Poetry

Children and adults alike will enjoy over 30 poems featuring fabulous birds with some very quirky habits and habitats. Written in rhyming verse and illustrated throughout in colour, the poems and pictures will bring these birds to life and a smile to the face of the reader.

*Over 90,000 copies sold*Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This edition adds Steve Kowit's famous essay on poetics "The Mystique of the Difficult Poem," in which he argues stirringly and forcefully that a poem need not be obscure to be great.

Pretty Precious Poems is a poetry book filled with variety emotional themes and with the hope of the readers imagination, a creation of stories will appear in each and every one of them. With these stories, the reader could embark in a new world of their own and hopefully have some relation between them and the poems itself.

An important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative, powerful poetic voice

Das literarische Debüt erhält gegenwärtig große Aufmerksamkeit. Es unterliegt besonderen Vermarktungsstrategien, kann auf diverse Preise hoffen und prägt zumeist das Image des Autors oder der Autorin. Dabei ist es aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht unklar, worum es sich bei einem Debüt handelt. Zu unterschiedlich sind die Anfänge, zumal im historischen Vergleich. Der vorliegende Band umfasst zweiundzwanzig Einzelanalysen literarischer Debüts von Ernst Toller bis Helene Hegemann, die sich auf die Zwischenkriegszeit, Nachkriegszeit und Gegenwartsliteratur verteilen. Die Beiträge von internationalen Germanistinnen und Germanisten belegen die Heterogenität und Vielfalt des Phänomens ¿Debüt¿, z. B. an medialen, generischen und sozialen Faktoren, die es prägen und auf deren Basis Neubewertungen vorgenommen werden können. Der Band unterbreitet ferner einen terminologischen Vorschlag, mit dem sich debütspezifische Konstellationen differenziert beschreiben, analysieren und systematisieren lassen.

In The Third City, his most remarkable collection to date, James Peake once more offers us his unique combination of dream-like fluency and intellectual rigour, and who in poem after poem uncovers our capacity to love in full knowledge of the odds.

The fifth title in Sidekick's popular '10 Poets' series sees ten new poets bravely embarking (in varied fashion and with unpredictable results) on far-ranging lunar expeditions.

This stunning new collection draws together poems written by Earl Lovelace in his early career,from the period between 1956 and 1966. Readers will delight in Lovelace's acute sense of poetry's rhythms, and his poet's capacity to produce stunning visual/aural images.

More than just a poetry book, this is a much more diverse collection of poems, pictures, sayings and single stanzas. It combines the wide emotional, philosophical, and comical views of life in both written and visual media.

A premature book of posthumous poems.

A selection of the poems of Henry Normal. Illustrated by Pete Ramskill.

This book seeks to explore the intricacies that make up human relationships. From love to friendship, from power and greed to poverty, the poems aim to open our hearts and minds to the tender mercies and thoughts within each of us that can lead to rich and rewarding connections, if only we can find the courage and take the time to reflect on ourselves and our societies at large.