Author: Robert AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Brand New Ancients
Author: Kae TempestPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632862085
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
With this dazzling modern myth in verse, Kae Tempest became the youngest winner of the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Yes, the gods are on the park bench, the gods are on the bus, / The gods are all here, the gods are in us. / The gods are timeless, fearless, fighting to be bold, / conviction is a heavy hand to hold, / grip it, winged sandals tearing up the pavement -- / you, me, everyone: Brand New Ancients. Kae Tempest's words in Brand New Ancients are written to be read aloud; the book combines poem, rap, and humanist sermon, by turns tender and fierce. Set in Southeast London, Brand New Ancients finds the mythic in the mundane. It is the story of two half-brothers, Thomas and Clive, unknown to each other -- Thomas the result of an affair between his mother and Clive's father. Tempest, with wide-ranging empathy, takes us inside the passionless marriage of Jane and Kevin -- the man who suspects Thomas is not his son, but loves him just the same -- and the neighboring home of Mary and Brian, where betrayal has not been so placidly accepted. The sons of these two households -- quiet, creative Thomas and angry, destructive Clive -- will cross paths in adolescence, their fates converging with mortal fury. These characters' loves, their infidelities, their disappointments and their small comforts -- these, Tempest argues, are timeless. Our lives and our choices are no less important than those of history and myth. Awarded the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Brand New Ancients insists on our importance as individuals -- and asserts Kae Tempest's importance as a talent impossible to ignore.
The Works of the British Poets: Young, Gray, West, R., Lyttleton, Moore, Boyse, Thompson, Cawthorn, Churchill, Falconer, Lloyd, Cunningham, Green, Cooper, Goldsmith, Whitehead, P., Brown, Grainger, Smollett, and Armstrong
Author: Robert AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Space Struck
Author: Paige LewisPublisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1946448451
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, “...the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?” Zig-zagging through the realms of nature, science, and religion, one finds St. Francis sighing in the corner of a studio apartment, tides that are caused by millions of oysters “gasping in unison,” an ark filled with women in its stables, and prayers that reach God fastest by balloon. There’s pathos: “When my new lover tells me I’m correct to love him, I/realize the sound isn’t metal at all. It’s not the coins rattling/ on concrete, but the fingers scraping to pick them up.” And humor, too: “...even the sun’s been sighing Not you again/when it sees me.” After reading this far-reaching, inventive collection, we too are startled, space struck, our pockets gloriously “filled with space dust.”
The British Poets
Author: Rising Stars
Author: Ruth AwololaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910959374
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
"An exciting collaboration between Otter-Barry Books and Pop Up Projects, introducing new voices in poetry for 10-14 years old. Rising Stars, sponsored by Arts Council England's Grant for the Arts programme, is a poetry anthology showcasing the work of five debut poets from diverse backgrounds, all aged 25 and under. Black and white illustrations are by final year students from Birmingham City University's illustration course. Joelle Taylor, founder and Artistic Director of SLAMbasadors UK, is acting as a consultant to the project"--Publisher's description.
The Works of the British Poets: The poetical works of Edward Young, L.L.D
Author: Robert AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Loop of Jade
Author: Sarah HowePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448190681
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.
The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
Author: The Lives of the English Poets
Author: Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Young Men's Association of the City of Albany. [For 1837, 40, 48.]
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Author: Young Men's Association (Albany, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description