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In Henry Lawsons Winnowed Verse, readers are treated to a collection of poems that capture the essence of Australian bush life and the struggles faced by its inhabitants. Lawsons intimate and evocative writing style brings to life the harsh yet beautiful landscape, the resilient spirit of the people, and the loneliness that permeates the outback. These poems, originally published in various newspapers and journals, showcase Lawsons keen observations and his ability to convey raw emotions with simplicity and depth. This book is a testament to Lawsons literary talent and his commitment to portraying the realities of rural Australia. His works often reflect the growing nationalist sentiment of the time and provide valuable insights into the cultural and social landscape of late 19th-century Australia. Winnowed Verse is a must-read for those interested in Australian literature, poetry, and the bush ethos, offering a window into a unique literary tradition and a bygone era.

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through lifes most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kiplings words, that yours is the Earth and everything thats in it.

Wing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holywhether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experiencing the death of a loved one. This collection of beautiful poems lives at the intersection of the sacred and the ordinary, from the swirling flight of birds to conversations with the homeless. Wing Over Wing brims with compassion. The reader will find comfort and sustenance, as well as surprise and laughter, in these pages.

Matthew Franciss latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the witchy-beetle, forkin-robin of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hookes microscopic observations. There are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead sleep on the wing.

The master of pulsing, post-modern poetic rhythms, Menno Wigmans reputation is assured as one of the Netherlands leading poets. And as perhaps his countrys most exciting poet in terms of form: "a craftsman who knows what he wants" in the words of poet Alfred Schaffer. Wigmans second collection won him the Netherlands coveted Jan Campert prize.Menno Wigmans first full collection to be published in the UK in David Colmers outstanding translation introduces English-language readers to a selection of the work of one of the Netherlands leading poets. Some-times referred to as a dandy of disillusion, Wigman combines a classic aesthetic with rock-n-roll subject matter to sing of sex and booze, vandalism, frustration, poetry and death. Yet despite his unflinching gaze at the grimmer sides of life, Wigman rarely writes grim poems. On the contrary, they are charged with a strong sense of social commitment and human sympathy for the marginalized and forgotten in contemporary society, and tempered with a wryness of tone and a punchy accessibility of style.Wigmans voice in the English language is startling and unexpected, and as such, makes a deep and lasting impact. As Francis Jones says at the conclusion of his introduction to this book: "Wigmans poetry is a powerful brew in Dutch. Remixed in Colmers English, its heady stuff too."

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty . . .-- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

William Shakespeare Esencial: Obras inmortales es una recopilación magistral de las obras más emblemáticas de este icónico autor del Renacimiento inglés. Este libro presenta una selección cuidadosamente elegida de tragedias, comedias y sonetos que demuestran la habilidad unica de Shakespeare para explorar la condicion humana a traves de sus personajes inolvidables y dialogos sublimes. La prosa poetica y la profundidad psicologica de sus obras lo convierten en un pilar fundamental de la literatura mundial. William Shakespeare, a traves de esta compilacion, nos sumerge en un universo de emociones y reflexiones que trascienden el tiempo y el espacio, revelando verdades eternas sobre la naturaleza humana. Su legado literario perdura hasta la actualidad, influenciando generaciones de escritores y lectores en todo el mundo. Recomendamos William Shakespeare Esencial: Obras inmortales a todos los amantes de la literatura clasica, asi como a aquellos que deseen explorar la genialidad de uno de los mayores dramaturgos de todos los tiempos.

Die Sonette Shakespeares liegen auf Deutsch in zahlreichen Ubertragungsvarianten vor, und immer noch erscheinen neue. Der Grund dafur durfte darin zu suchen sein, dass keine davon bisher ganzlich genugen konnte.Hier soll daher all diesen Varianten keine weitere, ebenfalls in Ganze genauso wenig befriedigende hinzugefugt werden. Es wurde vielmehr unter Bezug auf vorliegende und trotz allem relativ gut gelungene Ubertragungen (fur die das Urheberrecht erloschen ist), der Versuch unternommen, eine deutsche Fassung der Sonette zu schaffen, die Shakespeare besser gerecht wird.

William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeares plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself to be a poet. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotlands alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagalls only play, Jack o the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?-- The Tyger

From social and political issues to found poems, Gibsons fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless.These poems spring from taxis, supermarkets and long car drives through the wind and rain. They spring from fantasies, daydreams, nightmares, from love and hate, but, above all, they exalt and enhance everyday experiences.

Katrina Naomis Wild Persistence is a confident and persuasive collection of poems. The first poem Anti-Ambient warns us to be on guard for the off-guard, to suspend our expectations of pure realism and to stay awake for what comes next. Initially, a move from London to Cornwall sparks poems that query and celebrate the natural world. London is mourned and also derided: "youd taken on airs/ become grandiose with the possibilities of capital." Yet the poem also admits that the choice of a move was made by serendipitous chance: "somewhere Id visited long ago on a rainy night, playing pool/ in a pub near a seaside bus station."Though never didactic, the poetic voice convinces us of the need to live well, to take time to celebrate a birthday, make love, consider an artwork, muse over the biography of someone admirable. This also means that we need to come face to face with some of the darker aspects of our experience, in Naomis case the loss of a father through divorce when she was seven, and the illness experienced by her sister and partner. Another section of poems that deals with the aftermath of an attempted rape. Naomis poetic voice is full of invigoratingly fresh outrage and is unforgiving at a distance of years to the casual passers-by who did nothing to help. She also casts a cold eye on the assailant, whom she ultimately pities, imagining him now fat and in his fifties and destroyed by his predilection for violence....this is a liberating reminder that "there are different ways to live"...nothing can suppress the wild and quirky energy at play... Wild Persistence is the joyous affirmation we need. PBS"A collection of humour and revelry, lit by the repeated flare of violence and warmed by the unapologetic need to live the life of ones choosing." New Welsh Review

Wild Life by James McDermott explores the nature of queerness, the queerness of nature, and the queerness of natural masculinity. In bold poems that root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk, a vivid and radical dialogue between nature, sexuality and self-discovery emerges. McDermott brings a lyrical physicality to poetry which focuses on the body, desire, shame, and tenderness, creation and re-creation, and where there is everything always opening / everything always coming out. These poems skilfully graft and touch, draw parallels between moments of transformation in the many kinds of ecosystems we exist in whether outside and between woodland, shoreline and skyline, where the wildlife will see me as just another animal, or in human interactions in schools, gyms, and pubs where ideas of manhood, self, and societys expectations collide. Like the coastal spaces where McDermott finds an innate connection, Wild Life identifies that which is fluid and constantly changing and that nature itself isnt afraid of being colourful, excessive, too much.

Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of their own humanities.This is for the nuns, the singers, the clowns, the diviners and the conjurers who reject the constant attempt to clean up history. The wildly imperfect women of slick braids, shiny skin and succulent lips, building new homes from clouds for future legions.Here congregate the women, womxn and womyn who do not believe in tough love that disguises hurt just to prove a point. They dance with the dead with exquisite feet, cheekbones high, reflecting their mothers smiles.Because no one claps for martyrs, these dirty/pretty women learn to walk cities like they own them, choosing the battles of their hearts.If this collection teaches anything, it is that love is always messy, that our sacrament requires wet wipes and that we are just flesh and bone honing practice.

Los wikipoemas que componen este libro no tienen una pretensión poética, tampoco didáctica ni informativa y en ningún caso son definiciones que tratan de dar una idea exacta de lo que exponen. La única fuente de la que emanan es la realidad poetica que compone mi experiencia. Los wikipoemas no son poesia, tampoco un subgenero poetico, sino una suma de intuiciones. Ninguna de las definiciones que aparecen recogidas en este libro esta homologada para servir como respuesta valida en los examenes de acceso universitario ni ninguna otra prueba de evaluacion academica, todo lo contrario, podrian llevar al peor de los resultados posible. Itziar Minguez Arnaiz

Das Leben von Elizabeth Barrett Browning glich einem viktorianischen Roman: Mit 40 Jahren verliebte sich die Englanderin in den sechs Jahre jungeren Dichter Robert Browning. Sie heirateten heimlich, brannten durch und fanden ihr gemeinsames Gluck in Florenz. Die 44 Sonette, die sie in dieser Zeit verfasste, veroffentlichte sie 1850 unter dem Titel Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen. Niemand sollte wissen, dass es sich dabei um eine personliche Liebeserklarung handelte. Die gefuhlvollen Verse wurden von Rainer Maria Rilke ins Deutsche ubertragen.

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a transgressive adventurer, a demonic gentleman, a triumphant outsider, a great poet of innocence, and an example of the dangerous Male of the Species, his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. Hes never more than a turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking.The Independent said of his last collection: There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. Thats a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.Widening Income Inequality, Seidels new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper, or this dire, or this true.

Why I Am Not a Bus Driver is a moving and musical debut collection exploring grief, love and the power of community, from the author of The 392, Your Show and Wild East. The heart of this book beats in sync with that of the poets late grandfather, as, sonnet after unconventional sonnet, Hickson-Lovence uncovers the micro-histories woven into the streets and journeys that shape us. These poems speak with Frank OHara, in their stream-of-consciousness lyricism, in meditations that dance like winding roads, both immediate and nostalgic. Committed to honouring the authentic and everyday, the real and true, human connection is the destination in this stirring collection, and every reader has a priority seat."Among the most natural, elegant sonnet sequences Ive read: a memorial, moving in its radical honesty and grace. What both broke and strengthened my heart about this collection is the sheer humanity and authentic curiosity that make a life feel meaningful, transfiguring both the extraordinary and the everyday with dignity, love and imagination. Just gorgeous." Luke Kennard"A moving collection attuned to the knowledge that poetry of the family is both plain and complex, that the dead sometimes require elegy and sometimes celebration; and all of this held within the strength and uncertainty that is the human-made body of the poem." Andrew McMillan"A heartfelt elegy to a grandfather, skilfully weaving themes of legacy, promises, influences and dreams. While the grandfather takes centre stage, England itself emerges as a powerful backdrop to the story. Hickson-Lovences unified themes lend the book the feel of a novel-in-verse, yet each poem resonates with its own emotional strength. An endearing and enlightening readdont miss it." Roger Robinson"Ashley Hickson-Lovences debut collection offers an intricate reminiscence, an insight into fierce familial bonds and how they shape a life indefinitely. These poems pulse with longing, vulnerability and doubt, highlighting the human need for connection, the resilience that grows from loss, the certainty that comes when the love unfolds." Rebecca Goss

Why Brownlee Left, Paul Muldoons third collection, was published in 1980.

Why Are You Shouting?, James Womacks fourth Carcanet collection, thinks about two things in particular: our struggle as individuals to find connections between ourselves, with friends, family and lovers, and the efforts we make as groups to connect to the environment we live and die in. Written in the shadow of the climate crisis and the pandemic years, the poems set out to find points of hope and solidarity, against a common backdrop of disruption and collapse to which we are often wilfully blind.Alongside these concerns runs a narrative of personal blindness and self-enchantment, a willingness to allow oneself to be misled in order to have a quiet life. If the collections title suggests that raising ones voice is the readiest way to reach other people, the poems themselves dare to offer quieter solutions, too: there is space for humour and kindness, even a degree of positive thinking about the state the world is in.The ghost of Cassandra, the Trojan princess given the gift of prophecy but condemned to have no one believe her words, haunts the collection: her life is a warning, but also an antidote to willed ignorance.The God of whom I speak is dead. I did my makeup in a disco ball. I looked at the whole magnificent creation of the Lord, and asked, sadly, "Is it cake?"