Download or read book Poems from a Runaway written by Ben Westwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A street cat named Bob' meets 'Oliver Twist' meets 'A.A. Milne' - yet still a unique legend of a book worthy of a channel 4 documentary!Welcome to Ben Westwood's collection of 60 true-story poems - 'Poems from a runaway'. It's his story of being a teenager in care, and a frequent runaway from the west midlands (UK). Follow him on a journey from ten years old, wandering from town to town before eventually at the age of twelve, finding himself in the east end of London with drug addicts and prostitutes. A year later he was to be sleeping rough in London's West end, meeting celebrities and all sorts of folk. It's a story with many tragedies, but also comedic moments.Choices that would have only been made with a youngsters thinking, and angels along the way. Predators, friends, heart-warming times and dangerous moments. Hustles, wind-ups and the way young people entertain themselves along the way. Some moments in life that some may never had knew existed.A collection of sixty poems of various lengths, leading the reader through the reality of this true-story childhood journey.Not only a great read and an eye-opener for general book and poetry lovers, but also a great resource for Foster parents, social workers, mental health support services, homeless services, child advocates and care leavers.Places in the UK commonly featured in book -Norton Canes, StaffordshireBrownhills, West MidlandsRugeley, StaffordshireGreat Haywood, StaffordshireLichfield, StaffordshireCannock, StaffordshireTamworth, StaffordshireChasetown, StaffordshireBirmingham, West MidlandsHighbury stadium, North LondonPiccadilly Circus/ Leicester square, Central LondonWhitechapel/ Aldgate/ Poplar, Tower hamlets, East LondonAbbey Road, St Johns Wood, LondonEdmonton Green, North LondonVictoria, Central LondonPiccadilly, Central LondonAldridge, West MidlandsCharing Cross, Central LondonPlantation, Miami, Florida,Blakenhall, West MidlandsBescot Stadium/ Walsall FCHyde Park Corner, Central LondonCricklewood, North LondonNuneaton, Warwickshire
Download or read book Runaway written by Jorie Graham and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every new book by Jorie Graham is worth reading. . . . Frustrating, frustrated, afraid, panicked, pleading, Graham has once again written the poems of our moment.” — NPR.org "This engaging, evocative collection from Graham explores the experience of struggle in a rapidly-changing world plagued by existential threats. The poems consider the present and interpret it through a critical eye, carefully mindful of each subject's impact on daily lives. More than anything, the collection invites readers to tap into a deeper state of consciousness." — Chicago Tribune, "Best Books of Fall 2020" "Challenging as [these poems] are, many of them seem like prayers. For all poetry fans.' — Library Journal "[Graham's] most thrilling poems hurtle through long, unpredictable lines that devour and spit out ancient echoes and internet detritus as they go...She in her poems remakes a world you can inhabit, one in which you can sense what it is you're letting go of, now, before it's gone." — Harper's Magazine “Graham’s 15th collection of poetry has the heightened urgency of a young writer’s debut . . . Runaway taps into a free-floating end-of-the-worldness (is there a German word for that?) that so many of us feel even if we can’t express it. . . . Her latter-day poems arrive . . . like effusions, Whitmanic gusts of words, as if she’s channeling a sort of emergency scripture. Runaway feels as though it has been written for right now...but also for a target audience that might emerge 100 years on.” — New York Times Book Review "Jorie Graham’s poetry uniquely portrays the struggle to do the right thing, and above all to find meaning in the world’s “rich concentrate”. Her characteristically questioning work previously engaged with physics, history and personal morality, now turns its attention to accelerating planetary crisis. Runaway was completed before the pandemic, but its capacious understanding makes it as able to speak to this as to climate breakdown and global suffering. Graham juxtaposes individual experience with an almost incomprehensible scale of disaster with an urgency and an attention so exceptional it comes out as tenderness.” — The Guardian "Graham (Fast) begins her fifth decade of publishing with a bravura performance that probes the present for what the future will bring...Through her signature urgent questioning, Graham makes plain the psychic and physical cost to humans of wrecking the Earth." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book The Runaway written by Robert Frost and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem about a colt frightened by falling snow.
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Download or read book Runaway written by Ray Anthony Shepard and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful poem about Ona Judge's life and her self-emancipation from George Washington’s household. Ona Judge was enslaved by the Washingtons, and served the President's wife, Martha. Ona was widely known for her excellent skills as a seamstress, and was raised alongside Washington’s grandchildren. Indeed, she was frequently mistaken for his granddaughter. This poetic biography follows her childhood and adolescence until she decides to run away. Author Ray Anthony Shepard welcomes meaningful and necessary conversation among young readers about the horrors of slavery and the experience of house servants through call-and-response style lines. Illustrator Keith Mallett’s rich paintings include fabric collage and add further feeling and majesty to Ona’s daring escape. With extensive backmatter, this poem may serve as a new introduction to American slavery and Ona Judge's legacy.
Download or read book Runaway Dreams written by Richard Wagamese and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where "the ancient ones stand at your shoulder . . . making you a circle / containing everything."These are Medicine teachings told from the experience of one who lived and still lives them. He also describes his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away at an early age, and the beatings he received when the authorities tried "to beat the Indian right out of me." Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveller, with his love of country, his love of people. Through it all, there are poems of love and music, the language sensuous and tender.
Download or read book Mr West written by Sarah Blake and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader’s companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
Download or read book Runaway Opposites written by Richard Wilbur and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous poems about the opposites of various words.
Download or read book In which I Play the Runaway written by Rochelle Hurt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. 'I was born with a gift for gall and grit, ' Rochelle Hurt writes--a line that echoes through every poem in this collection. She spares nothing and bares all that needs baring about family, place, and relationships--how they reflect each other, blurred in tarnished mirrors. With a Sylvia Plath-like abandon and urgency, every single word feels completely necessary; words spoken with a vigor and honesty that are felt in the gut; words that remain lodged in the back of the throat. --Richard Blanco
Download or read book Love and Dread written by Rachel Hadas and published by Measure Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collection of poetry by Rachel Hadas.
Download or read book Runaway Child Runnin Wild You Better Go Back Home Where You Belong Book of Poems written by Renee Drummond-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these trying times of uncertainties Runaway Child 'Runnin Wild, You Better Go Back Home Where You Belong-Book of Poems, speaks to the community, and parents need to be vigilant, and in constant communication with our youth today, so they don't get caught up in the madness, wrestling with the unknown. This poetry book displays the struggle, the wrong choices, the bad experiences, and the lessons learned from the world that will hopefully shape, mold, and mature them into becoming the productive adults that they are called to be. Our youth have so much on their plates, including some leftovers to share relating to anxiety, depression, struggles, and sorrows. It's a wonder that they cope, and navigate as well as they do under such horrific conditions that society freely dishes out. Nonetheless, should a child feel the need to run-away, and then return from the school of hard knocks (like the prodigal son), it's extremely important to love on them extra hard without demoralizing them for their undesirable choices. Unconditional love holds the answer to a runaway child running wild, because the sins of the father fall hard on these children, and we ought to be slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love with forgiving hearts because we are solely responsible for the examples set before them.
Download or read book The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses written by Charles Bukowski and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1969 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by contemporary American writer Charles Bukowski.
Download or read book First Fourteen written by Ben Westwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to 'First Fourteen', a preview of my debut release - 'Poems from a runaway'. It's my story of being a teenager in care, and a frequent runaway from the west midlands (UK). Follow me on a journey from ten years old, wandering from town to town before eventually at the age of twelve, finding myself in the east end of London with drug addicts and prostitutes. A year later I was to be sleeping rough in London's West end, meeting celebrities and all sorts of folk. It's a story with many tragedies, but also comedic moments. Choices that would have only been made with a youngsters thinking, and angels along the way. Predators, friends, heart-warming times and dangerous moments. Hustles, wind-ups and the way young people entertain themselves along the way. Some moments in life that some may never had knew existed. This book contains 14 of the 60 poems from the full Poems From a Runaway book, not the actual first fourteen of the book, but the first fourteen written.
Download or read book The Runaway Boy written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soaring Earth written by Margarita Engle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019! In this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle recounts her teenage years during the turbulent 1960s. Margarita Engle’s childhood straddled two worlds: the lush, welcoming island of Cuba and the lonely, dream-soaked reality of Los Angeles. But the revolution has transformed Cuba into a mystery of impossibility, no longer reachable in real life. Margarita longs to travel the world, yet before she can become independent, she’ll have to start high school. Then the shock waves of war reach America, rippling Margarita’s plans in their wake. Cast into uncertainty, she must grapple with the philosophies of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection. Despite overwhelming circumstances, she finds solace and empowerment through her education. Amid the challenges of adolescence and a world steeped in conflict, Margarita finds hope beyond the struggle, and love in the most unexpected of places.
Download or read book Runaway Soul Poetry written by Karen Keller Leet and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Runaway written by Evelyn Lau and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: