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  Top 10 Poets The - The English...

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  In this volume we explore the works of the English Woman.  In their times many were neglected and ignored.  Society was male dominated and women were definitely second class.  Even a title didn’t bring equality, just a little more respect.  But now we can hear their words for the wonder that they are.  They speak on all manner of things with words that are knowing, inspiring and truthful.  Genius in every name. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - English Women - An Introduction 
  2 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  3 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  4 - A Man's Requirements by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  5 - A Thought for a Lonely Death Bed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  6 - A Curse For A Nation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  7 - Dead Before Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  8 - Remember by Christina Rossetti 
  9 - Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow by Christina Rossetti 
  10 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  11 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 
  12 - Death, That Struck When I Was Most Confiding by Emily Bronte 
  13 - I Am the Only Being Whose Doom by Emily Bronte 
  14 - If Grief For Grief Can Touch These by Emily Bronte 
  15 - Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun by Emily Bronte 
  16 - Last Lines by Emily Bronte 
  17 - Love in Fantastique Triumph Satt by Aphra Behn 
  18 - The Counsel by Aphra Behn 
  19 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn 
  20 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 
  21 - On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks by Aphra Behn 
  22 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  23 - Madeline in Church by Charlotte Mew 
  24 - In Nunhead Cemetery by Charlotte Mew 
  25 - The Voice by Charlotte Mew 
  26 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 
  27 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 
  28 - Sonnet XLIV - Press'd By The Moon by Charlotte Smith 
  29 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 
  30 - Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned..... by Charlotte Smith 
  31 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith 
  32 - A Cross Road Epitaph by Amy Levy 
  33 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  34 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 
  35 - At a Dinner Party by Amy Levy 
  36 - A Prayer by Amy Levy 
  37 - Count That Day Lost by George Eliot 
  38 - Day Is Dying by George Eliot 
  39 - In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  40 - Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
  41 - Two Lovers by George Eliot 
  42 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall 
  43 - A Twilight Fancy by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall 
  45 - The Two Angels by Radclyffe Hall 
  46 - Ode to Sappho by Radclyffe Hall 
  47 - The Improvisatrice - Sappho's Song by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  48 - Scenes In London IV - The City Churchyard by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  49 - Secrets by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  50 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  51 - Long Years Have Past Since Last I Stood by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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  The Ending of the Path - A...

  Brett C. Persson

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  Step into a beautiful farewell to poetry that forms the culmination of a decades-long love affair. 
  As the powerful conclusion to a 35-year-long love affair with poetry, this poignant book compiles author Brett C Persson's farewell to haiku, echoing with a bittersweet yet beautiful send-off to a passion that helped support him through his darkest moments. 
  Weaving together timeless themes of nature, religion, joy, love, loss, death, and the key moments that shaped his life, this collection ranges over the breadth of human experience, bringing things full circle and serving as the starting point for new adventures into the world of literature. Through the minimalist and simplistic beauty of traditional Japanese haiku, this book captures passing thoughts and crystallizes them into vivid mental imagery, painting a portrait with every verse. 
  With a dash of random haikus to lighten the mood and give readers some thought-provoking ideas to reflect on, The Ending of the Path teaches us that although all good things must come to an end, they often serve as the foundation for new and exciting directions. This collection is a heartfelt book that will soothe the souls of poetry fans, offering a fresh new perspective on experiences that the greatest poets have grappled with for generations.

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  Cassie and the Lights

  Alex Howarth

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  'I needed to be better... and summat needed to change – to keep them safe. To fix my family.'
  When her mother disappears, teenager Cassie wants to care for her sisters on her own. But can kids be parents? Or should Cassie let foster parents adopt her sisters and create a new family?
  Alex Howarth's play Cassie and the Lights is a tender and playful examination of what makes a family and what holds it together. Based on real-life events and interviews with children in care, it celebrates the resilience of young people and the power of sisterhood.
  The play has been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, VAULT Festival in London, 59E59 in New York City and Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. It toured the UK in 2024, produced by Patch of Blue and 3 hearts canvas, in association with Southwark Playhouse and Verse Unbound.

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  Have Spacecat Will Travel - and...

  John G. Hartness

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  Science fiction, literary fiction, horror, urban fantasy, poetry, comedy—this collection of short stories and poetry from the award-winning creator of Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter has a little bit of everything. Have Spacecat, Will Travel spans a decade of novelist John G. Hartness's career, with short stories featuring Bubba the Monster Hunter, The Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency, and a few new characters you may not have met before. 
   
   
   
  Also included are some of the author's favorite examples of his narrative-style poetry that he describes as "redneck failed songwriter poetry." Inspired by David Childers, John Hiatt, John Prine, and Jason Isbell, the stories created in these poems will stay with you long after you close the book.

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  Woman Eat Me Whole - Poems

  Ama Asantewa Diaka

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  A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures  
  Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact. 
  Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries’ ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body—and a mind—so often restless or ill at ease. 
  Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral, Woman, Eat Me Whole is a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision. 

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  The Tenderness of Silent Minds -...

  Martha C. Nussbaum

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  The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions. 
   
   
   
  Offering a reading of Britten's views about the value and beauty of the body that situates these in the context of his thirty-nine year partnership with his lover, the singer Peter Pears, and also surveying pacifist themes in works written both before and after War Requiem, Nussbaum presents a compelling framework for critically assessing Britten's oeuvre. Nussbaum engages with a remarkably wide range of Britten's works, examining his treatment of aggression and its roots in his collaborations with the poet W. H. Auden, offering readings of the value placed on the body in early partnerships with Britten's beloved and singer Peter Pears, and surveying pacifist themes in Britten's earlier works. The analysis throughout is enriched with perspectives from Britten's personal letters and thoughtful study of the social and political backdrop of fear and homophobic disgust in mid-twentieth century Britain.

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