The Fat Black Woman's Poems - Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Grace Nichols
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Category: Poetry
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politi ...Show more
Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
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Category: Poetry
A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
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Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: Poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry
An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in t ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
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Category: Poetry
Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. ‘It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and b ...Show more
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems by Megan Fox
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Category: Poetry
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in a ...Show more
I Think of You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Poetry
Living what the philosophers call a good life is not always easy. If there is a single human quality that most of us value above others it is kindness. Love and kindness are at the heart of this new collection by Alexander McCall Smith. In each of these poems the author explores and celebrates, life, lo ...Show more
Public. Open. Space. by Kate Larsen
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Category: Poetry
Positioned at the intersection of poetic and digital culture, this collection explores the sense of placelessness increasingly resonant for all of us who live and working in the digital realm. Public. Open. Space. is a collection of poetry inspired by spaces, places and situations that are controlled an ...Show more