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9661) Wayward dreams
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A volume of interesting poetry from the meandering mind of a half mad poet.
9663) The Bare Hook
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The Bare Hook is Rod Usher's fourth collection. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems 2015, the Proverse Prize anthology (Hong Kong) 2021, Best Australian Love Poems, the Grieve Prize anthology, the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology 2020, and the ACU Prize anthology, where in 2021 a poem in this collection, 'Marginal Notes', won a $1,000 award. The late Les Murray, who published some twenty...
9664) Life With Me
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Book 3
An extensive collection of poetry about all aspects of life complete with illustrations
"This Book of Poetry is a collection of poems that have a personal meaning to me the author. All the illustrations are my original art work".
9665) Emotives Volume Two
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Once again, a poet and a true Australian talent provides a collection of expression and emotions for all to enjoy for future to come...Disarming, warm and always accessible, Janelle Barker's poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her emotive expression is here: love, compassion, insight, lyrical precision and the clear, simple honesty that reveals how life can turn in a moment. Musing on undercurrents and connections between...
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Since time immemorial war has inspired poets, firing their imaginations to produce some of the world's greatest verse. The poems included in this new compilation cover conflicts from every period of history -- from the wars of the ancients, through the Renaissance and the Middle Ages to the present day. The experiences and emotions they encompass are timeless: heroism, courage, stoicism, camaraderie, despair, understanding, empathy, joy. Including...
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For the last four years Nandi Chinna has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain-and the paths and streets where the wetlands once were-uncovering the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. She writes with poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, and the ways in which we can use the dual practice of writing and walking to reclaim what we have lost. Her poems speak with urgency about wetlands that are under threat from...
9668) Letters ain't Written
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Once upon a time, She is called Mona, his longtime friend, the beloved of his soul. Personally, he called her the flower of the desert, the anticipated queen of the Toda kingdom before they parted on Davy's journey to seek the value of his death, when he who was an obedient famous poet slave within ancient Thebes. They didn't communicate even when they wrote letters, none of which reached their intended recipient. Their thoughts spoke together as...
9669) Burnout
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Collection of Poems By Jeff Kimball.
Jeff Kimball says, " The manuscript that I submitted was an edited compilation of around 20 years of prose/poetry work. My life has gone through many different directions - musician, assisting with a true crime book, photographer (current job), and marketing manager to name a few. But, what has stayed constant was my love of writing. I've been focused on two forms of writing: Poetry/Pose and Screenwriting. I've...
9670) Reasons for Winter
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Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional, highly intelligent new voice. Its theme is intimacy -- ours, especially women's, experience of intimacy in many forms, how it marks us, how we long for it, the ways in which it is both our fulfilment and our undoing. The personae...
9671) Mil afectos
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Nacidos de una pluma, que no ahorra mirar adentro, los poemas de este libro son un detalle de afectos, también de su falta, y un compendio de tiempos pegados a un alma que ama y sufre sin escalas; lo dice tal como fue su vida, consagrada a los sentimientos.
Situaciones, personas, momentos y afectos deducidos son abrazados en el calor de estos versos que nos dicen cuánto han generado.
Se disfruta el placer de leerlos.
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Everyone has dark times, an event in their life that triggers an emotion that requires healing. People deal with things in many ways, some drink, some take drugs, some portray anger and inflict pain on others and sometimes themselves. For me, it's a pen and paper and quiet time to reflect on my feelings, releasing them in the form of poetry. This is a collection of my work, inspired by my journey and challenges throughout my life.
An insight into...
9673) The Truth of Houses
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Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People's Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee). Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word. At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses is an elegant debut collection. While very intimate -- even startlingly intimate at times...
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These are poetic musings from God whether it be Historical figures such as Martin Luther King or music legend Michael Jackson or spiritual experiences. I want people to know that God loves them no matter what and that there is something in these poetic expressions just for them. And, that nothing will ever separate any of us from His Love.
9675) Robinson's Crossing
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Winner of the 2005 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes). Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Award for Poetry [Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky was also shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the 2004 Governor Generals' Literary Awards.] Shortlisted for the 2005 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, the 2005 Pat Lowther Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry. Longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards. The poems...
9676) My Spoken Words
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She had just turned fifty years young and was having the time of her life! She felt like she was living her best life! She looked good and felt great! Then, things changed-real quick. She was scheduled for a colonoscopy but could never seem to get to the doctor's office early enough. She didn't want to take a day off work. Not for this.
Maybe, if she had, things would have been different. Throughout this collection of poetry, Rahimah shares her feelings...
9677) Twist and Knot
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Over several decades, Ursula Nixon has written poetry to share with friends and fellow poets. She has performed at poetry festivals and gatherings on the Monaro and on the NSW South Coast and more recently has been challenged by poetry slams, writing in limited time to themes suggested by the audience. The poems in Twist and Knot range from perspectives of places, people, emotions, experiences and the natural world to social comment and the taste...
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To Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems. It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku. For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience: "To walk in seasons/is to...
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El lector tiene en sus manos la quinta edición de "El Libro del amor. Poesía amorosa universal", incorporado ahora a la Biblioteca Rafael Arráiz Lucca, en una edición cuidada y revisada.
Esta antología, respaldada fervorosamente por los lectores, es ahora complementada con un epílogo (inedito), en el que el antólogo amplía su reflexión sobre la naturaleza del amor en la poesía de todos los tiempos: "En cualquiera de las tres vertientes...
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In re-telling the Inuit stories included here, Richard Price opens out remarkable northern vistas and unfamiliar narratives, strange gods, and unforgettable characters. Carol Rumens described Price as a poet who is 'brilliant quietly: inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely showy': precisely the talents for rendering, rather than appropriating these great story-cycles of Inuit culture. Here we learn of 'Sedna the Sea Goddess' and 'Kiviuq the...