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20 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Ledbury Poetry Festival celebrates its 20th birthday in July 2016.
Britain’s biggest and liveliest poetry festival happens over ten days each July in the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury. Poets from all over the world join audiences drawn from near and far for an annual celebration of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
‘The Constellation’ is the special ‘Poetry International Festival’ issue of Modern Poetry in Translation. The magazine focusses on the powerful and moving exchange of poems and letters between Bertolt Brecht and his lover and collaborator Margarete Steffin as they went through exile, war and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. The essays encompass a broad range of English-speakers from the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia,...
by Nadine Bayonne
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Soliloquies of a Situationship is about a young twenty three year old girl named Jade who has been recently fired from her job as a junior columnist, and leaves for New York City to pursue a degree in Creative Writing.
Poetry becomes Jade’s outlet as she experiences the big city and finds...
Poetry and Revelation
For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience"...
Poetry V: Welcome Dear Guest
Poems To Inspire
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Inspirational Poetry. Touches The Places Words Rarely Reach
Poetry: there are times in life when nothing else will do. At such times, you need a certain kind of poem, the kind of poems that are contained in Orna Ross's poetry pamphlet series.
The kind of poems that tell the truth about...
by Barbara M. Benedict, Thomas Van der Goten, David Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...
Poetry and Animals
Blurring the Boundaries with the Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
As the figure of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) becomes so entrenched in the Modernist canon that he serves as a major reference point for poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and poetics after him. The ambiguity of the preposition is intentional: while after may refer neutrally...
Poetry as Testimony
Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the poems’...
Dread Poetry and Freedom
Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018
What is the relationship between poetry and social change?*BR**BR*Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing...
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry.
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners...
Conversations with My Muse
A Book of Selected Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Conversations with My Muse is a fascinating and compelling new book of selected poetry by Gary Bateman. As a new author, this work is Mr. Batemans first published book of poetry, and with it he brings to the reading public a refreshing and an eclectic selection of many different types of poetry and...
Adventures in Poetry
A Septenary Collection of Fascinating Poems for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
M. Kienholz is one of the Northwests most versatile poets. Amy Woodward Fisher, former chairman of Washington States Poetry Day, described Kienholz style as incorporating rhythm and imagery; however, her poetry has an even broader definition. Her historical poetry ranges like a world traveler through...