Victoria Richards Livres

At the turn of the twentieth century in a brothel on the shores of Lake Superior, two Finnish immigrants, brothers Carl and Juhani Jarvinen, find great comfort in the generous bosom of one woman. For one man she is the end, for the other she is just the beginning . . . So begins a family saga, paralyzed and propelled by love. From the red-stained rim of Minnesota's Mesabi Range, to the elegant but dysfunctional home of Duluth's most celebrated iron financier, Carl Jarvinen would sacrifice everything to hide his past: a curse on his descendants as they ride the decline of the steel industry decades later. Yet for every man who would deny the past, another is forbidden to remember. Such is the life of Leonard DeFoe, an Ojibwe Indian sent to an American Indian Boarding School in Pipestone at the age of five. From there and beyond, young Leonard must learn how to survive in a world that would prefer to see him dead...

Featuring a collection of longlisted poems from a competitive anthology, this book showcases diverse voices and themes in contemporary poetry. It highlights the creativity and talent of poets selected for their unique perspectives and artistic expression. As the inaugural anthology from The Hedgehog Poetry Press, it serves as a celebration of poetic achievement and community, inviting readers to explore the richness of modern poetic forms.

The fourth instalment of the annual Primers scheme, run in partnership between The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press, featuring three new and emerging voices. The Primers scheme provides an important platform for emerging poets who are seeking to develop their writing and build towards a full collection of poems. With the involvement of a different guest poet each year as mentor and one of the selecting editors, Primers nurtures and supports new talent that may otherwise not find an outlet. It also aims to provide an important opportunity for poets to develop their skills, work on their poetry practice, receive mentoring and editing and find audiences for their work

A woman worries, under her duvet, whether she should sit content in a marriage that has turned comfortable...that is, until she falls in love with a tree... Short stories of midnight musings, of women itching to be heard and of delightful insanities.

A provocative debut poetry collection about the one in three women who have an abortion by the time they are 45 Amelia Loulli opens this fearless, frank, absorbing debut with the words 'I'm going to tell you what happened', and that is precisely what she does: If our mothers could see us now corridors of girls lifting legs like candles to the stirrups One in three women in Britain will have an abortion by the time they are 45. For such a common procedure it still carries social stigma, and has not been the subject of a book of poetry - not, at least, until now. With these careful, generous, insistent poems, we are led through the experience: surprised at every turn. There is vulnerability and despair, there is the shame and silence too, but there is also the constant, steady pulse of compassion, tenderness and wonder at the world. Slip is a daring book, not just in subject but in style: skilfully worked, integrating the rich terror of nursery rhymes and folk tales with the bland banalities and euphemisms of social interaction, of medical techniques. It is also, sadly, a necessary book - provocative and transformative poetry about women as mothers and survivors. A cry of fury and a cry of love.