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Volume two of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in 2009 by RTE. Volume two contains four collections published between 1979 and 1991: Field Work, Station Island, The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things.

Brought to you by Penguin. A beautiful book combining poetry, topics of self-reflection and journalling prompts to help readers find joy all around them. I always pay attention When a small joy grabs me Some say easily pleased I say, frequently happy! Life can often be stressful. Each day might...

A celebration of love from the author of Ottoline, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This beautiful collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems...

English literature is a treasure trove of wonderful poetry. From Shakespeare to Milton, Keats to Shelley and Tennyson to Yeats, this accessible history (especially written for Naxos Audiobooks) introduces the listener to countless small masterpieces, including all the old favorites and some lesser-known gems. Whitfield explores this most expressive of art forms and traces the historical development of a rich and diverse canon of poetical works.

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.    

THE COMPLETELY UPDATED COLLECTION FEATURING NEW POEMS AND MUCH-LOVED FAVOURITES - OFFERING WORDS OF COMFORT TO BRING SOLACE TO THE DARKEST DAYS OF GRIEF, FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OF TO THE WOMEN 'Donna's words speak to my heart' Davina McCall 'We all need more Donna Ashworth - her...

Published at the author’s own expense in 1896, after rejection from publishers, this collection contains a cycle of 63 poems. Despite exploring themes of lost love, obsession, pessimism, and death, the poems touched English readers and the book became a best seller during the Second Boer War and World War I. The collection, set in a half-imagined pastoral Shropshire, includes the well-known poems "When I Was One-and-Twenty", "To an Athlete Dying Young", and "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now".

LISTEN TO THE EXTENDED AUDIOBOOK EDITION OF THE DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION FROM SPOKEN WORD POET DAN WHITLAM NOW! Including: - Extra content - Exclusive short story - Immersive listening with tailored soundscaping - Q&A with writer, actor and friend Eddie Loodmer-Elliott If you feel like you're...

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed...

The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the 14th century, is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages: yet it speaks to us today with almost undimmed clarity and relevance.

Over the course of three years, Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea.

Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet - Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately held and highly unpopular beliefs, beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of 29. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognized as a key contribution to Romantic literature.

Following the success of his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his thoroughly enjoyable version, Armitage communicates the energy, charm and humour of the tale - the earliest example of a 'debate poem'. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and highfalutin to the ribald and ridiculous.

What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world.

Unfinished compositions. Hidden recording. Melodies no one knew existed. When her son dies from an overdose, he leaves behind more than silence. As his work is discovered, restored, and released to an international audience, he begins to speak again —haunting, intricate, alive with longing. The world meets the artist. His mother must confront the man. ghost composer is a luminous work of prose poetry that moves through the aftermath of substance-use disorder with unflinching tenderness.

Up In Flames is an audiobook of poems written with a matchstick heartbeat and a mouth full of truth. This collection lives in the aftermath of broken love, political rot, spiritual disillusionment, motherhood under pressure, and the quiet exhaustion of surviving in a world that keeps asking you to be smaller, softer, quieter. Each poem is a spark struck against silence, a refusal to swallow rage just to keep the peace.

Twenty-three poems. Three movements. One unflinching journey from the depths to the light. Alexander Gwyn's Bend My Light arrives in audio for the first time—narrated by the poet himself, layered with music and ambient sound that move the listener through descent, search, and arrival. From addiction and rebirth, to the cosmic wonder of the universe, to the quiet grace of solitude—this collection speaks to anyone who has ever searched for meaning in the darkness and discovered light on the other side. Listen slowly. They were written that way.

I Accept Everything God Brings My Way is like having a rocking chair conversation with your grandmother who tells it all. It's a collection of poems adapted from interviews with U.S. immigrant grandmothers from Eritrea, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Trinidad and Vietnam. They share stories of love, faith, family, leaving home, life and death. It reveals the relenting strength, resilience, faith and hearts of immigrants.

Tida como a primeira poetisa romântica preta do Brasil, Auta de Souza, que teve uma breve vida de apenas 25 anos, deixou uma obra significativa, cujo valor foi reconhecido, entre outros intelectuais, por Luís da Câmara Cascudo. Este livro reúne alguns de seus magníficos poemas, como "Ao luar", "Página triste" e "Recuerdo", além do poema que dá título ao livro.

Com uma classificação literária controversa – simbolista para uns, pré-modernista para outros e ainda naturalista para um grupo mais restrito – a poesia de Augusto dos Anjos é marcada por sua qualidade excepcional, independentemente do rótulo que receba. Além daquele que empresta o nome ao título deste livro, estão aqui reunidos, dentre outros, os seguintes poemas: "A fome e o amor", "Numa forja" e "O canto dos presos".