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1) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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On an unlikely pilgrimage, a cycling tour to find a poet's unmarked crib, Jane Simpson discovers a landscape at once less Romantic, and more lyrical than the 'unspoilt Nature' seen by tourists at scenic spots. Unexpected turns draw the reader into the worlds of goddess religions, pre-contact Māori society and western Christianity; and into the intimate world of family relationships. In the final section, where the sun and stars sing at the marriage...
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Yellow Butterfly showcases not only the budding poetic and visual talents of a promising young artist, but it also chronicles her struggles with increasingly debilitating episodes of psychosis as she attempted to negotiate high school, college, and young adulthood. The potential of her creative voice, easily seen in her earliest work, becomes even more apparent in her later poems. Like a shore bird' s tracks in the sand, her sparse but...
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POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS by MaryAnn Diorio is a compilation of poems the author has written over a period of several years. The book includes poems in various forms, including sonnets, tetractyses, tercets, haikus, limericks, and an intriguing poetic form called the "Minute". A special feature of the book is the introduction of a new poetic form that MaryAnn created called the "Diorion"--a form inspired by her husband's family name. This new form alone...
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From Hannah Herrera, The Lovely Wild In Me is separated into three parts: anguish, yearn and heal. The story is poetic prose of abuse, heartbreak, finding love, finding the wild in oneself and healing. This book may have certain themes that could be triggering to some. Take caution and care when reading.Published by Crooked Crow Publishing
6) Human Nature
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For fans of L.E Bowman's What I Learned from the Trees and Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe comes Kari Highman's debut poetry collection about exploring not only our hearts, but the world around us. Human Nature delves into how our emotional expressiveness can be challenged or bettered by the environment. This book looks at the literal definition of its namesake while examining the figurative language of those words through poetic diction,...
8) Edge Music
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Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical.
Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an extremely eclectic range of styles and forms.
It reveres the voices of the past, and grants them new life in the blinding sun of the present.
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Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene.
Amidst ravenous addictions, spiralling dead ends and violence on both sides of the law, Oli keeps her wits, and her life, to record this story.
On slippery ground all the way, it soon becomes clear why in this world - you have to stay cool.
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Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as "lively and intelligent" and "lyrically delicious," Barbara Tran's poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, "red-tailed gliding / on...
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From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...
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How to Monetize Despair is a captivating exploration of a wide range of subjects and ideas, from traumatic loss and the sorrows of human relationships to the natural but absurd world of neurotic caterpillars and philosophical cockroaches. With a unique blend of imagery, self-help inspired titles, and Mottolo's peculiar brand of humor, this collection takes readers on a one-of-a-kind journey through human experience. This collection is a must-read...
14) Reflections
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In an abandoned dance studio, there's music and dancing unheard and unseen by anyone. The whispers in the shadows laud praises upon the figure that spins around the room. Nothing moves, and yet everything moves around the room. Darkness and light intertwine and dance to cast the shadows of the world. A dance that goes beyond the borders between the worlds is performed within flickering shadows.The Shadow Dancer knows the truth. Without the darkness,...
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This collection of poetry captures the essence of what it means to be human, and invites readers to connect with their own experiences. The works within delve into themes of love, loss, joy, pain, and everything in between. No matter what you are feeling, you will find a poem that resonates. It's a kaleidoscope of human emotion, captured and immortalized in the vivid brushstrokes of poetic language-each poem a shard reflecting a different facet of...
17) Persona Play
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to don a different persona? To try on the qualities of an archetype? New personas are donned regularly by actors in the movies and in theater, and also by everyday people at costume parties, and at Halloween. These are chances to play make-believe, to step into another identity for a brief period of time.When someone finds a persona to dress up as that particularly delights them: Their faces...
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Vladimir Maïakovski aime Lili Brik. Célèbre poète de l'avant-garde russe, il écrit, voyage, se lie à d'autres, mais ne cesse jamais d'adorer Lili. À trente-six ans, il se tire une balle dans le coeur. « Lili, aime-moi », l'invoque-t-il jusque dans sa lettre de suicide.
C'est une histoire d'amour comme il y en a tant. Celle d'un jeune homme en feu, d'un amour démesuré, insupportable. Celle du jour o le poète vise le coeur et tire. Ce jour-là,...
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You know that moment? The one where a single leaf glides, sliding this way and that, until it touches the ground. Watching it makes everything else blur for a minute. It's just you and the one, single, solitary leaf.
Or that time when walking on a path in the woods, an entire rainstorm of leaves flit around you, falling at various speeds until they swirl on the path.
These moments that seem so ordinary hold magic in that they can allow everything...
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My canvas is empty
until it is streaked with lines
of the world
of my heart.
In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...
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