Editorial: e-artnow
Cathay is a compilation of traditional Chinese poems translated into English by poet Ezra Pound. These fifteen poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right.
Winner of the 2024 New Poets Prize, judged by Holly Hopkins. A gold bangle, a barber's shop and Diana Princess of Wales in an Indian wedding video. In Lobe, Cia Mangat navigates what we inherit and what we leave behind in a book which plays with private and public mythologies. These poems create a world of love and surveillance, where Diana's revenge dress prepares for the paparazzi and aunties gossip in the threading parlor. Bodies are pierced and cut from magazines while the wedding halls beckon. Lobe is a book of resistance and reimagining, where Di escapes her buttercream wedding, a woman shaves her head and 'george michael will sing every song you have ever wanted to you /directly accompanied by hundreds of thousands of people you love'.Ver libro
A collection of poetic folk talkes from all over the world.Ver libro
Progress : Is a Precious Stone. Something the world seeks, just as much as Gold, or precious gems. With progress, there's no going backwards only forwards, but you can look back at the progress you've made. This is a short, no nonsense poem that gets to the heart of what it wants to say, and points the way :) It leads to the future, from the depths of the past.Ver libro
Beautifully curated, The Poetry of World War One is a stunning collection of verse from some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Whether fighting on the frontline themselves or observing the destruction of the Great War from home, these poets capture the horrors of the trenches, the fragility of life itself and the resilience of the human spirit in haunting detail. As devastating as it is hopeful, this collection provides a poignant and evocative snapshot of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history. The poets included in this collection are: Siegfried Sassoon Thomas Hardy Isaac Rosenberg Rupert Brooke Katharine Tynan Jessie Pope Laurence Binyon WB Yeats Rudyard Kipling Wilfred Owen Robert Graves Francis Ledwidge Ivor Gurney Mary Borden Gertrude Stein This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.Ver libro
When Ben Targét was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2012 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, he was set on the path to becoming a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning performance artist. Eight years later, amidst a global pandemic, he gave it all up to become the live-in carer for his uncle: an irascible octogenarian prankster called Lorenzo Wong. LORENZO is their story, a show that confronts the messiness of ageing and dying through the medium of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth circa 30AD. This book is the full script of that life-affirming show, with illustrations by Targét himself. It was directed by Adam Brace, and was premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh, during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Fringe First. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London.Ver libro
Víctor Terán has been described as the most 'personal' poet of the Zapotec Isthmus of Oaxaca, Mexico. His poems, highly lyrical and imagistic, explore two deep passions: the electricity that passes between bodies in love, and Terán's fierce devotion to the Indigenous land and language of his birth. This carefully curated selection of poems, drawing from the whole of Terán's poetic oeuvre, is translated into English by his long-time translator and interlocutor, the poet Shook, working from Spanish bridge-translations made by the author. The Poetry Translation Centre's World Poet Series showcases the most exciting living poets from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. "These are stunning, halting, lilting poems of flesh and flower, of boulder and bone. Vivid and meditative, I hummed among their hills, they hummed in mine." - Inua Ellams "These beautiful, subtle, sumptuous translations set alongside the original work make for a feast for the ears and the eyes alike." - Adam O'Riordan "In Víctor Terán's poetry, the elements of nature are sentient, almost mischievous, and share blood ties with the people of Juchitán, the poet's birthplace and the father of the hurricane wind, the mother of the sun. The north wind raises its whip, trees laugh, the day gets fed up, the afternoon eats its meal, the clamour of winged ants announce the rains, the world opens up her thighs, while a white flower spurns no one. And within this universe, poems of love and resistance share in the ritual and celebrations, suffused with light and devotion: 'the lit tulip of your lips'; 'breath of god, / breath that lights and snuffs out / the candle flame / that is life.' In Shook's luminous translations, the emotions of longing open up their eyes in the night, alive and breathing as the moon: 'Delirious moon, like a colander / that dreams of overflowing with water.'" - Juana AdcockVer libro
