Book List: Poetry & Prose: 1 2 3 4
Love, so the dictionary tells us, is when we feel a tender affection for somebody such as a close relative or friend or something, such as pet or a special place. But what does the heart tell us of love? In this collection of unique and breathtaking poetry, Nadine Novak, attempts to answer that question. From the Naked Heart explores the universal human experiences of first love, the exalted highs of romantic love and the pain of its loss, the love for one's kith and kin and even homeland. Like an intrepid traveller on a voyage of emotional discovery, she fearlessly digs deep, and exposes the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of human passion and feeling. For she knows they are all part of the complex process of what it means to love someone. In laying herself bare on these pages, Novak's aim is to connect with us all - to speak of that common thread that links each and every one of us - love! And to shout from the rooftops: isn't it glorious? If you only pick up one book this year, make sure it is this one - you'll have read nothing like this before and be truly glad you did, as this truly is poetry from the naked heart.
From The Naked Heart
Nada Novak
ISBN 978-1780031286 UK £7.99
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The natural world has long been the poet’s muse, and on this
Mystic Journey, Thórgunnur Jónsdóttir escorts us
through real physical landscapes intensified by the power of her imagination.
From the ‘garrulous gulls’ that circle a ‘triumphant surf’
to the ‘penetrating understanding’ of horses and Aurora Borealis
‘fingering her keyboard’, the poet creates a vital, pulsating
portrait of humanity and its environment in harmony, proving that poetry,
like the themes it explores, can be a true force of nature.
The author is a native of Iceland where she lives and writes.
Mystic Journey
Thorgunnur Jonsdottir
ISBN 1904018-79-3
UK £6.99
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A Collection of Poems
Irene Ash has taken the multifarious strands that make up life and woven
them into a colourful tapestry of human experience that encompasses love,
loss, friendship and nostalgia. From memories of places and people now
changed or vanished, to musings on humanity’s role in the world,
Threads of Life is a beautifully composed collection of verse that plucks
gently but insistently at the emotions.
Threads of Life
Irene Ash
Illustrated
ISBN 1904754-38-4 UK £5.99
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If rhyme is to poetry what reason is to thought, where does all
that funny stuff from up your nose go?
The answer, if you know how to look, is in the poetry. For within these
pages, Samantha Noble plunges into a vast ocean of thoughts and feelings
– about socks, bodily functions, and what makes serial killers tick
– to emerge with a wonderfully eclectic and sometimes eccentric collection
of rhyming verse that filters out the pain, pleasure and downright absurdity
of life, to make you giggle, snivel, maybe just think.
So if you ever wondered just what is the point of poetry, dip a toe in:
the reason is in the rhyme.
Rhyme and Reason
Samantha Noble
ISBN 1904018610
UK £6.99
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Evie… Lover, goddess, friend and muse, both perfect and flawed,
eternal and transient. To the one who loves her, she is all of these and
more.
In this breathtakingly intimate collection of verse, the poet offers up
his passion in words as a gift for the eponymous Evie, at once losing
himself in the object of his desire and finding deep physical and spiritual
contentment.
Poems for Evie
Dimitris Lemos
ISBN 1904018971 UK
£4.95
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The Lady of the Wild Things is a selection of heartfelt poetry
inspired by a goddess of our times. Existing in root and branch, clouds
and water, creation and destruction, the eponymous Lady is the power formidable,
unfathomable and unalterable that can be neither tamed nor eluded.
As potent today as in her earliest incarnations, she has never been subjugated
by the male gods who have governed many an ancient culture, demonstrating
that female strength is an eternal force to be reckoned with.
The Lady of the Wild Things
Nairda Ka-Oneerg
ISBN 1904018815 UK
£6.99
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