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  But & Though

  Jake Hawkey

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  Read by the author, Jake Hawkey.In But & Though, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families, its title a nod to the language of dependency, its circles of prevarication and excuse.Hawkey’s poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings, and take an unflinching look at a parent–child relationship sometimes painfully inverted through alcoholism.Hawkey’s fresh perspective and playful style introduces a vital, authentic new voice in British poetry. It will appeal also to those interested in the wider literature of addiction and the complexities of urban working-class life in Britain. Hawkey approaches these subjects from highly original and personal angles, breathing life into his characters and settings. Ultimately, we come to know a young writer attempting to ‘detach with love’ as he strides forward into his own life.

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  Floodmeadow

  Toby Martinez de las Rivas

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  The Floodmeadow draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration. Among fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated delicacy steps / free of the reedbeds'; the dragonfly that 'pushes itself through the armour / of its body' to be born.  The world is populated by archangels and wild gods, the roar of military aircraft, hunting dogs caught permanently suspended in the chase and a car that veers from the road into the floodwater in which the whole collection is saturated. Human relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured between a father and son, who make between them delicate balsawood constructions, which - as the poems do themselves - take flight in the turmoil, ecstatic one moment, plunged into darkness the next. This is a visionary collection that invokes other times, dimensions and soundscapes to tell out some word of beauty and abundance in the here and now.

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  Tenebrae - A Memoir of Love and...

  Dan Flanigan

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  Tenebrae is the ancient Latin word for darkness—the gradual extinguishment of light, one candle flame at a time. 
    
  In this memoir told in poems, Dan Flanigan follows that gradual dimming through the last illness and death of his wife. Written in free verse and prose poems, Tenebrae moves across the full arc of a long marriage. These poems refuse the familiar consolations. There is no posturing, no preciousness, no self-pity. A dying woman is rendered as fully human—strong, flawed, dignified, unmistakably herself—and the speaker does not cast himself as hero.  
    
  Other poems in the book reflect this same grappling with the fundamental issues of our lives—loss, hope, despair and acceptance, reflecting a compassionate embrace of the human condition. 
     
  If you think you don’t like poetry, Tenebrae may change your mind. 
   
  These are truly poems for the people—plain but exquisitely crafted and expressed in a language that is both elegant and easy to understand… They reach from the heart to the heart.

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  Sophie Jewett

  Anonymous

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? A father is heartbroken after losing his young daughter, whom he thinks of as a beautiful pearl he can never get back. One day, while grieving in a garden, he falls asleep and dreams of a strange, perfect world where he meets her again—only now she appears as a glowing, peaceful young woman in heaven. She tries to comfort him, explaining that she's safe and happy with God, and that her place there isn't something she earned but rather was given through divine love. The father desperately wants to be with her again, but he struggles to fully understand and accept what she's saying. When he tries to cross a river to reach her, he suddenly awakes. The Pearl was written in the late 14th century by the unnamed Gawain Poet, the same author believed to have written Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . It's a Middle English poem that reflects strong Christian beliefs, especially grief, salvation, and divine grace, which were central themes of medieval life. The poem is part of the "dream vision" tradition, where a narrator falls asleep and experiences a symbolic dream that reveals deeper spiritual truths. Anonymous was a significant literary figure whose work has stood the test of time. This public domain edition preserves the original text in its entirety, making it accessible to modern readers and scholars alike. Poetry has always been the most concentrated and powerful form of literary expression. The verse collected in Sophie Jewett represents a high point of the poetic tradition, offering language of beauty and precision that speaks to the deepest levels of human experience.

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  Whaling Town - Poems

  David Parker Allen

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  This is a place you never hear about in America... 
  A unique American collection of poetry, Whaling Town explores the rough work of self-realization and the roots that anchor us to the unsteady ground of our past.  
  Facing a turning point in his life, David Parker Allen began traversing the landscape of the United States, researching and writing music and assembling the bones of a collection of poetry. His journey led him through a personal family immigrant story in New Bedford, Massachusetts—the whaling town Melville made famous—to small communities across the Mississippi Delta and deep South, Gulf Coast, and Mountain West, as well as the streets of Chicago and New York. Jumping from rural America to urban hubs and back, Whaling Town tells a story of place and people in a gritty world that’s both in and out of our control. 
  With clear-eyed observations and gentle musicality, Allen takes stock of the burden of our collective history and looks directly into passing storms that we each must face alone. When the skies clear, how do we come to terms with self and our place in this world, and what do we build from the wreckage?

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  Through the Trees

  Maria Gilbet

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  • A poetry book of deep intrusive thoughts 
  • Overcoming sexual trauma (SA) 
  • Mental illness and alcoholism 
  • Finding hope in-between 
  As this is my first published book, I hope this helps free me of the thoughts I never thought would be seen. My only wish would be to show others that they too have a voice that has the strength to be heard-one word at a time. 
  To those that need it-a trigger warning for the whole damn thing. To my family and (some) friends who don't already know about the contents inside these pages, you're not obligated to read this. However, I won't speak to you about it otherwise.

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