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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Emma Lazarus, Alan Seeger,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer.  In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life.  Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone.  But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse

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  Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed

  Grant Loveys

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  Focused thematically around discovering the figurative bones beneath the skin of a situation/relationship/moment, the poems in this collection are at once memento mori — reminder of mortality — a celebration of life. Its two sections, body and bones delight in both the corporeal and the ethereal mysteries deep within the physical world. This haunting debut expresses complex ideas in simple, powerful Language.

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  Incredible Things Do Happen:...

  Martina Evans

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  Incredible Things Do Happen: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2019 is an anthology of poetry from Poetry Ireland, the national
  
  poetry organisation. This anthology features the very best of Ireland's
  
  emerging poets for 2019, as chosen by Martina Evans, award-winning poet and
  
  reviewer. Along with a pair of superb poems, each poet provides an insightful
  
  piece on a favourite - a favourite poet or prose writer or musician or
  
  artist. Featuring Andrew Rahal, Angela Finn, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Audrey
  
  Molloy, Emily S Cooper, Frank Farrelly, Jim McElroy, Mairéad Donnellan, Paul
  
  McCarrick, Lorraine McArdle, Joe Carrick-Varty, and Ruth Quinlan, along with
  
  superb photographs from Michael Croghan and Izabela Szczutkowska. Quality
  
  poems and quality prose from Poetry Ireland: connecting poetry and people.

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  Into His Presence - Praying with...

  Tim Chester

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  Collection of Puritan prayers and meditations that will help personal and public prayer.This collection of eighty theologically rich and beautifully written prayers and meditations, adapted from Puritan prayers and prose, will enrich and deepen your prayer life.While retaining the dignity and beauty of the original language, Tim Chester has updated key words and phrases, making the book accessible to modern readers.Each prayer combines beautiful words with profound truths. Read during personal devotions or use to lead rich and deep corporate prayers to give weight and majesty to gathered times of worship.Includes rich and glorious prayers from John Owen, Thomas Watson, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Baxter and more.

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  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

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  Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsNarrated by Denis DalyDuring his lifetime, Hopkins, who was ordained as a Jesuit priest, was best known as a scholar and a teacher of languages. In his youth he composed poetry prolifically, but detroyed all his juvenile work in 1867. In 1874 he commenced writing poetry again, but little of his verse was published in his lifetime. His work was rescued from obscurity by his friend and supporter, Robert Bridges, who later became poet laureate.Hopkins' reputation as a ground breaking poet developed rapidly after Bridges published a collection of Hopkins' verse in 1918. Today he is considered to be one of the most innovative poets of the Nineteenth Century and a major influence on such important figures as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden.Hopkin's verse is notable for its striking imagery and use of a unique rolling metrical structure, which he called sprung rhythm. Many of the themes in his poems are drawn from associations with the pentitential religious practices to which he regularly subjected himself, and the tone of many of his best known works is introspective and melancholy.Production copyright 2021 Voices of Today

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  Short Poetry Collection 020

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 020: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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