Poetry

Silk Work is the debut collection by Imogen Cassels, a Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Weaving multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and documenting, the poems in Silk Work are an exercise in language's inbuilt, radiant futility, which is both its suffering and its joy.

An electrifying debut collection exploring langage and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love-tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. "Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go," she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible-encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

Revitalising conversations surrounding environmentalism and ecopoetics, this new gathering of voices is both urgent and inspirational.

How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

The story is told through a series of beautiful and playful poems that describe the journey of a cardinal flying to a calm garden. From the happy splashing in the birdbath to the playful interactions with other animals, every poem captures the cardinal's liveliness. The narrator, who sits in his chair with a pipe and a window to watch the world go by, narrates the cardinal's flights and capers with affection and reflection. In different seasons and weather, from scorching summer to light rain, the cardinal becomes the protagonist, the symbol of the struggle and freedom. Its presence after a brief absence is welcomed with relief and happiness while its absence is associated with anxiety. The cardinal's encounters with a curious cat also introduce an element of humor, which is a part of nature's grand scheme. These verses give the poems the themes of friendship, desire, and the cycle of nature. In each stanza, the poet conveys the conflict between human interference and the cardinal's free-spiritedness while leaving the reader with a sense of unity and interdependence in the garden's dynamic environment.

There's a young woman stood in an emerald meadow in a wind-swept dress, amidst a field in spring, waiting to be taken by the hand to the great season's blossoming tree. Yet, before any of this may happen, there is the longing, the anticipation, the hopefulness upon winter's end, where it'll be warmer tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. There's a young man willing to drive out to all corners of the Earth, walk when the tank empties, swim when there's a river to traverse, and fly when an ocean stands in the way, all to bring the two of them home.

"This is life, and you don't have to get it right all the time."Beeha, in her collection of poems, paints life together with the greys and blues to the sunny yellows, the yearning bubbles to the sober realities, from the nostalgia of cherished memories to creating new ones. 'Life through her eyes' delves into the dynamics of relationships - friends, family, lovers, and even one with self. Exploring the intricacies of perfectly imperfect connections, the poems sing a melody of wishes and sorrows, hope and heartbreaks, bringing a blanket of comfort to everyone.For people you adore and for people you miss, for you.With love.

Gathering essays from an international team of emerging and established scholars, Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain explores the many ways in which Petrarch's famous poetic works, the Canzoniere and Triumphi, were translated, adapted, reshaped and transformed by English and Scottish writers across the early modern period. For English-language poets, translating Petrarch's verse meant joining a prestigious transnational literary movement. While Wyatt and Surrey's translations famously launched the English sonnet, versions of Petrarch remained a crucial component of Britain's literary tradition throughout the period, featuring in lyric sequences, poetic miscellanies, and even songbooks. Through their literary and commercial success, these productions also contributed to shaping early modern Britain's cultures of manuscript and print. This collection examines the specific role of translation, in all its early modern variety, as a key mode of poetic, imaginative, and cultural engagement with one the most revered and imitated authors in early modern Europe. It revisits well-known works such as Tottel's Miscellany, the productions of the 'Castalian band' at the Scottish court of James IV/I, and versions of the Triumphi by Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Anna Hume. It also pays attention to lesser-known pieces by anonymous, or 'minor' translators, poets considered marginal to English Petrarchism, and alternative modes of translation such as indirect translation and musical transposition. By examining the interconnected trajectories of both the Canzoniere and Triumphi in English translation, this collection sheds new light on early modern translation practices, British Petrarchism, and its place in the European literary landscape.

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism.

Komik zählt zu jenen schillernden Phänomenen - wie Liebe, Neugierde, Imagination -, die den Menschen allezeit in ihren Bann ziehen, zum Nachdenken anregen und ihn und seine Kultur in Bewegung halten. Komik ist so faszinierend, wie sie komplex ist. Das kulturelle wie literarische Phänomen entzieht sich den Systematisierungs-, Definitions- und Theoriebildungsbestrebungen von Philosophie und Wissenschaft. In dem Diskussionsbeitrag wird der Komik die nicht minder rätselhafte Emergenz an die Seite gestellt. Mithilfe des Emergenzgedankens vermögen nicht-determinierte Vorgänge in den Blick genommen zu werden, die sich durch eine komplexe Dynamik auszeichnen. Es kommt zu Kippmomenten und Transformationen - unvorhersehbare Phänomene entstehen. Dieser Band geht den folgenden Fragen nach: Veranschaulicht die Komik das universale Prinzip der Emergenz? Macht das literarische Phänomen samt seiner Effekte die Entstehung des lebendigen Emergenten erfahrbar? Exemplarisch wird das Konzept von Komik als Emergenz mit Texten von Goetz, Heine und Lewitscharoff konfrontiert.

How was Abraham Sutzkever, the most famous Yiddish poet to survive the ghettos of Europe, inspired by an invitation to speak in South Africa at a moment when Yiddish literature was saturated with memory and mourning? 'Elephants by Night' offers a timeless meditation on the intersection of place, memory, and renewal.

The natural world is the theme for the poems in this collection. Here, I Can Breathe includes poems about the countryside, the sea, the changing seasons and that good old British favourite, the weather.Many of the poems were inspired by walks in the countryside, for example, along the lanes of Devon and the South West Coast Path or amongst the Lake District fells. Some are narrative poems, some are descriptions of particular rural places, and others more generally describe the countryside observed, or the feelings engendered, whilst being out in the open air.

Embark on a beautiful yet an emotional journey with Matthew Paul in his soulful collection of poetry. Explore the essence of waiting - the hope one grips onto and the risk that comes along.From the exploitation of demons in love, to the moments of deception, Shadows captures the soul of romance with grace and depth.Continue reading this interesting piece of work to see the world with new eyes.