The poetry in this book chronicles the emotions in the authors life, from a slow descent into depression to recovering and explaining the events she experienced.

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a catfish, a butterfly, a mouse, a bird and many others.Some of the animals are kind and friendly, while others are decidedly less so. What will happen to poor tiny Thumbelina? Will she ever...

Globe and Mail Best 100 Book of 2015The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the Menteur fears for the criminal future he has unwittingly introduced into his daughter's life, when he...

Another gem from the Japanese maestro of storytelling Kenji Miyazawa. Gauche plays the cello in the town orchestra, but he needs to do a lot better if he wants to keep his place. He realizes he is going to have to practice every spare moment if he is going to improve in time for the big concert. But will that be enough? Just when he is getting into his rhythm a visitor drops in - and then another. This beautiful short story (around 5,000 words) by Kenji Miyazawa explores themes of passion ...

Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human co...

A man who might be Erik Satie floats, a la Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct species of songbirds, "contemplating grief in the absence of song." By turns tender, wry, playful and fierce, the poems in Dean Steadman’s second collection, Apres Satie -- For Two and Four Hands, use surreal imagery, recurring characters and cyclical themes to evoke the repetitive nature of much of Satie’s music, as well as the artistic and intellectual temperament of Paris during Satie'...

Orinally published by the now-defunct Starcherone Books, and widely reviewed, all rights to this ebook reverted to the author and its is now again evailable in as an ebook. Starcherone's original summary read as follows:“Joyce is part of a revolution in narrative form.”-Newsweek” Dawn it is, to be sure. The granddaddy of full-length hypertext fiction is Michael Joyce’s landmark Afternoon"-Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review Michel Foucault famously wrote, “I am fully awar...

Teasing, funny and celebratory - Rays is a wry and tender lover's gift. Continuing Richard Price's virtuosic playfulness of form, it improvises on the formal shape of sonnet and canzone, charging them with the energy of blues and rock, glimpsing narratives of desire. In a restless, sleepless landscape where language becomes shrill, an alphabet of love poems creates a dreamy island, between the solace of haiku and the precisions of Emily Dickinson. The Renaissance poet Louise Labé and an im...

From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it.This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a flâneur, through its midst, experiencing through her own body the crumbled buildings, the dessicated cities, the evi...

"Postcards From Around The Globe" brings you the haunting beauty of the Earth in all its variety, deserts, mountains, seas and jungle comes across in picture combined with poem as you join the poet on his quest to capture the very essence of life.From the Himalayan mountains to the jungles of Malaysia, the deserts of Iran and the beauties of Croatia's sea coast, you begin to explore a world rich in variety, experience and romantic possibility.You are about to ship out on a ...

This collection of fifty original poems consists of both metered and free-verse poetry divided into three sections: GREEN, RED, and BLUE. The poems are organized under these headings by the general connotations associated with the colours. Even though they all generally fit under these colours, remember the grey in every poem. None are as simple as the colours that define them and all have deeper meaning.

The bond between two beings can be unexplainable. Friendship comes in many forms, when love is found there is reason to stay. Turc lived as a solitary hunter in the eastern mountains for his adult life. Far above the corruption of the cities, and the Savage empire that is always looking for those unfortunate enough to serve in their entertainment arenas. Can a true friendship overcome fierce hate?