All of Gary Bottings published poems have been brought together for the first time in this wonderful volume. Half a century ago the author pioneered the use of shaped poetry to achieve visual effects and the sensation of vertigo. Most of his published poems push the boundaries of accepted poetic and linguistic structure and thematic acceptability, and in this sense are experimental, including those from his most recent collection Isabeau: Poems of Lust and Love (2013).----Streaking! The Co...

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.

This is a collection of poems that are usually dark and sexual in nature. Symbols from literature and mythology inform the author's thoughts on his life and the world in which he lives. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, always engaging.

For those who have discovered life, in illness, difficulty and despair, I wish that on your wings you'll fly, to diamonds, stars and dizzying flare. -- Ekaterina D. Bojilova.

Of Plan B, an interim volume that included several of the poems in Maggot, Robert McCrum recently said in the London Observer that "Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection." In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's ...

Wendy Videlock’s The Dark Gnu and Other Poems plays, jokes, teaches, admonishes, yields to the ecstatic, and strays into the shadowy where “If not for the dark, / no / spark.” All of this is heightened by striking full-color illustrations from the author herself. There are stories that come and go in a couple of blinks, and stories that linger and juggle their way from hut to the market, to the fair, on a “swaying dappled mare,” to get to all the good to be had or done. Mother Goose, myth,...

From his first book, The Visible Man ("as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read" - the Dalhousie Review ), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon ("passionate, humourous, worldly-wise, kick-ass poetry" - The Vancouver Sun ), Robert Priest's poetry has been the delight of critics and readers alike. Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of Robert Priest's six books of lyric poems, spells, psalms, aphorisms, koans, diatribes, and prose p...

I write all of these poems, and for me, it is exploring my mind and transposing my thoughts into written words And, in so doing, I do get peace of mind.For I am the strolling wayfarer; leaving footprints in the sand Searching for what is my future; seeking what is already planned Nomadic as it is to some; to me it's just mind walking Thoughts worth searching for; I find by doing, not by talkingFor love of life will go on and on And songs of mine will be my life song...

This book is the culmination of 30 years of poetry writing, off and on, happy and sad, for better or worse till in dreams do we part. The author has structured it in eras and as such it moves through moments with the unsure first steps of youth, through the loves and struggles of adolescence and adulthood in an opening spiral as poetic rhythms are found and flexed and the wings of promise are opened to take flight into the present and beyond. Many forms and themes are explored but always a...

The poems in this collection comprise a unity of poetic imagination. The connective tissue between them is a union of both time and space. Poetrys aim is to cast light on human experience, and even though several of these poems consist of inanimateness, each poem is still endowed with a familiar spirit, a whispering demon, a meditated plan of action.

This volume of verse will take the reader on a memorable journey through the minds eye, in and out of emotional episodes, and into the diverse thought-patterns of a genuinely poetic personality. There is something here for all, including Stark honesty, whimsy, and various takes on the human experience. These poems will seek to illuminate many dark places in the soul, and show that the line between good and not so good is finer than one could ever imagine, and compelling in its truth.

You are about to embark on an odyssey of the imagination, so come on board and take your station as we explore new poetic worlds.Like the early 14th century explorer discovered new lands and claimed them in honor, so shall you, the reader, have the same opportunity.These untitled poems have spaces for you to write in what you think is a good title.If those were your poems what would YOU name it?Like historys early explorers there are even hidden treasures to fin...