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'I want to live, not merely survive' This collection of words from Havva Ramadan will resonate with her rapidly growing online community. With a million followers, Havva's words have struck a chord with people all around the world, including celebrities such as Annie Lennox, Khloe Kardashian and...

Matta charts his course through neglect and emotional hardship in this emotive-reflective micro-memoir, interlaced with evocative poetry. His premature birth triggered latent cancer in his mother, leaving him under the stern care of his faith-bound grandmother. His childhood, thus, becomes an icy saga of dread and isolation. Haunted by survivor’s guilt and unjust blame, Antonio’s tale of silent suffering and self-inflicted harm sheds light on the invisible wounds many bear. Yet, amidst this torment, Born Premature, Loved Overdue emerges as a beacon of human resilience.

Brought to you by Penguin. I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News...

Embark on a deeply personal and emotional odyssey with Diane Grossman Gaston in Life in the Shadows: My Journey Towards the Sunlight. This collection of over 80 evocative poems spans decades, from Diane's melancholy teenage years through the present, illuminating her poignant journey from shadow to light. Each poem becomes a window into Diane's soul, revealing the raw emotions she felt growing up in a broken home.

Conjure Volume 1 explores the allure of love tainted by darkness—relationships that straddle the line between pleasure and pain. Passion and enmity collide in this dark poetry collection, blurring the line between devotion and despair.

"Some Good Writ " is a collection of heart-warming and thought-provoking essays and quotes exploring life's joys, challenges, love, and self-discovery. In this book, you'll find many intriguing statements and thoughts that cover a plethora of topics that include relationships, family, career, personal growth, and more. From funny and poignant observations about daily life to deep and introspective musings on the human experience, "Some Good Writ." has something for everyone.

Embark on a poetic odyssey with William Gomes's "The Symphony of Shadows and Light: Verses of the Cosmos and Soul," a collection that weaves together the vastness of the cosmos with the depths of the human spirit. This anthology is a celebration of the beauty found in life's contrasts and contradictions, a journey that spans from the starlit expanses of the universe to the intimate corners of the human heart.

Read by the author, Raymond Antrobus. ‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house’ Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book...

For all whose lives were touched by babies gone too soon. May we take comfort in knowing that eventually we will hold them again. Grief, yearning, and undying love weave together the spiritual comfort of this book. Its imagery is hopeful and heartwarming, its message clear: Though we held them mere moments on Earth, we will be reunited in Heaven forever. Our precious babies are real and remembered, and our souls are forever linked with theirs.

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend...

The debut of Kelly Caldwell, written from within the darkness of bipolar illness and the longing to claim her womanhood “There can be no history of my body. My forgetfulness is in earnest. I check for it like for keys in a pocket. I’ve remained a girl all my life.” With searing...

WINNER OF THE AUDRE LORDE AWARD FOR LESBIAN POETRY LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Written in the devastating aftermath of a partner’s suicide, this unprecedented collection is a restorative memorial act, an exploration of queer time, and a powerful expression of nonbinary and trans...

In these exquisitely rendered poems, people fall in and out of love, in and out of religious belief and in and out of accepting the distance between their imagined lives and the lives they live. They look back as much as forward and pick mercilessly at the open wounds of failed relationships. They inhabit geographies that are both their emancipators and captors. And they find joy, or succumb to sorrow, amid life’s inescapable ephemerality and fragility.

Brought to you by Penguin. A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home. Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and...

In pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship.

Quietly reflective, the beautifully written poems in this slim volume offer a welcome respite from the noisy insistence of modern life. The language, now simple and direct, now rich in associations, double-meanings, and imagery, has its own natural rhythm and appeal regardless of subject and rhyme.

This is a book of poetry to encourage people that have been through heartbreak, pain, grief and the ending of a relationship. It's honest, real talk about the feelings we have after experiencing this sort of death after losing someone we have deeply loved.

From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time. Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of...

This book is a collection of poems written in early 2023 to help cope with the loss of both my parents, a girlfriend, and a job. They are written as requests, personal experiences, and observations. While a few are written about experiences with one particular person, they are written as an anthem for anyone that has loved and lost. Enjoy listening to these a few at a time and know that others experience what you may be going through at this time.

I wrote most of these poems when I was in a bad place, a dark state of mind that eased its hold when I wrote them down, and so these poems were created, they maybe disturbing for most and very intense, but if you have been in a dark place too, you may understand.