Themes & Styles

In this first Volume of Merlin's Isle, join the prophesied youth, Sir Galahad, and the other knights of the quest as they set out from Camelot to achieve the Holy Grail. The accomplishment of their goal will heal not only the wounded Fisher King, but will bring about the long-hoped for healing of the land itself.

From the author of Make Your Bed, The Hero Code and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, comes an uplifting selection of speeches, letters, toasts and poems that capture the essence of who we are as Americans. Admiral McRaven's name has become synonymous with indelible advice for changing your life...

Brought to you by Penguin. Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for...

Read by the author and Yinka Dawson. Explore the remarkable reality of God’s beauty Teach me again the stillness from which movement finds its meaning, The stillness from which movement is beauty, The stillness that rouses the slumbering imagination. —from “Be Still” After his shocking...

¿Por qué Xodó? Es una forma de decir “mi amor”solo a la persona que más se quiere en la vida. Es una forma de mostrar afecto a alguien muy valioso y que se quedará por siempre en tu corazón. Xodó es el audiolibro ideal para declarar y demostrar el amor que sientes hacia una persona, para obsequiar a quien consideras “el amor que será para toda la vida”.

I’ll Leave the Light On For When You Come Back is a collection of poems about the quiet weight of loving, losing, and learning to stay.

From the legendary avant-garde poet Kim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. “Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form—and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has...

The heroic story of the siege of Troy is as enthralling today as it ever was. The Greeks are entering the tenth year of their war with the Trojans, but their armies are fractured and their best warrior Achilles has abandoned the battle on a mission of revenge. Only the death of his best friend Patroclus persuades Achilles to return to battle and confront the Trojan leader Hector in single combat.

The Fraud of Eternity is a poetry collection by Darryl Houston Smith that serves as a visceral return to the "architecture of the dark". Published under the Dyad House imprint, the work rejects modern "fleeting digital sentiment" and the "soft comfort" of contemporary verse, opting instead for a "rigid, suffocating beauty".

A love letter, written in the tender words of the one you have lost, addressed directly to you, to give comfort and hope. This is a book of quiet companionship, a gentle presence to turn to, when grief feels close and words are hard to find. A calm walk with the one who has departed; who still has so much to say. Gentle words to open in moments of longing or stillness; words that do not demand anything; they only gently remind the heart and soul: “I am with you, always.

Há palavras que não se dizem. Sentem-se. "Antes Que o Tempo Nos Esqueça" é uma viagem poética pelas memórias, pelos silêncios e pelos sentimentos que ficam quando tudo o resto passa. Narrado pelo próprio autor, este audiobook transforma cada poema numa experiência íntima, onde a voz dá vida ao que muitas vezes não conseguimos explicar. Não é apenas para ouvir. É para parar. Respirar. E sentir.Porque há coisas que só existem… antes que o tempo nos esqueça.

A poem about the impending turn of fortunes for Humans when AI becomes of age. When it is no longer a computer programme, nor a chess or Go Master, but a possible thinking sentient being with a mind of its own! What humans may take from it, how will they react. Will they easily accept it, become accustomed to AI being a potential competitor, or will they go into a spiral of decay. The poem touches on these points and suggests a way out, that possibly AI will never have regardless of how intelligent it becomes.

Progress : Is a Precious Stone. Something the world seeks, just as much as Gold, or precious gems. This is a short, no nonsense poem that gets to the heart of what it wants to say, and points the way.

Sailing and the Eastern Seaboard are the inspiration for shared emotional connections and conveying a sense of place in this debut collection of poems with themes of love and romance, unrequited love and nostalgia, father and daughter relationships, motherhood and friendships, a celebration of heroes and patriots, spirituality and God.

Grief: Poetry of Loss & the Love Left Behind is a raw and intimate collection of poems and illustrations that explores the many shapes grief takes when love has nowhere else to go. Written in spare, aching language, Kaylin Wingfield traces loss through moments both quiet and unbearable: the weight of memory, the absence of touch, the future that never arrived, and the love that refuses to disappear. These poems speak to the grief of losing a sibling, husband, child, a parent, grandparent, friend, a partner, a beloved animal, and even the living who are no longer reachable.