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  Inheritance

  Jasmine Cooray

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  A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
  Inheritance is a profoundly moving exploration of what is passed down by our forebearers, what is left behind when we lose someone, and what we learn from being loved. Jasmine Cooray holds our most fiercely-guarded myths to the light, refracted through second-generation diaspora, family legend and life-changing loss. Her poems embrace both the quiet and the storms within. They sing of self-belief rising to the surface as drowning feels imminent, of desire and how it can cultivate hope. This is a timeless debut: wise, wild and empowering, a lodestar for survival.
  "A strident, playful language dance through life's more challenging parts, always towards something transcendent." Anthony Joseph, Sonnets for Albert, Winner of the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize
  "Intimate, vulnerable, poignant and provocative. Inheritance is a stunning debut brimming with tenderness, authenticity and heart."  Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

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  Summon

  Elizabeth Ridout

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  'This dazzling series shows that if the barriers can be vaulted there is true beauty to be had from the lesser-walked streets of literature. These works are both nourishing and inspiring, and a gift to any reader.' —Kerry Hudson
  The experience of living with the adventures and griefs of bipolar disorder forms the focus for this remarkable collection of poetry.
  Ridout uses the language of the fairy story and visceral images of the female form and femininity to explore how personal trauma and instability makes their mark on the wider world. Different voices and twisted accounts of the body and mind are combined with the mythological and the esoteric to create striking, beautifully unsettling and unusual poems—each a celebration of the extremes of being human.
  Spotlight Books is a collaboration between Creative Future, New Writing South and Myriad Editions to discover, guide and support writers who are under-represented due to mental or physical health issues, disability, race, class, gender identity or social circumstance.

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  Life Is - Forty poems of freedom...

  Tom Stodulka

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  In his fourth publication, Tom Stodulka AM brings to you Life Is...: Forty poems of freedom, fortitude and friendship to give the reader moments of reflection and gratitude; for you to fill in the space of what Life Is....

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  Secular Games

  Alex Wylie

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  Secular Games is Alex Wylie's debut collection. Formally exploratory and inventive, its poems range across subjects and settings: ninth-century Japan, Renaissance Italy, the surface of Venus, focusing afresh our own historical moment. Written over eleven years, this book is a poetic testament of our era in exacting, sensuous, restless language.

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  The Great Poets: Lord Byron

  Lord Byron

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  Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So We’ll Go No More a Roving, Byron’s poems were unrivalled in their power and potency. Lesser-known poems such as Destruction of Sennacherib, a reimagining of the biblical story of Sennacherib, Prometheus, a sardonic poem about the Greek gods, and Darkness, an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth, also included here, reveal Byron to be a poet of great range and variety. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Lord Byron was without equal in English literature.

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  Poetry of Love The - Speaking...

  John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett...

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  Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. 
   
  Across genders and generations love is both the glue and the accelerant of our lives. 
   
  Yet once gained we sometimes let it go without recognition of its value or fail to nourish it spiritually. Love needs feeding, needs tending. Love needs love. 
   
  In today’s easy, ‘always on’ society we wail, whine and weep and forget that accomplishment will involve work, will involve sacrifice but it brings rewards. Rewards larger than our rational understanding but instinctively safe within our souls.  And that can make us better people. To ourselves and each other. 
   
  First love can be electric and consuming. But love matures, passions turn to bonds, amour to armour, to soulmates. A parents’ love is infinite and merciful but always streaked with protection.  The march of time makes love dependable despite squabbles and bumps of heartache.  But love can be unrequited, love can break, can fail.  Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and in many combinations, for an instant and forever.   
    
  When we speak with our hearts we speak with a rarer truth that the brain can make light of, can reduce to the ephemeral, but love is our greatest ally, our surest need that we are of value to each other and our common humanity.  
   
  Sometimes love requires many things of us. To bear loss, to retreat, to compromise, to surrender but in every way, it enriches us. Sometimes not even for now but some future gain. 
   
  Our classic poets did not surrender to the logic of the group or seek advice from others quick to blame but slow to embrace.  Their legacy remains because it is true, because in that look, that touch, that thought, that display of words the heart remembers us and treasures us. 
   
  Here are words and verse of love.  For your ears, your loved one’s ears and hearts everywhere. 
  1 - The Poetry of Love. Speaking from the Heart - An introduction 
  2 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  3 - A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  4 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  5 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (from The Princess) by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  6 - The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  7 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  8 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
  9 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  10 - When You Are Old by W B Yeats 
  11 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
  12 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  13 - She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron 
  14 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  15 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  16 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 
  17 - In the Safety of Your Mouth by Daniel Sheehan 
  18 - To My Dear and Loving Husband  by Anne Bradstreet 
  19 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  20 - Oh Lovers by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  21 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - The Owl And The Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  23 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  24 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 
  25 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  26 - Remember by Christina Rossetti 
  27 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  28 - One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  29 - He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - Unending Love by Tagore

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