Other books that might interest you

• 

  The Poetry of Trains - A wide...

  Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell,...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age. 
   
  The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape.  A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket. 
   
  Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse.   
   
  Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction 
  2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 
  3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 
  4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe 
  6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton 
  7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell 
  9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper 
  10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 
  11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca 
  14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 
  15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher 
  16 - The Rail Road by James Very 
  17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - In the Train by James Thomson 
  19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce 
  20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 
  22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873 
  23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field 
  24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall 
  26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay 
  29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 
  30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves 
  31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman 
  33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell 
  34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon 
  36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood 
  37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce 
  38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove 
  40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale 
  42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 
  43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy 
  44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte 
  45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen

  Show book

• 

  Gentle Chaos - Poems Tales and...

  Tyler Gaca

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different. In this raw yet enchanting collection of poems and essays, Tyler Gaca dreamily navigates themes of magic and queerness, offering readers an intimate look inside his mind and his worlds, real and imagined. The writings in Gentle Chaos reflect on growing up queer and in love with magic, discovering yourself and your place in the world, and daring to seek out love and hope. The result is a whimsical, vulnerable, and transporting journey into the gentle chaos within us all.

  Show book

• 

  How Beautiful People Are

  Ayaz Pirani

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In How Beautiful People Are, his third collection, Ayaz Pirani continues to write his people’s pothi: a trans-national, inter-generational poetry of post-colonial love and loss animated by the syncretizing figure of Kabir and drawn from the extraordinary diwan of ginan and granth literature. Walking alongside the tiger of Ali and an assortment of beloved infidels, Ayaz uncovers just How Beautiful People Are. After all, what will darkness do, his poems ask, when a true guru makes light?

  Show book

• 

  A Sand Book

  Ariana Reines

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's "Conference of the Birds" to Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls" to Twitter, A Sand Book is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.

  Show book

• 

  Deep Wheel Orcadia - Winner of...

  Harry Josephine Giles

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations. Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry is followed by a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the listener will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.

  Show book

• 

  Katherine Mansfield - Chapter &...

  Katherine Mansfield

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction 
  2 - Bliss by Katharine Mansfield 
  3 - Sorrowing Love by Katherine Mansfield 
  4 - Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield 
  7 - The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 
  8 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield 
  9 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield 
  10 - Covering Wings by Katherine Mansfield 
  11 - In the Rangitaki Valley by Katherine Mansfield 
  12 - The Town Between the Hills by Katherine Mansfield 
  13 - Deaf House Agent by Katherine Mansfield 
  14 - Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield 
  15 - The Arabian Shawl by Katherine Mansfield 
  16 - The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

  Show book