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  The Poetry of Radclyffe Hall -...

  Radclyffe Hall

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  Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was born on August 12th, 1880 to wealthy parents who separated while she was still an infant.  Her parents thereafter paid little attention to her. Hall was educated privately, and then at King’s College London. Later she travelled to Europe, settling in Dresden, Germany.  With the death of her paternal grandfather she inherited a large estate and was then able to live as she pleased. 
  In Germany, Hall met Mabel Batten and fell in love despite the twenty-three year age difference. Batten gave Hall the nickname ‘John’ by which she was henceforward known in every circumstance throughout her life except in her work as an author. 
  In 1915, Hall met and, in 1917 moved in with sculptor Una Troubridge, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life. 
  Hall wrote poetry all throughout her twenties and thirties. She had published Dedicated to Arthur Sullivan as early as 1894, and five further volumes of collected works were released before she stopped writing poetry and published her first novel, The Forge, in 1924. 
  That same year also saw publication of The Unlit Lamp, the first work for which Hall was known as simply Radclyffe Hall. 
  The Well of Loneliness, the most important novel of Hall’s career, was published in 1928 to immediate sensation and controversy. It is Hall’s most direct artistic expression of her own personal sexual orientation. 
  After the controversy of The Well of Loneliness, Hall would publish only two more novels and a collection of short stories. 
  After years spent travelling in Italy and France and a series of long lasting affairs with other women (of which Troubridge was apparently aware), Hall retired with Troubridge to Rye, in East Sussex. Here, suffering from tuberculosis, she also underwent eye surgery and thereafter had difficulty reading and writing. 
  On October 7, 1943, Radclyffe Hall died from colon cancer at the age of sixty-three. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  Whispers Beneath the Skin -...

  Unrepeatable Beauty, Lena Elisabet

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  A sensual healing experience narrated by Lena Elisabet. 
  Whispers Beneath the Skin is not erotica—it’s poetry for the body. 
  A journey into softness, safety, and sacred pleasure. 
  Let the words touch you. Let the breath guide you. 
  You are not broken. You are blooming. 
  © Brilliant Woman Studios

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  Born in England – Exploring...

  Wilfred Owen, Michael Drayton, A...

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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 at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. 
   
  England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.  Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.  These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.  Genius is written in their names. 
   
  In this volume we explore the West Midlands, land-locked, yet containing its second largest city, it is a cornucopia of landscapes and contrasts that make it distinct and yet a part of the whole.  And whether the poets are famous or obscure their talents remind us all of our inheritance of words.

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  Around the World in 80 Poems - A...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  In the Victorian age that great adventurer Phileas Fogg attempted to traverse the globe in a mere 80 days using only the existing transport infrastructure and his own nous.    
   
  Today the globe can be spanned much quicker and in more comfortable fashion but alas without much of the intrigues, stories and landscape that accompanied Mr Fogg and made the trip so exciting. 
   
  In this volume we have an answer: Let’s travel the globe with the words and verse of 80 esteemed and voluble poets.  Let’s explore places, peoples, philosophical musings on our world and all manner of things that Mr Fogg had no access to.  With the words of classic poets such as John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Du Fu and Edna St Vincent Millay as your companions it’s one heck of a journey. 
   
  1 - Around the World in 80 Poems - An Introduction 
  2 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  5 - The World State by G K Chesterton 
  6 - The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud 
  7 - In the Train and at Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  8 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  9 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  10 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa 
  11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - To Italy by Radclyffe Hall 
  13 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  14 - Sonnet to Lake Leman by Lord Byron 
  15 - Pathways by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  16 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy 
  17 - Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  18 - Sonnet to Ocean by Thomas Hood 
  19 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
  20 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles 
  21 - Belgium by Edith Wharton 
  22 - Forced March by Miklos Radnoti 
  23 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - The Cretan Dance by Sappho 
  25 - The Isles of Greece by Byron 
  26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats 
  27 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 
  28 - Beirut Wedding Poem by Tim Graham 
  29 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  30 - Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker 
  31 - Walk to Caesarea by Hannah Senesh 
  32 - The City of Baghdad by Sultan Bahu 
  33 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  34 - To the Nile by Keats 
  35 - Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  36 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford 
  37 - Africa by Lewis Alexander 
  38 - Poem by Sarah of Yemen 
  39 - Sleepless I Kept the Night Vigil by Khansa 
  40 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 
  41 - A World with No Boundaries by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  42 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar 
  43 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  44 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu 
  45 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  46 - An Old Tibetan Rug by Else Lasker Schuler 
  47 - Dawn by Du Fu 
  48 - Chiang Chin Chiu by Li Po 
  49 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano 
  50 - Having Slept The Cat Gets Up by Kobayashi Issa 
  51 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  52 - The Loji Expedition by Tom Hood 
  53 - The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  54 - A Song for January the 26th 1824 by Charles Tompson 
  55 - Brother, You'll Take My Hand by Henry Lawson 
  56 - Tiare Tahiti by Rupert Brooke 
  57 - A Song of the Panama Canal by Damon Runyon 
  58 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger 
  59 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson 
  60 - North and South by Claude McKay 
  61 - Bermudas by Andrew Marvell 
  62 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman 
  63 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell 
  64 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  65 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson 
  66 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  67 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky 
  68 - A Dish of Peaches in Russia by Wallace Stevens 
  69 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville 
  70 - Iceland First Seen by William Morris 
  71 - My Artificial Flowers by Edith Sodergran 
  72 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse 
  73 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by W B Yeats 
  74 - Beauti

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  Sinuous Heart

  Fay van Burg

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  In our timeless, fast-paced world, Sinuous Heart delves into the haunting emotional landscapes of our relationships, both romantic and platonic. This poignant poetry collection captures the essence of loneliness that often lingers in empty connections, leaving us yearning for authenticity and companionship.  
  Through vivid imagery and heartfelt language, Fay van Burg delves into the struggles of maintaining intimacy and sincerity in a time when distractions abound, and meaningful encounters are fleeting. With lines that pulse with both pain and beauty, Sinuous Heart paints a striking portrait of the heart’s journey, a whirlwind of reality where joy and sorrow exist side by side.  
  Readers will find solace in these verses, reflecting on their own emotional battles of the shared human experience when seeking connection in a disconnected world. This collection is a testament to the strength of vulnerability. The words within are an invitation to embrace the complexity of our hearts as we, as one, navigate love, loss, and everything in between.

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