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  Poets & Their Inner Demons –...

  John Keats, Percy Bysshe...

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  The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death. 
  In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents. 
  In this volume we bring together those writers of verse and poetry who sadly died so young that their works may be small in number but glint with such brave, revealing and inventive verse that one can only imagine what heights poetry with their full lives could have been taken to.

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  Raft

  Anne Gill

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  Anne Gill tells the story of Raft from the edge of a precipice. Standing on the stormy cliff of a heart, she picks out the rocks with perfect vision, with words and their absence, with humour and power. Through the eyes of Penguin 2, she shows us the blindspots of recovery. You will hold your breath as you read. This book is a map and a prescription for healing, essential reading for anyone tunneling their way out of pain.
  "We are in need of new ways of raft-making--rafts through the waves and currents of inherited trauma, local and global violence, storms of the self. Something that can deliver a reader to small, if temporary, solaces beyond external harms. In Raft, Gill has crafted poems that can ride the storm. She leaps through surreal scenes that pivot the navigations of the self, net the pain and allow us to laugh between the gulps of wind knocked out of us. Poems of tumbling yet sharp diverting thoughts, there is a wilderness to the writing that marks Gill as both a poet of instinctive and attentive craft." Antosh Wojcik
  "You know when you read poetry and on the first reading you don't quite understand what you've just read, but something is unlocked in your subconscious? Like a good trip. First you smile. Then you cry. You sit up straight. You feel held. The world is still. This collection tackles trauma without reservation, without apology, with care and sensitivity, with authenticity and courage. A striking new collection with timely relevance." Nafeesa Hamid

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  Beside a Stranger

  Christabel Lancing

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  Inspired by the stunning visual landscape and sea views from Christabel Lancing's family cottage in South Devon, Beside a Stranger is her debut poetry collection. It reflects her personal experiences of love and loss; of pain, longing, and joy, exploring some paradoxical aspects of isolation and connection. The poem Beside a Stranger originated from the 9/11 tragedy and its anniversaries—a reminder and insight into the emotions of those who died alongside people they'd never met. It is a spirit-driven memory, mirroring events and narrating, in parallel themes, the love for someone you have never met. This is an emotive, sometimes metaphorical insight into human feelings and reactions. It resonates deeply and is, at times, unable to be read without a catch in the throat. Beside a Stranger takes readers on a journey of emotional and natural description, relating intimately to the individual. Each poem builds upon the next to create a tumultuous, compelling, and restorative narrative.

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  Emily Dickinson: 15 Poems and...

  Emily Dickinson, A. M. Bly

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  "Emily Dickinson: 15 Poems and Analyses; with an Original Piano Underscore Adapted for Each Poem" brings the quiet power of one of America’s greatest poets to life in a fresh, immersive way. Each poem is presented with a uniquely crafted piano backdrop, composed to reflect the emotion, rhythm, and inner music of Dickinson’s words. 
  From the blinding stillness of “A Light Exists In Spring” to the mind-numbing irony of “Your Riches Taught Me Poverty,” the gentle interplay of voice and piano invites listeners into the intimate spaces where her poetry lives and breathes. The result is an experience that feels both timeless and newly awakened. 
  Perfect for poetry lovers, meditative listening, or anyone seeking a moment of reflection, this curated collection offers a graceful fusion of literature and music—celebrating Emily Dickinson’s brilliance in a form that resonates long after the final note fades. 
  The works of Emily Dickinson are in the public domain.

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  The Rose - Poems

  Ariana Reines

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  In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of "romance" as the troubadours knew it and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind." In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speaker's understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul. 
   
   
   
  The voice in The Rose is wry and bare, approaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humor. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the role of language in magical acts, Reines is unafraid to uncover the "secret / & terrible shovelings / Of love," and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.

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  frank - sonnets

  Diane Seuss

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  WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY 
   
   
   
  WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 
   
   
   
  WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION 
   
   
   
  WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 
   
   
   
  A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 
   
   
   
  "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, frank: sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of "beauty or relief." Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and—in a word—frank.

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