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  Ode on St Cecilia's Day - Pope...

  Alexander Pope

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  Alexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 in London into a Catholic family.   
  His education was affected by the recent Test Acts, upholding the status of the Church of England and banning Catholics from teaching.  In effect this meant his formal education was over by the age of 12 and Pope was to now immerse himself in classical literature and languages and to, in effect, educate himself.    
  From this age too he also suffered from numerous health problems including a type of tuberculosis (Pott’s disease) which resulted in a stunted, deformed body.  Only to grow to a height of 4’ 6”, with a severe hunchback and complicated further by respiratory difficulties, high fevers, inflamed eyes and abdominal pain all of which served to further isolate him, initially, from society.  
  However his talent was evident to all. Best known for his satirical verse, his translations of Homer and the use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.  
  With the publication of Pastorals in 1709 followed by An Essay on Criticism (1711) and his most famous work The Rape of the Lock (1712; revised and enlarged in 1714) Pope became not only famous but wealthy.  
  His translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey further enhanced both reputation and purse.  His engagement to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare met with a mixed reception.  Pope attempted to "regularise" Shakespeare's metre and rewrote some of his verse and cut 1500 lines, that Pope considered to be beneath the Bard’s standard, to mere footnotes.  
  Alexander Pope died on May 30th, 1744 at his villa at Twickenham (where he created his famous grotto and gardens) and was buried in the nave of the nearby Church of England Church of St Mary the Virgin.   
  Over the years and centuries since his death Pope’s work has been in and out of favour but with this distance he is now truly recognised as one of England’s greatest poets.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Spring - 12...

  Claude McKay, William Morris,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Spring - An Introduction 
  2 - Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray 
  3 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith 
  4 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  5 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  6 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  7 - Prairie Spring by Willa Cather 
  8 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay 
  10 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris 
  11 - Spring Showers by James Thomson 
  12 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale 
  13 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman

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  After Party - A Telegraph and...

  Dean Browne

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  A Poetry Book Society RecommendationA Sunday Times, Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the YearWinner of the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ WeekWinner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2026Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026Dean Browne arrives at the After Party with the maturity and style of an altogether more seasoned poet. In a debut collection of standout and stand-alone poems, each tests the boundaries of its unique universe. Browne is a mesmeric teller of strange tales, imaginings that can seem origamically contained within the compressed dimensions of a poem. A leg sets off on a long train journey; a Parisian alley cat is launched into space; earthbound lovers attempt to connect while their inner lives prove unbridgeable.Losses are mourned: two poets elegized here – Charles Simic and the late Donegal poet Matthew Sweeney – might offer a fingerpost of sensibilities, though Browne’s significant talent is distinctly his own. After Party introduces a beguiling, resonant new voice, a raised eyebrow and fidelity to the image – sometimes carried along the tightrope much further than seems possible. In poems that are both death-haunted and youthful, and thrumming with a delicious dark humour, Dean Browne brings a much-needed injection of the surreal – or the surreal-ish as he might prefer to say – to Ireland’s rising generation.'Wildly expressive and exuberant, throwing out phrases and ideas almost recklessly. . . After Party is surely the start of an exceptional poetic career' – Graeme Richardson, Sunday Times Books of the Year‘Poems that sneak in the side-door then exit through the ceiling’ – Caroline Bird'The success of this Cork-based 31-year-old is by no means a surprise . . . But it’s still refreshing to encounter such a distilled, haunting voice' – Telegraph, Books of the Year‘Dean Browne is a terrific poet: his language is agile and fresh, his ideas surprising, and the reader feels invigorated, renewed – and lucky to have met such poems’ – Nick Laird

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  Little Lucy Ladybug - Where Are...

  Angie Ford-Green, Judy Cunningham

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  This delightful story with original watercolor illustrations is about a little ladybug who has a BIG problem. Little Lucy has no spots. All of her friends have lots. Feeling different, Little Lucy is worried there my be something wrong with her, and she's is a BIG hurry to get her spots. Follow this curious, persistent little ladybug while she searches for her spots, and learns important lessons about having hope and being patient.

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  Somewhere There Is A Sky For Us...

  Various Various

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  This omnibus anthology contains the commissioned work from the eighteen excellent queer poets (nine from India and nine for the UK) who have made up the three cohorts of the Language Is A Queer Thing development project from 2022 to 2024 along with a new poem from each of the six poets who then appeared in our celebratory 2025 project. The aim was to create new poetry on the queer experience and the investigate the queering of language to better express that experience.
  Moving, profound and eye-opening, this omnibus edition brings the poems of all three cohorts together and is the poetic product of our project, with many of the poems in print for the first time. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed helping to make them.
  Poets include: Sanah Ahsan debut collection, I cannot be good until you say it (Bloomsbury, 2024), Mukahanh Limbu, debut pamphlet, Mother if Flip-flops (Out-Spoken Press 2022), Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, debut novel in verse, Bad Queer forthcoming (Faber 2026).
  Full List: Sanah Ahsan, Aadrit Banerjee, Hafsa Bukhary, Garfield D'Souza, Ife Grillo, Sara Haque, Megha Harish, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Abu Leila, Mukahang Limbu, Jay Mitra, Anil Pradhan, Parth Rahatekar, Amani Saeed, Kirran Shah, Rachit Sharma, Ray VM and Anureet Watta

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  Treasures of the Heart

  Oliver Forward

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  Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future.

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