Publisher: The Poetry Business
Exciting, accomplished, and shimmering with ideas, Dear Life is the work of an exceptional talent. Together as never before, such figures as Larkin, Galileo and Milton, Turgenev and Willie Nelson help the poet explore, explain and address life as it is lived in the 21st Century.
The acclaimed Scottish writer reflects on a small boat excursion through the Orkney Islands in this poetry collection of “touching lyrical sensitivity” (The Times Literary Supplement, UK). Andrew Greig has won much acclaim and numerous awards for his novels, poetry, and nonfiction evoking the natural beauty of rural Scotland or chronicling his far-flung adventures. In this volume, his love for his home and his passion for travel come together. One summer evening, Greig embarked upon a micro-odyssey from his home in Stromness to the island of Cava, and Found at Sea recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage. Written in six weeks, this is a “very wee epic” about sailing, male friendship, and a voyage. In sailing small boats in scary open waters, Andrew Greig has found a new activity and a new metaphor for life.Show book
Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and psychodramas become love poems. Woven throughout The Bell Tower is a love of Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and – above all – Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones. These are fierce, acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss. You, the cloud. Oh look! there you are, blobbing along as if you're best friends with rain and thunder is your dad. Fuck off. - excerpt from 'Cloudcunt'Show book
Featuring both established and emerging Hong Kong poets across generations and continents, this unique anthology offers a glimpse into an exciting, diverse range of voices that make up the diasporic imagination of the contemporary Hong Kong poetry community. Adopting a diasporic approach, the anthology encompasses both native Hong Kong writers as well as expatriate and mixed-race voices who were born or have lived in the city. With a preface from the Hong Kong-born, California-based poet Marilyn Chin and a joint introduction from the co-editors, the anthology sheds light on some poignant, wide-ranging themes such as migration, identity, gender, language, belonging, environment that underpin the city of Hong Kong, a place situated uniquely between the East and the West, in the 21st century. The book also features a selection of artworks from some of Hong Kong's most talented artists, inviting the reader to make connections between the visual images and the text.Show book
A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre. Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor Alexei Suvorin, his wife and leading actress, Olga Knipper, and to the two directors of the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Collected for this volume, these writings reveal Chekhov's instinctive curiosity about the way theatre works – and his concerns about how best to realise his own intentions as a playwright. Often peppery, passionate, even distraught, as he feels his plays misinterpreted or undermined, Chekhov comes over in these pages as a true man of the theatre. 'Chekhov is an acute observer who could easily have made his way as a director or dramaturg judging by his ability to spot strengths and weaknesses in not only his own writing but that of others. This book builds a strong picture of theatrical life in Moscow and St Petersburg just before and at the turn of the last century, with vast amounts of bitching seemingly a commonplace. It can also serve as a tangential autobiography since, through its pages, it is possible to learn much about its subject's life and work.' - British Theatre GuideShow book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION* *A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation* Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie-faced' St George upstaged by the horse. The English Summer confronts the illusions and paradoxes of history in poems that reimagine medieval anchorites and 18th-century follies, zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt-out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and old gods emerge from rotting bindweed. Visceral and analytic at turns, Hopkins' startling collection probes at the undergrowth of English culture; a white-hot debut by a poet of singular vision.Show book
The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life. What then when we say ‘it breaks’? ‘I’m heart-broken’? Few of us escape a life without some measure of heartache and the pain it causes. In this volume we give full rein to our classic poets across the centuries from Shakespeare and Aphra Behn to Rupert Brooke, Edna St Vincent Millay, A E Housman and continue through Radclyffe Hall, Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde. It is a journey through feelings, thoughts and expressions in words that we instantly understand, claim as our own and yet reveal other layers, other avenues of thought. Whether to soothe the soul, to reconcile with a different perhaps fractured reality, and come to terms with dejection, rejection or vent with bitterness, rage and seek revenge, our poets have words and lines of verse to help balm, repair and better understand these emotional times. 01 - 50 Shades of a Broken Heart - An Introduction 02 - Ebb by Edna St Vincent Millay 03 - Heart We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson- 04 - I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling 05 - Loves Lies Bleeding by Algernon Charles Swinburne 06 - My Own Heart, Let Me Have More, Have Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins 07 - They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt 08 - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by John Bodenham 09 - Love Arm'd by Aphra Behn 10 - A Shropshire Lad LIV - With Rue My Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman 11 - A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart by Emily Dickinson 12 - Doubting Heart by Adelaide Anne Proctor 13 - A Careless Heart by Isaac Rosenberg 17 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew 15 - A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 16 - Helas! by Oscar Wilde 17 - A Pause of Thought by Christina Georgina Rossetti 18 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 19 - The Last Betrayal by Edith Nesbit 20 - Greater Love by Wilfred Owen 21 - In the Tavern of My Heart by Willa Cather 22 - Hearts First Word I by Isaac Rosenberg 23 - I Have Loved Flowers That Fade by Robert Seymour Bridges 24 - I So Like Spring by Charlotte Mew 25 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 64 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 27 - A Shropshire Lad XXXIII - If Truth in Hearts That Perish by A.E. Housman 28 - The Forsaken Lover Consoleth Himself With Rememberance of Past Happiness by Sir Thomas Wyatt 29 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare 06 - Love and Folly by Charlotte Smith 31 - No One So Much As You by Edward Thomas 32 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing by William Shakespeare 33 - Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton 34 - The Given Heart by Abraham Cowley 35 - Jilted by Radclyffe Hall 36 - Jealously by Rupert Brooke 09 - Love and Hate by Elizabeth Siddal 38 - Amour XXX Three Sorts of Serpents Do Resemble Thee by Michael Drayton 28 - Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 40 - Modern Love II by George Meredith 41 - To the Ladies by Lady Mary Chudleigh 42 - Divorce by Anna Wickham 10 - Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal 44 - Modern Love I by George Meredith 45 - When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 46 - We Parted in Silence by Isabella Valancy Crawford 47 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 48 - If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 49 - I Shall Not Care by Sara Teasdale 50 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 51 - He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by W B YeatsShow book
