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Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk...

Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores...

In becoming a poet, Ive noticed that I now pay strict attention to every detail around me. I used to take my surroundings for granted, and I didnt always pay close attention to everything there was to notice. Welcome! Welcome once again to another book of poetry and to my wild, creative and imaginative...

Poetry to God Volume 4: Prison Praise is a vast collection of spiritual, uplifting, and empowering poems written by a man doing time in state prison. This book of poetry Includes cries from behind the wall and love letters from prison. Each poem will encourage your heart, soul, and mind and keep you...

In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation—a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant...

The most extensive and most comprehensible anthology of modern Greek poetry in English. While many serious readers in Canada will have been exposed to the ancients, and to the works of some, high-profile modernists—like Cafavy, Seferis and, perhaps, even Ritsos—most Modern Greek poetry...

The twelve poems in this eBook were written as performance pieces on the topic of the arts. I've presented these poems in nightclubs, festivals, and the National Poetry Slam, and now you can have them for the price of a post card.

Hello! My name is Leona Nichols and I love poetry. I fell in love with poetry early in my life, mostly because my mother loved it. She would cut out poems from the newspapers and paste them in scrap books. Later, my 6th grade teacher would have us memorize poetry while we waited for the closing bell...

Works of art, broadly speaking, is interesting. To be able to do something in creative writing is joy for an artist. This is most especially through poetry as a talent-hobby. The hundred compositions mirror five things principally. Firstly is how poetry makes an earnest attempt to capture language...

Edward Scott is a man who live for the truth, and a man who grew up on a small farm in West Oakland, California. Unlike other farms where they raise pigs, chickens and cattle, on this farm they raise people for jails, institutions, and death. So he strives and survives to write these truths into metaphor....

This poetry becomes an agent of transformation in offering a new direction for our lives. It provokes a little holy agitation by tossing poems like pebbles into placid pools of water to cause some waves. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war,...

"More poets than one might guess — both published and yet-to-be-discovered — lurk in the hollows and hills of Chesterville. On October 9, 2015, the first Chesterville Poetry Night on record was held at the Chesterville Center Union Meeting House. Chesterville poets and their admirers gathered...

“In Leadership Above the Rim, Orlando Ceaser takes his years of leadership experience and communicates it clearly. This book will inspire, educate and challenge all who read it.” -Mike Patterson President, On Track Leadership   “Leadership Above the Rim is...

Praising Him presents an inspiring collection of heartfelt poetry written by Mary Johnson at age eighty-nine. Between the ages of eighty and ninety, she wrote three books, covering them lovingly with wallpaper so she could give them freely to everyone. In Him was the first book to be published in...