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  Poetic Persuasion: The Young...

  Emmanuel Borges-Da-Silva

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  Can light shine from the darkness of disability? Is there hope in the life of a young carer? "Poetic Persuasion: The Young Carer's Ink" by Emmanuel Borges-Da-Silva explores these questions through a poignant collection of poetry. Drawing from his own experiences as a former young carer, Emmanuel captures the profound challenges and triumphs of caring for a loved one. The poems delve into universal themes of grief, hope, love, masculinity, and faith in God, offering a raw yet uplifting perspective on the human experience.Written in a heartfelt and accessible style, this collection invites readers to find strength, resilience, and empowerment in the face of hardship. Each poem is a call to rethink preconceived notions and embrace a new perspective on life’s struggles and joys. Whether you’ve been a young carer, faced adversity, or simply seek inspiration, this book is a testament to the transformative power of poetry. A moving tribute to family, faith, and the human spirit, it offers comfort, hope, and encouragement for anyone on a journey of self-discovery. This was made for you. 
  “In this book, Emmanuel paints vivid imagery that draws you into a journey through grief and joy, disappointment and hope, insecurities, relationships and life transitions. He writes from a raw and vulnerable place, as one who has travelled this road and not just as a casual observer." ~ Daniel Ogbonna, Poet. 
  “A deeply moving body of work to visit and revisit. Get a box of tissues ready as Eman unfurls his thoughts and heart.” ~ Pelumi, author of Love LETTERS & HEART Ramblings 
  “Emmanuel’s tender portrait of love, faith and hope is honest and revelatory” ~ Lanaire Aderemi, bless the memory 
  "The poems are anecdotes, unravelling the seasons of his life up until this point." ~ Achayo, Music Artist

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  Peanut Butter & Blueberries

  Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

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  Hafsah and Bilal aren't looking for love. Hafsah has her faith, her books, her dreams. Bilal's just trying to get through uni. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a peanut butter and blueberry sandwich.
  But just as their connection is growing, the world around them becomes harder to ignore. As competing opportunities, obligations and injustices get in the way, will they be able to choose each other?
  Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's play Peanut Butter & Blueberries is a tender and bittersweet love story that explores how to love when the weight of the world is on your shoulders. It was first performed at Kiln Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Sameena Hussain.

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  'Look Back to Look Forward' -...

  Frank O'Connor

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  While Frank O'Connor was known primarily as one of Ireland's finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English – a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift – he stands out above all the rest.
  Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, O'Connor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of this centuries-old tradition. Collected here in full for the first time, O'Connor's work shows an uncanny aptitude for carrying over into English verse many of the riches to be found in the originals – the ancient voice of the Hag of Beare lamenting her decline into old age; the voices of the early monks describing the Irish landscape, Irish weather, their religious faith, and, in at least one instance, their cat; the voice of Hugh O'Rourke's wife torn between loyalty to her husband and a rising desire for her seducer. All these voices haunted O'Connor throughout his career, whatever else he was doing. The collection includes the Irish-language sources for all 121 translations along with literal translations, enabling the reader to see what O'Connor started from.
  O'Connor's translations sprang from a compulsive desire to breathe life into Ireland's past, to 'look back to look forward,' as he once put it; for him the Irish-language tradition was not for scholars and archives alone, but formed a living body of work vitally relevant to an Ireland that seemed puzzlingly indifferent to it.
  Thanks to O'Connor's profound love of his country's language and its rich, literary subsoil – 'a literature of which no Irishman need feel ashamed', he once said – these voices from Ireland's past can still be heard. Strikingly modern in tone, they conjoin flesh and spirit, the sacred and the secular, in a way that speaks to humankind.

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  The End of the Beginning - An...

  Thomas Hill

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  This audio chapbook is a collection of poetry by Thomas Hill. Listening to poetry as read by its author is a unique experience that Mr. Hill hopes all will enjoy.

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Emma Lazarus, Alan Seeger,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  New York state is more often overshadowed by its energetic and overwhelming five boroughs of its namesake city.  But among its other cities, towns and countryside is a veritable who’s who of classic poets including Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and Philip Freneau.  Their words and verse record and reveal a wide range of topics and subjects as they focus their poetic talents on the State of their birth.

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  Helen of Bikini

  Phoebe Reeves

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  Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability, destruction and nurturing, find their balances, not in an either/or, but in a melding? In an unapologetically feminist approach to these topics, Reeves explores the idea that "we are the only ones who name," and goes about teaching us the "alphabet of our unmaking." 
  "In her finely wrought debut poetry collection, Helen of Bikini, Phoebe Reeves showers us with the hard rain of atomic fallout, juxtaposed with a compendium of flora and fauna, invoked and named with a painstaking commitment to their beautiful existence.” 
  — Cynthia Bargar, author of Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room

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