Publisher: Éditions Dédicaces
In this captivating collections of poems, Jean-Pierre Makosso presents an epic with heart, an african history through poetic prose, the griot in written form. It documents the black continent from its roots in a collectivist paradise, through slavery to present day post-colonialism.
The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and intensity", as Cyril Wong observes, Christine threads together stories of the Separation between Singapore and Malaysia with the separation between her parents. Her searing vision, ambitious and intimate, opens up emotional spaces in unlikely places. "Christine's writing balances a journalist's clarity with a poet's desire to color and invent. In this boldly innovative book, she tells how the history of a family and that of a nation curiously come to mirror each other. By alternating poems with news clippings, photos, and google searches, she also creates a dialogue between public and private, personal and political, fact and fantasy. At times, the effect is poignant, at times playful, but in every instance, Christine proves she knows how "to love/ like an economist" and make every word shine." - Elaine Equi, author of Click and CloneShow book
Charles Dickens The Poor Relations Story Was adapted for Audio and Produced by Alex FreemanIt features the voice talents of Ronnie Cosmos as John, Hollyn Gayle as Christiana, and all other roles were played by Alex Freeman.Music was by Axletree, tracks included Drops of Melting Snow, Cotswold Snow, The Sighful Branches, and The Curios Roe.Show book
Greekling,the much-anticipated debut poetry collection by Kostya Tsolakis, celebrates and commemorates damaged and rejected Greek bodies, be they of flesh and blood, made of marble, or natural bodies. In intertwining Greek culture, history and poetic influences with the contemporary queer experience, this collection is perceptive, lyrical, and deeply evocative of time and place. From an Athenian childhood to a closeted adolescence in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic, towards sexual self-discovery, maturity and freedom – Tsolakis charts the pursuit of unconditional happiness. These poems explore queer joy on dance floors, darkrooms and bedsits, but also the risks of crossing strangers' thresholds or in encountering the violent machismo and hypermasculine expectations of the society you grow up in. And ever-present through the collection is Athens – the city the poet once turned his back on at eighteen but has come to love again. Moving between lament and celebration, Greekling reflects on a changing and often misrepresented country, the nature of motherlands and mother tongues; it is a voyage out – and a return.Show book
Chaos in paradise is a collection of fifty poems that dive deep into the duality of my mind as a person. Even though a healthy garden exists in my heart, inescapable darkness looms over it. Within this collection, I battle with self-identity, love, depression, a desire to escape from the confines of normal society, loss, and the contradictory nature that is me. I wrote this book to free my mind from every insane thought that lives within me and capture it on paper so that it liberates you from the chaos that may reside in yours. I believe everyone is fighting a mental battle under every smile they wear. There might be days when you want to give in to the darkness inside of you, do it. Drown in those thoughts until you embrace, accept, and come to peace with them because the dawn is on its way. And at the end of every moonlit path is a horizon where paradise exists. It might be closer than you think. Have you looked in the mirror lately?Show book
In this second volume of Dante Alighieri's ageless classic, the *Comedie* (*Commedia*) , Vergil and Dante emerge from their upward climb out the lower depths of Hell, at the center of the earth, to find themselves at the shores of the Mountain of Purgatory, exactly opposite Jerusalem in the Hemisphere of Water, where it is the only land below the Equator. Here they encounter other newcome souls and those who are awaiting entry into the punishments. In Canto IX they pass through the Gate of Purgatory and begin the upward climb through the seven circles to the Garden at the top where Beatrice is waiting for Dante to lead him on the ascent to the stars.Show book
Honeymoons are a relatively modern concept in the western world, dating from the 19th Century and have since become a multi-billion dollar industry turning the beginning of wedded bliss into a smorgsboard of ‘must have this’ and ‘must do that’. However, celebrating a marriage is something we perhaps all feel should be a more intimate occasion. After all this part of the journey is possibly unique as well as universal and timeless. Sex, possibly for the first time, is now an expression of the wedded state, cementing and reframing the relationship as a new couple. Within the lines of this volume are perfect poems for those on such a journey, whether it a romantic holiday setting or relaxed at home as our classic poets revel in the sensual, the sexy and above all the love for that very special chosen person in our lives. Our verse includes those from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, W B Yeats, Khalil Gibran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and many more. 01 - Poetry for Honeymooners - An Introduction 02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 03 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 04 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 05 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 07 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 08 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 09 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne 10 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 11 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 12 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 13 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 15 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson 18 - Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 19 - The Flea by John Donne 20 - To Celia by Ben Jonson 21 - She Lay Naked All in Bed - Anonymous 22 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 23 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 24 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao 25 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 26 - That Kiss By Daniel Sheehan 27 - The First Kiss Of Love by Lord Byron 28 - First Love by John Clare 29 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 30 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 31 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 32 - Love is Enough by William Morris 33 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew 34 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron 35 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay 36 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 37 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare 38 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 39 - Bright Star by John Keats 40 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 41 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 42 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 43 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 44 - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 45 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 46 - Unending Love by Tagore 47 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 48 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 49 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 50 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 51 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 52 - Terminus by Edith Wharton 53 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 54 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningShow book
