Poetry category: 46548 books

African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African American poetry, from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop, Lauri Ramey traces African American poetry from slave songs...

The Lotus Flower is a collection of poetry about healing; mother nature; love; relationships; spirituality; religion; depression amongst many other subjects. The Lotus Flower stays close to mother nature throughout. The poems were written in order to heal from mental health illness and gain a new...

Do you love poetry but not know the first thing about writing it? Is the idea of writing poetry so overwhelming you just want to curl up in a corner? Are you a competent poet who wants to become extraordinary? When Words Collide will have you writing your own poems by the last page. In this...

Written between August 2017 and January 2019, these poems are concerned with the search for meaning, identity and truth, and other foolhardy adventures. An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal… Henry Normal...

‘This book makes an important intervention into debates about influence and contemporary Irish poetry. Supported throughout by incisive reflections upon allusion, word choice, and formal structure, Keating brings to the discussion a range of new and lesser known voices which decisively complicate...

This book investigates the potential purpose of recurrent communication images in the poetry of Derek Walcott. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992, Walcott is one of the most important postcolonial poets of the 20th century. His poetry delves into the dynamics of Caribbean marginalization...

Interview. Poets/writers this edition: Free Verse: Cyndi MacMillan, T J Barnum, John David Muth, Brett Stout, kwame Nti Kwame (knk), John Reinhart, Kendall A. Bell, Edward Lee. Haiku: Kenneth Salzmannn, George Brookings, Ken Lott, James Godfrey, Jen Smith, Vera Ignatowitsch, Honorah Murphy, Angie...

The Interview: Aaron Poochigian by A.M. Juster, Five Poems by Aaron Poochigian. Featured Poems: Josh Medsker, Jack D. Harvey, Michael Fraley. Free Verse: Simon Perchik, Steve Denehan, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Ingrid Bruck, Jennifer Davis, and more. Haiku: Kevin McLaughlin, Shan Spradlin, Bob...

What’s the point of poetry? It’s a question asked in classrooms all over the world, but it rarely receives a satisfactory answer. Which is why so many people, who read all kinds of books, never read poetry after leaving school. Exploring twenty-two works from poets as varied as William...

Forty years in the making, this book is a collection of my more provocative—even daring—poems. Some are simple or playful verses fun to read to yourself or aloud. The first two chapters will transform you into a "poetic detective," an informed reader of all poetry. You'll find...

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and depictions of poets on the screen date back to the silent era and continue to the present day. However, there...

My fictional reading is heavily weighted toward science-fiction. I generally try to avoid poetry, but this said it was about science fiction. It wasn't very expensive, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I've read some of this author's previous work and I was able to see how the writing has matured since...

This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via ‘poetic inquiry’, a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences. Owton begins by framing how poetry can appeal to all of the senses, how it can offer readers...

In 2009 when Leon Tuam's book Dieu Pleure aux Pieds de L'Homme was published, one of his best friends after congratulating him on the book added, "I hope your next publication is a novel or an essay... because poetry has lost readers' favor." Ah, no! the world (this caged bird) needs the...