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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...

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by Leonie Charlton (Author)The sense of place and of senses porous to land and sea bring to life this stand-out sequence of poems. The voice, at once conversational and distinctive, is enraging and personal. There's an ache at the core of the beauty here, not of self-pity or of indulgence, but of empathy, of griefs, both human and beyond human, that held to the light, recognised, and invite compassion. This is clear-eyed but gracious poetry. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.27 x 5.83 ...

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by Nigel Hutchinson (Author)Opening a conversation with paintings and sculptures from the 16th Century to the present, this second collection by Nigel Hutchinson displays all his hallmark wit and insight. Artists as diverse and Brueghel (elder and younger), Lautrec, Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth and Cezanne find themselves taking a skewed but searching view of the points at which life and art rub together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes with greater friction. Humane, wry, always spirited, Do...

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by Bonnie Thurston (Author) Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 29, 2019

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by Edward Ragg (Author)The manifestations and properties of water are excitingly explored in Edward Ragg's new collection. Here are living poems where narrative and lyric work together to contemplate the energies implicit in water. The intriguing emphases laid upon the meanings of the word 'present' give a unique edge to the poems. Glass, tears, ice, rivers, wine, salinity, tides: all these elements are woven into the texture of this collection, where the illuminations and fluidities of langu...

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by Bonnie Thurston (Author)Bonnie Thurston's Forgotten Futures: a memoir is a tender heart's cry and a passionate celebration in one. There is deep poignancy and longing here, but not a mawkish or maudlin word. We travel in two landscapes - the world inhabited with wonder for each small detail, and the internal world of half a couple, observing both the relationship's moments of grace, joy and intimacy and those of wounding, longing and loss. In supple, accessible language, honed to beauty, t...

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by Willie Edward Taylor Carver (Author) Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.51 x 5.58 IN Publication Date: June 06, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Joy Harjo (Author), Michaela Goade (Illustrator)THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER - AN AMERICAN INDIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HONOR BOOK - A BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK HONOR AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - The Horn Book - NPR - The Bulletin - Kirkus Reviews US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem "Remember," illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder ...

Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Stover (Author)This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian (De Raptu Proserpinae). It sheds new light on the importance of Valerius' poem and enhances our understanding of the intertextual richness of imperial Latin epic. The readings offered in this book provide new evidence to support the view that Valerius' Argonautica preda...

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Report copyright infringementby E. E. Cummings (Author), Richard S. Kennedy (Editor)The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published. Number of Pages:...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony C. Murphy (Author)Set in the North of England during the 1980s and 1990s, this collection of prose and poetry invites readers into the author's world through snapshots of his life. With stories that traverse childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, the author reflects on themes of family, identity and the passage of time.Recurring motifs such as music, drinking culture, and religious experiences add texture to the narrative, while the author's dry w...

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Report copyright infringementby Eileen Freeman (Author) Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 09, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Vinsonhaler (Author)"This groundbreaking translation ... reveals the un-Beowulf-a riddling maze never seen before, a murder mystery of smoke and mirrors."- Robert Bjork, editor of Klaeber's Beowulf"Vinsonhaler presents startling new evidence for the poem's 'enigmatic design, ' in which good kings such as Beowulf and Hrothgar are repeatedly complicated by allusions to kin-murder, vengeance, and avarice, drawing them ever closer to the monsters they confron...

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by Diane Seuss (Author)WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTIONWINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection t...

Little Poet Emily Dickinson: In Emily's Garden

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Coombs (Author), Carme Lemniscates (Illustrator)Introduce clever babies to classic poets with Gibbs Smith's new Little Poet series. Avid gardener and poet Emily Dickinson collected 424 pressed flower specimens and wrote nearly 1800 poems in her lifetime, with nature and plants inspiring many of her beloved works. Lines and couplets from Dickinson's poems paired with Carme Lemniscates' gorgeous illustrations bring In Emily's Garden to life, letting toddlers...

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Report copyright infringementby Bonnie Worth (Author), Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator), Joe Mathieu (Illustrator)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Laugh and learn with fun facts about sharks from the smallest (the dwarf lantern) to the largest (the whale shark), the most notorious (the great white) to the most obscure (the goblin), and more--all told in Dr. Seuss's beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat! "In a super shark tank that is like a small sea, we will visit with sharks. Do you dare ...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Brevoort (Author)A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son's remains seven years after he was lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim's familie...

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by Danii Jasmine (Author)HOMEMADE SHRINE is derangement, romance, addiction & an ode to that very special & dark part of your life which was romanticised & mired in melancholy & self-destruction, but was also something you secretly miss about yourself. . . Cultish & cathartic, what sets this compelling collection of evocative poems & journal/scrapbook pages apart is its interactive nature, as it prompts readers to embark on a short journey of self-reflection. By encour...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Gyo Fujikawa (Illustrator)Originally published in 1885, A Child's Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation. Stevenson's beloved poems celebrate childhood in all its complexity and joy, from the sunny pleasures of "At the Seaside," to the imaginative musings of "Foreign Lands" to the playful, ever-popular "My Shadow." Of the many available editions, Gyo Fujikawa's is one of the swe...