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Edited by Lilias Fraser, Jane Cooper and Kate Hendry, To Learn the
Future is a selection of poems that will grip at first reading -
perfect if the only time you have is five minutes in a rushed lunch
break. The choice of poems includes insight for days when teachers
need to find extra courage, compassion and commitment, as well as
celebration of the inspirational, the funny and the reflective.
This is a pocket-sized reminder of the integrity, passion and
commitment that inspires people to become teachers, and the wealth
of experience and voices in classrooms and staffrooms. With these
poems to hand, for the good days and the tough moments, no teacher
is ever alone.
Imperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain
terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn
too early from their mother's breast, learn to adapt to harsh
guardianship. Belonging and exile are mirrored in the stories of
having to leave one's birthmother-or motherland. From narrative
poems such as 'My Father Sold Cigarettes To The Nazis', Fogel takes
us on a journey throughout history, spanning ancestry, wartime,
adoption and peacetime, as life settles. Family, work, love and the
natural world provide purpose, meaning and a sense of coming
'home'.
Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems. Considering Yeats's early, dreamily evocative poems as well as his passionate, tension-ridden later work, Michael O'Neill offers a refreshingly clear discussion of: *contexts - through an invaluable, accessible overview, a detailed chronology and contemporary documents revealing Yeats's understanding of his vocation as a poet; *interpretations - through helpfully introduced extracts from criticism of Yeats's work, ranging from early responses through to modern critical texts; *key poems - in a section where insightful commentary accompanies the full annotated text of many of Yeats's major poems; *further reading - to guide those interested in additional study. The Sourcebook is ideal for those new to Yeats's poetry or those who wish to look deeper into its workings, its reception and the contexts from which it emerged.
Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long
gone. In Far Company, we hear Cindy Hunter Morgan thinking about
the many ways we carry the natural world inside of us as a kind of
embedded cartography. Many of these poems commune not only with
lost ancestors but also past poets. We hear conversations with
Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Walt Whitman, and W. S. Merwin.
These poets, who are part of Hunter Morgan's poetic lineage, are
beloved figures in the far company she keeps, but the poems she
writes are distinctly hers. Poet Larissa Szporluk remarked, "The
poems in this collection are quiet and deceptively simple. My first
response was to be amazed by a seeming innocence in
delivery-straightforward, picturesque, and compassionate-that then
matured like a crystal into something precious and masterful. We
are left with the whole forest having met all the trees one by one.
There is so much respect in this collection-respect for natural
processes that include intergenerational relationships, shared
territories, and myths. The poems in Far Company reveal a mind and
a heart negotiating both self and world with compassion and
invention. They are cinematic in the way they navigate loss,
memory, dislocation, hope, and love-abstractions evoked in deeply
specific and nuanced ways. There is the drone that flies over
Hunter Morgan's grandparents'farm before the house burns and the
stag-handled knife in a pocket, its single blade "folded inside
like a secret" on a train in Greece. But this collection is full of
quieter cinema, too-a grandfather bending to cinch the girth of a
horse, days "green / with snap peas and wild tendrils," and
"raindrops beading like sweat/ on the lips of snapdragons." The
root of this book is Hunter Morgan's love for family and her love
for the land her family has shared. These poems map a journey to
many places, inward and outward, and engage with the natural world
and the built world, moving between both of those environments in
ways that acknowledge the complexities of such crossings. Often
melancholic but never sentimental, this collection belongs with any
reader who seeks out literature in the organic world.
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In Ryan Pedro se debuutbundel kom ’n sterk nuwe stem aan die woord in roerende gedigte wat dikwels uit die oogpunt van ’n bruin seun op ’n plattelandse dorp aangebied word. Die kompleksiteite van identiteit, ras, klas en opvoeding word ondersoek deur dié seun se beweging tussen verskillende wêrelde binne sy eie familie en binne die kleindorpse opset. Dit word in die taalgebruik in die bundel weerspieël deur ’n wisseling tussen variëteite. ’n Onderverteenwoordigde ervaringswêreld word oopgeskryf.
Readers have called her work "life changing," "pandemic medicine,"
and "part of my daily ritual." Oprah Magazine and the Today Show
have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self
Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry book, Self
Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers, a collection of 200
thought-provoking and heart-opening self love poems. In Self Love
Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender,
resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love,
through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. On
the left side of the book are "thinker" poems that light up the
analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and on the right
side are companion "feeler" poems that speak to the creative, more
emotional right side of the brain. Combined, the poems electrify
the mind, body and soul through a completely unique poetry
experience that inspires each of us to embrace all parts of
ourselves. This empowering poetry book will not only engage you to
think and feel, but will make you feel seen, show you how to love
yourself, and encourage you to seek out the hope and beauty in the
world ... and in yourself. It's the perfect gift for yourself or
someone you love, especially after a most difficult year.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Eversley Edition text of
the poem, accompanied by Erik Gray's preface, full introduction and
detailed explanatory footnotes. One illustration. A generous
selection (new to the Third Edition) of background materials on In
Memoriam's subject, Arthur Henry Hallam, as well as its literary
and scientific contexts. Twelve contemporary reviews spanning
1850-55 (also new to this Third Edition) that suggest In Memoriam's
initial reception. Eleven critical essays, five of them new to the
Third Edition. A chronology, a selected bibliography and an index
of first lines. About the Series Read by more than 12 million
students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the
standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The
three-part format-annotated text, contexts and criticism-helps
students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the
literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities
for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton
Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet
Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls 'his large
concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces
extraordinary verbal and emotional effects'. His latest book is a
quest, through origin and migration, South America to the North of
Ireland, Khao I Dang refugee camp to Glasnevin graveyard, for a
lost maternal ground. Harry Clifton has published ten other books
of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012),
The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), Portobello
Sonnets (2017) and Herod's Dispensations (2019).
If you can imagine William Blake playing Scrabble with Joni
Mitchell, Catherine of Aragon booking into the Holiday Inn, or
Cassius Clay meeting the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus,
you're ready for the dreamworld created by Aidan Semmens in The
Jazz Age. After five books of intense - some would say difficult -
poetry, he has produced something more accessible, surprising, and
fun. In a series of prose vignettes he casts an array of historical
figures into times and places other than their own, playing on
anachronism and dislocation to surreal, witty, frequently comic,
occasionally poignant or disturbing effect. Each brief episode is
crystalline, the whole piece theatrical, enjoyably absurd. You
might identify a questioning of belief systems, of social
hierarchy, of human individuality and inter-relationship - but
essentially this is, as it is billed, entertainment.
Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds
and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as
well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. The
first poem in her new collection asks 'Shall we go on the shiny?',
the last one ends 'being altogether gone this time'. In between
there's the tightrope, 'The Walking Shot', the report on the
pilgrimage in progress, the marquise going out at five o'clock. The
eye moves left to right along with the poems' movement. Though
there are stops from time to time, for problems of the
unidentified, the location of waterholes, whether or not those
birds are oystercatchers, for the interior of a pocket and Nijinsky
jumping. Then on, maybe to the beach again. Shall We Go? is
Annemarie Austin's eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe
retrospective, Very: New & Selected Poems (2008) and later
collection Track (2014).
An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yeats.
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