The Andrew Poems

The Andrew Poems PDF Author: Shelly Wagner
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.

The Andrew Poems

The Andrew Poems PDF Author: Shelly Wagner
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.

The Andrew Poems

The Andrew Poems PDF Author: Shelly Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896723207
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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One after another ... Shelly Wagner's poems reach out and unstrap us; we're forced head-on into the pathos, the overwhelming beauty, the sense of unbearable loss. And as we read on, the only cushioning restraints are the beauty of language, the aesthetic and emotional impact of poetry (which intensify feelings even more, of course).

Complete Poems

Complete Poems PDF Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701178024
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.

Landslide

Landslide PDF Author: Andrew Jarvis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938846960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Andrew Jarvis' Landslide commits now and ever to a future where ruins--the human predicament--might squish in bogs until waterways bear melons and dead seabirds revive sacredness, the bottom and top of the same landscape and slide, without distraction of cliché. Landslide is a wonderful read--lyrical as the miracle of waking up alive every morning. Finalist in the 2017 Foreword Review Book of the Year Awards Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry

Poetry by Heart

Poetry by Heart PDF Author: Andrew Motion
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241971624
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon Armitage Two years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual competition for secondary schools which asked contestants to learn two or three poems and be judged on their recitations, first at school level, then regional, then in a national final held at London's National Portrait Gallery. It's proved a huge success, with hundreds of schools participating in the first year, and numbers up by 20% in the second. Coinciding with the start of the third year of competition, and published on National Poetry Day whose theme coincidentally in 2014 is Recitation, this Poetry by Heart anthology brings together the pool of poems - 200 altogether - from which contestants make their choices. Specially picked by Motion and his three co-editors, these poems make up a treasure house - of almost-unknown poems and familiar poems from the mainstream; love poems and war poems; funny poems and heartbroken poems; poems that recreate the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. And all chosen with a view to their being recited out loud. From William Wordsworth to Wilfred Owen, Emily Brontë to Elizabeth Bishop this wonderfully enjoyable anthology will be enjoyed by all ages and includes the best poets from the past to the present day. In a groundbreaking feature, the book includes QR codes which allow readers to use their mobile phones to listen to recordings of the poems - many of them specially recorded by the poets themselves. Sir Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 till 2009, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, London. Jean Sprackland'sTilt won the Costa Poetry award in 2008. She is a Reader in Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Julie Blake is co-Founder and Director of The Full English, an organization based in Bristol which provides support to teachers of English Literature. Mike Dixon is an educational consultant specializing in English in the classroom.

Physical

Physical PDF Author: Andrew McMillan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473520703
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award* Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body – to male friendship and male love – muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of the flesh: a flesh vital with the vulnerability of love and loss, to desire and its departure. In an extraordinary blend of McMillan’s own colloquial Yorkshire rhythms with a sinewy, Metaphysical music and Thom Gunn’s torque and speed – ‘your kiss was deep enough to stand in’ – the poems in this first collection confront what it is to be a man and interrogate the very idea of masculinity. This is poetry where every instance of human connection, from the casual encounter to the intimate relationship, becomes redeemable and revelatory. Dispensing with conventional punctuation, the poet is attentive and alert to the quality of breathing, giving the work an extraordinary sense of being vividly poised and present – drawing lines that are deft, lyrical and perfectly pitched from a world of urban dereliction. An elegant stylist and unfashionably honest poet, McMillan’s eye and ear are tuned, exactly, to both the mechanics of the body and the miracles of the heart. Winner of the 2015 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

First World War Poems

First World War Poems PDF Author: Andrew Motion
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571221202
Category : War poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light, and extends the selection right through to the present day - so that poems produced by the war give way historically to poems about the war. This mesmerizing book reminds us how the poetry of that time has, more than any art form, come to stand testament to the grief and outrage occasioned by World War I.

Here's A Little Poem

Here's A Little Poem PDF Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763631418
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured. Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes to A. A. Milne. Greeting the morning, enjoying the adventures of the day, cuddling up to a cozy bedtime — these are poems that highlight the moments of a toddler’s world from dawn to dusk. Carefully gathered by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters and delightfully illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Here's a Little Poem offers a comprehensive introduction to some remarkable poets, even as it captures a very young child’s intense delight in the experiences and rituals of every new day.

Eclipse

Eclipse PDF Author: Andrew Jantz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965809306
Category : Depressed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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A powerful, disturbing collection which recounts the poet's battle with depression as it attacked his marriage, his faith & ultimately, his will to live. It takes the reader through an attempted suicide, psychiatric hospitalization, & the slow, painful return to life. This book is aimed at the millions of people who suffer or have suffered from clinical depression, their family & friends, & anyone who is interested in seeing life through the eyes of a person struggling with this terrible disease. Advance praise for ECLIPSE: "The poetry of healing is richly, passionately delineated in this moving first collection."--Diana Der-Hovanessian, Pulitzer Prize nominee; "These poems are an act of courage...fairly shouting experience, even pain, to the world. Yet what moves me most throughout are the glimmers of light, the hope for recovery, the profound love for the saving grace of a human touch."--Dr. Karen Donelan, Harvard School of Public Health, "ECLIPSE is startlingly powerful. These poems capture a raw intensity of human emotion, & pack a wallop."--George Smith, LICSW, McLean Hospital. Retail price $9.95 plus shipping & handling. Volume discounts apply. To order call distributor at 800-345-6665.

The Poems of Andrew Marvell

The Poems of Andrew Marvell PDF Author: Andrew Marvell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542683340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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The Poems of Andrew Marvell With an introduction and notes by G.A. Aitken Letters Translated by A. B Grosart Most of Marvell's poems on political subjects doubtless appeared as broadsides or pamphlets at the time they were written; but of these original issues one only is known to have survived. "The Character of Holland," written in 1653, printed early, probably, in that year, appears to have been reprinted, in folio, in 1665, with the omission of the latter portion, in which praise was given to Blake and other commanders of the Commonwealth. This mutilated version was again printed, in quarto, in 1672. "The first Anniversary of the Government under his Highness the Lord Protector" was printed, in quarto, by Thomas Newcomb, London, in 1665. "Advice to a Painter" was printed as a four-page folio sheet, without date, but apparently in 1679, after Marvell's death. It is not necessary to justify any effort to make Marvell's Poems more widely known. The sole object of this Preface is to acknowledge my indebtedness to my predecessors, who have, in a greater or less degree, done good service by keeping the poet's name and character in the minds of his countrymen. In 1681, more than two years after Marvell's death, his widow published a collection of his miscellaneous poems. Nearly half a century later Cooke brought out an edition which included the political satires. These pieces could not, of course, be given in the volume of 1681, but they had been printed among other State Poems after the Revolution. Another half century passed before Thompson published an edition of the whole of Marvell's works. Thompson was a Hull captain, and a connection of the poet's family, filled with enthusiasm for his subject, but wanting in the critical training necessary for complete success. In spite, however, of all his shortcomings, it is not to be forgotten that we owe to him some of Marvell's finest poems, and that he was the first to print a large number of Marvell's letters, which are of great assistance in studying his life and writings. Errors in the text grew in number in subsequent cheap editions of the poems, until, in 1872, a century after Thompson, and when I was a scholar at the old Granmiar School at Hull which claimed Marvell as one of its most distinguished pupils, Dr. Grosart published the first volume of a limited edition of Marvell's works. It may be said that that edition was the first in which any serious attempt was made to give an accurate text, or to explain the constant allusions to contemporary events. But greatly as I have been indebted to Dr. Grosarfs work, much remained to be done. Many allusions remained unexplained, while some of the notes upon historical events or persons were written under misapprehension, and the errors in identification led to mistakes in the dating of the poems. In so difficult a field it is not probable that I have entirely escaped pitfalls; and I do not forget that it is far easier to correct others than to be a pioneer.