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  Kundalini The Energy Of Awakening

  Justin Wesenberg

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  Kundalini is a channeled poetry book about spiritual awakening and finding balance in our lives.  
  This poetry book is for those who are going through spiritual awakening and want to find their centre. 
  The kundalini energy 
  Is a powerful force 
  That will help you chart 
  A brand new course 
  Awakening you 
  To the power inside 
  Surrender to Spirit 
  Let it be your guide 
  Showing you 
  Through love and grace 
  How to transform 
  And create new space 
  For the beautiful life 
  That you want to live 
  Find love in your heart 
  And learn to give 
  This is the energy 
  That will awaken the Earth 
  And allow us to move 
  Through planetary rebirth 
  This channeled poetry book was inspired by my kundalini awakening experience, and my journey to find balance in life. 
  If you’re going through a kundalini awakening, and looking for answers, Kundalini The Energy Of Awakening will guide you back to balance!

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  Why I Am Not a Bus Driver

  Ashley Hickson-Lovence

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  Why I Am Not a Bus Driver is a moving and musical debut collection exploring grief, love and the power of community, from the author of The 392, Your Show and Wild East. The heart of this book beats in sync with that of the poet's late grandfather, as, sonnet after unconventional sonnet, Hickson-Lovence uncovers the micro-histories woven into the streets and journeys that shape us. These poems speak with Frank O'Hara, in their stream-of-consciousness lyricism, in meditations that dance like winding roads, both immediate and nostalgic. Committed to honouring the authentic and everyday, the real and true, human connection is the destination in this stirring collection, and every reader has a priority seat.
  "Among the most natural, elegant sonnet sequences I've read: a memorial, moving in its radical honesty and grace. What both broke and strengthened my heart about this collection is the sheer humanity and authentic curiosity that make a life feel meaningful, transfiguring both the extraordinary and the everyday with dignity, love and imagination. Just gorgeous." Luke Kennard
  "A moving collection attuned to the knowledge that poetry of the family is both plain and complex, that the dead sometimes require elegy and sometimes celebration; and all of this held within the strength and uncertainty that is the human-made body of the poem." Andrew McMillan
  "A heartfelt elegy to a grandfather, skilfully weaving themes of legacy, promises, influences and dreams. While the grandfather takes centre stage, England itself emerges as a powerful backdrop to the story. Hickson-Lovence's unified themes lend the book the feel of a novel-in-verse, yet each poem resonates with its own emotional strength. An endearing and enlightening read—don't miss it." Roger Robinson
  "Ashley Hickson-Lovence's debut collection offers an intricate reminiscence, an insight into fierce familial bonds and how they shape a life indefinitely. These poems pulse with longing, vulnerability and doubt, highlighting the human need for connection, the resilience that grows from loss, the certainty that comes when the love unfolds." Rebecca Goss

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  The Heart of It - As You Like It...

  Elizabeth McNamer

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  As You Like It and A Midsummer Night' s Dream are two comedies by William Shakespeare that have been entertaining audiences for centuries. Both have been adapted to radio and film and continue to be taught in high schools and universities. But as with most of Shakespeare' s works, modern audiences sometimes need some help absorbing elements of both plays.
  In a series of lectures, literary scholar Elizabeth McNamer provides engaging insights into these two Shakespeare classics. Dr. McNamer begins with a focus on the love story of Orlando and Rosalind and how As You Like It spoofs conventional literary themes of love. McNamer then focuses on the themes of jealousy, imagination, patriarchy, and the many difficulties of love in A Midsummer Night' s Dream. While these lectures are grounded in scholarly research, they are also accessible for contemporary audiences, helping them appreciate more fully these two great theatrical works.

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  Poets of the Early 20th Century...

  Edna St Vincent Millay, TS...

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  In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.   
   
  The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot. 
   
  The World was more connected than ever before.  Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe.  Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay. 
   
  The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times. 
   
  The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was.  But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 
   1 - The Poets of the Early Twentieth Century  - Volume 2 - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  3 - 1841-1891 by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  4 - If We Return by F W Harvey 
  5 - The Soldier Speaks by F W Harvey 
  6 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison 
  7 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell 
  8 - Prayer For Those on the Staff by Julian Grenfell 
  9 - Hymn by Fenton Johnson 
  10 - Tired by Fenton Johnson 
  11 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa 
  12 - If, After I Die by Fernando Pessoa  
  13 - I Have A Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  14 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger 
  15 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger 
  16 - The Unseen Planets by Raymond Chandler 
  17 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  18 - I Saw A Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart 
  19 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot 
  20 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot 
  21 - Preludes by T S Eliot 
  22 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield 
  23 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield 
  24 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield 
  25 - I Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova 
  26 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova 
  27 - Poetry by Claude McKay 
  28 - The White House by Claude McKay 
  29 - The Lynching by Claude McKay 
  30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  31 - Crucifix Corner by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - Serenade by Ivor Gurney 
  33 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  34 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg 
  35 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  36 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston 
  37 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson 
  38 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  39 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  40 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  41 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  42 - Unity by Cesar Vallejo 
  43 - Love by Edith Sodergran 
  44 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran 
  45 - Insouciance by Richard Aldington 
  46 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington 
  47 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  48 - Lady with Camelias by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  49 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  50 - Back To Rest by Lietenant William Noel Hodgson MC 
  51 - Before Action  by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC 
  52 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky 
  53 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky 
  54 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker 
  55 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker<p

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  Stories to Share With My Partner...

  J. F. Nodar

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  An anthology of stories can be a fun thing or a scary one. 
  Deciding what goes into an anthology can be daunting. Too much romance and some folks may decide it is ‘too mushy’. Put too much humour in, and others will say, ‘there is no substance’. Go with more science fiction, or fantasy, or horror, and you will have some folks just not pick up the book. 
  Finding the perfect ‘mix’ is a challenge for sure. 
  ‘Stories to Share with My Partner – Book 3’ presents what I hope is a good mix of stories and poetry to make everyone happy. 
  You have some love stories, ‘The Red Bug’ and the ‘The Coat’, for example, while science fiction is covered in ‘When the Future Arrives’ and ‘Coordinates’. 
  Funny stories are what I enjoy writing about, and there are few in this book. 
  ‘So That Is When the Fight Started’ is something many can relate too and in ‘Jerk’ I take a different approach to ‘superheroes’. 
  I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did when I wrote them. 
  As always, any comments are welcome, so shoot me a quick email to info@jfnodar.com.au

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  Judas Goat - Poems

  Gabrielle Bates

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  "Stellar . . . with great humanity, grace and precision." —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast 
   
   
   
  Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shape-shifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home. 
   
   
   
  In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds listeners close and whispers its unforgettable lines.

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