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This unique interpretation of Christopher Smart's masterpiece begins with a biography which offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of Christopher Smart, an extraordinary poet who died in an insane asylum all but abandoned by family and friends. Convinced that the current names of the days of the week should be changed to words that represent the true God of the universe, Smart chose seven Greek letters which are references to Christ. Schol...

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This is a book of poems to remember those for whom 'time had lapsed.' The poems begin innocently with common collections, rocks or coins, and progressively, become memories that gather the death in the folds of language, to commemorate the passage. The words are most forceful for those closest to the heart of the narrator. The poems mourn a secret bond with each lost one. In the work of grief, special harmonies in poetry open the soul to the t...

Angel Adamson is a promising football prospect whose career is cut short by a>er landing a restaurant job, he falls inwith the wrong crowd, and witnesses a murder. He then moves to the UK, enrolls at LSE andbefriends Julian and Ines. But, it is the impressionable Prof. Luiz that convinces Angel to work asa speechwriter on the Brexit trail. He rekindles his rela0onship with Ines and soon lands in Paris.An unexpected relationship blooms, but the...

A Crime In the Land of 7, 000 Islands is a powerhouse crime thriller fused with folk tales and the influence of anime. This psychological literary fiction tells the tale of Ikigai Johnson, a Special Agent working out of the FBI's Portland, Oregon field office, who pledges to bring justice to children abused by a monstrous American in the Philippines. Amidst an expertly accurate police procedural, Ikigai recounts her tale to her eleven-year-old...

John Matthews is a janitor in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He talks to his wife, Kristen, as he drives to work. He is exhausted and weary from his difficult and long days and the two discuss their economic and other systemic troubles. John never sees Tara, a security guard with her own struggles, when she loses control of her car and barrels into him on the Scranton highway. John wakes up into a foreign world where a guide named Sophia shows him a ...

The neighbours in Shanghai's most beautiful neighbourhood, the Former French Concession, lead their daily lives, but underneath the surface lurk the troubles of the past, lost love, betrayal, existences destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, dreams, Covid-19 and Jing Zhang, the neighbourhood cat with a love for Philosophy and an understanding of the frailties of his human friends.

Brod, a Black alien from the planet Bodhavista, materializes in Flinders End, a shabby West London backwater. His mission: to spread love, peace, and happiness in the UK. Upon entering the Butchers Arms pub, Kim the landlady befriends him, assuming he is a bewildered migrant. Meanwhile, two ruthless entrepreneurs plan to oust her and make the Butchers a gastro boozer, their first step in the gentrification of Flinders End. Inadvertently Brod i...

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The haiku is an intense, concentrated form, ideal for portraying the atrocious darkness of our times, and also the exaltations of life possible when love and understanding come into unity. In this book of poems, which moves the haikuform towards incantation, we are shown the ferocity of danger before us, and also a way forward--a jailbreak, a healing, the recognition of a place of safety. It's where we know a concord of souls, erotic communion...

Bolivia. 1991. A soldier arrives in the small town of Uyuni. A place where people endure rather than enjoy. Survive than live.The soldier knows they're coming for him. Hunting him down so they can deal their own brand of justice.He needs to get out. To make it to the border and escape what is waiting for him.He's prepared to do anything to survive.Even kill.This is noir fiction at its finest. With characters that you will root for, heartbreak ...

Jason Griffith was a Navy SEAL, but now he's returning to Trinidad. He has been away for a long time with the US Special Forces and reclaiming a place in society is tough.In an attempt to make some quick money, he reunites with some old friends. Only, they're now criminals. Car thieves, to be exact. Jason needs the money though, so he joins with them.That's where things go downhill...

shines a light on the natural world with precision and wonder. Her writing draws on traditions of Chinese poetry, presenting a world where Sun, Moon and Wind are alive and interacting uniquely with each leaf, blade of grass and tiny flower.

A lively, amusing, insightful and possibly unique account of what it is like to be a Master of an ancient livery company.

Racecar Jesus, winner of the Christopher Smart - Joan Alice Poetry Prize, turns the wheel of western spirituality with equal parts western skepticism, and the poems work toward practical enlightenment the way a bricklayer might, only, what they're building is the opposite edifice. Racecar Jesus converts the sacred into the ordinary--or perhaps, it's the other way around.

The haiku is an intense, concentrated form, ideal for portraying the atrocious darkness of our times, and also the exaltations of life possible when love and understanding come into unity. In this book of poems, which moves the haiku form towards incantation, we are shown the ferocity of danger before us, and also a way forward--a jailbreak, a healing, the recognition of a place of safety. It's where we know a concord of souls, erotic communio...

Double dutch, braided scalps, tender-heads, tears shed, bologna and white bread, childhood apparitions, buried dead, petal's phenomenon: these are the images Games's first collection of poetry leaves you with. With reverence for the confessional poems she wrote through the years, Games invites you to radically tell the truth through a lyrical reverie of remembering: "Do not forget the soil you grew in." Somebody's Daughter, the first full-leng...