We British The Poetry Of A People
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We British The Poetry Of A People
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Author : Andrew Marr
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2015-10-08
We British The Poetry Of A People written by Andrew Marr and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Poetry categories.
‘This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.’
We Are Britain
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Author : Benjamin Zephaniah
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Release Date : 2004-03-19
We Are Britain written by Benjamin Zephaniah and has been published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-19 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A new poetry collection from renowned performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrating the diversity of British society. A unique portrait of British children, Benjamin has written 12 poems, each one about a child in his or her home environment. The children are from a range of backgrounds and cultures and the book challenges traditional perceptions of the way children live. It shows that despite their differences, children have many similar preoccupations whatever their cultural background. We Are Britain springs from the rich interaction between many peoples which characterises modern Britain. Illustrated with Prodeepta Das' vibrant photographs, this is a fascinating and fun collection which children will love.
We Brits
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Author : John Agard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
We Brits written by John Agard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Poetry categories.
John Agard has been subverting British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. In "We Brits", the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider's inside view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. Some explore hidden connections in British history, while others are wildly inventive forays into comic territory: Shakespeare addresses the tabloids, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed arrive in Britain at Gatwick, Heathrow and Dover, and all the foreign words flee the English dictionary.
The Hatred Of Poetry
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Author : Ben Lerner
language : en
Publisher: FSG Originals
Release Date : 2016-06-07
The Hatred Of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and has been published by FSG Originals this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.
Fossil Poetry
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Author : Chris Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Fossil Poetry written by Chris Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. Fossil Poetry takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 Theory of the Earth. Fossil Poetry argues that two, roughly consecutive phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism took place over the course of the nineteenth century: firstly, a phase of 'constant roots' whereby Anglo-Saxon is constructed to resemble, and so to legitimize a tradition of English Romanticism conceived as essential and unchanging; secondly, a phase in which the strangeness of many of the 'extinct' philological forms of early English is acknowledged, and becomes concurrent with a desire to recover and recuperate the fossils of Anglo-Saxon within contemporary English poetry. The volume advances new readings of work by a variety of poets including Walter Scott, Henry Longfellow, William Wordsworth, William Barnes, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.
People Need People
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Author : Benjamin Zephaniah
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-10-27
People Need People written by Benjamin Zephaniah and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
To walk to To talk to To cry and rely on, People will always need people . . . From the creators of Nature Trail comes an uplifting picture book about the power of people, and the importance of connecting with others. This timely poem reminds us all to be kind to one another. Written by legendary poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, one of The Times' top 50 British post-war writers. Beautifully illustrated by Nila Aye. Praise for Nature Trail: A joy to read with small children - Independent
Living In This Skin
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Author : Martin Rumble
language : en
Publisher: Martin Rumble
Release Date : 2019
Living In This Skin written by Martin Rumble and has been published by Martin Rumble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Poetry categories.
The author is a Pan-Africanist, in the sense of encouraging Black people of all hues to embrace their ethnicity and each other's commonality in this shared Black experience. Here is a collection of lyrics covering the trials of friendship, the Black British experience, Black fatherhood and a deep mathematical understanding of God. These are the poetic expressions of experiences and observations from a Pan-African's perspective. This compilation consists of 27 lyrics that are on a deep meditative low-level frequency. They analyse lower and higher self, as well as the pitfalls of Westernism. These uncompromising poems are aimed to inspire anyone motivated by the golden thread of their conscience. They rip the veil off the hoodwink of colourblindness. They represent the innate power, grace and humanity preserved throughout the generations of an oppressed people persecuted for the richness of their melanin. They represent the spreading of the wings of the ibis. This gnostic collection of deep esoteric lyrics is woven with an empathetic intelligence. It's intention is to inspire those who feel trapped in mental oppression, especially those living in the author's skin and seeing through his eyes, the stone which the builders refused.......Psalms 118:22
The Life And Rhymes Of Benjamin Zephaniah
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Author : Benjamin Zephaniah
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-05-03
The Life And Rhymes Of Benjamin Zephaniah written by Benjamin Zephaniah and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin’s poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside police stations and on the dance floor. His mission was to take poetry everywhere, and to popularise it by reaching people who didn’t read books. His poetry was political, musical, radical and relevant. By the early 1990s, Benjamin had performed on every continent in the world (a feat which he achieved in only one year) and he hasn’t stopped performing and touring since. Nelson Mandela, after hearing Benjamin’s tribute to him while he was in prison, requested an introduction to the poet that grew into a lifelong relationship, inspiring Benjamin’s work with children in South Africa. Benjamin would also go on to be the first artist to record with The Wailers after the death of Bob Marley in a musical tribute to Nelson Mandela. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah is a truly extraordinary life story which celebrates the power of poetry and the importance of pushing boundaries with the arts.
The Nation S Favourite Poems
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Author : Griff Rhys Jones
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1996
The Nation S Favourite Poems written by Griff Rhys Jones and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with English poetry categories.
Contains the top 100 poems from a poll conducted by The Bookworm in 1995.
A Poet S Guide To Britain
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Author : Owen Sheers
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-10-29
A Poet S Guide To Britain written by Owen Sheers and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-29 with Poetry categories.
Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology that ties in with the BBC series of the same name. Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series itself, while also offering paper chains of poems about the landscape and nature of Britain, transcripts of contemporary poet interviews, and a short introduction to each lead poem.