Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary.
**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR>The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living.
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeA Sunday Times, New Statesman and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019'Every poem in this book is a marvel.
'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals.
Extrait : "I - Elle marche dans sa beauté, semblable à la nuit des climats sans nuages et des cieux étoilés ; tout ce qu'ont de plus beau la lumière et l'ombre est réuni dans ses traits et dans ses yeux, brillant de ces molles et tendres clartés que refuse le ciel à la splendeur du jour.
The multi-award-winning meditation on survival, care and the place of literature in an unequal world'Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange:Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it.
In Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress.
This work of Inspirational Poetry, Ocean Of Love, containing mainly Haikus, is the culmination of years of dedication to God and to the study of the Great Religions of the World.
In the area of ballpark hopping, there have been a number of accounts written, recorded or talked about in recent times, sometimes for a cause or others just as a gimmick.
In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from A Violent County in 1969, to Legion, winner of the Forward Prize in 2005.
"e;A Dreamers Diary, Dethroning the Underachiever"e; is a compilation of poems that are designed to insight the mind, encourage the heart, inspire the will, and raise the spirit.
Au coeur d’une écriture qui oscille entre poésie et prose, l’auteure tente d’exprimer notamment la difficulté d’être une femme emmurée dans des injonctions contradictoires, le défi d’être une enseignante ou d’être une minimaliste.
In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein's narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory.
Tracing the intertidal circuits of story and understory, of body and soul, of land and sea, Christopher Sindt's sensitive and intelligent poetry offers "e;a foundation for becoming.
In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove, GennaRose Nethercott describes a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe—however, instead of merely being severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove.
The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen.
