Other books that might interest you

• 

  The Poetry of Khalil Gibran -...

  Kahlil Gibran

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on 6th January 1883 in the village of Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, then part of the Ottoman Empire 
  His mother took him and his siblings to the United States in 1895 where he was enrolled into a Boston school and his creative talents soon noted.  He was sent home to be schooled at the Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut but returned to Boston following the death of his youngest sister in 1902.  Within a year his mother had also died. 
  In 1904, Gibran's drawings were displayed for the first time and, a year later, his first book, in Arabic, was published in New York City.  With financial help from a benefactress he studied art in Paris from 1908 and here his path crossed with dissident Syrian exiles.  Over the years he would meet many more like-minded exiles who were exploring ways to overthrow the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.   
  By 1911 he had settled in New York working on his drawings and paintings which were now being regularly exhibited. His writing was also attracting much attention and gaining an audience.   
  His first book in English, ‘The Madman’ became an international phenomenon.  Whilst his writing has overshadowed his visual works there is no doubt that a copy of ‘The Mad Man’ is never far from any bookshelf.  This and other works have ensured his stature as an artist is world-wide and that it continues into these more modern times.  Gibran was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance and made influential contributions to Western poetry, stories and thought. 
  Khalil Gibran died on 10th April 1931 in New York City from cirrhosis and incipient tuberculosis in one lung.  He was 48.   
  Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements.  The group was presided over by Gibran himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or “The League.”  Its influence is acknowledged as fundamental. 
  In this volume of poetry Gibran is able to capture and demonstrate and enlighten much of the human condition and the wonder of the world around him.

  Show book

• 

  Holy Sparks - Poems

  Diana Woodcock

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Holy Sparks is a collection of poems grounded in a belief in the kinship between the cosmos and its Creator. Biophilic imagery is used throughout the poems to suggest that reverence for the earth is a natural consequence of reverence for God. The language of poetry is used to interconnect the human, natural and sacred, and to express humanity's moral and ethical responsibility to our nonhuman kin. These poems question what it means for humans to live in right relationship with earth's lifesystems, and they suggest that our very identity is tied to our reverence for the natural world. They offer a space of confession, reparation and praise of what remains. Holy Sparks is a call to partake of Earth's wisdom so that we might participate in the Creator's ongoing work.

  Show book

• 

  Flood

  Jessica Mookherjee

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In Flood, Jessica Mookherjee inhabits several identities in her 'bone-framed coat'. With overarching themes of migration, otherness, sexual awakening, and maternal mental illness, we encounter the aftermath of catastrophe, of loss and being lost.
  Here, 'time folds us into origami boats' – and the poems swell with the surging tides of youth and of becoming, of what we inherit and what we forge as our own path – and what happens when we jump into the depths and experience life in full-flow. Alive with wildlife and nightlife, mythmaking and bad romance, the everyday and the otherworldly, Flood is a prodigious debut collection from a truly distinctive and vital voice, now reissued in this new edition by Nine Arches Press.

  Show book

• 

  Top 10 Poets The - Nature - Five...

  William Wordsworth

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  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. 
   
  The world of nature is often the first resource a poet has for muse and inspiration.  Nature has infinite ways of both revealing herself and putting together landscapes of majesty and wonder in everything from a flower to the universe. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - To the Daisy by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  4 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  5 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  6 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  7 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  8 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 
  9 - Warble Of Lilac Time By Walt Whitman 
  10 - A July Afternoon By The Pond by Walt Whitman 
  11 - A Carol of Harvest for 1867 by Walt Whitman 
  12 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  13 - Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  15 - On the Sea by Keats 
  16 - Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burn's Country by John Keats 
  17 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  19 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon by Emily Dickinson 
  22 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  23 - All Nature Has a Feeling by  John Clare 
  24 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  25 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  26 - Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare 
  27 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  28 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  29 - Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  30 - By the Seaside - The Fire of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Sound of The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  32 - In Vision I Roamed by Thomas Hardy 
  33 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Last Week in October by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  37 - Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  38 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  39 - Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  41 - The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson  
  42 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  43 - May-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  44 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  45 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  46 - Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - All Things Will Die by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  48 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  50 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  51 - Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Show book

• 

  Afonydd - Poems for Welsh Rivers...

  Sian Northey, Ness Owen

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Inspired by the positive reaction to our earlier bilingual Welsh/English poetry anthology about a Welsh road, A470 Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd; we expanded our scope to Welsh rivers - any of them. with over 600 to choose from this proved a rich seam of invention for our Welsh poets, and a wide geographical range within Wales too. Our poets range from novices to luminaries of the Welsh Poetry scene. The outcome - 50 poems in their original language, whether that was English or Welsh, next to a translation, celebrating everything about Welsh rivers, from source to estuary, fresh and clean or culverted and polluted, childhood memory to recent flooding.

  Show book

• 

  Songs for the Land-Bound

  Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s luminous debut seeks out ways of coping in a complicated age. Exploring the constraints and anxieties of midlife in the midst of climate breakdown, of motherhood in a period of personal and planetary vulnerability, these poems speak to the persistence of nature, creativity, and love: necessary sources of hope and beauty, the ties that bind us to this shared and sacred place. Here is a lyrical and resonant new songbook for survival, a flight across the uneasy darkness, a shining course through the “wreckage strung with violets.”

  Show book