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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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  Bezdelki - Small things

  Carol Rumens

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  In Carol Rumens's Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isn't purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through incidental artefacts found in a toolbox ('defiant old metals, coupled/irrefutably and awkwardly for life') or by revisiting works of Russian literature that both members of the couple admired. In Rumens's pamphlet, translations and imitations of Osip Mandelstam share space with fragments of Egyptian mythology and 'a wardrobe of old sweat-shirts' to convey the powerful, and moving, impulse to 'live with your death unburied at my core'.

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  Oedipus Rex

  Sophocles

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  "Oedipus Rex" (Ancient Greek: ???????? ????????, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as "Oedipus the King" or "Oedipus the Tyrant," is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as "Oedipus, King of Thebes"). It was the second in order of Sophocles's composition of his three plays dealing with Oedipus. Thematically, however, it was the first in the trilogy's historical chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. "Oedipus the King" tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall (as opposed to making fate the sole cause). Over the centuries, "Oedipus Rex" has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence.

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  Found at Sea

  Andrew Greig

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  The acclaimed Scottish writer reflects on a small boat excursion through the Orkney Islands in this poetry collection of “touching lyrical sensitivity” (The Times Literary Supplement, UK). Andrew Greig has won much acclaim and numerous awards for his novels, poetry, and nonfiction evoking the natural beauty of rural Scotland or chronicling his far-flung adventures. In this volume, his love for his home and his passion for travel come together. One summer evening, Greig embarked upon a micro-odyssey from his home in Stromness to the island of Cava, and Found at Sea recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage. Written in six weeks, this is a “very wee epic” about sailing, male friendship, and a voyage. In sailing small boats in scary open waters, Andrew Greig has found a new activity and a new metaphor for life.

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  Fifty Shades of Winter - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, Henry...

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  Nature prepares her final work. She begins to strip her canvas of almost everything leaving only little pockets of colour, leaves and berry to cluster on the bleak structure of the land 
   
  Her command of colour rises to another understanding.  The shades of grey, the monochrome from white to black begin to solidify. Falling temperatures hold and freeze everything.  The days shorten. The nights lengthen, throwing moon and starlight across the glistening canvas. She dazzles with storm and blizzard. Rest for her will not be easy. 
   
  Our poets, who have seen this often, know it’s meaning.  Their verse evocatively relays their thoughts, their musings, their understanding of all that surrounds the closing of nature’s year. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of winter. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Winter - An Introduction 
  02 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  03 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  04 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  05 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  06 - I Who All The Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  07 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  08 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  09 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  10 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  11 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  12 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  13 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  14 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Months - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  15 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  17 - Sonnet II - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  18 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  22 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  23 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - January 1st 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  26 - Written During An Aurora Borealis January 7th 1831 by Henry Alford 
  27 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  29 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  31 - February 3rd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  32 - In Febuary by Alice Meynell 
  33 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  34 - In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  35 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
  37 - Afternoon in Febuary by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  39 - To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman 
  40 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  43 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  44 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - February by Dollie Radford 
  46 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  47 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  48 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  49 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  50 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  51 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare

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  Folk Tales from Many Lands

  Lilian Gask

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  A collection of poetic folk talkes from all over the world.

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