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Homers Epos aus dem 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. begründet mit der Ilias den glanzvollen Beginn der abendländischen Literatur...

Ob Kleinkindlyrik oder Nonsensklassiker, ob Lyrik-Parodien oder hehre Dichtkunst: Robert Gernhardt führt in seiner berühmten Poetikvorlesung durch die Höhen und Tiefen der Kunst, Gedichte zu schreiben. Und darin geht es zu, wie in jedem durchschnittlichen Haus: im Kinderzimmer sitzen Peter Rühmkorf und H. M. Enzensberger und spielen und singen.

‘Hauntingly original… like nothing else I’ve read’ Alan Hollinghurst Where do you go to find someone who is dead? In 1996, in a ramshackle office at the heart of literary London, Maren Meinhardt met Mick Imlah. Charismatic, handsome, difficult, Mick was one of the most brilliant poets of...

We need lights in our lives to continue living and have a good time. Lights can be in the form of contentment, which can be derived from a real love or a happy life. Searching for Lights is a book of poems and short stories that will take you on a journey of discovering different kinds of love...

Adeline James is a storyteller who’s experienced life’s toughest challenges. Her journey through trauma, heartbreak, and healing is shared with raw honesty, aiming to inspire others to embrace their struggles and find their strength. Adeline James is a woman who has lived through a lot...

In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought...

A celebration of the moon, of life and of love, from one of Australia's most loved authors. By turns romantic and realist, Bruce Pascoe explores the urgency of the contemporary climate crisis and the need to love Country in his haunting, slow-burning and classical poetry style. This is startlingly vulnerable poetry to heal the Earth, to navigate heartache and to provoke stillness and introspection.

"This is not bitterness. This is clarity."In Shifting Innerverse, Jayden Phoenix moves through the tremors of life after trauma, threading together poetry, journal entries, and haikus that catch what lingers in the shadows: fractured families, quiet resilience, and the fragments of self stitched...

In this poetry collection, the author invites listeners on an intimate journey of self-discovery, posing the question, “What does it mean to be alive?” Through exploring themes of grief, love, and self-identity, she reflects on personal experiences to encourage finding grace within oneself...

One hundred and six poems of self-reflection and exquisite beauty—an intoxicating blend of Seon Buddhism and French Symbolism from one of South Korea's most celebrated and influential poets That summer I stood in the centers of storms That summer my despair burst out into crimson but still I...

Les éditions Autrement dit, qui ont déjà fait redécouvrir le poète de Château-Thierry avec Amour et Folie puis Le Musicien et le fabuliste, explorent maintenant douze fables de Jean de La Fontaine qui parlent de volatiles ou d'insectes...

Erostratos est un cycle de neuf poèmes érotiques, qui forment un hommage sublime, esthétique et charnel à la Femme. L'auteur y a inséré des éléments de l'ancien mythe grec d'Erostrate. Ce personnage a incendié le temple de la déesse Diane à Éphèse pour que l'histoire retienne son nom. La présente traduction française très sobre et très belle a été réalisée par Evelyne Wilwerth, auteur de La vie cappuccino (éditions Luce Wilquin) prochainement en lecture dans cette collection.

THE NAKED PROPHETA solitary figure walks uphill—naked like a pure gentleman—rising beyond cities, religions, memories, and human noise.Part poetry, part meditation, part existential road scripture, The Naked Prophet is a minimalist literary journey through silence, modern civilisation, inner...

In his cycle of 15 Hymns on Paradise, St Ephrem the Syrian weaves a profound theological synthesis around the Biblical narrative in Genesis 2 and 3. In this fine Christian poetry, the author expresses his awareness of the sacramental character of the created world, and of the potential of...

War does not always end when the thunder fades. Memory returns in waves; grief finds its way into dreams; faith asks us to keep walking.The Paths Lead Only Forward gathers 54 poems about service, loss, love, nature, and the long passage from conflict toward renewal. Moving from battlefields and...

"Death of a Bagel and Other Poems" by Rajeev Bector is a collection of reflective, surreal, and occasionally humorous poems exploring themes of loss, love, absurdity, aging, existentialism, and everyday life.The poems vary from emotional pieces to playful, bizarre experiments and the tone shifts...

In this enchanting and captivating poetry collection by Angela Valis, you will awaken to delight and discovery, cozying up to that which comforts us. Intrigued by fresh experience and atmosphere, our beings expand. Pondering the dark times of the body and soul—facing loss of control and loss of life—we gain insight and perspective by seeing through the lens of other eyes, a kaleidoscope of vistas.

Mascha Kaléko wurde am 7. Juni 1907 als Tochter jüdischer Eltern in Galizien geboren. Nach Schul- und Studienjahren in Berlin wurde sie 1930 von Monty Jacobs, einem der Pioniere des deutschen Feuilletons, entdeckt. In der "Vossischen Zeitung" und im "Berliner Tagblatt" erschienen jahrelang ihre Gedichte, die sie rasch zu einer literarischen Berühmtheit der alten Reichshauptstadt und über ihre Grenzen hinaus bekannt machten. Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Alfred Polgar rühmten die Verse der jungen Großstadtdichterin, die Erich Kästners wachen Sarkasmus besaß, ihn aber in zärtlich-weibliche Rhythmen kleidete.

"Eines Tages, Baby, werden wir alt sein, oh Baby, werden wir alt sein und an all die Geschichten denken, die wir hätten erzählen können." Julia Engelmanns Slam "One Day" hat über Nacht eine Welle der Begeisterung ausgelöst und Millionen Fans im Netz gefunden. Ihre Message, Träume endlich in die Tat umzusetzen, trifft den Nerv der Zeit. Denn in jedem von uns steckt so viel mehr!

Die "Metamorphosen" - Verwandlungsgeschichten - des Publius Ovidius Naso gehören zum Grundbestand abendländischer Kultur...