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  Enter Fleeing

  Mark Ford

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  Enter, Fleeing is an enthralling new volume by one of the UK's most distinctive poets. The work gathered here displays Ford's power to amuse and startle, to move and disconcert. Some poems recreate moments from the poet's peripatetic childhood in Africa, America, Asia and the Gulf, while others dramatise anarchic or violent encounters with a range of shadowy antagonists.Enter, Fleeing is without doubt this highly original poet's most eloquent and compelling collection to date.

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  The Poetry of Flowers

  D H Lawrence, Percy Bysshe...

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  The Poetry Of Flowers - An Introduction.  The simple beauty of a single flower has the power to fascinate, captivate and delight us.  Its fragrance can intoxicate and it remains a wonderful gift to give or receive.  The vast varieties of flowers that exist provide an exceptional burst of vivid and subtle shades of colours inspiring a smooth transition from petal to paper for so many of our greatest poets including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Burns, Swinburne and Coleridge.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

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  She Must Be Mad: The bestselling...

  Charly Cox

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  ‘Brave and beautiful.’ Stylist Magazine‘Social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy’ Sunday Times STYLE‘Divine.’ Cecelia Ahern 
  This audiobook includes exclusive introductions to a select number of Charly’s poems, an interview between herself and her friend, Jack Harries, and music from Tom Rosenthal. 
  She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body. 
  Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt. Wayward nights out that don’t go as planned; the righteous anger at those men with no talent or skill or smarts who occupy the most powerful positions in the world; the strange banality of madness and, of course, the hurt and indecision of unrequited love. 
  For every woman surviving and thriving in today’s world, for every girl who feels too much; this is a call for communion, and you are not alone. 
  In She Must Be Mad, Charly Cox, one of the best English authors, delves into the themes of love, loss, and the transition from girl to woman. Her poetry, filled with grief and the complexities of the human mind, is a testament to her talent and the power of her words. 
  For fans of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey), Warsan Shire (Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head), Caitlin Moran (How To Be a Woman), Blythe Baird (If My Body Could Speak), and Pandora Sykes (How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?).

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  Poets of the Eighteenth Century...

  Robert Burns, William Blake,...

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  For many in Europe the focus has shifted west to the Americas, both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes.  And then between themselves. 
   
  Democracy would be reborn by the American War of Independence. In the East India becomes the stage for further expansion. For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts.  Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence on subjects both great and small.  But always form the heart.

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  Red Flower: Poems Written in War...

  Henry Van Dyke

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  These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task.Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Paper" and "Stand Fast," were written in 1914 and bore the signature Civis Americanus—the use of my own name at the time being impossible. Two others, "Lights Out" and "Remarks about Kings," were read for me by Robert Underwood Johnson at the meeting of the American Academy in Boston, November, 1915, at which I was unable to be present.The rest of the verses were printed after I had resigned my diplomatic post and was free to say what I thought and felt, without reserve.The "Interludes in Holland" are thoughts of the peaceful things that will abide for all the world after we have won this war against war.SYLVANORA, October 1, 1917. - Summary by  Henry Van Dyke

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  Like - Poems

  A. E. Stallings

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  A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator.Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre's note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume's conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character. 
  Known for her wry and musical lyric poems, Stallings here explores her themes in greater depth, including the bravura performance Lost and Found, a meditation in ottava rima on a parent's sublunary dance with daily-ness and time, set in the moon's Valley of Lost Things.

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