the spell of these pages we find ourselves in a world with a different notion of time and change. We find ourselves in the moment. A maven of attention, Wooldridge's acute reflections make each seasonal shift fresh, each creature and plant precious and beautiful, each encounter with the natural enviro...

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Report copyright infringementby E. A. Griffiths (Author)The willingness to take risks with form and to push the reader's expectations of what a poem might be make E A Griffiths' poetry immediately distinctive. Here we find lyrical poems that are tiny, elliptical, often heart-breaking and utterly located in a sense of place that is at once home and yet the terrain of struggle. Drawing on Welsh tradition and the complexity that spins from needing to learn your native language so that even when...

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Fortune (Author)How do we come home in a strange land? Moving to a remote forest hamlet in a new country in the midst of a pandemic, the only way to connect is to take the time to linger, listen and observe-to be with the land that is becoming home. From this observations a series of haiku arise, following the Japanese system of 24 seasons divided into 72 micro-seasons and interspersed with eight lyric poems that travel around the Celtic wheel of the year...

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Report copyright infringementby Boderra Joe (Author)Landscape and perspective flood Boderra Joe's Desert Teeth, a collection of poetry that unfolds the wakening shift of scarred violence affecting native people and land for centuries, where alcohol and uranium, two of many elements, continue to take the lives of our relatives. Each poem lingers and holds the face of the reader through deep explorations of grief, family, identity, and love. These poems walk out on their own with the memories a...

Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight - Paperback

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by Sarah Watkinson (Author)These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a bo- tanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scienti c treatment defamiliarises. Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness, as in 'The First Green Human: The Observer Interviews Clorinda', where Marvell's pastoral character is turned, through a ...

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by Sue Lewis (Author)An exhilarating and powerful poetry pamphlet, that is as direct as it is accomplished. Loose the smouldering arrow: start the fire. While the prey-birds circle, drench my pyre withprecious oils and let me blaze once more.(from Codicil) Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: March 02, 2020

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by Mick Evans (Author)Through the figure of Punch, Burlesque explores themes of identity and the roles imposed on us through circumstance and conditioning. The figure of Punch stands as an icon, the 'paradigm and picture of the age', challenging conventions of how and what we see and feel. The second part examines the way creativity shapes our view of ourselves, the masks we wear, often unconsciously, and how we strive to come to terms with the human condition. Wry humour and irony in the fac...