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Documentary and Witness poetry capture the turbulence of contemporary life, its urgent issues where we all often helplessly confront individual crises and global disasters. In this collection of fifteen elegies, a little boy rides his bicycle through the wreckage of his hometown, Mosul, an animal rights activist attempts to rescue a truckload of pigs heading to slaughter, St John ignores the refugees drowning in the Mediterranean and continues...

Although oceans apart, by a chance encounter author Ruzena Zatko and illustrator Yeju Kwon met through Instagram. This formed a beautiful friendship and the birth of Unromantic Explanations of Everyday Life. This book takes us on life's journey facing the many adversities of modern day "adulting". Each poem is accompanied with a whimsical illustration to offset the modern day struggles of survival which serves as a reminder that when the going...

Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Jacquelyn Pope. The first major collection of Hester Knibbe's work to be published in English, HUNGERPOTS brings together a selection of poems displaying the range and skill of one of the most important Dutch poets writing today. Heralded by critics and the recipient of major European literary awards, Knibbe, in language that is both straightforward and subversive, casts and recasts themes of life, loss, an...

Poetry. "The range, across space and different habitats on earth, is striking and impressive. These poems exhibit an extremely attractive way of regarding the world, and are not afraid to be aesthetic and metaphysical, replete with myths and jewels."--Peter Forbes

A stunning series of imaginative leaps and encounters, as playful as it is momentous. Not only poetry lovers, but enthusiasts of art history, fantasy fiction, sci-fi, westerns, travel narratives, nature documentaries, and historical fiction will delight in its genre-bending adventures and inventions.

Math, Heaven, Time is the lush, lyric and unabashedly beautiful debut from poet Mandy Kahn. A teeming corridor where characters from a Nol Coward play tire of eating oysters, where Alfred Stieglitz ruminates on Georgia O'Keeffe's hands, where a rooster crows for dawn all day, and where the consideration of simple things - common wheat, a renovated loft, couples that argue on reality TV - rises to the level of exhalation, of prayer.

A very short book about writing is about how joining a small writing group and writing every day helped the author cope with the anxiety and fear he felt as the pandemic worsened and his world fell in and out of lockdowns. But it is also about friendship and family, mental health, understanding and love. Deeply personal and real, inside you will find a small collection of short pieces taken from moments in his life, including Jonathan's touchi...

Figures of history and legend, contemporary figures, the poet's friends and neighbours, and some goddesses rub shoulders in these poems, which begin with the formation of continents and continue into the present.

This is the story of one family's pain, passion and will to survive as their loved one clings to life. We have all heard the saying, 'Miracles can happen every day, ' but until you see one with your own eyes, you rarely believe that to be true. This story will help you believe in that saying.In April of 2017, Maria DeLuca Mckee and her entire family witnessed a miracle first-hand that will forever strengthen their faith, and the belief of ever...

Opening Hours is the sequel to Todd Swift's 2020 collection Spring In Name Only. The past year has been a time to think of the other, the self, the deadly baton, gun and contagion, the fragile, the toxic - what ends, what endures - the scientific, the mysterious, the numinous, the luminous, death, love, books, friends, brothers, mothers, others, masks, TV, music, food, sleep, walks, cats, fear, hope, and the environment, and how the seasonsare...

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That Which I Touch Has No Name is dialogic, an attempt to unearth the equilibrium between the blank page and the self in urban and rural places. This multilingual, polyphonic book is an inking, a verbal construction, gnawing away at its own predecessors, at the way we read, and at language itself.

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. A VERY SHORT BOOK ABOUT WRITING is about how joining a small writing group and writing every day helped the author cope with the anxiety and fear he felt as the pandemic worsened and his world fell in and out of lockdowns. But it is also about friendship and family, mental health, understanding and love. Deeply personal and real, inside you will find a small collection of short pieces taken from moments in...

A collection of poetry that illustrates a journey of identity, family, growth, and empowerment. This is a coming of age story that speaks not only to young women of colour, but to people all over the world. As the title hints at, NAKED strives for honesty and while at times it can be awkward and painful, it can also be brave.

This is the infamous Vince Colletta's life story as a key part of the golden age of comics, as told by his son, with hundreds of illustrations, in colour and black and white, displaying his controversial style as inker and artist.

A Ligature for Black Bodies attempts to re-humanize black bodies into black people byholding the power structures and people accountable who have reified a dominant anddestructive discourse.

Prepare for OCR A Level Chemistry with over 500 questions, answers and mind maps covering various topics. Learn everything you need to know for your exams, while working on your exam technique. Edited by a specialist OCR examiner, the answers in the book follow the marking scheme answer format.

Eleni Cay fuses the predictability of algorithms with the serendipity of unreasoning loves and charts a move from carnal to virtual existence. With a raw portrait of the shadows that lurk in online transactions, the poems intensify the global connections that make love a constant riddle for all mankind.

In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine - founded in 2015 by Australian-based journalist Claire Lehmann - has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity.

A Girl and Boy in a relationship that is both intoxicating and toxic, exhilarating but ultimately at a cost to each. Edgy and compelling, Nkere tells it all through the parallel narratives of the Girl and Boy drawing on a kaleidoscope of influences that include poetic prose and contemporary spoken word. Experimental in form, this startling debut collection breaks with convention, bringing seemingly polarised forces into combat: religion versus...