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If you feel like you're running out of time, if you're grieving a relationship or worried you haven't yet experienced one, if you're unsure what to do with your life or if you're making the right decisions, if you find yourself comparing your milestones to everyone else's, if you feel weighed down by the pressure to succeed, if you feel like you're growing one day but feel stuck the next, if you feel lost... this is a poetry collection for you.

I Wrote This for You: Please Listen focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss, beginnings, and endings. This audio project inspired by the original book weaves the poetry into a never-before heard holistic narrative.

In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more. Here, Lindsey collects her favourite poems from ancient times to modern, by writers from all around the world. Alongside each, she recalls a memory from her own work, whether interviewing the warlords of Bosnia, meeting child soldiers in Uganda or giving testimony in Rwanda.

From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie's driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose. Slug is about the human condition: of birth and death and how we manage the possibilities in between.

How I Hope to Reach You is a collection of raw and reflective poetry about survival, identity, grief, and growth. These poems are not polished performances. They are personal truths written out of necessity. This collection was made for those still figuring it out, still trying, still hurting. Inside are words for when you need to feel understood, for when you need to feel less alone. If you have ever needed something to hold on to, this book offers a hand. These are poems written by someone who is still here, reaching out, hoping you will take it.

Sabrina Benaim, author of Depression & Other Magic Tricks, has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship’s end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis.

These are the poems that oozed out of the poet's experience and perception looking at people and the world around him. Most of the poems are on the themes of love, life, and liberty. They cover a decade-long time period in the Himalayan country of Nepal that was affected by the People's War. All poems carry emotions, human sentiments, and remnants of war, poverty, and loss of lives. Brilliant poetry, strong images, and very poetic!

A poem about consent.

I Asked the Wind is a sweeping adventure into our most basic drive for intimacy. If you like raw primal emotions, touching scenes, and joyous celebrations, then you'll adore Valerie Nifora's exploration of the soul.

I Had A Brother Once is a brilliant, genre-defying work - both memoir and epic poem - about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss. Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp.

This book is a collection of poetry that explores pain, love, and growth through the different phases of the moon: the new, the waxing, the full, and the waning. Each phase takes the listener through the stages of their own life, sparking an inner conversation. Each poem carries within it its own universe and its own whispers to the listener. It is simply planting the seedling of a constellation within all of those willing to taste the moonlight.

The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and as new as now.” As individuals, Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love.

I lost my wife in 2020 to a brain tumor just a few weeks after we had celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary. “Celebrated” is a word that springs back when pressed down. More subdued than earlier ones, to be sure, that last anniversary was nonetheless a felt celebration of a lifetime together.

In "I Can Still Hear You Laugh," Aleen Hope's evocative poetry captures the profound journey of grief and loss with poignant simplicity. Through tender verses, she explores the ache of losing loved ones and the bittersweet mourning of the end of a relationship. This collection serves as a gentle companion for grieving hearts, offering solace and companionship in the darkest of times. With each poem, Hope explores the rawness of grief, the longing for closure, and the slow journey toward healing.

The poem expresses some of the heart wrenching universal truths and conflicting emotions anyone who goes to war must face: that you'd rather be home than at war and that death is there with you at all times, either waiting for you to die or waiting for you to kill.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hearing What I Hear, Seeing What I See and experience the compelling world of personal trauma and healing.

n recorrido poético a través de 41 versos que exploran la fragilidad de la vida, la muerte y la conexión con la naturaleza. Cada poema es un susurro sobre el tiempo, las sombras y la aceptación de lo efímero. Una reflexión profunda sobre el equilibrio entre luz y oscuridad, el amor, el miedo y la memoria, que invita a la introspección y al descubrimiento de la verdadera libertad en la transitoriedad de la existencia.

Am I My Mother's Child is a poem about a daughter questioning her maternal lineage while experiencing cruelty from mother.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti becomes the speaker of Dickinson's poem personifying Death. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife.

A fallen knight descends into the Underworld, defiantly challenging Death itself. He confronts nightmares and echoes of his life’s decisions and their consequences, constantly searching for his way back.