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Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Through the centuries men seem to dominate the writing of poetry. From books of epics to quatrains of love poetry it seemed to be a man’s world. His domain. A volume purely for men, to show other facets of their personalities and characters seems to be an obvious choice. One verse fits all is, in fact, far removed from the truth. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved.

We’ll ‘INK’ To That International Anthology, by Author Reneé Drummond-Brown and masterful poets from across the globe who are sho-nuff drunk on philosophical INK, affected by pens and paper-cuts to the extent of losing self-control of our talents, staggering with writer’s block on fine chalk lines and (get this) under poetic arrest. Somebody, anybody, please, please, please, call 911! We need comprehensive help “DrINKing Us-sum INK” (DUI)!! Burp.

La gran poesia se caracteriza por que traduce emociones al lenguaje de la literatura, pero ademas hay ocasiones en que ella contiene interesantes fondos argumentales, que asi no se vean directamente, llegan al corazon y a la mente.

Home. A simple word; a loaded one. You can say it in a whisper; you can say it in a cry. Expressed in the voices of father and daughter, you can hear a visceral longing, in poems and prose, for an ideal place. A place never to be found again. Imagine the shock, imagine the sadness when a daughter discovers her father’s work, the poetry he had never shared with anyone during the last two decades of his life. Six years after that moment of discovery, which happened in her childhood home while mourning for his passing, Uvi Poznansky presents a tender tribute: a collection of poems and prose,...

いまここの向こうの「その世」に目を凝らす詩人と，「この世」の地べたから世界を見つめるライターが，１年半にわたり詩と手紙を交わした．

Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.

In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to recreate the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, losing faith, finding God.

Lyrical Ballads features a selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration, which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. In the first episode, we hear Coleridge's "Lewti" and Wordsworth's "The Thorn", while the second episode showcases Coleridge's "The Nightingale" and Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems. In the final episode, we hear Wordsworth's "Lines Written A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge's ballad, "Love".

American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense imagery, made vivid through his musical language and hypnotic rhythms, which are especially captivating when heard aloud.

In September 2007 an invited audience enjoyed a special performance by John Julius Norwich of a selection from his Christmas Crackers at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London to benefit the Venice in Peril Fund. Listeners to this audiobook can share the delight of the live audience as John Julius entertains us with a compilation of anecdote, prose, poetry and even song that is as charmingly conceived as it is delightfully performed.

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Invictus". Politicians and authors love to quote the inspirational last two lines of this poem: "I am the master of my fate:/I am the captain of my soul."

With its intricate structure and imagery, Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career. Its greatness is done full justice in this rendition by the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Containing some of the most melodic passages in modern poetry, Four Quartets blends the religious, the philosophical and the personal themes that preoccupied T. S. Eliot.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems. Here, it forms the main work on the first half of this program, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa'di, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library. Actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot and from Larkin to Plath.

Here to Stay is a collection of honest, searing, and evocative poems interspersed with short personal narratives. Deeply intimate, these works explore how to exist in the space between the familiar and the unknown, between the safety of silence and the desire to share. Highlighting the significant insights of undocumented poets, this brilliant compendium challenges misconceptions of what it means to live and write as an undocumented person in modern America.

A titillating assortment of works on the transforming the power of sex and desire. On Starry Thighs is a collection of love poetry, lust prose, devotional prayers, and intimate blessings culled from the nearly 20-year career of the internationally known spirituality and sexuality author Lee Harrington. Illustrated by Abby Helasdottir, the collection brings to light a journey of love, loss, faith, self-discovery, hope, desire, and connection through more than 90 original works.

Fiction, poetry, and music come together to create something new: Verb. Original stories and poems you won't find anywhere else, by the best writers in the country, brought to you in an innovative format. Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly.

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

Broken down by a variety of subject matter, each section begins with a selection from an interview between NBA star Etan Thomas and political sportswriter Dave Zirin, followed by a Thomas poem and the writings of talented young poets.

Los poetas son los protagonistas en esta antología de Poética 2.0 en la que recitan sus propios textos. La selección de autores incluye nombres consagrados y nuevos poetas: Antonio Gamoneda, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Luis García Montero, Jenaro Talens, Juana Castro, Beatriz Hernanz, Ángel Guinda, Almudena Guzmán, Francisca Aguirre, Guillermo Carnero y Rafael Soler comparten espacio, entre otros, con Marta Agudo, Jordi Doce, Rosana Acquaroni, Carmen Jodra, Ana Castro, Elena Medel, Antonio Lucas, Carlos Marzal, Juan Vicente Piqueras y Julieta Valero.