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  Menagerie

  Cheryl Pearson

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  Menagerie is a collection of poems about animals, divided into three sections: water, earth and air. Some poems examine a creature from close-up, almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animal's eyes, while the poet is more present in other poems, looking on. The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness, love, mortality, and hope. Each poem is typeset with plenty of space around it, allowing it to breathe. With stylised illustrations by Amy Evans.
  from "Octopus Tank, Torbay Aquarium"
  
  I saw a ribbon of starlings once – they rose
  
  and fell in that same way, tied and re-tied Rome
  
  in a bow, and I thought the knot at their centre
  
  must be God. Here is God again in this stranger,
  
  the colour coursing her billow and flop like a weather map
  
  crawling with storms.

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  Rudyard Kipling - Chapter &...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 
  2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - If by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - My Father's Chair by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - Tommy by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling 
  12 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling 
  14 - The Prairie by Rudyard Kipling 
  15 - The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling 
  16 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling

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  Classic American Poetry

  Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell,...

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  The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem’ said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.

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  The Candle of Crest - A Rhyming...

  Demethius Jackson

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  This is not your traditionally written classic epic-adventure. You will instead be immersed into a fully rhyming audio-adventure of magic and mayhem! Featuring a full audio-scape of music and sound effects, The Candle of Crest is unlike any other audiobook you've heard. 
  As Earth's only magical kingdom defends against ruthless invaders, a darkening sun now threatens to destroy them all. Each side seeks the Candle of Crest, a magical relic with the power to counter the threat. But disaster is coming, and time is fading faster than sunlight. 
  The Candle of Crest is a fully rhyming audio-adventure. It follows the storyline of, The Icon of Earth -- Book Two of The Realmsic Conquest Trilogy, written by award-winning, best selling fantasy author, Demethius Jackson.

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  Songs of Innocence and Experience

  William Blake

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  William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems either written from the perspective of children or written about them. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience, with quite a different perspective of the world.    The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the despair found in Songs of Experience. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems.    (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman)

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  The Luath Burns Companion

  John Cairney

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  This is not another complete works collection but a personal selection of sixty favourite poems, songs and other works, chosen by the Man Who Played Burns , as well as an introduction that explores Burns' life and influences, his triumphs and tragedies. The Luath Burns Companion is a unique introduction to the works of ona of Scotland's best loved poets by a man with an obvious love and depth of understanding for Burns and his work. This selection reveals the drama, passion, pathos and humour that make Burns's work what it is. He was always a forward thinking man and remains a writer for the future.

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