What He Did in Solitary: Poems by Amit Majmudar

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486009 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486009] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems Author: Warsan Shire Narrator: Warsan Shire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 7 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist “Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin.”—The New York Times Culture Desk LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. In Shire’s hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life, full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

Coke Machine Glow by Gordon Downie

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487699 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487699] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coke Machine Glow Author: Gordon Downie Narrator: Kaya Usher, Bruce Mcculloch, Ron Maclean, Paul Langlois, Dave 'billy Ray' Koster, Johnny Fay, Willo Downie, Lou Downie, Clemens Downie, Clare Downie, Robbie Baker, Dan Ayckroyd, Sarah Harmer, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for the popular Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released his first solo record, Coke Machine Glow in Spring 2001. Alongside the album, his first book of poetry and prose under the same title was published, including the lyrics to the sixteen songs on the record. Now, on the 20th anniversary year of Coke Machine Glow, fans have more to delight in: the audiobook of Coke Machine Glow and a brand new album by Downie, released posthumously.  Coke Machine Glow is a rich, haunting collection that reveals both the public and private selves of one of Canada's most enigmatic musicians. In poetry that is urban, gritty and political, as well as romantic, nostalgic and whimsical, Downie allows us a glimpse inside his world. With his acute and observing eye, he gives us snapshots of his life, both on the road and at home; he writes of loneliness and isolation; of longing and desire; of the present and the past; of dreams and nightmares; love lost and love of family. Ultimately, this book is about the distances that bridge and separate us. Layered and deceptively simple, imbued with Downie's wit, insight, anger, compassion and rock'n'roll edge, Coke Machine Glow is a remarkable debut from a remarkable creator.  This special audiobook edition features readings from Downie's family and friends, including: Dan Ayckroyd Robbie Baker Andrew Cash Dave Clark Julie Doiron Charlyn Downie Clare Downie Clemens Downie Lou Downie Mike Downie Patrick Downie Paula Downie Willo Downie Johnny Fay Josh Finlayson Sarah Harmer Kevin Hearn Dave 'Billy Ray' Koster Paul Langlois Andy Maize Ron MacLean Bruce McCulloch Dale Morningstar Larry Murphy Andrea Nann Dr. Pee Damian Rogers Jonathan Shedletzky Gord Sinclair Kaya Usher

Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves by Sarah Arvio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486900 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486900] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves Author: Sarah Arvio Narrator: Sarah Arvio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet “I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery.   In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: “my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how.” The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a devastating passion. Her weapons are a cascade of brash, freely spoken lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding.   These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio’s most universal to date.

Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482612 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482612] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somebody Else Sold the World Author: Adrian Matejka Narrator: Adrian Matejka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 6, 2021 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize The poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the ways we exist in an uncontrollable world: in love and its aftermaths, in families that divide themselves, in protest-filled streets, in isolation as routines become obsolete because of lockdown orders and curfews. Somebody Else uses past and future touchstones like pop songs, love notes, and imaginary gossip to illuminate those moments of splendor that persist even in exhaustion. These poems show that there are many possibilities of brightness and hope, even in the middle of pandemics and revolutions.

What He Did in Solitary: Poems by Amit Majmudar

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482637 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482637] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What He Did in Solitary: Poems Author: Amit Majmudar Narrator: Amit Majmudar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 1 minute Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered world. With his dazzling ability to set words spinning, Amit Majmudar brings us poems that sharpen both wit and knives as he examines our 'life in solitary.' Equally engaged with human history and the human heart, Majmudar transfigures identity from a locus of captivity to the open field of his liberation. In pieces that include a stunning central sequence, 'Letters to Myself in My Next Incarnation,' the poet is both the Huck and Jim of his own adventures. He is unafraid to face human failings: from Oxycontin addiction to Gujarat rioting, he examines--often with dark comedy--the fragility of the soul, the unchartability of pain, and the reasons we sing and grieve and make war. All-American and multitudinously alone, dancing in his confinement, Majmudar is a poet of exuberance and transcendence: 'What I love here, / Poems and women mostly, / I know you can't remember,' he tells his future self. 'But they were worthy of my love.'