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  Columbus

  Joaquin Miller

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  This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller.  This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 8th, 2006.

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  Poetry Book Society Winter 2023...

  Alice Kate Mullen

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  The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems and exclusive interviews with all the selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Shivanee Ramlochan, Arji Manuelpillai and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter.
  The Winter 2023 Bulletin magazine is full of crossings and re-connections. It features poems, reviews and commentary from the PBS Winter Choice Kwame Dawes whose new collection Sturge Town (Peepal Tree) journeys through memory and geography from Ghana to Jamaica and Nebraska. The Translation Choice, Sea in My Bones (the87press) by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz crosses between Spanish, Taino, and Yoruba in a multilingual celebration of indigenous Caribbean peoples. Marjorie Lotfi reveals her refugee experience fleeing Iran as a child in her debut The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe). Fahad Al-Amoudi uncovers the tale of an exiled Ethiopian prince in his astonishing debut pamphlet When The Flies Come (ignition press). Jasmine Cooray's Inheritance (Bad Betty Press) bequeaths us hopeful and resilient poems for when life and love are unexpectedly cut short. ""America's favourite poet"" Billy Collins brings some much needed humour to the table and celebrates the short poem in his new collection Musical Tables (Picador). David Wheatley sings of mushrooms, ancient forests and curious toddlers in Child Ballad (Carcanet) and Kostya Tsolakis re-examines Greekness and queer identity in his innovative debut Greekling (Nine Arches Press).
  You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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  Fire Cider Rain

  Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 
  Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties 
  Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, Fire Cider Rain follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother, an ex-lighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narrator’s life in soft, painful aftershocks. As she navigates the cold cities and waterways of Southern Ontario, our narrator struggles with conflicting desires to run toward and flee from her island identity, which grows ever distant, ever more difficult to find her way back to. 
  At its core, Fire Cider Rain is a book about parent-child relationships as vessels for cultural identity, and the ways in which expressions of love and non-love within those relationships can rupture sense of place, self, and at times, a collective diaspora. Throughout the book, Ng Cheng Hin explores the geopolitics of island nations, the dilution of family histories over time, and the experience of water as a medium for the cyclical movement of island bodies, stories, and cultures. The Mauritian landscape and waterways of southern Ontario recur through the book as convergence points for its many themes. 
  "In this stunning debut, Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin weaves wondrous verse across geological spaces that extend from Mauritius to Canada. In this poetry, the Indian Ocean converses with northern landscapes to give voice to the (un)settling of diasporic women in search of rootedness. Water becomes a medium, a metaphor, a rhythm, a motif, and a metamorphosing figure through which memory, loss and mourning become bodies. Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin's sweeping poetry is infused with dexterous and lavish verse that makes the reader want to live within the nuances of each line. Fire Cider Rain is a dazzling debut!" – Kama La Mackarel, author of ZOM-FAM 
  “Mauritian waters of memory migrate through ‘imperial decay’ and ‘calcic dust’ to the cold northern continent where Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s lustrous poetic telemetry manifests a lexical biogeography of uprootedness—her lyrical ‘I’ the connecting thread between past and future, between mother and moth, grandmother and cyclone, selia lover and terra nullius. Fire Cider Rain erupts as ebb and swell, distilling belonging and meaning in postcolonial drift, filling absence with terraqueous inquiry and salvaged wake.” – Jeffrey Yang, author of Line and Light 
  "In reading Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry, I became immersed within a deep sense memory of why I came to love poetry in the first place. Her attunement to language and cadence vibrates, or as she writes 'love – or recognition, catches in my throat and stings.' Hers is a voice that can make nerve endings sing and one that speaks with such artful earnestness to the difficulties there are in a personal history. Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry is cousin to the spider's web, which belies a kind of vulnerability through its delicate beauty, yet each of its strands contains an exceptional tensile strength." – Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

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  Faust Part I

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Faust Part I is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's masterful exploration of human ambition, desire, knowledge, and redemption—an enduring cornerstone of world literature. Blending philosophy, drama, folklore, and poetry, Goethe reimagines the legendary tale of Dr. Faust, a brilliant but deeply dissatisfied scholar who makes a fateful pact with the devil in pursuit of ultimate understanding and earthly pleasure.
  
  At the center of the story stands Heinrich Faust, a learned intellectual who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology—yet finds himself spiritually empty and disillusioned. Despite his vast knowledge, he feels no closer to grasping life's true meaning. In his despair, he turns to magic in an attempt to transcend human limitations. This longing summons Mephistopheles, a cunning and ironic embodiment of the devil, who offers Faust a dangerous bargain: unlimited worldly experiences in exchange for his soul—if ever Faust becomes so satisfied that he wishes a moment to last forever.
  
  As Faust embarks on his journey with Mephistopheles, the narrative shifts from philosophical introspection to deeply human tragedy. Faust's encounter with the innocent and pure-hearted Gretchen (Margarete) forms the emotional core of the drama. What begins as romantic infatuation evolves into a devastating chain of events marked by seduction, moral conflict, societal judgment, and profound suffering. Gretchen's tragic fate contrasts sharply with Faust's restless striving, highlighting themes of guilt, responsibility, and redemption.
  
  Goethe masterfully interweaves contrasting tones—comic, tragic, lyrical, and philosophical—creating a richly layered work that speaks to both the intellect and the heart. Mephistopheles, with his sharp wit and skeptical commentary, serves not only as tempter but also as a critical observer of humanity's contradictions. Through their dynamic, Goethe probes timeless questions: What is the value of knowledge without wisdom? Can ambition coexist with morality? Is redemption possible after profound wrongdoing?
  
  Written over several decades and published in 1808, Faust Part I reflects the intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment while foreshadowing the emotional intensity of Romanticism. Goethe's language is poetic and symbolic, filled with vivid imagery, dramatic monologues, and philosophical reflections that continue to resonate with readers today.
  
  More than a tale of a man who sells his soul, Faust Part I is a powerful meditation on the human condition—the restless pursuit of meaning, the consequences of unchecked desire, and the enduring hope for grace. It challenges readers to confront their own ambitions and moral choices, making it as relevant in the modern age as it was in Goethe's time.
  
  A monumental work of literature, Faust Part I remains an unforgettable journey into the depths of aspiration, temptation, and the fragile nature of the human soul.

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  Songs from Fern's Pond -...

  Sheryl Pothier Harmer

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  Reminiscent of Mary Oliver’s A Thousand Mornings and Amanda Thomson’s Belonging, this evocative blend of poetry, prose, and personal letters unfurls a story of an untamed, beautiful place—and one woman’s choice to spend the last chapter of her life making it her home. 
  At age sixty-two, Fern started a new life. 
  Recently widowed, she found a piece of neglected acreage above the Snake River on which to build a home, forge a community—and find renewed purpose. On the land around Fern’s Pond, she nurtured a vineyard, an abundant garden, and a small farm of sheep, one cow, a goat, and chickens. She befriended wild ducks and harvested trout in her waters, and she used the materials that grew around the pond and springs to weave baskets—unique works of art that captured the elegance of the natural world. 
  Songs from Fern’s Pond is a collage of poetry, letters, and prose that captures the universal resilience of the human spirit through the humor and courage of a woman who fearlessly pursued the life she dreamed of. A duet of text between mother and daughter, it’s a transcendent vision of the rough, wild, and beautiful landscape of the heart—and a reminder that every chapter is worth living to its fullest.

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  To The Immortal Memory of the...

  William Cowper

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 29, 2011.William Cowper is attributed with various familiar quotations, one is..GOD moves in a mysterious way,His wonders to perform;He plants his footsteps in the sea,And rides upon the storm.Olney Hymns (1779)--'Light Shining out of Darkness'

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