English Poetry Anthology

I could not imagine a world where everyone believes they think freely while another third watches them wander around like puppets doing the same repetitive things having burned out all their brain cells. They never questioned if they’ve even had a thought all their own.

Tadhg didn't want to write a blurb for The Stars Are My Companions, so if you want to find out what the 103 poems inside are all about, you'll have to listen to the book and make your own mind up.

The styles and rhythms of English can vary fully as much as in poetry. Therefore to compliment The Anthology Of English Poetry, The Anthology Of English Prose aims to enchant with the best of English prose, and to illustrate the ways in which each great writer has bent the language to his will. The recordings were made in the 1950s by members of the University of Cambridge and directed by George Rylands.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too! Listen to Poetry, Paintings and Short Stories and enjoy poems about love and nature by the author who is also an exhibited artist.

This original and unique poetry collection covers a variety of topics from current events to fun and family and even wild imagination and science fiction. Part of a multi-volume set designed to have topics to captivate nearly every person and hope that you enjoy hearing about everyday activities crafted into poetic rhyme.

Uncover the inspiring stories of bravery and activism in the face of war with this powerful collection of essays and poems. Written by the front-line protestors at the Russian Embassy in Dublin, this book takes you on a journey of hope and courage as fifty determined individuals come together to stand against Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

The very young can thoroughly enjoy Poems to Enjoy Book 2. Adults can renew and extend their own youthful enjoyment, finding long-familiar and also new poems. Younger and older can enjoy sharing these poems together, in ways suggested by their grouping as Poems to Speak, Pictures in Poetry, and A Tale Is Told. Also useful as school and home-schooling teaching materials, particularly when paired with other editions of this book.

Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times best seller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything in between: love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.

Poems to Enjoy Book 5 is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists and readers with a life-long love for literature and performance.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems. Here, it forms the main work on the first half of this program, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa'di, and Rabindranath Tagore.

The Soul Knows These Simple Truths is a poetry audiobook that contains 101 poems across a wide variety of themes such as heartbreak, grief, loss, hope, faith, inspiration, philosophy, tragedy, and the healing power of art.

Fluctuating Life is an audiobook of poems by Joshua Spencer, depicting, symbolically, the struggles, triumphs, and jubilation of the author. Joshua Spencer eloquently and touchingly entraps, captivates, and motivates his audience's thought processes, to share in his challenges of love, perceived discrimination, economic deprivation, and his will in overcoming a serious illness experienced.

It is as elusive as a dream, like the changes of the season. Poetry isn’t always what it seems. It can be a way to vent, an escape from reality, when nothing makes sense. Why I write poetry, is to right a wrong, for racial equality, not for some, but for all. One voice, one people, joined by grace, poetry is the rhyme and reason, defining the human race. Listen to this this powerful audiobook, for more words!

One minute you'll find yourself in the cockpit of a bomber, limping home from a raid over enemy territory, and the next, in a dogfight during the Battle of Britain. Author and screenwriter Brian L. Porter served with the RAF during the Cold War. Many of the works in this collection are based on the personal experiences of those who took part in the conflicts they depict - men and women who were pleased to relate those experiences to the author.

This book is an ideal drinking companion for any fan of real ale, craft beers and the traditional British pub. Dipping into the literary barrels of the past five hundred years, this anthology delivers a heady brew of poems, prose passages and quotations in praise of real ale from writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Johnson, Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Burns.

From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's adored lapdog Flush to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's terrifying Hound of the Baskervilles, and encompassing odes, fables, stories, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing on all kinds of dogs by all kinds of authors.

Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from 6 of his works of prose. Bursting with the passion of living, yet reverent of time and place, Hall's evocative style has made him one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, he gives each listener this gift of words - words painstakingly entwined with energy and love. Donald Hall: Prose and Poetry is a tour de force, an intimate convergence of poet, author, and listener.

This collection of short stories and poems ranges from mysterious fires that spring up from the earth to ghostly spirits roaming in a long-forgotten home to true love that is found and lost way too soon. There are tales of gods who have gone mad and those who have forgotten what it feels like to create and love with empathy. There are encounters that seem like normal everyday situations, but they are anything but normal. Dispersed throughout are poems that tie together the ideas of worlds within worlds and galaxies within a grain of sand.

Echoes of My Journey: A 20-Year Collection of Spoken Word is a captivating anthology by Dr. AK Sterling, formerly known as The Poet X, that takes listeners on an immersive literary odyssey spanning two decades of introspection, activism, and personal growth.

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.