Maison d'édition: BookRix
These are my life and life stories and life philosophies that haven't put a poem that have been waiting to be putting poem for a long time. Some of them might have strong language so I would be aware of some children reading them if their under 13 for swearing. Honest poems to and from honest people
Caleb Leow's The Hoarders was a winner of the 2023 New Poets' Prize. 'The Hoarders resounds with a subtle and unsettling music which creates its own complex, multilingual logic, even as Leow brings an attentive eye and an inquisitive wit to bear on a wide range of themes both personal and political. These are vivid and evocative poems which bear re-reading, and Leow is clearly a talent to watch.' - Mary Jean ChanVoir livre
Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Gibran’s book follows the final hours of the prophet Almustafa as he prepares to depart the city of Orphalese, offering distilled reflections on the fundamental forces of human existence—love, work, joy, sorrow, freedom, self-knowledge, and death. Each teaching arises from direct insight rather than doctrine, presenting life as an interwoven field of opposites whose tensions refine the soul. The text unfolds as a sequence of poetic addresses that cut through sentiment and moralism, pointing the reader toward inward clarity and responsibility.Voir livre
Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian's Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story. Barates' elegy to his beloved wife, who died young at 30, is, however, not about mythologising history. With the poet himself an exile in Britain for 40 years from his birthplace of Damascus, the poem forges new connections with today, linking al-Jarrah's personal journey with that of his ancient forebear Barates, who resisted slavery with love. Barates' Eastern song also questions whether the young Celtic fighters, the Tattooed Ones, were really barbarians, as they emerged from forest mists to defend their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans, and died or lay wounded at the twisting stone serpent that was Hadrian's Wall.Voir livre
The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death. Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words. 1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction 2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen 5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen 7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas 10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke 16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke 17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg 18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg 21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney 28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney 29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney 32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker 35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon 38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon 39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon 42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley 44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley 46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein 50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein 51 - The End by Alfred LichtensteinVoir livre
"Chattering at School" is a series of animal poems that invites the reader to learn and marvel at all the wonders of the natural world. The poems include fun narratives on the surface, while containing learning and teaching moments as the poems unfold. The book has lovely illustrations and is full of moral lessons.The introduction to "Chattering at School: Nature poems for children" explains that these poems were written by a schoolboy aged 11 to 18 (1951-58) during his annual summer holiday visits to his grandmother on her small farm in Ireland. She had been his carer and guardian from the time of the German Blitz of London where he was born, and lived with her until the war ended in 1945. He then returned to his unknown parents, who had been unable to visit him in Ireland from the UK during the war.Over 60 years later, the author of these poems - Edward Forde Hickey - discovered them (his own schoolboy attempts at writing poetry) lying in the attic and felt they were worth recording publicly.Voir livre
Hope within syllables was and always will be my "soul child". When I wrote my 1st ever Haiku, I knew that I would be counting syllables until my last breath. This book is a little sad but incredibly hopeful.Voir livre
