- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem.
Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn't necessarily know how to do so.
Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Wonder Woman
- Book of Genesis
- Phase One
- A Portable Paradise
- Worm
- Wishing Well
- All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs
- Don’t Miss Out! Book Right Now for the Journey of a Lifetime!
- A Blessing
- The Word
- Bullshit
- Some Things I Like
- Say My Name
- Miscegenation
- Reporting Back to Queen Isabella
- When You Say ‘Protestors’ Instead of Protectors
- We Lived Happily during the War
- Writing the camp
- Battlegrounds
- [Whereas my eyes land on the shoreline]
- Miami Airport
- Kulila
- reconciliation
- All Bread
- Prayer
- from The Book of Hours
- How Prayer Works
- Of Course She Looked Back
- After the Goose that Rose like the God of Geese
- My Mother’s Body
- Father
- Man and Boy
- On Receiving Father at JFK after his Long Flight from Kashmir
- Essay on Reentry
- Married Love
- Exorcism / Freeport
- 22: La Bota
- In Leticia’s Kitchen Drawer
- When We Were 13, Jeff’s Father Left the Needle Down on a Journey Record Before Leaving the House One Morning and Never Coming Back
- Leaving Early
- Seventh Circle of Earth
- Song
- Coconut Oil
- The Place Where We Are Right
- What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
- Life Drawing
- Consider the Hands that Write this Letter
- Living in the Past
- On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
- Bioluminescence
- Notes on the Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Permission Credits
- About On Being