Poets: 27 books

With equal parts optimism and uncertainty, the Chesterville Center Union Meeting House hosted the first Chesterville Poetry Night in October of 2015. The joy and beauty of that evening were commemorated with a volume of poetry and artwork that quickly became a Chesterville best-seller. The second...

Whistle for Jellyfish is a poetry collection written by six award-winning poets - Sylvia Adams, Brock Currie, Gill Foss, Glenn Kletke, Barbara Myers, and Margaret Malloch Zielinski. Their decision to write a collection of travel poems was based on a desire to share experiences in a way that would preserve...

A poem is a song sans the instrumentation. These poems in this book you hold are nothing but the songs of our lives which we've sung at some odd points, our lives brought us to.From the pain of separation, to the first innocent love, Of the first rains of the season, of those solitary...

One thing that makes 'gender discrimination' such an important issue is that it is a worldwide problem – there's no discrimination on how women are treated as 'second class citizens' in almost all cultures. Every day you would come across stories about atrocities committed against women. Some of...

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Now in its third year, Chesterville Poetry Night at the Chesterville Center Meeting House seems to be an officially established tradition! Responding to an open invitation to all Chesterville residents, a small group gathers one evening in autumn to share a few poems each, and to delight in the talent...

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The...

This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's...

Vincent Aurelius,John Beaton,Don Benson,Frances Bickerstaff,Kevan Cameron,Sharla Cuthberston,Mohana Das,Richard Doiron,David Fraser,Lynette Emery,Keith Inman,Candice James,Harvey Jenkins,Edna Kovacs,Ruth Kozak,Janet Kvammen,Carole Langille,Preston Lim,Melissa Mangin,Robert Martens,Valerie Parks,Janet...

When I think of Christmas my thoughts often turn to a painting called “The Nativity” by the great Tuscan artist Piero della Francesca which fortunately we have in our National Gallery in London. The feelings of solemn serenity and peace which it evokes by its subdued, marmoreal tones enable us...

"In a strife ridden world it is incumbent on the part of a poet to dwell upon social issues like war, corruption, poverty, refugee influx etc. He should hold a mirror to life and its sufferings and joys and strive to bring each one’s life a trifle closer to the worth and meaning of man’s...

Under President Barack Obama, the United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% from 2005 levels by 2025. On the contrary, Obama's Clean Power Plan and regulations set to protect the environment, are now targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump. Indeed, the prominent denier...

When I think of Christmas my thoughts often turn to a painting called “The Nativity” by the great Tuscan artist Piero della Francesca which fortunately we have in our National Gallery in London. The feelings of solemn serenity and peace which it evokes by its subdued, marmoreal tones enable us...