It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Torne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Suhnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement - Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes.
The Wound is the latest collection from esteemed Australian poet John Kinsella, whose previous accolades include the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, and three-times winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Poetry.
Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) who, along with his contemporaries Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Albert Mockel, Charles van Lerberghe and Max Elskamp, helped to define the Symbolist movement, is one of Belgium's most venerated and admired francophone poets.
Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden prizeShortlisted for the 2019 Costa Poetry AwardSurreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough.
In January 1958, nineteen-year-old garbage collector named Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, embarked on a brutal nine-day murder spree across Nebraska that left eleven people dead and shocked a nation.
This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys - including an ill-fated 19th century trip ending off the Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes its title.
When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as naughty as he was, so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt Now We Are Six, for an older audience.
'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book GuideVoted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun.
SER EN EL SER es un libro creado para la felicidad del hombre, para que cada quien lleve a cabo ese profundo deseo de manifestar su espíritu con toda su verdad y con toda su belleza, recorriendo el itinerario que va desde la originalidad a la esencia, desde la esencia hacia la existencia.
How Eastern religions are commodified in the modern world, and why it matters ';An expansive book, covering the intersection of mysticism and capitalism illuminating.
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.
One of the greatest poetic masterpieces now with revised and updated annotations from world-renowned Gibran expert, Professor Suheil BushruiOriginally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing.
This exhaustive and yet enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets.
A beautifully presented volume that draws from the breadth of the great Persian poet's workTimeless and eternal, the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi is loved the world over.
Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society and as survivors of political violence.
Matthew Sweeney's eleventh collection of poems is haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition.
Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters.
