Tekst / drama

First published in 1991. It was the lyric poetry of Petrarch that popularized the sonnet in European literature, that set the standard for love poetry for centuries to follow. Compared to the large v …

First published in 1989. The ballad or romance, as it is commonly called, has played a vital role over the centuries in Hispanic culture as an orally transmitted narrative song. It is characteristica …

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the “English elegy” to English and Anglo-American Modernist c …

JAMES TWEDDLE HAS COMPOSED POEMS OF WIDE APPEAL. WHETHER THE READERS ARE NINE YEARS OLD OR EVEN YOUNGER, OR ELEVEN YEARS OLD OR EVEN OLDER, THIS BOOK CONTAINS MANY POEMS TO CAPTURE AND HOLD THEIR INT …

The words of poems are the butterfly in the garden and the scent of flowers in orchards. It passes by us so it catches our eyes and our hearing rejoices. We smell from it the beauty and we see in it …

This evening, No one looks like me. I put my heart into the fridge, My eyes into the shoe closet. I left my fingers yonder on the door handle. This evening No one looks like me I set on the edge of m …

These unspoken words tore me down part by part as they poured through me like plucking feathers from my heavy heart in hopes to be light enough to fly instead, I’ve learned to walk and said goodbye t …

In this collection of emotional and reflective verse, Coco Schreiber has dipped into the paint pot of her life and dolloped drops of colour on to the areas of her palette which seem to her to accommo …

An invitation to heartbreak and grief and a celebration of love.She desired more, More emotion, More acceptance, More release of herself.She desired the very passion, Object, Moment, That only she co …

A blend of interesting poetry inspired by everyday life things such as the weather, holidays, food, or life in general. Written during lockdown when home-schooling was the new norm, this anthology of …