Poet S Wife

Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446487891

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The Poet's Wife by Judith Allnatt Pdf

It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John's turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?

Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742373539

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Poet's Wife by Mandy Sayer Pdf

In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband and wife.

Author : Rebecca Stonehill
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909490529

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The Poet's Wife by Rebecca Stonehill Pdf

Author : David Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English roses
ISBN : 1870673700

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David Austin's English Roses by David Austin Pdf

Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr

Author : Avril Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015060667436

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Mrs Shakespeare, the Poet's Wife by Avril Rowlands Pdf

Author : Kate Baer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780063008434

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What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer Pdf

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

Author : Sandra L. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : UOM:39015024991914

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Elinor Frost, a Poet's Wife by Sandra L. Katz Pdf

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571199952

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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : 0571252141

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Emily Tennyson by Ann Thwaite Pdf

It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. What kept them apart and what eventually brought them together has never before been fully explored. This major biography radically alters the picture of the poet's relationship with his wife, establishing in detail the person Emily Tennyson was. It is the story of a remarkable family as well as a remarkable woman, bringing into the foreground a neglected and often misunderstood character a century after her death. 'Meeting Emily Tennyson in the pages of Thwaite's enthralling book is pure delight.' Sunday Express 'A finely and deeply researched work, and clearly a labour of love ...She tells an ever absorbing story, and throws much light on that fascinating social area in which high art and worldly power meet.' The Times 'This fat and well-documented book will quickly establish its place in bibliographies of essential Tennyson background.' Literary Review 'A magnificent, surprising biography.' Lynne Truss, Mail on Sunday

Author : Damien Wilkins
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0864735154

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Great Sporting Moments by Damien Wilkins Pdf

Anthology of fiction, poetry and essays on non-sporting themes.

Author : Charlotte Gordon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316028684

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Mistress Bradstreet by Charlotte Gordon Pdf

Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates -- characters who appear in these pages.

Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : House of Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australians
ISBN : 1743314701

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Dreamtime Alice by Mandy Sayer Pdf

'I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me. . . .' In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap-dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world - New York. Driven by their dream of making it big, Mandy and Gerry arrived in the city with no place to stay and only costumes to their names. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers - jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers - who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves.

Author : Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102795507

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State Normal Monthly by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia Pdf

Author : John Henton Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5LFZ

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Duck Creek Ballads by John Henton Carter Pdf

Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Autographs
ISBN : 0091837022

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Mood Indigo by Mandy Sayer Pdf

MOOD INDIGO, Mandy Sayer's first book, won the prestigious 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Written in a deceptively simple style, it tells the story of Rose, three or four years old as the novel opens, a teenager as it ends. Rose loves the beach, her sister, her mother. Most of all she loves her Dad, and Dad's music. But too few people want to hear him, and sometimes Rose and Wanda and Mum have to fit uncomfortably into other people's lives. Acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer uncovers the powerlessness of a child with an entirely steady hand. Her social observations are often bleak, yet she draws the reader into a deep and lasting involvement with all her characters, and especially with the feisty, irresistible Rose.This edition also contains Mandy's second novel, the sequel to MOOD INDIGO, BLIND LUCK. Quick-witted, sharp and savvy, Rose is a survivor. She has to be because Mum's lost between lovers and cocktails and Dad's shot through. As Rose steers a course through the disasters that beset her mother's life, she shows an uncanny ability to endure and thrive.*** PRAISE FOR MOOD INDIGO:'Mandy Sayer has written this tough and perky little girl so well that the reader really cares what happens to her...The book should set Sayer on course for recognition as a significant Australian writer.' Doris Leadbetter, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW' Highly accompllished...Sayer is particularly good at capturing the argot of Sydneysiders...and in evoking mood and place. Sayer's Sydney is true, substantial and compelling.' AP Riemer, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'Sayer writes with a quietly assured style that occasionally flares into moving and distinctive passages.'Helen Daniel, WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN