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Robert Herrick's poetic tribute to his mistress' beautifully carefree style of dress, which he finds more strangely attractive than absolute perfection, read by Bill Wallis.

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

A special live recording at London's Soho Theatre - plus two exclusive bonus tracks. Since forming in 2008, Mark Grist and MC Mixy have been challenging the preconceptions of poetry and hiphop across the country. This audio was recorded at the Soho Theatre in London in 2012, during their third national tour, titled 'Anywhere and Everywhere'. During the tour the pair performed in schools, pubs, nightclubs, office blocks, market places, theatres, parks, taxi cabs, sitting rooms and universities across the country.

Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. Her father, a scholar in China, ran a laundry business and a gambling house in California; her mother, a doctor in China, helped with the laundry and worked in the fields. Maxine won scholarships to the University of California at Berkeley, where she returned to teach as Senior Lecturer in the Department of English.

A rich and varied collection of contemporary short stories, extracts from novels, and poetry that will go a long way toward informing the English-speaking world of the latest developments in Iranian literature. This sampling - or to use the Farsi term golchine, a bouquet - provides a window onto an important but sorely neglected segment of world culture. We hope it will also serve to awaken further interest in the work and in translations of Iranian novelists and poets.

Need Machine clamors through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendor, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumor. Honest, irreverent, and sharply indifferent, this audiobook will "hogtie you with awe."

Robert Burns' well-known poem celebrating the enduring power of true love, read by Bill Wallis.

"A Birthday": Christina Rossetti's joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter.

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction - or reintroduction - to Whitman.

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is Christopher Marlowe's emotional appeal to his lady to run away with him and live a romantic rural idyll, read by Bill Wallis.

Christina Rossetti's poignant wish that she could capture the elusive memory of the first time she met her love, read by Jenny Agutter.

The Anniversary is John Donne's poem about the all-embracing power of love, read by Bill Wallis.

Divided into two sections, one inspired by ancient Chinese art, the other limning the ambiguities and incongruities of the contemporary human condition, Frutkin's new volume of poetry, Iron Mountain, often presents human beings wandering in the wilderness between two abysses while still appreciating the smell of pines, the softness of the rain, the brilliance of the stars, the hum of the computer, and the jostle of the crowd on the bus.

"Mia madre è un'arma" è la prima raccolta poetica dei registi (e gemelli) Damiano e Fabio D'Innocenzo, un'opera scritta a quattro mani per raccontare in versi sciolti del tempo contemporaneo e dei sentimenti che lo abitano, degli appartamenti in affitto, dei cani amati e dei genitori, del futuro che va registrato e tramandato, della scrittura che - come il cinema - vive di un gesto quotidiano e necessario, radicato nell'intimità delle cose più piccole, microcosmi emotivi, generatori di storie.

Dalle fiabe di ieri ecco in rima, re, regine e cavalieri! Due storie, anzi due lunghe filastrocche, intitolate "La fonte secca" e "I gemelli del re" in distici di endecasillabi a rima baciata, che sembrano ricalcare l'ottava medievale, non a caso metro caratteristico della poesia narrativa. Il tutto condito con un pizzico di ironia e comicità.

A Ensenada de Barragán, fra Buenos Aires e La Plata, c’era, sino agli anni Cinquanta, un cimitero di barche e di polene.

Una divinità capricciosa e imprevedibile governa le nostre esistenze. Si chiama Amore ed è capace di farci perdere la testa per un'altra creatura in un crescendo di febbrile erotismo e impagabili dolcezze. Ma quella stessa divinità, grazie alla sua multiforme e inafferrabile natura, può prendere anche direzioni diverse. Spingendoci a stravedere per un animale, a dialogare con i morti, a esprimere piena gratitudine verso il regno del vivente.

साहित्य में हमें मदिरा के ऊपर तो बहुत कुछ लिखा हुआ नज़र आता है, परंतु धूम्रपान के ऊपर कोई विशेष कार्य नहीं हुआ है। विश्व में करीब 100 करोड़ लोग सिगरेट फूँकते हैं और करीब 10 अरब सिगरेट रोज़ बिकती हैं। इतने व्यापक अस्तित्व के कारण...

Dr. Bashir Badra is considered an poet of such stature, who has not only transcended into his readers' hearts and minds through the fame of his published couplets but also into the literary hall of fame of well-received poets. For his contribution to Urdu and Hindi literature, he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree in 1995. Dr. Badra has been a part of many prestigious mushayraas world over. Dr. Badra's style of poetry resonates with the common man and demystifies the world of Urdu shayari while staying true to its essence.

Naraz has many references that reflect the resenting virtue of Rahat Indori. A lyricist of films par excellence, and a master of literature in college, he is a famous poet loved by all - who also accomplishes in playing with colours and lines. Besides all these traits, he is also able to discern the inner and outer dilemmas of people against the political and social backdrop.