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ISLANDS IN THE SUN’ contains poems about the author's native homeland, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, its Caribbean neighbors, and the beautiful resources of the islands. Famous for its hospitality, Trinidad and Tobago is a dual-island Caribbean nation with distinctive traditions and cuisines. Whether visitors are seeking adventure, sea-bathing, culture, or nightlife, Trinidad and Tobago have it all. The white sandy beaches of Maracas and Tobago can be enjoyed at any time, as summer is experienced all year round. The alluring poems within this book will entice you to visit Trinidad ...

Née et élevée dans une petite ville minière de l’Est industriel de l’Ukraine, Luba Yakymtchouk a perdu sa maison familiale en 2014 lorsque la région a été occupée par des séparatistes soutenus par la Russie. Fruits d’expériences émotionnelles très complexes, ses poèmes s’étendent du désir érotique dans une ville déchirée par la guerre à l’imitation de babillages enfantins pour décrire les outils du combat militaire. Luba Yakymtchouk fait preuve d’espièglerie face à la catastrophe et signe ainsi sa singularité artistique.

Crashing Waves is a companion through the highs and lows of being human. The thread that ties our human body to our infinite soul. The meeting point of the timed and the timeless. A surrendering and invitation to the freedom that comes when we allow our true selves to be felt and expressed.

في ديوان "أنتِ أبهى"، يقدم لنا الشاعر متاهات الحب والشوق من خلال 43 قصيدة تراوحت بين القصيرة والطويلة، كلها تغزل بالمحبوبة التي سكنت قلبه وفكره.

Lavishly illustrated with his own photos, Alan Bern's DREAMS OF THE RETURN captures the beauty of Italy, especially the South, accompanied by classic poetry presented in its original Italian and in English—translated by the author. This poetic and visual odyssey will transport the reader to a land steeped in history and romance. Travel well with this guidebook for the mind, heart, and spirit. To be savored alongside pizza margherita and red wine, with a sweet finish of roccoco napoletani and a robust espresso infused with Sambuca. “[Bern’s] writings are diverse, blending Italian and ...

Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Henderson's poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and often unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments like this, but in our very idea of what work is.

Cada letra, palabra, oración y párrafos conforman un sentimiento nacido desde mi alma hasta mis letras, conjugando sentimientos reales. Expandan la mente más allá de solo leer, lleven la imaginación a un momento de mi vida, a un momento de la suya, creando más que una lectura, creando un sentimiento en letras, que transporta la mente a diferentes épocas o momentos de nuestras vidas.

The Maasai people of East Africa comprise one of the most intriguing and resourceful cultures on earth. In Ewaso Village, Duncan tells the story of a small community of Maasai and Samburu people in Laikipia County, Kenya. Using a combination of poetry and prose, Ewaso Village touches on universal themes, including rites of passage, creation myths, death rituals, and childbirth while posing significant questions about climate change, conservation, women’s rights, and the survival of indigenous cultures.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, Guardian A noir...

Love is rarely a straight path. It stumbles, it soars, it aches, it heals. In Can I Say I Loved Her?, P. Pierre and YOA trace the fragile beauty of longing, desire, hope, and heartbreak through poems that are both intimate and universal. Like watercolor wings pressed against the page, each verse moves between vulnerability and strength, between love lost and love remembered.

Time and predictability allows for some of the most extraordinary breakthrough inventions to be taken for granted in our modern life. Through eloquent and artfully illustrated verse Lande Jewels rediscovers the key paradigms and theories that shaped the science we know today. From heliocentrism to quantum mechanics and from MRI to Michael Faraday's electric motor, the history is told a poem at a time.

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries a successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm.

In these uncertain, tumultuous times, our collective vulnerability has been heightened, and positivity has become a precious commodity. More than ever, people are looking for hope and inspiration, and a little magic. Twenty-Two for 22—a collection of 22 literary pieces for 2022—delivers. From India to Egypt and back, these meticulously crafted stories, poems, and travel vignettes bring together disparate lives as varied, colourful, and magical as the places that created them—a plantation, an archeological site in Peru, a post-earthquake neighbourhood in Portugal.

MINX reveals the vibrant but precarious world of a multi-racial Romani family: a world of grandfathers brewing moonshine in marrows, basement reggae parties, and a mother struggling to support her two daughters on the proceeds of her shadowy profession. Their powerful bond helps the sisters survive when they’re taken into care, in a children’s home that forcibly separates them.

Nature’s Whisper is a spoken-word immersion into the living intelligence of the natural world. Poet and spiritual practitioner Naz Kling brings her words to life through her own voice, carried by evocative music that creates a landscape of sound and presence. Each poem arises from deep communion with Earth and the unseen realms. The experience becomes an offering of guidance and reflection while honoring our place in the greater web of life. Through elemental imagery and embodied insight, the listener is invited into direct connection with the sacred that lives both around and within us.

Winner of the 2023 Trio Award, Christian Gullette's critically acclaimed Coachella Elegy explores the queer promised lands and poolside utopias of the American West even as they are threatened by environmental destruction. With precision and clarity, Gullette's poems wander the desert landscape of California, reveling in its beauties and challenging its sacred myths. His speaker seamlessly transports us from a hospital room where his husband battles cancer to the Palm Springs oasis where the vacationing couple celebrates survival.

Up here in the wind rip and the nine month winter, between the pines and the aspens and the hollows and the cliffs, there are some who have chosen to hide out, to call these high alpine hills and valleys home. This is a collection of words written at above 9000 feet, about the life up here, all of which were originally published in a weekly column in the local newspaper, The Mountain Ear.

God Pours Salt on Slugs is drunkaloneagain's first collection of writings and poetry selected from notebooks kept while wandering the United States. This book covers the months of July through September.

Gottfried Benn im Originalton Gottfried Benns lyrisches Werk gehört zum Sprachgewaltigsten, was die deutsche Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts hervorgebracht hat. Diese Auswahl setzt nicht einseitig auf Bekanntes, sondern lädt zu neuen Entdeckungen ein. Der melancholische Klang von Gottfried Benns Stimme und die leise Musikalität seines Vortrags verleihen den Texten eine ganz eigene Intensität.

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes. Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars...