Moving through somnambulant states, Sleep Gate evokes Inger Christensens description of the necessity for us to dream our way inward. The poems in Sleep Gate push Christensens dream inward further, into biological dreaming itself. Fully absorbed in the fabric of sleep, enfolded into the inventory of dreams, these poems become part of the process of sleep respiration, so that we might consider the world around us from another perspective. Moving through the changing states of peoplesdreamscapes and what might affect them, like nightmares, insomnia and other sleep disorders, Sleep Gate captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting quality of dreams: within the unspoken context of deep-sleep tectonic logic, these poems jump from a time before the clouds are inventoried to the present, from Winters gnashing bruxism to a garden anointed with gluey residue. A collection that, as on waking, assembles the world through distortion and towards clarity.

In Girling, her open-hearted debut collection, Eve Esfandiary-Denney wrestles with the boundaries between living and death, history and the present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA and in our geographical or cultural environments. Through a personal relationship with illness and a closeness to death, the author asks the reader, I hope its ok to die. I can / be something / like actualized metaphor. She recounts the story of a father left abandoned in a church, and remembers a grandmothers home in a travellers caravan. Grief is portrayed with a tongue in cheek, cosmic register, as the speaker invests in lions mane, attempts to feel super-radiant, and moves into moon pose, while we watch electronic deep-sea claws on YouTube, and google what to do if your mum died last night. Philosophical, funny, pertinent, ecological, global and intimate, this is a collection of poems for the contemporary moment, a book deeply personal yet communal in its intention, beginning from a personal history then resonating outwards, ending on a note so gorgeously hopeful, as life moves towards the speaker, gloriously close.

In 2021, Magorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea. She set out to run as a poet, not as an athlete, to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the rivers body of water, under threat of environmental ruin. Her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey, and a profound meditation on the porosity, reactivity and receptivity of both the body and the natural world, and of their influences on one another.

Everything Everyday is a poetic journal of the year that charts winter through to autumn in a richly textured sequence of diary-poems, lyric fragments and a crown of sonnets. Each months entry weaves together mythic figures Tahlequah the mourning orca, Brigids mountain dance, Sister Icaruss fragile flight and Beiras shore vigils with the unfolding chronicle of contemporary grief and protest. Readers move from Januarys frozen harbour and political flashpoints into springs ritual planting of lemon-drop seeds, summers drum-driven rallies and smoky vigils, and autumns oil-slick swans and ash-borne snowdrops. The collections formal innovations mirror its thematic urgency: bracketed interjections pulse like heartbeats, dated stanzas resonate like journal entries, and the season-by-season structure creates a mythic ledger of solidarity and hope. Laverys work becomes both witness and archivewhere personal confession and public ritual converge in an unflinching testament to collective mourning, unbroken resilience, and the ember of promise that refuses to cool. Each poem is an unflinching exploration of memory and identity in an era defined by both loss and possibility. Bold, uncompromising, and deeply resonant, Everything, Everyday invites you to confront the delicate art of livingand lovingin a world that is as beautiful as it is unpredictable.

The definitive edition of Plaths poetry for readers, scholars and studentsSylvia Plaths first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This present volume emerges out of decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition.The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years, sourced from diaries and letters, published in school magazines, and copied into the manuscript book that Plath kept for her own records. In each instance, the editors have dated and selected the most authoritative text, and provide critical notes that offer insight into Plaths extraordinary evolution as a poet - from her early, precocious determination to be a writer to her place in literary history as the twentieth-centurys most fiercely burning star.

Radically lyrical, politically astute, this new collection features six writers whose every word is an act of affirmation. As it must be, for their art to flourish beside one of the worlds great languages.In Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh, we find youthful energies tackling climate change, global extinctions, even human life beyond our planet. Whether in Wales or Palestine, Manhattan or the island of Alcatraz itself, we learn that todays Welsh language poetry, with its unique perspective, is as valid as any verse in the world. And, possibly, more vital.If these translations take liberties, none are unforgivable. The spirit of each poem remains unblemished. Here, veteran writers, such as Menna Elfyn, Karen Owen and Iwan Llwyd, mix with the next generations Iestyn Tyne, Llyr Gwyn and Sian Northey. Alcatraz is an essential work for anyone interested in the good health of modern poetry in the UK.

Things can be much more than things. Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model carand what happens when those objects change hands? In the buying and the selling of things, objects once loved but perhaps discarded or forgotten, we find a treasure trove of untold stories. . . stories of pain, joy, hope, dreams, disappointment. What new purposes might unfold when these objects move from old owners to new? What spiritual, unseen things happen in that ordinary human transaction? Can love be passed on through pre-owned possessions?New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes invites us to discover what her grandmother taught herhow there is value in the old and used, and how things are much more than thingsthey are stories of our humanity. Wise, thoughtful, and unsparingly candid, this unique and moving collection of stories-as-verse helps us on our journeys of letting go, rediscovering purpose, and experiencing redemption and renewal for the worn out and broken places in our hearts. Step in, look around, have a listen, and be twice blessed.

Un poemario visionario y colectivo en el que se reescribe la pandemia como un mito de origen contemporáneo.Vengo de ver es la proyección musical, visionaria y salvaje de una sociedad que parece haber abandonado el cuidado de su propio futuro. Aullidos en la cima del presente, en estos poemas sincopados se entremezclan pensamiento, memoria y sensibilidad, explorando aun con altas dosis de esperanza y deseo la extraña epoca en que vivimos.Lucida y carnal, la voz de este libro entona preguntas de fondo. ¿Que horizonte extraer de un estado de intuicion apocaliptica? ¿Como defender los espacios de ternura en una realidad a menudo monstruosa? ¿Que azares y voluntades nos mantienen con vida, que vinculos secretos nos unen a la extincion?A traves de una mirada precisa y profetica, Andres Neuman propone un viaje que nos lleva del seismo a la delicadeza, del horror a la alucinacion, de la furia a la fiesta, hasta desembocar en una respuesta amorosa frente a la destruccion de la que somos parte.

From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motions new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the long title sequence which completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is always a prey to hard facts of mortality. The energy and reach of these poems opens a new chapter in Motions writing, remaining true to the elegiac subjects which have always been his main concern, while adding new depths of pathos and resonance.

Una melancólica reflexión sobre de la paternidad y sobre cómo se transmiten los afectos, las palabras y los lenguajes.«La infancia es más larga que la vida», reza Ana María Matute en uno de los epígr

Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughess Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee. The sixteen poems gathered here brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world.This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughess long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.

Nono livro de poemas de um dos mais consagrados poetas, contistas e tradutores brasileiros em atividade, este volume traz Paulo Henriques Britto em sua melhor forma. Avesso ao sentimentalismo, aos arroubos, a autocomiseraço, o autor criou uma poetica extraordinaria, com linguagem afiada e ironica, equilibrada entre o ceticismo e a descrença.Embora os poemas de Paulo Henriques Britto sugiram resignaço e pessimismo, uma segunda leitura pode revelar o sentido oposto. A propria insistencia em escrever em tentar encaixar o mundo na forma fixa do verso opera como um "impulso visceral, organico,/ que mantem o cerebro ativo/ e combate ataques de panico". Como ele demonstra na serie "Intransitivas", a funço terapeutica da poesia no pode ser descartada: "E palavra em lugar de droga,/ especie incorporea de ioga".No se trata, e claro, de imaginar que o poema possa oferecer soluçes para os problemas do mundo ou dar fim as nossas angustias individuais. Longe disso. Mas o humor mal-humorado e desesperançoso do poeta atesta que "o poema cria uma existencia/ no real, mas no de todo improvavel,/ uma presença falsa que compensa". E nessa ausencia, ou falsa presença, que a poesia mostra ser capaz de oferecer "o gosto, o som, a cor" e, assim, curiosamente, cumprir "o que promete".

In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. This collection is a poetic photo album. Through these poems, Van Winkle looks at life through a lens to get closer to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life. He reckons with how we remember and misremember, and how memories and people can be difficult, and at times painful, to hold on to. In reading this collection it becomes clear that while photographs can be carefully ordered, the emotions and impressions surrounding them cannot.

Tras la segunda guerra mundial Inglaterra entró en estado de shock. La lenta reconstrucción de las ciudades y la economía, la descomposición de imperio y la afluencia migratoria alteraron para siempre la fisonomia de la isla.La poesia no fue ajena a las presiones psicologicas, economicas, culturales y sociales de su tiempo. Como una antena muy sofisticada (y algo enigmatica) recogio el malestar, el pesimismo, la soledad y la fealdad de la epoca: la Inglaterra verde y campestre de Worsdworth o Tennyson se vuelve gris y urbana en los poemas de esta generacion.Claro que partiendo de un sustrato comun cada uno de estos poetas ofrece visiones muy distintas y sofisticadas de su tiempo. Asi los dos poetas principales de esta generacion alcanzan posiciones casi confrontadas: Philip Larkin segrega su pesimismo cultivando un conservadurismo de ideas perfectamente adaptado a los tiempos (oficinas, coches, entretenimiento barato), con un lenguaje preciso, casi expurgado de lirismo; mientras que Ted Hughes despliega una vision salvaje de la caza, los animales y la naturaleza, asediada por las ciudades y la rutina de las oficinas, con un lenguaje expresionista y telurico.Abran y lean este catalogo de visiones (poeticas), unas veces fantasticas, otras veces mordaces, sobre la misma sociedad fria, gris, mecanizada, solitaria, y apatica en la que en buena medida seguimos viviendo.

Seleço de versos nascidos entre 1998 e 2022, soletrados principalmente em noites cujas imperfeiçes, em meio a escurido, conseguiram se camuflar com duvidosa eficiencia e nas quais as rimas se conheceram aos tropeços, impunes e desavergonhadas. E fato que algumas tardes intrometidas colaboraram; guardanapos rascunhados em mesinhas de bar com o velho papo de sempre: tempo, saudade, paixo, amor, todos esses elementos com os quais os versos costumam sonhar. E aos quais nos, pobres criaturas sentimentais, nos submetemos com indevida, mas necessaria, intensidade como se no houvesse amanh.

UN FENÓMENO COREANO, CON MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS, QUE HA CONQUISTADO CORAZONES EN TODO EL MUNDO: UN REFUGIO ÍNTIMO SOBRE EL AMOR, LA PÉRDIDA Y LA FUERZA DE VOLVER A EMPEZAR.Siempre fuiste tu es una coleccion de ensayos que habla del amor, del desamor y de lo que significa crecer: una lectura intima, cercana y profundamente reconfortante que se convertira en tu refugio personal. El escritor y poeta Ha Tae-wan nos ofrece una serie de textos breves y conmovedores que exploran las relaciones en toda su complejidad. Con un estilo sencillo y directo, captura la intensidad de la juventud y el primer amor: la euforia del comienzo, el vacio de la ruptura y, finalmente, el proceso de aceptacion y sanacion. Con una escritura llena de sensibilidad, el autor muestra el recorrido emocional de la vida moderna. Cada pagina nos recuerda la belleza que puede encontrarse en los momentos mas simples y nos invita a aceptar tanto las emociones alegres como las dolorosas. Entre la esperanza y la nostalgia, Siempre fuiste tu muestra lo que tantas veces sentimos y no sabemos expresar, ofreciendo comprension, consuelo y la certeza de que el dolor tambien puede transformarse en fuerza.

La recopilación de todos los poemas que Raúl Quinto ha escrito hasta la fecha, con un apéndice inédito.Un idioma siempre al borde de la extinción recoge toda la producción poética publicada hasta la fecha por Raul Quinto desde que en 2002 apareciera su primer poemario, Grietas. Esta edicion, que abarca mas de dos decadas, contiene los seis libros que le siguieron, asi como tambien una antologia de poemas dispersos y un librito inedito, escrito durante los dias del confinamiento, titulado Cuaderno de la peste de 1348 y que aparece aqui por primera vez.Su poesia, a medio camino entre lo lirico y lo que Luis Bague ha llegado a denominar instalaciones discursivas, funciona como un mecanismo textual donde se pone de relieve el conflicto permanente entre la realidad y el lenguaje desde un compromiso en el que lo estetico y la busqueda de sus limites pesan tanto como lo politico o lo existencial. A traves de un trabajo formal depurado y en continua transformacion se nos presentan los temas que recorren toda su obra: la historia, el poder, la incomunicacion, la identidad, el horror y la belleza, y que lo han convertido en una de las voces mas relevantes y reconocidas de la poesia española de este siglo.

La nueva y esperada reedición de uno de los debut poéticos más deslumbrantes de los últimos años.Ocho años después de su aparición, Lae Sánchez regresa a este poemario íntimo, valiente y luminoso. Una edicion revisada y actualizada con poemas ineditos.El poemario es un viaje emocional hacia la reconstruccion personal, una carta abierta a la vida, al amor y al renacer tras la perdida. En sus paginas, la autora nos habla del duelo, del desamor, del aprendizaje y de la resiliencia, con una voz cercana y poderosa. Este libro no busca contar una historia de amor, sino una historia de crecimiento. Es un recorrido que parte del dolor de las despedidas, del ya no estas para llegar a la calma de quien aprende a quererse sin condiciones. Los versos se mueven en tres ejes vida, felicidad y tiempo, que forman el triangulo esencial de su mensaje: todo pasa, todo vuelve y siempre hay belleza en volver a empezar y abrazar lo nuestro. Con una poetica de lo cotidiano, Lae Sanchez convierte cada herida en una leccion, cada caida en impulso y cada final en un nuevo principio. Asi que si lees desde el cansancio, la oscuridad, la duda o bajo la tormenta: Todo va a salir bien, repite la autora como un mantra. Y al cerrar el libro, cualquier lectora confiara en que no queda otra que pelearlo porque todo acabara bien. ¡Que bueno que vinisteis de nuevo!

Una mirada poética que une el arañazo de la historia colectiva con la emoción de la vivencia más íntima.Hay poemas que nacen en las redacciones, entre las noticias de última hora; otros, envueltos por la calidez del hogar. Algunos hablan de lo que supone migrar; varios de la severidad de la Historia. La mayoria no hacen diferencia entre la experiencia personal y la colectiva.En Bululu, Jaime Santirso corresponsal en China y testigo de grandes sucesos del siglo xxi ofrece poesia sin barreras: cotidiana, certera, social. Con el mismo impetu de sus cronicas desde Wuhan, dando cuenta del primer confinamiento del mundo ante una pandemia, Santirso escribe aqui sobre su madre, sus abuelos, sus viajes, los vinculos, la distancia y el recuerdo, su pais. Cada poema es una delicada estampa, que hace de Bululu un acto de resistencia: una poesia que observa, escucha y deleita.