Poetry

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

In 81 brief chapters, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, as well as a serene and generous spirit....

Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness. A biting postmortem of the modern age, for fans of Lana Del Rey and Atticus.

This international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace....

Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem "Inferno"....

It's easy to feel at home in Mitford....

Since it was first published more than 25 years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right....

The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers and listeners for 700 years and has entered the human imagination....

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this literature to a wide range of listeners....

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

Through Coleman Barks’s translations, Rumi is the world’s most popular poet. The newest addition to HarperSanFrancisco’s “A Year With” series, A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Coleman’s mystical, elegant, and beautiful translations of Rumi’s poetry, for listening, reflection, and embarking upon your own journey inward.

In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the monotonous duties of a Southern housewife. But leaving isn’t the same thing as staying gone. Rooted in a lush landscape, this poetry collection explores Helen’s isolation and rebellion as her expansive personality clashes with the social rigidity of her small town. In layered poems with settings that range from football games to Chuck E. Cheese to the bathroom of a Motel 6, Helen enters adulthood as a disaffected homemaker grasping for agency.

In life’s kitbag of essentials food and drink are right at the top. Their variety and ways to consume are a wonder, both of nature’s offerings and human creativity. For our classic poets ranging from Ancient Romans to Elinor Wylie and Rainer Maria Rilke, their recipes for verse using the simple ingredients of words and imagination are a wonderful and enduring example of their craft and art applied to the one thing mankind looks forward to each and every day.

I hope this book feels like a warm hug to you. I wrote this book for the ones who feel everything too deeply. You’re right, I wrote this book for you. This book was meant to find you if you’ve ever loved someone who didn’t love you back, if you’ve ever over-invested in the wrong people or if you have a hard time letting go. I Don’t Love You Anymore is a book that’ll feel like home to you. I promise it’ll hold you gently on your worst days.

Dear Santa, Twas the scariest holiday year, depression and mental anguish are real but P.T.S.D made it harder to deal, my mind and heart reminded of one particular image and cannot help the way I feel.

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism. In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics. In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works.

Poems: Michael, a teacher of light, becomes family to a village of people in Ethiopia, and gives them, peace, comfort, and wisdom, that changes their lives, he speaks to them on relevant subjects as well as subjects of mystical concerns, all in poetic form. Michael, a Teacher of Light, the beloved of the people of Ethiopia, stood upon the hill, where the sun kisses the earth, his eyes like stars, reflecting the wisdom of ages, As the crowd gathered, hearts filled with hope and mirth. “Speak to us O Teacher, they cried with one voice, for in your words, we find the light of our choice. ...

"Love Messages For Twin Flames: Love Letters For Him or Her" by Silvia Moon is a heartfelt exploration of love, connection, and the profound emotions that bind us. This collection of intimate letters illuminates the journey of romantic relationships, capturing the essence of shared moments, the struggles of communication, and the beauty of healing together. Through poignant reflections and evocative imagery, Silvia Moon invites readers to delve into the depths of their feelings, whether they are experiencing the bliss of newfound love or navigating the complexities of a deeper bond. Each ...

Muchas veces tenemos que irnos a pesar del miedo, de las dudas, y de la falta de confianza. En esta ocasión, conocerás a Vespertine y viajarás de su mano luchando contra el temor a estar solo, el falso apego y la aceptación a la muerte. Entre poemas y narrativa Vespertine cuenta su historia. Sangrando cada escrito para cicatrizar el dolor de la pérdida, y el reto de emprender un viaje solo, en el que una sacudida a su realidad sirve de boleto y las respuestas son el único destino.

First a poem then a short story in time, about a man who visits a Psychic after he crosses the line, he hopes she can fix his future but when he ignores her warning signs, this guy needs an alibi. ******************************************************** SHORT STORY COMING SOON ********************************************************

Words Are Snakes with Arms is a bold and heartfelt poetry anthology by Alex Brown, encapsulating a year in the author's life through a series of intimate, daily reflections. Each poem serves as a microcosm of a single day, capturing the raw emotions and thoughts experienced in real-time. The collection invites listeners to explore the highs and lows of human existence, from joy and passion to despair and confusion, presented with unflinching honesty and poetic grace.

Telling stories with a unique style, William David Henderson offers twenty-one narrative poems to give hope, inspire courage, and honor the challenges of life. Learn to dwell in lasting joy with authentic poetry from the heart.

Welcome to the Wickedest, the longest running house party in the South London shoob scene, always held at an undisclosed inner-city spot. You better hope you have the address: this is for locals only. Sweaty and cinematic, pulsing with rhythm and heat, every moment here—from one-on-one intimacies to the swell of the party’s collective roar—is refracted in Caleb Femi’s writing. Ingeniously blending conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, The Wickedest is a modern epic, told as a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out.

You & Him captures a woman's beauty and resiliency. It is more than poetry. It is wisdom for every woman. For "her" who has made a vow with love not to break her heart. For the woman who has learned to listen with her eyes and heart and can ascertain when there is more being said.

Maravillosa fábula acerca del sentido de la vida y el insospechado valor de nuestros actos diarios. ¿Qué nos espera en el paraíso? ¿Algo que nos permita...

A cross between Alice in Wonderland and Apocalypse Now, Triggerfish 1-2 (the first novella) is a journey through the Central Highlands of consciousness.

As the 1900’s begin women are in a difficult situation. Whatever the pretence of society the reality for almost all women is that they are second class and the property of men. Whilst women have created enduring works of literature and poetry for centuries, much has remained hidden and voiceless. But technology and the mass distribution of printed materials has allowed new ideas and thoughts to circulate, to demand a voice. In this volume their talents and voices speak with determination, wisdom, courage and love on many subjects through their extraordinary verse.

In this work, I am inviting you to embark on a journey with me. That journey is poetry—the story of my life.

Sometimes the best way to understand what’s deep inside requires looking outward. Sometimes the best way to understand the world outside requires a deep dive within. And sometimes, those two things are so intertwined it’s difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. The Forest of My Youth is a collection of poems and perspectives that probe some of the deepest, most profound and sometimes achingly painful thoughts and questions I’ve had since my spinal cord injury in 1993.

These four poems, which deal with ethical issues, were collated and published in 1751 by William Warburton, seven years after Pope's death.

Poetry in Eden is a collection of poetry and prose about belonging. The book is divided into four chapters, with each chapter serving a different purpose, offering a different element, and providing healing through a unique form of alchemy.

Threadgill offers the listener various entryways to witness the magnificence and fragility of our voices and of our lives. As a performing professional vocalist, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader, she began Lost & Found during the pandemic—born from many years of teaching voice, the Alexander Technique, and practicing meditation and meditative movement.

This collection of poems invites you to step away from the whirl of modernity and into the eternal rhythm of the land. With plow and seed, with sweat and dream, the farmer scripts his life upon Earth's broad canvas, leaving behind furrows of perseverance and fields ripe with hope. Through verses as unpretentious yet profound as the soil they celebrate, we explore the daily miracles and seasonal cycles that define a farmer's world.

In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life. The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States.

MY BOOK OF THE WILD IN POEMS describes the wild areas in the world that makes up the world put in an unusual way.