Soul Feast is a companion to the hugely popular poetry anthologySoul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times.
This threesome reflects seemingly quite different sensibilities but running underground are common sources, primarily a genuine sense of observation and empathy.
Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings.
'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation that one of the most beautiful and longest-lasting cures has been here all along - on the internet, on our bookshelves, under our noses.
An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songsLonging to Awaken features twenty-five translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from diverse traditions and time periods.
El papel de algunas de estas poetas ha sido dar visibilidad a cuestiones que estaban a la sombra por no pertenecer al imaginario poético tradicional masculino y brindarles la universalidad que merecen: labores domésticas, familia, hijos, maternidad y feminidad, etc.
Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them.
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs,, on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian,), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others.
This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.
Analista infatigable de los aspectos más variados de la cultura mexicana, desde nuestro cine y producción musical hasta la lucha por la diversidad sexual y la organización política en los sectores populares, Carlos Monsiváis fue asimismo un gran conocedor y divulgador de nuestra literatura.
Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry.
A bilingual anthology, Fierce Voice / Voz feroz features Argentine and Uruguayan women poets published after their countries return to democracy in the eighties.
The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain its lively oral tradition of ballads and poetry.
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum.
Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year _______ A POEM CAN .
Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique.
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, ';a ';best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune).
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming.
Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson.
Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "e;there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"e;--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry.
THE PERFECT NIGHTTIME READ - DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP*Introduced by Lucy Mangan* Recommended by RED magazine *'Dreamy' STYLIST'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep.