Publisher: Imagination Books
Dark Truths - A Poetry Book A collection of darkly tinged poems to touch the soul and spirit, focusing on love, life, guilt and every emotion inbetween.
Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crippling poverty across India, the war in Bangladesh, the influx of millions of refugees, the dark, dictatorial days of Indira Gandhi's reign, and the disillusionment of communist rule in Bengal, Chakrabarti's poems plumb the depths of urban angst, expressing the spirit of sadness and alienation in delicate metaphors wrapped in deceptively lucid language. In this first-ever comprehensive translation of Chakrabarti's work, award-winning translator Arunava Sinha masterfully articulates that clarity of vision, retaining the unique cadence and idioms of the Bengali language. Presenting verses and prose poems from all of Chakrabarti's life-from his first volume, When Will Winter Come, published in 1971, to his last, The Language of Giraffes, published just before his death in 2005, and collecting several unpublished works as well-Things That Happen and Other Poems introduces the world to a brilliant and universal poetic voice of urban life.Show book
“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.Show book
The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. Our Spring 2025 Selections are: CHOICE: Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber) RECOMMENDATIONS: Charles Lang, The Oasis (Skein Press) , Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo Editions), Dane Holt, Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press), Desree, Altar (Bad Betty Press) SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Strange Beach (Fitzcarraldo Editions) TRANSLATION CHOICE: Anna Akhmatova, trans. Stephen Capus, In Love and Revolution (Shearsman Books) PAMPHLET CHOICE: Troy Cabida, Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems) You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.Show book
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Raven, first published in 1845, is Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous and haunting poem. With its hypnotic rhythm, gothic imagery, and refrain of “Nevermore,” it explores grief, obsession, and the descent into madness. The story follows a bereaved narrator who, late one stormy night, is visited by a mysterious raven that seems to echo his deepest despair. Blending the supernatural with psychological torment, Poe creates one of the most iconic works in American literature. This audiobook edition captures the dark atmosphere and lyrical intensity of Poe’s masterpiece, making it a perfect listen for lovers of classic poetry, gothic tales, and timeless literature. Keywords/Tags: gothic poetry, classic literature, American poetry, gothic horror, madness, grief, haunted tales, psychological gothicShow book
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry If you tore off the tops of canola --yellow canola flowers -- would youjump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair? Implored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical noteÂbooks on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds! Flowers! History! Sad leaders! The word 'aubade'! They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the workingÂ-class belvedere of Asbestos Heights. Among the refreshing lemon-Âlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious,' Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ï¬�*nd his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights. 'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetryÂwise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.'-- Michael Robbins 'McGimpsey’s book is a masterful display of formal unity ... The work addresses the devalued currency of the overeducated, but underemployed, poet of art-culture, juxtaposing this experience with the esteemed currency of the undereducated, but overemployed, star of pop-culture ... It is also a book of significant pathos and submerged emotion.'– QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Prize jury citationShow book
