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  Black Man - A Poetry Collection

  Dornel Phillips

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  This is a tale of A BLACK MAN, not THE BLACK MAN, for we're not a monolith. We each have different ways of being. Maybe a collection like this changes perceptions, for we’re not only a group who share a similar hue. There’s a range to our melanin, a variety in BLACK MEN, not every man is hyper-masculine.  
  However, to our stereotypes, we’re hyper-vigilant.  
  This collection crafts a narrative that encompasses the different aspects of a BLACK MAN. Each section is diverse and unique but tells the tale of the whole man, the whole person. I'm hopeful this will change the way we're viewed in the eyes of some. For we're not merely the sum of our parts. We're people, we're men. We each have a purpose, families, and friends. We have hearts, flaws, and strengths too. We have joys and talents, just like you.  
  And just like everyone else, we seek to find a balance. 
    
  Every day we try to do our best just being men, for it's already hard enough being Black, Man! 
  Dornel AKA 
  D-Nice Keoma

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  After All We Have Travelled

  Sarala Estruch

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  After All We Have Travelled,the debut poetry collection by Sarala Estruch, is a distinctive journey across time, continents and cultures, through memory and generations of family history, exploring the long legacies of empire and its personal and political effects. It is a story of intergenerational trauma, grief and disconnection, but it is also a story of the enduring power of love, of connection, and of embarking into motherhood.
  Combining elements of memoir, biography, and fiction with formal and experimental poetry, Estruch's work explores the losses incurred by forbidden interracial and intercultural marriage, and is a potent reclamation of voice, story, and mixed-race identity. An important, compelling collection, it asks: What or who is family? What or where is home? And like the modern rose – a hybrid species with origins spanning the globe – to where do we return?
  'After All We Have Travelled follows a young woman discovering her own complex history across cultures and languages, religions and lost histories. Where family mythologies meet silence, memory gives an emotive reasoning, singing into the void left by death and distance, using the lyric voice of self-making. This book charts a new terrain, a multiplicity of being mapped for future generations whose relationship to home is as yet unknown to its forebears.' – Sandeep Parmar

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Fruit - 12...

  Elinor Wylie, Mirabai, D H...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Fruit - An Introduction 
  2 - Epigram on Fruit by Diodorus 
  3 - Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie 
  4 - Moonlit Apples by John Drinkwater 
  5 - The Pomegranate by Alice Corbin 
  6 - Oranges and Lemons from Sicily by Abd-al-Rahman 
  7 - The Plums Tasted by Mirabai 
  8 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  9 - This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams 
  10 - Apples by Jonathan Swift 
  11 - Cherry Ripe by Robert Herrick 
  12 - Figs by D H Lawrence 
  13 - Quince by Shafer Ben Utman Al-Mushafi

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  Boy Mother

  Caroline Bracken

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  Boy/Mother is a deeply moving exploration of a mother's relationship with her son who has a long-term mental illness. In innovative forms the poems evoke the day-to-day depredations of illness, psychiatric treatment and societal attitudes and yet the thread that runs through the collection is love. – Jane Clarke

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Summer - 12...

  William Shakespeare, Christina...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Summer - An Introduction 
  2 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 
  3 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  5 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  7 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  8 - A Summer Night by George William Russell 
  9 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran 
  11 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
  12 - Sonnet 13 -  Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  13 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

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  Touch the Earth - Poems on The Way

  Drew Jackson

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  Gather it from memory.
  
  Let it touch the earth.
  In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."
  From the feeding of the multitude ("The best hosts always provide / take home containers") to the resurrection of Jesus ("the belly of mother Earth / is, indeed, a womb . . . the humus of life is where we become fully human"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.

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