Publisher: Good Press
This book is a collection of poems penned by Eleanor Farjeon. Featured titles include 'Sylvia Sings', 'Myfanwy among the Leaves', 'For Joan', and 'A Child's Fear', Here's an excerpt from 'Sylvia Sings': "Sylvia said that day / "I'll sing if you will play." / We could deny not anything / Not even deny to hear her sing."
On the way home from a gig in Belfast, a band of musicians witness something they should not have seen and are innocently involved in the fatalities of a famous politician, a senior policeman, a hitman and their driver. The next day the drummer is murdered, the rest of the band survive a botched attempt to wipe them out. The remaining musicians separate and flee to Tenerife, Oslo, Germany and the Republic of Ireland while the bass player strangely chooses to stay at home. Keeping a low profile when you are a musician is difficult and they soon find out being popular has its price.Show book
There are many different ways to look at life’s situations and adventures. Within the tingling emotions of the truest love, the burning pain of a heartbreak that may never receive closure or justice, the stirring of new ideas that will bring you into a better world for yourself and loved ones; within all of these emotions, PERSPECTIVE is the star. Perspective is the common thread through all the events of life that, depending on how you view what takes place, brings you to the other side for better or worse. Perspective will always be the main player in your story of what you love, embrace, and manifest, as well as what you dislike and need to set free from your heart. Which stance will you take? Which outlook will lead you to the life beyond your childhood dreams and fantasies? The power is always within you, within your chosen perspective. Get ready for a poetic and lyrical ride through the heart as it faces love, passion, hurt, opinions, and existential conclusions. This is “Perspective.” Praise for PERSPECTIVE: POEMS “Christie Leigh Babirad’s book, Perspective: Poems is fantastic! The poems and pictures bring you on such a great journey. I love Christie’s writing and I highly recommend this book.” —Michel Goguen, Songwriter and Musician for “Open Strum” and founder of the “Music for Critters” fundraiser “Another beautiful, moving collection of poems by Christie Leigh Babirad, Perspective: Poems reaches into the heart and gently taps. Running through themes of love, loss, gain, nostalgia, courage, and hope, Babirad’s poems illuminate the human experience from her unique point of view and allows for a shared connection. Paired with her captivating photographs, each poem causes readers to pause and reflect on what it is to live in this messy, complicated, wonderous world, and to be grateful that we are, despite our differences, all in this together.” —Becky Marietta, Author of White River Red: A Novel “In her third poetry collection, Perspective, prolific poet Christie Leigh Babirad brings us phrases that move us, lessons that clarify, and philosophy that has staying power. She strings words in her own special way that shine a light on her understanding of the depths of the human heart. A great motivational collection to pick up if you’re feeling down. Gorgeous black-and-white prints illustrate each poem.” —Kathryn Brown Ramsperger, Award-Winning Author, Journalist, and HumanitarianShow book
Poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work so compelling is 'Barwin’s balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder and the shifting, often perplexing nature of consciousness. His Heisenbergian sensibility honed to a fine edge, the poems in this bright, bold and acutely visual book add a surreptitious intensity and wry maturity to Barwin’s trademark gifts for subtle humour, solemn delight, compassion and invention. 'Between the freaky, funny filmmaker Guy Maddin and author Gary Barwin, Canada is producing some of the most innovative creative works of our time.' – Utne ReaderShow book
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006.Show book
In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains. Though the pieces grow out of Bitar’s personal experiences over the last decade, both in North America and the Middle East, he is not primarily a confessional writer. His work might be called cubist, the perspectives constantly shifting, point followed by counterpoint, subtle phrase by savage outburst. Bitar’s enigmatic speakers are partially rational creatures, have some need to explain, and may succeed in partially explaining, but, in the end, communication and subterfuge are inseparable – must, so to speak, co-exist.Show book
Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize - 2018 Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour isn't always easy, but Ayesha has things pretty sorted. She and Zeyd share everything: a marriage, a business, a future. Until Tom walks in to organise his boyfriend's funeral. A snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha's community and faith, has profound consequences. Forced to confront a secret she has hidden even from herself, Ayesha must decide who she is – no matter the cost. Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director is an incisive and heartfelt story of sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. It won the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018.Show book
