"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography. Here are the elements you'd expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father and Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath time and naptime-but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. "Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow." The twins learn to climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. "It was evening. Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the squirting elephant, which, according to Mother, represented patience, strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought, knowing what we know." Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book, following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays, is unlike anything Gluck has written, while at the same time it is inevitable, transcendent.

Piet van Rooyen bring met hierdie werk twee van sy groot liefdes bymekaar: perdry en lees. Die gedigte in hierdie bundel, telkens gebaseer op tekste uit die wereldletterkunde waarin perde prominent figureer, word uiteindelik klein kamees van uiteenlopende eras, samelewings en ruimtes.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic. Lana Del Rey Lana's breathtaking first book solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana's typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff.

A new edition of A. E. Stallings's first book of poems, which was awarded the Richard Wilbur Award. In Archaic Smile, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A. E. Stallings, the poet couples poetic meditations on classic stories and themes with poems about the everyday, sometimes mundane occurrences of contemporary life (like losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father), and she infuses the latter with the magic of myth and history. With the skill of a scholar and translator and the playful, pristine composition of a poet, Stallings bridges the gap between these two distant worlds. Stallings "invigorates the old forms and makes them sing" (Meryl Natchez, ZYZZYVA) in her poetry, and the scope and origins of her talents are on full display in the acclaimed author's first collection. The poems of Archaic Smile are sung with a timeless, technically impeccable, and utterly true voice.

Louise Gluck says in one of her essays that every end of a book is for her a "conscious diagnostic act, a swearing off" in which she discerns the themes, habits, and preoccupations of the previous volume to define the tasks of the next. The First Four Books of Poems shows this poet in the conscious evolution she describes, marking time in changes. Readers will hear specifics of sequence: where the ferocious tension of her first book, Firstborn, moves towards the more finely-spun lyricism of her second, The House on Marshland. They will also discover how the charged nouns of that book acquire more intimate weight to become the icons in her third, Descending Figure, and then rise to an archetypal mythic scale in The Triumph of Achilles. These poems are as various as the force of Gluck's intelligence is constant. In another essay, she cautions, "the deft skirting of despair is a life lived on the surface, intimidated by depth, a life that refuses to be used by time, which it tries instead to dominate or evade." The First Four Books of Poems attests to how truly Gluck has tested and proven the validity of her own warning. The fierce, austerely beautiful voice that has become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth. Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise Gluck shows herself happily "used by time."

Miriam Van hee is tans een van die mees gelese digters in die Lae Lande. In hierdie keuse uit haar poesie het Daniel Hugo, die vertaler, hom in sy keuse eerstens laat lei deur die vertaalbaarheid van die verse, maar ook probeer om die Afrikaanse leser ’n oorsig te bied van haar werk. Van hee se poesie is so gestroop soos takke wat hulle blare verloor in die herfs, die seisoen wat dikwels in haar gedigte genoem word. Stemmings van stilte, afwagting en leegheid is oorheersend. Al is die landskappe waaroor sy skryf, met sneeu bedek, en al is die stede en huise waarin die verse geplaas word, die van ’n vreemde land, sal die Suid-Afrikaanse leser die emosies van verlies, weemoed en verlange maklik kan herken en daarmee identifiseer. Daniel Hugo slaag uitmuntend daarin om die delikate wereld van hierdie Vlaamse woordkunstenaar in glashelder Afrikaans oor te sit.

Die begeleiding van duiwe is 'n stewige bundel oor 'n verskeidenheid verweefde temas. Die liefdesgedigte is dikwels nostalgies en vol verlange, maar hou verrassend genoeg ook verband met die tema van oorlog en stryd wat deur die bundel loop. Daar is 'n durende spanning tussen verskillende sfere in die bundel: tussen die aardse en die verhewene, die godsdienstige en die lyflike, tussen Israel en Suid-Afrika. Hierdie spanning word in ’n mate oorbrug deur beweging tussen die werelde, deur reise, verhuising en weggaan, met duiwe wat dikwels as skakel tussen die verskillende sfere optree. In die slotgedig “Eksodus” word die tweespalt treffend in die Suid-Afrikaanse aktualiteit ingebed, met die liefdes- en godsdienstige temas wat steeds saamklink.

The Editors of Irish Pages - Chris Agee, Cathal O Searcaigh, Kathleen Jamie and Meg Bateman - have assembled a new issue of the journal, entitled "The Anthropocene." It aims to evoke the escalating global ecological crisis in the round, through many of its key components, including climate change, deforestation, the treatment of animals, oceanic pollution and over-fishing, the melting of glaciers, extinctions, land-use, plastic pollution and the waste crisis, the eco-vandalism of mining and the fashion industry, the extermination of indigenous peoples and languages, biodiversity and ecocide generally, and so on - and on. * A certain amount of poetry and prose deals with humanity and human consciousness more generally, in their historical, cultural, psychological, artistic and religious dimensions. * There is also a special section devoted to writing on the Pandemic. * As with other issues, however, there is also work included that does not bear explicitly on the theme of the issue.

A raw, honest and heartfelt poetry collection from Taz Alam - for the tough times, the great times, and everything in between. Depressed, but it's fine. Anxious, but it's fine. Heartbroken, but it's fine. When you're ready to embrace how you really feel, I hope this book helps you connect, reflect, and be seen. What matters is that you're here. Maybe we can be fine, together.

Henry Normal's Collected Poems, Volume Two includes all of the poems from This Phantom Breath, The Department of Lost Wishes and Swallowing the Entire Ocean. The poems in This Phantom Breath are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. The Department of Lost Wishes contains more than one hundred poems selected by the author from his early works. The poems in Swallowing the Entire Ocean are concerned with the search for meaning and identity, and other foolhardy adventures.

A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they have to say on the age-old subject of love in its many and varied forms. Featuring twelve pieces dating from the fourteenth century to the present, this absorbing collection deliberately veers far from cliched verses with its poems of regret and of mourning; straight love and gay love; bawdy verses of passion and desire, and gentle meditations on motherhood and marriage. It features anonymous and lesser-known writers as well as household names such as Gillian Clarke and R. S. Thomas, and it includes a previously unpublished poem by Emyr Humphreys. With original illustrations by Ruth Jen Evans throughout, this short but powerful collection will appeal to anyone interested in people and their complex relationships.

Derde gety dui op 'n oorgang waarin hede en verlede versmelt. 'n Nuwe tydruimte van ewewig, besinning en tuiskoms breek aan, waarby uiteenlopende onderwerpe uit 'n ryk ervaringswêreld betrek word.

Die bundel behels 'n verskeidenheid beeldryke verse, met 'n fyn aanvoeling vir o.m. skoonheid in al haar manifestaties, menslike verhoudings en deurgaans ook 'n maatskaplike bewustheid. Die taalgebruik is vindingryk maar helder, en die gedigte getuig van 'n besonderse poëtiese vakmanskap.

Discover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told...

No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver in fear when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance.

If you're enthralled by the magic of Greek mythology you'll love Fry's follow-up book Heroes, with tales of mortals and monsters, quests and adventures...

Die temas in hierdie bundel sluit deels aan by temas uit sy vorige bundels, maar daar is ook heelwat nuwe onderwerpe. Die gedigte oor musiek, die skilderkuns en die letterkunde in afdelings I en IV toon weer eens Crous se vernuf in die ontginning van intertekste, terwyl die homoerotiese gedigte in afdeling VI voortbou op die tema in sy tweede bundel.

Eybers se verse was jare laas in druk. Dié keuse, uitgesoek deur Ena Jansen, goeie vriendin van haar, wys op Eybers se veelsydigheid as digter. Die bloemlesing behels o.m. die bekende "Maria", "Busrit in die aand", verse oor haar kinders, die emigrasie na Nederland, tot haar latere, aangrypende gedigte oor ouer word. Goeie poësie is tydloos, en dit blyk duidelik met dié uitgawe van Eybers se bekendste werk. 

Met hierdie bundel sluit Marais aan by sy bundel Aves wat uitsluitlik oor voëls gehandel het, maar in Diorama val die klem op diere.

Marais is bekend daarvoor dat sy gedigte respek het vir wetenskaplike kennis: Die wetenskaplike name van spesies word by die gedigte gegee, die feite moet korrek wees en die habitatte waarin die diere, plante en voëls voorkom, word versigtig uitgebeeld.

Hierdie bundel bevat ook gedigte oor die paleontologie en navorsers soos Jane Goodall, Richard Leakey en die Suid-Afrikaanse paleontoloog Philip Tobias.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), poet, philosopher and artist, was born in Lebanon. His fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East, where millions of Arabic-speaking people consider him the genius of his age. In America, where he lived for the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English, and his books of poetry, illustrated with mystical drawings, are now known all over the world.
The Prophet is Gibran's masterpiece. First published sixty years ago, it has been translated into many languages and has sold millions of copies, becoming one of the most beloved classics of our time. Gibran's drawings have been compared to those of William Blake.