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  Rope

  Khairani Barokka

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  Khairani Barokka's first full poetry collection, Rope, is a spellbinding and impressive debut, kaleidoscopic in detail and richly compelling. With a meticulous artist's instinct, these finely-tuned poems ask urgent questions about our impact upon the environment, and examine carefully the fragile ties that bind our lives and our fate to our planet, our ecosystems and to our fellow humans.
  
  Sensual and ecologically attentive, Rope draws on issues of climate change, sexuality, violence, nature, desire and the body. Lush with detail, alert to its own distinct sounds, this is poetry in urgent and vivacious action - intent on finding vivid joy and hope amidst the destruction and dangers of the Anthropocene era.

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  The Emma Press Anthology of the...

  Eve Lacey

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  In The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea, poets ask how the human mind can fathom the ocean's depths. The sea emerges as at once strange and familiar, bearing witness to storms, naval history, ocean creatures and the human desire for freedom. As the poets embark on voyages of self-discovery, the sea laps at the boundaries of language, offering both mystery and solace to the reader.

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  The Rupture Tense - Poems

  Jenny Xie

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  Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective, personal—stains and erodes. Xie voices what remains irreducible in our complex entanglements with familial ties, language, capitalism, and the histories in which we find ourselves lodged.The Rupture Tense begins with poems provoked by the photography of Li Zhensheng, whose negatives, hidden under his floorboards to avoid government seizure, provide one of the few surviving visual archives of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and concludes with an aching elegy for the poet’s grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the end of the Revolution. This extraordinary collection records the aftershocks and long distances between those years and the present, echoing out toward the ongoing past and a trembling future.

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 15

  John Dryden, William Morris,...

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  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 John Dryden and William Morris as well as themes on Victorian Poetry, August, The Female Poet 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 15 
  John Dryden. An Introduction 
  Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden 
  Dreams by John Dryden 
  Alexanders Feast or The Power of Music by John Dryden 
  August 
  August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction. Volume 3 
  Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
  Expecting the Lord by Anne Griffiths  
  My Mother’s Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
  Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  You Kissed Me by Josephine Slocum Hunt 
  The Power of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
  The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  Sonnet by Amy Levy 
  Animal Poems – An Introduction 
  The Fly by William Blake 
  The City Mouse and the County Mouse by Christina Rossetti 
  The Owl & the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
  A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
  From Baby Tortoise by DH Lawrence 
  William Morris - An Introduction 
  The Earthly Paradise – Apology by William Morris 
  Our Hands Have Met by William Morris 
  The Voice of Toil by William Morris 
  A Garden By the Sea by William Morris 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
  Victorian Poetry - An Introduction 
  A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy  
  My Prayers Must met A Brazen Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins  
  When Summer’s End is Nighing by AE Housman  
  The Mother’s Son by Rudyard Kipling  
  The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear  
  Sonnet XXIX by George Meredith  
  Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley

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  Mr Rickey Calls a Meeting

  Ed Schmidt

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  On a spring day in 1947, Mr. Rickey, the powerful General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the Major League’s first black ballplayer. But a power struggle ensues when the eloquent Robeson raises questions about Rickey’s motivations to integrate white baseball.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, David Downing, Tommy Hicks, Carl Lumbly, Sterling Macer, Charlie Robinson and Rugg Williams.

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  God Help Our Men at Sea

  Henry Kendall

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  Kendall was born in a settler's hut by Yackungarrah Creek near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. He was registered as Thomas Henry Kendall, but never appears to have used his first name. His three volumes of verse were all published under the name of "Henry Kendall".   ( Wikipedia )

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