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Poetry and prose to encourage us to grow. Watering the Soul is a
timeless reminder that everyone needs time, love, and forgiveness.
In the deepest, most enchanting part of the forest, a creature
hands you a seed. Within the seed is your soul, ready to be grown
again. From internationally bestselling author Courtney Peppernell
comes her new book of poetry and prose, Watering the Soul. In true
Peppernell style, the book is divided into sections, this time
following a step-by-step recipe, to heal your soul. Filled with
themes that focus on forgiveness, gratitude, togetherness, and
equality, Peppernell takes you on a journey to find a precious yet
profound understanding; that a seed is not grown with haste and nor
is becoming whole, that in each and every step, we find the meaning
of watering the soul. This is the story of your soul and how it can
be grown again.
Wanneer die son verduister, staan mense stil om na te dink oor lig
en donker. So word daar oor veel meer as hierdie natuurlike
verskynsel besin. Sinisme en humor bly nie agterwee nie maar die
groot gedagte skyn weemoed en verwondering te wees. In hierdie 94
gedigte praat bekende digters en debutante saam; prosaskrywers,
joernaliste, musikante en ander openbare figure waag hulle hand aan
die poesie. Die resultaat is ’n sonderlinge verkenning van die
kreatiewe kragte wat vaardig raak wanneer die natuur sy heerskappy
bevestig.
In this new volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Simic fills the
wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and
cemeteries. With empty offices and dolls that smile. With the sound
of bare feet upstairs and a single kiss before the shadows
converge. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and
American present. It is a world of his own creation, one always
full of luminous surprise.
Who is responsible for creating a smokescreen of misdirection and
illusion, over our lives, so that we are unable to see things as
they really are? A selection of poems reflecting life's spiritual
beauty, the truly bizarre and the totally bonkers!
In hierdie stewige debuut, skryf Lucie Möller oor ’n wye verskeidenheid onderwerpe.
Benewens verse oor vuur as suiwering en vernietiging, kuns, musiek en letterkunde, speel ’n groot aantal van die verse af teen die agtergrond van die herkenbare landskappe van Namibië, die Noord-Kaap en veral die bosveld van die Waterberge.
Möller gee konkrete gestalte aan die natuurlike elemente van dié landskappe, die plante, diere en voëls, maar ook die berge en riviere.
Leonora Slinn was born in Stafford and is proud to be part of such
a delightful and historic county. She has been writing poetry from
the age of seven and is pleased to be able to share her memories
with you.
Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former
professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement,
surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the
built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are
endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Each poem is its own
event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in
precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his
strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting
asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this
disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the
spirit of the place. From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the
Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria,
together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on
the cusp of things. 'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut. Todd
writes with a tangible physicality, solid as a curb, so that the
language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way
of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly
engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' LUKE KENNARD
A collection of adult humour and life reflecting poems from a first
time author. Not suitable reading for children, or adults easily
upset or embarrassed by matters of the world and body.
A collection of poems for adults and children.
Hughes' relationship with nature is so central to his work that
every book on him has discussed it. However, because of the larger
scope of all these books, this discussion has remained at a fairly
superficial level. Here Keith Sagar tries to take it onto a deeper
level by relating it to paganism and Christianity, myth, Greek
tragedy, Shakespeare, and the whole tradition of nature poetry in
English, to Hughes' particular canon of revered poets, to his wider
reading and the shaping events of his life. He traces Hughes'
painful journey from terror in the face of nature in his first
three collections, through the transitional works from Crow to Cave
Birds, to the transformation in Moortown and Remains of Elmet,
culminating in the exultation of River. He argues that these three
collections constitute the apex of Hughes' achievement, and are
among the great works of world literature.
A classic college textbook containing a judicious selection from
the whole field of Roman elegy, with introductory matter and
English commentary. It helps the student obtain a general
acquaintance with Roman elegiac poetry, and features the writings
of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid.
This is a collection of poetry, written by Simon Stratton.
The Wanderer's Havamal features Jackson Crawford's complete,
carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Havamal
, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original
Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript.
Rounding out the volume are Crawford's classic Cowboy Havamal and
translations of other related texts central to understanding the
character, wisdom, and mysteries of odinn (Odin). Portable and
reader-friendly, it makes an ideal companion for both lovers of Old
Norse mythology and those new to the wisdom of this central Eddic
poem wherever they may find themselves.
The poems in this book focus on different aspects of the self,
influenced by culture, art, politics and language. There are poems
that examine the relationship between the artist and art: a
Michelangelo sculpture describes its maker, Frida Khalo faces her
image in one of her canvases. The political self is evident in
poems about the Berlin wall and its eventual destruction and the
impact of death by sniper bullet in Sarajevo. The relationship
between language and culture is another theme developed in the
book: a famous American poet looks back over his life, a teacher
struggles to enthuse his class with a poem. Overall then, the poems
examine the inner life of the individual, the impact of cause and
effect on the psyche and how we often have to struggle to achieve
happiness. John Murphy was born in Kingston-on-Thames and after
years of living in various parts of London and Essex is now back in
the family home. He entered Essex University as a mature student,
discovered he was quite good at it and eventually emerged with a
PhD in American poetry. He has lectured in English and American
literature and Creative writing and now in semi-retirement, enjoys
teaching bass guitar and playing bass in JJ and The Jukes.
Evoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour,
poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also
explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of
England, Wales, France, and Greece. Another theme is the work of
teaching and other professions seen from the vantage points of
provider, recipient, and witness. There are salutes to writers like
Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse and Jack Gilbert who, we are told, 'put
his life into poetry.' Separate sequences celebrate years of
occasional visits to Llandaff Cathedral and its surrounding
landscape, and the delights and political revelations of a stay in
Athens. This is a book diverse in its moods and subjects but
unified by an infectious openness to the moment and to life's joys
and sorrows, and an unfolding sense of accumulating experience and
insight. It is illuminated by a recurrent sense of inspiration, of
'what possessed me.'
Uittogboek – ’n bundel wat van fyn vakmanskap, tematiese en
stilistiese verskeidenheid en intellektuele diepgang getuig – is ’n
hoogtepunt in die digter Johan Myburg se oeuvre. Temas soos die
doodsbesef, die mens se verganklikheid en die optekening van laaste
dinge word op subtiele en sensitiewe wyse benader en met ironie en
humor deurspek. Die samebindende gegewe van die bundel is die
Romeinse keiser Hadrianus (76–138 n.C.), en die bundel open met sy
bekende sterfgedig in Latyn en Myburg se trefsekere vertaling
daarvan in Afrikaans. Myburg bewys homself met hierdie publikasie
as ’n digter wat nie slegs formele verse nie, maar ook vrye verse
en langer prosagedigte kan skryf wat die leser op verskeie vlakke
uitdaag, gevange hou en betower.
'Superb, moving, beautiful' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble
with Goats and Sheep He will be allowed to visit his mother soon.
His mother who is terminally ill, his mother who he has been barred
from seeing as he recovers from his own bout of pneumonia. Until
then, with the help of his physiotherapist Freya, he must navigate
his increasingly empty and isolated existence: his father, who
finds solace in the bottom of a glass; his Nana Q, whose
betting-slip confetti litters her handbag; his friends, who simply
wouldn't understand. Time passes with the promise of soon, but one
hundred and fifty-two days later the boy will come face to face
with his grief, and move beyond to a world full of possibility,
hope and love.
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Plan B
(Hardcover)
Paul Muldoon; Illustrated by Norman McBeath
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R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet,
Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman
McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and
black-and-white image. Although a McBeath photograph (of a statue
of Apollo wrapped in polythene) is directly invoked in one poem,
much of the success of this beautifully produced book has to do
with indirection and evocation. It's as if this book presents us
with a distinctly new genre - photometry.
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