Publisher: Good Press
Henry Van Dyke was an American politician and also a musician, theologian and writer. This book of poetry written by him is indeed much like music as the title suggests. The poems are often in blank verse and the rhythm of their words is like music.
Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain. Sunshine; combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.Show book
Considered one of Chaucer's finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Written in the 1380s, it presents Troilus, son of Priam and younger brother of Hector, as a Trojan warrior of renown who sees, and falls deeply in love with, the beautiful Cressida. Cressida is the daughter of Calchas, a Trojan priest and seer who, having divined the eventual fall of Troy, has deserted to Agamemnon's camp, leaving his daughter in the besieged city. With the help of Pander, friend to Troilus and uncle to Cressida, the young couple meet and merge - but with unhappy consequences. Chaucer's long poem is cast in seven-line rhymed stanzas and is eased out of Middle English to be presented here in a lively modern verse translation by George Philip Krapp, who has retained not only the structure but its spirit. Emotions run high, the love is intense, the story unfolds with a dramatic urgency that draws the listener ever onwards; yet Chaucer is Chaucer, and there are times when a deft line, a light insinuation, suggests the smile, the benevolence and the immediacy of the author of The Canterbury Tales. Troilus and Cressida, though often overshadowed by the Tales and time (and even Shakespeare, who took up the story) is a monument in its own right in the canon of English literature. Once listened to it will never be forgotten.Show book
A unique artistic tribute to a Chicago neighborhood lost to gentrification: “Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet” (Chance the Rapper, Grammy winner and activist). Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities. “Chicago’s unofficial poet laureate.” —NPRShow book
A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and almost deafened by the ticking of her biological clock. To make matters worse, her mother is a nag, her best friend is holding out on her, and her ex-husband has a new 22-year-old girlfriend. Then she meets a 26-year-old stranger who seems more than ready to oblige. But the complications are by no means over... 'People seldom write life-style comedies like Perfect Days for the stage anymore. The last scene has jokes so marvellous that they are greeted by rounds of applause as one blinks back the odd tear' - Financial Times 'The mix of pithy patter and heartwrenching poignancy works a treat' - The Times 'A huge popular hit' - Daily MailShow book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days Too Short by William H. Davies. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.Show book
Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Alexander Pope as well as themes on January, Cavalier Poets, Night and more. All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes. Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores. This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that. Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. The Poetry Hour – Volume 17 Alexander Pope – An Introduction Summer by Alexander Pope Solitude by Alexander Pope The Dunicad. An Extract of Book I by Alexander Pope January Sonnet LIX. Written at Ampton, Suffolk. January 1838 by Henry Alford At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan Pray, to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson The Cavalier Poets – An Introduction The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller Epigram LXV – To My Muse by Ben Jonson Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell Love’s End by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Love Conquer’d by Richard Lovelace To Sappho by Robert Herrick Lips & Eyes by Thomas Carew I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling The Poetry of GK Chesterton - An Introduction The Englishman by GK Chesterton The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton The Convert by GK Chesterton The Last Hero by GK Chesterton Americanisation by GK Chesterton Who Goes Home by GK Chesterton The Poetry of Night - An Introduction Prolong the Night by Renee Vivien I Weary Tonight, I Weary by Alexander Anderson Sonnet LXVI – The Night Flood Rakes by Charlotte Smith A Prayer in Darkness by GK Chesterton The Night by Alfred Lichtenstein From The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson In Drear Nighted December by John Keats The Slave’s Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz John Keats – A Tribute in Verse John Keats by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith For the Anniversary of John Keats Death by Sara Teasdale The Grave of Keats by Oscar WildeShow book
