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Resonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing the stages of healing - from the despair that comes with the end of a relationship to the eventual light and liberation that comes with time - the poems in Home provide comfort and solace, while revitalizing your soul - and helping you make peace with your bees.

Through poetry, prose, and the compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you're working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. The Strength in Our Scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope.

When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―rendering the ancient poem in contemporary language that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.

The Iliad is one of the most enduring creations of Western Civilization and was originally written to be recited or chanted to the accompaniment of various instruments. Properly performed, this work today is just as meaningful, just as powerful and just as entertaining as it was in the ninth century B.C.,and it casts its spell upon modern listeners with the same raw intensity as it did upon the people of ancient times.

Der Gedichtband entfaltet eine zarte Erzählung über Neubeginn, Vergänglichkeit und die Suche nach innerem Licht in den Tiefen des Alltags. Mit ehrlichen, tiefgründigen Versen und einer klaren Bildsprache nimmt Schimanzik seine Leser mit in emotionale Momente des Lebens, die zum Nachdenken und Fühlen anregen.

40 Days of Fasting is a profound collection of spiritually inspired poems born out of a sacred personal practice of fasting. Written during a rare convergence of Ramadan and Lent in April 2025, these forty days became a crucible for inner transformation, stillness, and divine connection. In that silence, a voice spoke-gentle, insistent, and filled with wisdom. This voice, identifying itself as a guide named Carlos, dictated the verses that now comprise this work.

This is a compilation of all poems and scriptures from The Twelve Dimensions. In the series, each chapter begins with a poem or scripture pertaining to the lore and universe. For lovers of poetry, especially those that touch upon fantasy and science fiction, this book has it all.

This debut collection carries the listener on a journey from childhood to adulthood, covering the joy, pain, introspection and laughter encountered along the way. A must-have compilation of poems for every moment. Not to be missed.

From the coziness of lifelong friendship to the aching intensity of lost love, Loves of Our Lives is a poetic journey through the heartfelt relationships that make us human. In her highly anticipated second collection, social media sensation Josie Balka masterfully puts words to the indescribable, weaving her signature blend of raw emotion and vivid imagery into poems that speak straight to the soul.

Fantasies and desires combine to create a carnal collection of sensual poetry. Each poem explores a different aspect of lust and pleasure.

This audiobook is a collection of modern, adult poetry. Themes references include passion, love, loss, abuse, redemption, extrapolative woolgathering, humor, love of nature, and others.

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land. The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home.

In Burritt’s Rapids and Beyond, “whatever flows, remains.” From Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, and rural Ontario, Louis Contant considers his place in the world. Fireflies, whip-poor-wills, squirrels, dragonflies, waterfalls, and the soulful notes of a sonata drift through these meditations on nature, spirituality, writing, love, family, friendship, and music. Louis’ poems inhabit sorrow and suffering yet are rich with praise, delighting in the comforts and joys of ritual and routine alongside brevity and ephemera.

Das Gesangsquartett um Juwelier Hicketier ist verzweifelt: Der jährliche Wettbewerb steht ins Haus und Tenor Naumann ist tot. Die Lösung ist der unehelich geborene und arme Paul Schippel. Er hat eine wunderschöne Stimme und würde dazu beitragen, den Preispokal im Wettbewerb zu gewinnen. Hicketier bietet Schippel die Mitgliedschaft im Quartett an. Der nimmt und wird zum Bürger Schippel.

En los poemas de José Emilio Pacheco, escribió Octavio Paz, se exalta la victoria de la naturaleza sobre la cultura y al exaltarla la transfigura, la convierte en palabra. Publicado en 2009, en La edad de las tinieblas José Emilio Pacheco culmina una extraordinaria aventura poética que comenzó cincuenta años atrás con Los elementos de la noche, y lo hace revitalizando una fértil tradición de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX: el poema en prosa.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.

This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement. The first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error....

With Professor Esolen you will enter the terrible gates of Hell and progress level by infernal level to its diabolical depths. Professor Esolen places a special emphasis on the drama of the poem, leading you through each canto in succession. Professor Esolen will more than satisfy your curiosity about Hell and the fate of the damned. He will reveal in all its starkness the horror of sin and awaken in your heart a longing for divine love.

Die Compilation „Volksgut-Lyrik" enthält folgende Gedichte und Erzählungen von denen der Autor unbekannt ist und durch den Volksmund überliefert wurden: „Gut Schiffmann führ mich über" (Lyrik, Sprecherin: Ursula Langrock, ES: 13.11.1986), „Schön ist ein Zylinderhut" (Gedicht, Sprecher: Peter Lieck, Regie: Christine Davis, ES: 03.09.1988), „Heiligwoogläuten" (Lyrik, Sprecher und Regisseur: Rolf Dienewald, ES: 25.12.1989), „Hat der Bolle seine Bimmel seine Mutti ihm geschenkt" (Gedicht, Sprecher: Manfred Georg Hermann, ES: 27.01.1990).

Die Autorin geht in ihrer Poesie besonders auf die Themen Mut, persönliche Weiterentwicklung, authentische Lebensweise und die Erkenntnis der Einzigartigkeit jedes Lebens ein, für die man angesichts der menschlichen Endlichkeit auch kämpfen und "unbequem" sein sollte. Untermalt wird das Poetische durch den Musiker Armin Eichinger.