Poetry

Poetry Anthology

by Steve Cline

This is a compilation of 21 various poems with a range of topics from humorous to spiritual / ethical . Author Bio: Steve Cline is a retired Judge from Alaska, now living the last twenty years in Grand Junction,...

A Collection of Comfort

by Helen Steiner Rice

Take heart in the promises of your heavenly Father and experience renewed comfort and encouragement through this priceless collection of inspiring verse by Helen Steiner Rice.

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke: Text Classics

by C.J. Dennis & Jack Thompson

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred...

When Art touches Life

by Asif Ali

When art touches life we are left with questions and very few concrete answers. Why do we live? Why do we die? Why do we invent? Why is the world as it is? What would our lives be like in an ideal world? For...

Adverse Camber: A selection of readable poems which all rhyme!

by Lyn Funnell

A varied selection of poems, mainly humurous, some serious, but they all rhyme!

Whispering Tears

by Gordon Morrow

From the tear drops of angels. These writings come. These are the tears with-in the tranquilized warmth of our children. From the graceful willows spoken through the eyes of a dream-teller. Soft words dancing...

The Moment I'm Gone

by Christos Daskalakis

Forgotten Colour Footage

by Donald Fraser

Donald Fraser was born in Glasgow in 1961. The poems in this collection were written in the twenty-five years from 1982 to 2007. They tell of childhood, youth, love, loss, war, peace of mind. His father flew...

Losing It

by Ranjit Bolt & Roddy Maude-Roxby

Written in rhyming couplets 'Losing It' is the story of Lucy , a luscious young virgin who goes to London to try losing her virginity.

Cats and Their Poets

by Maurice Craig

Whether it is their caressibility, their demonstrably close kinship with the most magnificent predators in the world, their flexibility both moral and physical, their aesthetic sense of disposing themselves...

Feathers of Love

by Gordon Morrow

From the tear drops of angels. These writings come. These are the tears with-in the tranquilized warmth of our children. From the graceful willows spoken through the eyes of a dream-teller. Soft words dancing...

Dublin's Other Poetry: Rhymes and Songs of the City

by John Wyse Jackson & Hector McDonnell

DUBLIN' S writers rarely remain solemn for long: their wicked sense of humour has travelled the world. This is an irresistible new anthology of what used to be called 'comic and curious verse' about the city,...

Taking Brooklyn Bridge

by Stuart Leonard

Marching in a protest brings a poet to life, connecting inner struggle with social struggle, Walt Whitman and redemption

Love If We Can Stand It

by Bruce F. Kawin

In this collection of his best poems, Bruce F. Kawin explores many aspects of love, from the romantic to the metaphysical and from sex to mourning. The breadth of voice and form is masterful, and the poems are...

Ulster's Other Poetry: Rhymes and Songs of the Province

by Hector McDonnell & John Wyse Jackson

ULSTER' S OTHER POETRY proves that the people of Ulster have never been humourless or dour. Far from it. With its sparkling variety of rhymes, songs and humorous poems from every tradition of the province, the...

A Glimpse of Paradise

by Barbara Hardwick

Barbara Hardwick describes this book of her poetry as being 'about the agony and the ecstasy of being at the right place at the wrong time, and the price that must then be paid for the pursuance of love'. The...

Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems

by Jennifer Fox

Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," and John Keats's...

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink

by Kevin Young

Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular...

Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory

by Susan Hawthorne

Valence in chemistry, the number of bonds in an element’s atom in linguistics, the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate in psychology, the emotional charge something has In this remarkable...

Bright Star

by Elido Fazi

On the heels of a renewed global interest in the figure and writing of 19th century British poet John Keats (as attested by Jane Campion’s acclaimed film by the same title), Elido Fazi’s Bright Star retraces...