Uncompromising yet accessible, the six sequences in Changes and Chances explore love, sorrow, time, nature, and humanity. By turns passionate, hermetic, and heartbreaking, they simultaneously endure and celebrate all the imperfections of the world. Leonard Ng blends free verse with adaptations of both Western and Asian forms to create a musical poetry grounded in the traditions of both East and West.A purchase of the book comes with a complimentary Changes and Chances postcard (whi...

Deep beneath the ocean lay the beautiful and magical kingdom of King Neptune. He had six mermaid daughters, the youngest of whom was considered to be unsurpassed in her beauty. They lived a wonderful and carefree existence in their underwater arcadia. The world beyond was an uncertain and dangerous place and for this reason all mermaids were forbidden to travel up to the surface before their fifteenth birthday.When her time finally arrives, the Little Mermaid travels up to the surf...

This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang's five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at once recognisably national and international...

Before Dawn is a collection of poems by Sapardi Djoko Damono dating from 1961 to 2001. One of Indonesia’s most popular poets. Sapardi first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid-1950s. Before Dawn follows the poet through the different stages of his life, opening with the 1964 poem, One Night, when he is a young Muslim boy crying outside the church door as his classmates celebrate Christmas to the 2001, and ending with the title poem, Before Dawn , when the poet is a muc...

Genealogists understand the value of a name and all the family history information names can provide. Now you can learn more about the Hawaiian names in your family tree with this comprehensive guide. Discover the meaning of popular Hawaiian names along with Hawaiian naming patterns and traditions and a pronunciation guide.

The Maiden's Bookshelf series combines classic short stories of the early 20th century with gorgeous original artwork to create collectible editions for a contemporary audience.Two young siblings left to survive on a deserted island, waiting for the rescue that may never come. They find joy in the wonders of their own personal Eden—until "the demon" shakes their faith and leads them down the path of temptation...Told through a series of letters sea...

A debut poetry collection exploring themes of family and identity while examining the experiences of a second-generation Filipino immigrant in America.Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem."Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems—selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—begins with one wor...

Weinberger's essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros – both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction. No field of human knowledge is too remote, no fact too fanciful for his purpose, whi...

Cloud Clad Angel is Vera Srbinović's critically acclaimed collection of poems, which was first published in a bilingual English Serbian edition in 2008 and is now being released for the first time internationally. Since her debut in 1961 with Unlocked Gates, she has authored 21 other collections of poetry, including Wings of Destiny, Pomegranate Rubies, and The Dream of Byzantium.

In this thrilling novel, Matthew a young Canadian boy discovers his ancestral roots in an unusual way. He gets transported in time and in his feat to return to real time he befriends Disala, a young Sri Lanka girl, Jeeva, a Yakka tribal boy and some of his friends. Together they encounter adventure, and friendship, while Matt finds a connection to his immigrant ancestors. This book is also available in print form, as a single or as part of a series --The Oafie Bookshelf...

Long, long ago in the province of Tango there lived on the shore of Japan in the little fishing village of Mizu-no-ye a young fisherman named Urashima Taro. His father had been a fisherman before him, and his skill had more than doubly descended to his son, for Urashima was the most skillful fisher in all that country side, and could catch more Bonito and Tai in a day than his comrades could in a week.But in the little fishing village, more than for being a clever fisher of the sea...

What makes Heart / Land both rewarding and challenging are the contrasting landscapes (ranging from the Guyana rainforest through Caribbean islands to the islets of the Bermuda atoll ) and the poems frank celebration of the diversity of language and life of the Caribbean / South American world. The poems move, in a variety of poetic styles, between the threat of global disaster (Leaf, Summit) and the healing nature of landscape and love (Fall, Saint Lucy, Mother/Nature). The complex scenar...