Brendan Kennelly's optimistic poem about starting each day on a new beginning and enjoying all that the world has to offer.
The story follows two timelines that slowly intertwine. The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina from 1952 to 1969. The second timeline follows a murder investigation of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina.
This is an essay which captures life in Ireland in 2015 from the point of view of an observant time traveller.
'"Hope" is the thing with feathers' is one of the best known of Emily Dickinson's poems. An extended metaphor, it likens the concept of hope to a feathered bird that is permanently perched in the soul of every human. There it sings, never stopping in its quest to inspire.
The Hill We Climb: the Amanda Gorman poem that stole the inauguration show. The 22-year-old poet wowed the crowd with her reading during Joe Biden’s swearing-in.