Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.[1] Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry
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Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
Wrong Norma
poyums
Song of My Softening
Dune: Exposures
Hummingbird Season
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Glitter Road
WATCHNIGHT
Root Fractures: Poems
Just Shy of Ordinary
Theophanies
Life F*cks Me Everyday: A Poetry Book
God Complex
  • vermilion by Samantha Erron Gibbon
    vermilion

    Release date: Jan 03, 2024
    "vermilion is a stunning multilingual and multidimensional piece of poetic artwork. This is a spiritual song of motherhood, creation, and dreaming in ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Mar 12 - Mar 31, 2024

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  • Thoughts and Musings by P.K. Rankin
    Thoughts and Musings: Life, Love, and the Human Condition
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    Release date: Nov 14, 2023
    I will be giving away 100 copies of my first published work for readers to enjoy. This is a collection of poetry from the past 30 years.
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 397 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Mar 01 - Mar 31, 2024

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  • Scribbles on Sand by Ciprian Marius Bujor
    Scribbles on Sand
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    Release date: Oct 18, 2023
    “Scribbles on Sand” is a poignant anthology of poems and haikus, adorned with tender crayon illustrations. This book is the result of a decade-long jo ...more
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  • Home Body
    Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
    Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Lost Christmas! (Classic Seuss)
    Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
    Love, Pamela
    The Wren, the Wren
    Big Panda & Tiny Dragon (Big Panda & Tiny Dragon, #1)
    Time Is a Mother
    Alone
    The Cat Who Taught Zen
    Louder Than Hunger
    Shy
    You'll Come Back to Yourself
    The Orange and Other Poems
    Before the Ever After
    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
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    The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
    Your Favourite Book of Poetry.
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    Crank by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen HopkinsIdentical by Ellen HopkinsGlass by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen Hopkins
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    Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    Leaves of Grass
    Night Sky with Exit Wounds
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    A Light in the Attic
    Howl and Other Poems
    The Odyssey
    Crush
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    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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