Author: Olivia Mulligan
Publisher: Fisher King Publishing
ISBN: 1913170837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
In the first months of 2020, the world came to terms with a virus that threatened life and society. Extraordinary measures were taken, the like of which we had not seen before. Airlines ground to a halt as international travel was stopped. Most countries were forced to institute draconian steps that had all but essential workers confined to home in what became known as ‘lockdown’. For those who already carried the burden of health issues, extra care had to be taken to avoid coming into contact with anyone who might carry the virus. Those that could, worked from home. Many of those who could not work, were furloughed. The internet, and particularly video conferencing, took on a new dimension. Children were home-schooled. ‘Zoom’ entered our daily lexicon. Among the myriad ways that people demonstrated their creativity, some turned to crafts, gardening, painting, sculpting, dance, singing… Some took up writing and one posted poems on the gate post. "Olivia Mulligan has done a great job of turning isolation into art; here are poems that speak to us all about how the everyday can be transformed by heightened language, and that a kind of transcendence can happen if we just stare hard enough at real life." Ian McMillan - Poet, Writer, TV and Radio Presenter "Olivia captures life in lockdown beautifully. These verses are full to the brim with kindness, heart and just the right amount of absurdity." Harry Whittaker - BBC Radio York, Co-Author of The Guardian Angels Series "Seldom has any poet or writer been capable of piercing gloom in such an entertaining, humorous and insightful way. This is a modern classic, a masterpiece for our time, and for times to come." Mark Thompson - Author of ‘DUST’ “Poems on the Gate Post is a tonic: the perfect companion to curl up with to both forget about and reflect about the world around you. An ingenious use of lockdown, Olivia’s style is infectious, with an easy joy and brimming with heart.” Max May - Director and CEO, Rural Arts "Poetry Gold." Joanita Musisi - BBC Radio York
POEMS ON THE GATE POST
Author: Olivia Mulligan
Publisher: Fisher King Publishing
ISBN: 1913170837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
In the first months of 2020, the world came to terms with a virus that threatened life and society. Extraordinary measures were taken, the like of which we had not seen before. Airlines ground to a halt as international travel was stopped. Most countries were forced to institute draconian steps that had all but essential workers confined to home in what became known as ‘lockdown’. For those who already carried the burden of health issues, extra care had to be taken to avoid coming into contact with anyone who might carry the virus. Those that could, worked from home. Many of those who could not work, were furloughed. The internet, and particularly video conferencing, took on a new dimension. Children were home-schooled. ‘Zoom’ entered our daily lexicon. Among the myriad ways that people demonstrated their creativity, some turned to crafts, gardening, painting, sculpting, dance, singing… Some took up writing and one posted poems on the gate post. "Olivia Mulligan has done a great job of turning isolation into art; here are poems that speak to us all about how the everyday can be transformed by heightened language, and that a kind of transcendence can happen if we just stare hard enough at real life." Ian McMillan - Poet, Writer, TV and Radio Presenter "Olivia captures life in lockdown beautifully. These verses are full to the brim with kindness, heart and just the right amount of absurdity." Harry Whittaker - BBC Radio York, Co-Author of The Guardian Angels Series "Seldom has any poet or writer been capable of piercing gloom in such an entertaining, humorous and insightful way. This is a modern classic, a masterpiece for our time, and for times to come." Mark Thompson - Author of ‘DUST’ “Poems on the Gate Post is a tonic: the perfect companion to curl up with to both forget about and reflect about the world around you. An ingenious use of lockdown, Olivia’s style is infectious, with an easy joy and brimming with heart.” Max May - Director and CEO, Rural Arts "Poetry Gold." Joanita Musisi - BBC Radio York
Publisher: Fisher King Publishing
ISBN: 1913170837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
In the first months of 2020, the world came to terms with a virus that threatened life and society. Extraordinary measures were taken, the like of which we had not seen before. Airlines ground to a halt as international travel was stopped. Most countries were forced to institute draconian steps that had all but essential workers confined to home in what became known as ‘lockdown’. For those who already carried the burden of health issues, extra care had to be taken to avoid coming into contact with anyone who might carry the virus. Those that could, worked from home. Many of those who could not work, were furloughed. The internet, and particularly video conferencing, took on a new dimension. Children were home-schooled. ‘Zoom’ entered our daily lexicon. Among the myriad ways that people demonstrated their creativity, some turned to crafts, gardening, painting, sculpting, dance, singing… Some took up writing and one posted poems on the gate post. "Olivia Mulligan has done a great job of turning isolation into art; here are poems that speak to us all about how the everyday can be transformed by heightened language, and that a kind of transcendence can happen if we just stare hard enough at real life." Ian McMillan - Poet, Writer, TV and Radio Presenter "Olivia captures life in lockdown beautifully. These verses are full to the brim with kindness, heart and just the right amount of absurdity." Harry Whittaker - BBC Radio York, Co-Author of The Guardian Angels Series "Seldom has any poet or writer been capable of piercing gloom in such an entertaining, humorous and insightful way. This is a modern classic, a masterpiece for our time, and for times to come." Mark Thompson - Author of ‘DUST’ “Poems on the Gate Post is a tonic: the perfect companion to curl up with to both forget about and reflect about the world around you. An ingenious use of lockdown, Olivia’s style is infectious, with an easy joy and brimming with heart.” Max May - Director and CEO, Rural Arts "Poetry Gold." Joanita Musisi - BBC Radio York
At Jerusalem's Gate
Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802851833
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A combination of poetry and woodcut illustrations invites readers to explore the events surrounding the first Easter.
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802851833
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A combination of poetry and woodcut illustrations invites readers to explore the events surrounding the first Easter.
What the Living Do
Author: Maggie Dwyer
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152552870X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152552870X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
Singing at the Gates
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802192904
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
“This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802192904
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
“This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation
Walking Toward Morning
Author:
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558966390
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558966390
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Ramshackle Ode
Author: Keith Leonard
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544649680
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. From an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, Ramshackle Ode presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544649680
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. From an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, Ramshackle Ode presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.
Everything Comes Next
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063013479
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
“Emotionally resonant and stirring.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting.”—Horn Book Magazine This celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems; an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a foreword and writing tips by the poet; and stunning artwork by bestselling artist Rafael López, Everything Comes Next is essential for poetry readers, classroom teachers, and library collections. Everything Comes Next is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s most beloved poems, and features favorites such as “Famous” and “A Valentine for Ernest Mann,” as well as widely shared pieces such as “Kindness” and “Gate A-4.” The book is an introduction to the poet’s work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classroom and family sharing. Writing prompts and tips by the award-winning poet make this an outstanding choice for aspiring poets of all ages.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063013479
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
“Emotionally resonant and stirring.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting.”—Horn Book Magazine This celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems; an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a foreword and writing tips by the poet; and stunning artwork by bestselling artist Rafael López, Everything Comes Next is essential for poetry readers, classroom teachers, and library collections. Everything Comes Next is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s most beloved poems, and features favorites such as “Famous” and “A Valentine for Ernest Mann,” as well as widely shared pieces such as “Kindness” and “Gate A-4.” The book is an introduction to the poet’s work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classroom and family sharing. Writing prompts and tips by the award-winning poet make this an outstanding choice for aspiring poets of all ages.
The First Free Women
Author: Matty Weingast
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834842688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834842688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.
The Gate of the Year
Author: Minnie Louise Haskins
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Gate of the Year" by Minnie Louise Haskins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Gate of the Year" by Minnie Louise Haskins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Goose at the Gate
Author: Marg Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648663867
Category : Children's poetry, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Marg Gibbs and Margeaux Davis, watercolour artist have come up with a winning combination of poems, collages and themes that entertain children from 3-10 years. Forty sparkling poems from nature, the seasons, animals, food, travel and hobbies combine in this anthology for children. A read aloud collection for anyone who loves to rhyme or not.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648663867
Category : Children's poetry, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Marg Gibbs and Margeaux Davis, watercolour artist have come up with a winning combination of poems, collages and themes that entertain children from 3-10 years. Forty sparkling poems from nature, the seasons, animals, food, travel and hobbies combine in this anthology for children. A read aloud collection for anyone who loves to rhyme or not.