Archive for the ‘poetry books’ Category
My poetry book is now on Amazon and I opened a Cafe Press store – Also: more vegetable videos on the way soon.
Saving up for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival show now!
Here’s my Amazon store http://eliseharris.com/amazon.html
Cafe Press Store http://eliseharris.com/littleshop.html
or if you prefer go straight to Amazon and do a search for ISBN 978-1445278308 (or just type in my name).
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Jen Hadfield won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection, NIGH-NO-PLACE. In this short video she reads four poems from the book, beginning with the title-poem ‘Nigh-No-Place’, followed by ‘In the same way’, ‘Daed-traa’, and then ‘Paternoster’, the Lords Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. The film shows excerpts from her Wordsworth Trust reading St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere, Cumbria, on 30 June 2009 (when she read in the Dove Cottage series with George Szirtes). The language of Jen Hadfields poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, ALMANACS (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), was a travellers litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. NIGH-NO-PLACE (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world. As well as winning her the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009 – when she became the youngest poet, at 30, ever to win Britain’s biggest poetry prize – NIGH-NO-PLACE was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Jen Hadfield is half Canadian, and lives in Shetland (the remote group of islands north of Scotland and north of Orkney) where she works as a poet, writing tutor and artist. She recently received a Dewar Award to produce a solo exhibition of Shetland ex-votos in the style of sacred Mexican folk art. For more information, see:
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247932
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My library will order books requested by members of the community.
i just relettered their hours on their window,
then i got stuck in the kids section looking at artwork.
(kids draw neato things)
what would be some good choices to add
if i dont see them when i look?
Hear world renowned poet Nikki Giovanni talk about the importance of her new book, Hip Hop Speaks to Children, coming this October from Sourcebooks Jabberwocky!
http://www.sourcebooks.com/spotlight/hip-hop-speaks-to-children.html
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i would like to know the names of those poetry books that the nursing home patient had in his room that he was reading to cameron diaz but not just the ones that he was reading to her all of the poetry books he had in his night stand
-Dying people have much to teach us about living in soul. I have witnessed people of all races, ages, genders, and sexual orientation let go of the life they have come to know. One thing becomes clear "everyone learns to love the life they have been given."
The book:
What the Dying Teach Us
In Her Shoes.
By Colm McInerney
In Her Shoes is the story of two very different sisters who fight, drift apart and slowly bond anew under the watchful eye of their grandmother. It derives its title from the fact that the pair, despite their many dissimilarities, share the same shoe size.
The film begins with an introduction to rebellious sister Maggie (Cameron Diaz) on the one hand, and hard-working, grown-up sister Rose (Toni Collette). Their relationship is sketched out as the sounds of Stupid Girl by Garbage fade: Rose helps and shelters Maggie, Maggie makes a mess of her apartment, Rose seeks to help Maggie find a job, Maggie manages to sleep with Rose’s boyfriend. This act of betrayal is the catalyst for the sisters’ separation, as Rose throws Maggie out of the house.
The parallel narrative of the intro is then resumed as both sisters begin to re-evaluate their lives. Maggie finds they have a long-lost grandmother living in Florida, and goes to stay with her in her retirement community. There, whilst watched by at first bemused and then affectionate senior citizens, she begins to grow up and become responsible for her life. Rose, meanwhile, packs in her legal career to become a free-spirited dog walker. She meets a new man, Simon (Mark Feuerstein), who encourages her to be herself. Their grandmother, Ella, played by Shirley Maclaine, helps to bring about their reunion, and the finale plays out in a straightforward happy ending fashion.
The interaction between the two leads, Diaz and Collette, is the principle strength of In Her Shoes. The scene where Rose finds Maggie in bed with her boyfriend is genuinely dramatic. A heated argument ensues and each hits out at the other, Rose by mocking Maggie’s apparent dyslexia, and Maggie by calling her sister ‘a fat pig’. And when they make up in Florida there is real warmth between them. The film also has a decent cast of supporting actors. Maclaine plays the role of the girls’ grandmother strongly, helping to hint at the problems their ill mother suffered. The sisters’ horrible stepmother, their doting but emotionally repressed father, Rose’s confidante Amy (Brooke Smith) and the nursing home patients who Maggie befriends all offer laughs and crisp dialogue.
However, there is a nagging sense that In Her Shoes could have achieved more as a drama. Rose’s new boyfriend Simon is too dull and cardboard-like a character to really help forge a genuine relationship with. The script is better at dealing with how Rose changes than Maggie’s transformation from partier to responsible adult. Even when she gains her new boyfriend Rose still is racked with self-doubt, and Collette helps us to identify with Rose’s insecurities. One bout of mockery by her stepmother is enough to send Rose tumbling back into the spirals of self-doubt that she seemed to be escaping from. Diaz’s triumph over her reading problems and general lack of education is done with less grittiness and more glossiness. One minute Maggie is stuttering over the first word of a poem, the next minute she’s running a business as a personal shopper and reciting verse at Rose’s wedding.
The issue of the sisters’ mentally ill mother, who died when they were young, floats over the film but is never really dealt with in a meaningful way. The director simply uses it as the glue that brings everyone back together again. The book In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner, focused in more depth on Maggie’s journey (she read poetry whilst masquerading as a student in Princeton) and also on the relationship between the girls and Ella. As stated above, the film offers a rather lazy interpretation of the poetry aspect and just doesn’t delve deep enough into the grandmother-granddaughter question.
One senses that it suited everyone to go along with the look of the film in the trailer: a chick flick with laughter and tears and endless references to shoes. The disappointing aspect is that there are occasional hints that it has more to offer. As it is, In Her Shoes is a well-acted, enjoyable and up-lifting drama about the changing relationship between two sisters, but this is simply a variation on a theme that has been done countless times before.
good luck
WAYDE COMPTON is the author of two book of poetry: 49th Parallel Psalm (1999), which re-imagines the migration of the first blacks to British Columbia from San Francisco, and Performance Bond (2004), which comes with a sound poem called The Reinventing Wheel. He co-founded Commodore Books, edited Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001), and is part of the hip-hop performance group The Contact Zone Crew.
BRENDA COULTAS is the author of five books of poetry, from the innovative fictions of her Early Films (1996) to her most recent, the historical bricolage The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations (2007). She was born in Indiana, studied at Naropa University with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, and lives in New York City. Each writer, she writes, must make and break her own rules.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
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Spike Milligan reads one of his favourite poems.
Recorded 1999 at AudioProductions for Spike Milligan Productions Ltd.
Directed by Norma Farnes
more actors being bad :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HccmODAuSuY
Studio producer Nicky Boathe , engineered by Robert Nichol
all rights reserved.
rnaudioproductions for http://www.ipodity.com/
http://www.allcast.co.uk/
Robert Burns RobertBurns ARed,RedRose Audio Book not BBC Naxos Pearson Clipper Audio Recorded Books Audio
Robert Nichol AudioProductions William Shakespeare OSCAR WILDE J.R.R.TOLKIEN Audiobook Biography Poetry Verse Classics Unabridged Audio Download MP3 Demo Spike Milligan Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Orson Welles Judy Geeson Derek Jacobi Hugh LaurieRobert Burns RobertBurns ARed,RedRose Audio Book not BBC Naxos Pearson Clipper Audio Recorded Books Audio
Robert Nichol AudioProductions William Shakespeare OSCAR WILDE J.R.R.TOLKIEN Audiobook Biography poetry Verse Classics Unabridged Audio Download MP3 Demo Spike Milligan Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Orson Welles Judy Geeson Derek Jacobi Hugh Laurie
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I own many books of poetry by the ancient Masters, but have recently become interested in modern poetry. Can anyone recommend a site where only books of modern poetry are featured?
Neon, could you give the link? I can’t seem to find it the way you have written it.
You guys are silly. This is the one place where everybody knows us.
Sha Rene’ presents to Meryl Streep, “Words Can Explain” her new poetry book in New York City at “Poetry & The Creative Mind”, a Benefit presented by the Academy of American Poets. This event was held at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. Sha Rene’ gave Meryl a book to add to Meryl’s collection. For those who don’t know Meryl is the co-chairman of the Academy of American Poets. Meryl recited a “Long Poem” called, “Sunday Morning” as she asked the audience to “settle into their seats.” It was delightful!
Other Entertainment and Newscasters at the event was Liz Smith who Sha chatted with a bit as well as Katie Couric. Sha Rene’ gave Katie Couric a copy to review. Katie read a poem dedicated to her daughter. Katie loves poetry.
A special treat came from “Blue Note” Jazz Diva, Dianne Reeves as her spirited vocalist performance of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks brought down the house! Sha was out of her seat! Boy is Dianne the “Queen of the Blues!” Sha says.
The event was followed by a fancy cocktail dinner. Let’s not forget why we were there. This Gala event was a Benefit to supply one of the most needed and enjoyed passions; The Passion of Reading. The Academy sponsored this event to support the children in New York City and New Orleans schools. Sha Rene is a 2008 sponsor.
Sha Rene’s goal is to perform her Spoken Word Poetry and get African Americans back to the Bookstores! What was Sha’s favorite part of the night? When Mel and Cindy Yoken gave her a stuffed Teddy Bear for Good Luck! We named the Bear, “Mel.” Sha say’s, I’m takin him to my first TV show!
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does aany one know where I can get free erotic poetry books
all over the internet, just google it