Stuck in a particular mood or time, even physically unable to move, nine short poems on the theme.

Most poets are or have been at one time or another members of what Mark Strand here calls “The Midnight Club”: they are insomniacs, or feel most productive in the middle of the night, or, if nothing else, are people whose work requires an openness to the dreams, visions, and scraps of inspired language that may drift across our path in the wee hours. In this selection, drawn from Knopf’s Poem-a-Day program (the daily e-mails we’ve sent to our fans every April for the last dozen years or mo...

Let us take you on a series of library adventures... from home to space, from a senior sandwich snatcher to an imaginative job applicant, from a library ghost buster to a humorous book club misadventure, from a teen vampire fantasy to a historical romance, from a library on Mars to an archive in space, from a personal reflection to a tour of the library.Don't miss your chance to annoy your favourite librarians with loud guffaws and horrified screams. They'll just smile and show you...

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'.As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of m...

This collection of Japanese poetry contains over 200 poems by some 153 Americans writing of their impressions and experiences of Japan.If Japan forms the theme of the poems collected here, the variations are certainly the deep feeling so many Americans have come to have for Japan and the Japanese People. And the Resulting Choral is, we are convinced, both a thing of beauty and unique expression of goodwill between nations.Through the many years and in many ...

Publio Ovidio Nasón (Publius Ovidius Naso, Sulmona, 20 de marzo del 43 a. C. – Tomis, actual Constanza, 17 d. C.) fue un poeta romano. Sus obras más conocidas son Arte de amar y Las metamorfosis, obra esta última en verso que recoge relatos mitológicos procedentes del mundo griego adaptados a la cultura latina de su época.Las metamorfosis es un poema en quince libros que narra la historia del mundo desde su creación hasta la deificación de Julio Cesar, combinando con libertad mitol...

It is said that if you put an infinite number of monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, eventually you will end up with The Bulkington Writers. And here to prove that theory is a sampling of their output.Produced by published authors, prize winners and writers who just like to write for the sheer pleasure of it, we present a series of stories, essays, poems, shopping lists (no wait, that shouldn't be in there) ranging from ghostly encounters to the burning down of L...

A lawyer for the Big Bad Wolf earnestly pleads his clients innocence in court. Mother Earth and Father Sky give birth to a rebellious child whose fiery temper threatens to destroy the world. A teenage boy discovers the complexities of fame after his bands first album skyrockets to the top of the charts. Tornado warnings turn a young girls routine babysitting job into a fight for survival. These are just a few of the imaginative, daring, and thought-provoking stories found in these pages. A...

Blood CountsIn this polite place:A hand trained in the waysof death and deliverycups a pill, slides a gurney,shrink-wrapped, bubbling,through sterile chambersoverfilled with hintsof salvation servedon sheets of steel.Suffering is silent here:Purple or black fishes dartin diversionary circlesat the backs of smiling clerks,when blood countsdon't add up.

Poetry Diversified showcases the compiled experiences of the 2012 winners of the Poetry Matters literary award. The anthology is filled with language that bears the souls of 23 poets with 23 stories to tell. The title says it all; these poets represent all ages, gender, religions and social status. The emotional peaks and valleys presented will suit the novice poetry lover to those who have loved the art form for a long time.

Anthology of poetry, art, and short stories from 23 contributors across the globe.

As I confronted the many faces of the Arctic and Antarctic, spanning that diversity sometimes in a matter of minutes, I often felt thrust into breathtaking polar panorama. My experience has led me to its natural and sleeping beauty; its challenging flight that no one completely masters; its frigid shrew of the sea with its ability to resist and repel any vessel; its incredible animal kingdom which needs the extremity of the polar region for sanctuary; the love, trials of the heart, humor, ...