Poetry

An anthology of poetry on the dilemmas of war, by pupils from Macclesfield, Cheshire.

How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless? How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest? How do you change the world when you can't get out of bed?

The title's is not very crisply informative, I know. But tht tentative ambiguities in those two words suggest, I hope, dear reader, quite a lot of possibilities to the open and forgiving mind of poetry-readers.

A Part of the Main is a single poem by two poets who conducted a dialogue in verse by email over the course of a few months. Born of the difficult feelings and public discord arising from the events of 2016, it moves deeper into the cultural hoard...

In the course of forty years an increasingly subtle conversation has evolved between words and silence at the core of Philip Gross's poetry. This is never more so than in the poems of this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his father's birth.

worm dreaming dreaming root and branch and whale and ant and dinosaur and dreaming you and me Black smokers, glacier worms and tardigrades... arctic terns, snow leopards and the Aleppo cat... living in the Abyss, conquering Ever

For some time Nick Fawcett has been exploring poetry as a medium of prayer. In this book, he focuses on our responses to God through word and deed and on asking God’s help to serve him better. Ideal for both private and public devotion.

The wide, wild world is made of wonder, but as climate change reinvents the landscape, rich ecosystems are under threat. On a journey through Earth's major biomes, January learns the plight of the planet.