English Poetry Anthology

Flowers and Bee Stings is a contemporary poetry collection that examines the themes of pain, self-discovery, and freedom, as well as the beauty of happiness and healing through trials and tribulations. Divided into 10 sections, this audiobook is a metaphor for dealing with life and pain, but over coming those obstacles. The poems were written to inspire and encourage one to move beyond their past hurts and pains. For with healing comes hope and with hope comes freedom. Find yourself again and begin again.

Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever.

The Love Letters Anthology is a collection of poems expressing love and passion. It is a series of literal love letters written in poetic form.

Each and every one of us has attempted the feat—to express our feelings on love is one of the joys, or heartaches, of life. In this volume 10 poets add their immortal words on love. Some are tender, some are strident, some beguile with unknown words and play but always, always in tones of love. Genius in every name.

As the 1900’s begin women are in a difficult situation. Whatever the pretence of society the reality for almost all women is that they are second class and the property of men. Whilst women have created enduring works of literature and poetry for centuries, much has remained hidden and voiceless. But technology and the mass distribution of printed materials has allowed new ideas and thoughts to circulate, to demand a voice. In this volume their talents and voices speak with determination, wisdom, courage and love on many subjects through their extraordinary verse.

Frost is just an ordinary person with beautiful power of expression. This audiobook is not just about her journey through depression but a lot more other things like societal conditioning, love, attention, abandonment, etc. She effortlessly takes you along in an instance onto an engaging one-go listen. It is in the form of a monologue with several poems woven into a short story. It contains poems with striking similarity and relevance, about each one of us and our lives, about complexities in all their simple sense and poems that will make you revisit them again.

From the Hearti is a collection of poems written over the years, with short stories included that inspired the writing of each one. My first poem, written when I was nine years old, was right after the death of my mother. As with all my poetry, when I couldn't get words out of my head, I had to sit down and write about my feelings, my thoughts, my sorrows, and my happiness. Unable to talk to anyone about my feelings, I expressed my dreams, my hopes for a better life in my writing.

Dip down past the dirt of the Earth and venture further into the agonizing and sorrowful truth of the domains of Hell.

A poetry workshop to celebrate Black History Month at Kingston University led to the formation of Kindred Spirits, a poetry group comprised of students from multiple faculties, all with one thing in common: the need to express themselves through the written word. Streams of Consciousness is the first anthology published by this talented group.

The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians.

Beautifully narrated by Golden Voice narrator Vikas Adams, these two tales of outsiders, one from the distant past and the other from the far-off future, explore love and beauty in the context of fear and threats and reflect upon one another in surprising ways. Jamali Kamali is a book-length poem about two men who lived in 16th century India. For hundreds of years, the story that these men were lovers has been passed down through the generations. Jamali Kamali is a fictional account of their love, longing, separation, and death.

"Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone?": Look high and low with a little boy as he searches - and finds - his doggy in this classic rhyme. "Three Little Kittens": Join three little kittens in their mischief with mittens in this classic Mother Goose tale, ending the way every good nursery rhyme should: with mother's homemade pie and kisses good night.

King Rubert the Tubby has a roof with a hole. But repair man old Bloggs has the flu, poor old soul. Pickles the Wizard is asking, "Save the day!" But will all be resolved and work out okay? The Leaky Roof is a fantastic short children's story written in rhyme by its author, Geoff Motley.

In Burritt’s Rapids and Beyond, “whatever flows, remains.” From Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, and rural Ontario, Louis Contant considers his place in the world. Fireflies, whip-poor-wills, squirrels, dragonflies, waterfalls, and the soulful notes of a sonata drift through these meditations on nature, spirituality, writing, love, family, friendship, and music. Louis’ poems inhabit sorrow and suffering yet are rich with praise, delighting in the comforts and joys of ritual and routine alongside brevity and ephemera.

The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart. These seminal poems were passed down orally, before great collections reassembled works of art spanning several centuries in written form as early as the 8th century, from the Kojiki to the Kokinshu. Later, a number of female writers rose to prominence (Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon); then in the 17th century, the haiku form became extremely popular, in large part due to the work of Matsuo Bashō, a prolific writer and traveler.

Aside from a delicious fruit best enjoyed with chocolate, Black Cherry is a collaborative effort by 18 Black queer authors and poets sharing a singular vision. With stories and poems ranging from saccharine to downright sultry, Black Cherry is full of sensual delights. Black Cherry celebrates the unique, powerful, intimate connection between Black women. L.M. Bennett delivers her delightfully snarky short “Regards, My Dear", Dujuana Sharese drops truth bombs in the stunningly introspective “Self Deflection", and much, much more.

A Boy Born from Mold and Other Delectable Morsels by Lorin Morgan-Richards contains seven delightfully bleak stories, beginning with Ruin (or Rune proper), who through extraordinary circumstances comes to moldy life in an old battered quilt left in the corner of a basement. Listeners should also examine other characters like Zoog, a young vampire, whose intolerance to blood causes bouts of gas and bloating, much to his parents' distaste.

Simon Snootle and Other Small Stories is about seven misguided tales of humorous woe by several downtrodden characters that are simply looking to be themselves. The book begins with Simon Snootle, a meager young man who lived most of his life at the bottom of a cistern with neighborhood cats. He is not aware of any tragedy of the situation, but rather makes the best of it, knowing that eventually more things will fall in as he did.

Shakespeare's sonnets have long been considered some of the greatest poetry ever written. It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t heard the phrase, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Marvel at the use of syllables, or simply sit back and enjoy all Shakespeare’s sonnets in one handy volume.

Alexander Pope was the most influential and most admired writer of his time, famous for satirical and reflective poems such as The Rape of the Lock and the Essay on Man. His lyrical poems are tantalizingly few in number but predictably high in quality, with all the beauty of sound and incisiveness of sense familiar from his other works.