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  When Robert Burns came to Tea...

  Bridget Nolan

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  In this second collection of poetry, Bridget Nolan explores the human experience in some unexpected ways. Her ability to stir emotions provokes thought, triggers laughter and occasions tears.From the comical title poem ‘When Robert Burns came to Tea’ to the heartbreaking ‘Why would I Imagine?’ Bridget presents a collection of stories in poetic form. In her varied style, she conveys a myriad thoughts and feelings: the joy of love; the pain of a continuing sense of loss; the embarrassment of a hospital visit and the comfort of the natural world are all woven into the narrative of this diverse collection. This anthology celebrates the human condition in all its shades of dark and light.

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  Room Swept Home

  Remica Bingham-Risher

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  Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us. In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in Petersburg, Virginia, forty years before she herself is born: her paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with "water on the brain"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Marrying meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living?[sample poem]XI. the more ground covered, the more liberated you becameI am scared my mind will turn on me. I am scared I will be naked in a burning house. I am scared my children won't outpace me.I am scared my children (who aren't made by me) believe I am a sad imitation of the others.I am scared I will gather in a roomwhere everyone will ask me to rememberand when I don't lie they'll say I'd hate to be you. I've lived long enough to be scared my kidneys will give out on me. I've lived long enough to know just when they should. I have never shared my fears with anyone; I am scared they will map the land and take liberties. Will the women be ashamed? I'm scared to ask. What will live again? What will die with me?

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  Statues

  Azan Ahmed

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  'He grew up to be a man whose sighs and slumps replaced sentences. Is that gonna be me?'
  Days after his father's passing, Yusuf discovers a dusty mixtape that changes everything he knew about a man who barely spoke. Turns out, his dad spent the '90s rapping about pretty girls and Kilburn life, plotting dreams of superstardom with his best friend Omar. How did this passionate wordsmith become a silent statue?
  Yusuf's mourning becomes a journey into the past, soundtracked by Omar's thumping beats and his father's bars, as he begins to uncover secrets that turn his world upside-down.
  Witty, honest and deeply moving, Azan Ahmed's play Statues is a lyrical love letter to the original code-switchers, exploring the impact of loss, and what you can gain from it. It premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, with a cast featuring the playwright himself.

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  chaos in paradise

  LZA

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  Chaos in paradise is a collection of fifty poems that dive deep into the duality of my mind as a person. Even though a healthy garden exists in my heart, inescapable darkness looms over it. Within this collection, I battle with self-identity, love, depression, a desire to escape from the confines of normal society, loss, and the contradictory nature that is me. I wrote this book to free my mind from every insane thought that lives within me and capture it on paper so that it liberates you from the chaos that may reside in yours. I believe everyone is fighting a mental battle under every smile they wear. There might be days when you want to give in to the darkness inside of you, do it. Drown in those thoughts until you embrace, accept, and come to peace with them because the dawn is on its way. And at the end of every moonlit path is a horizon where paradise exists. It might be closer than you think. Have you looked in the mirror lately?

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  The Complete Tales and Poems of...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  What if fear, beauty, and madness shared the same voice?
  
  The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe gathers the full imaginative legacy of one of literature's most influential and haunting minds. A master of psychological horror and lyrical poetry, Poe explored obsession, grief, guilt, love, and the fragile boundaries of reason.
  
  This definitive collection includes Poe's celebrated short stories and poems—works that shaped modern horror, detective fiction, and symbolist poetry. From chilling tales of terror to musical verses of sorrow and longing, Poe's writing reveals the darkness within the human soul with unmatched intensity and precision.
  
  Elegant, unsettling, and endlessly memorable, Poe's works continue to captivate readers across generations.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe in one collection
  
  Iconic works such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher
  
  Foundational texts of horror, mystery, and detective fiction
  
  A cornerstone of American and world literature
  
  Studied worldwide and adapted across art, film, and popular culture, Edgar Allan Poe's work remains as powerful and unsettling today as ever.
  
  Enter the shadows of genius. Buy now and experience the complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Thomas Gray, Alexander Anderson,...

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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 - Churchyards - An Introduction 
  2 - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 
  3 - In Kirkonnel Old Churchyard by Alexander Anderson 
  4 - Contemplative Verses on the Tombs in Drumcondra Church Yard by Thomas Dermody 
  5 - Reflections in a Churchyard by Jane Timbury 
  6 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron 
  7 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  8 - Scenes in London IV - The City Churchyard by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  9 - Elegy - Supposed To Be Written in Barnet Churchyard by George Townsend 
  10 - In a Christian Churchyard by James Thomson 
  11 - Eastnor Churchyard by Radclyffe Hall 
  12 - Epitaph for a Roman Catholic Churchyard by John Kenyon 
  13 - Church Monuments by George Herbert

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