Julie Sutherland

Bright Poems for Dark Days

An Anthology for Hope
Illustrator: Gavin, Carolyn

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Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated anthology of uplifting poetry

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780711266810
• ISBN-10: 0711266816
• Artikelnr.: 61214105

Autorenporträt

Julie Sutherland received her PhD in English Studies and is now a writer and editor based in New Brunswick, Canada. She is a research associate with the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Northern British Columbia. She has a long history of teaching poetry and other literature in educational and non-educational settings in Canada, the US, the UK and online. She is passionate about the capacity of literature to effect change in the human spirit.  Carolyn Gavin is a painter, illustrator and designer based in Toronto, Canada. Vibrant, playful and happy are perfect words to describe her style. She is principal designer for Ecojot, a family-run eco-friendly paper business and also licenses her work for fabric, homewares and packaging. Find her on IG @carolynj.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
Hope
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson
Hope, Emanuel Carnevali
I Shall Return, Claude McKay
Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon
Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson
Ode to the West Wind (stanza 5), Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
Resilience + Courage
Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Courage, Anne Sexton
Invictus, William Ernest Henley
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear, David Wright
Courage, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don’t Quit, John Greenleaf Whittier
 
Joy
How to Triumph Like a Girl, Ada Limón
On Joy and Sorrow, from The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Of Being, Denise Levertov
Nurse’s Song, William Blake
Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Magdalen Walks, Oscar Wilde
 
Nature + Escape
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
Something Told the Wild Geese, Rachel Field
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee Jr.
On the Day the World Begins Again, Armand Garnet Ruffo
From a Railway Carriage, Robert Louis Stevenson
Time, Ursula Bethell 
 
Love
The Sun Rising, John Donne
Invitation to Love, Paul Laurence Dunbar
For women who are ‘difficult’ to love, Warsan Shire
The Oasis, Naomi Replansky
The Light Gatherer, Carol Ann Duffy
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, William Butler Yeats
 
Tranquillity
Sonnet: A sea of foliage girds our garden round, Toru Dutt
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, William Cullen Bryant
The Lost Lagoon, E. Pauline Johnson
A Hymn to the Moon, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Sweet and Low, from The Princess, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Camomile Tea, Katherine Mansfield
 
Gratitude
Sonnet 39: Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, William
Shakespeare
The Last Days of Summer Before the First Frost, Tim Bowling
Haiku, Issa
Thanks, W.S. Merwin
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called
Felicity, John Tobias
 
Comfort
Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay
A December Day, Sara Teasdale
The Dream Keeper, Langston Hughes
Up-Hill, Christina Rossetti
Late Fragment, Raymond Carver
In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver