You Took the Last Bus Home
You Took the Last Bus Home

Author: Brian Bilston

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1783523069

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You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the mysterious ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’. With endless wit, imaginative wordplay and underlying heartache, he offers profound insights into modern life, exploring themes as diverse as love, death, the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger, the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out, and the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with literary form, Bilston’s words have been known to float off the page, take the shape of the subjects they explore, and reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Venn diagrams and Scrabble tiles. This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you laugh out loud while making you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century.

Poems On The Bus
Poems On The Bus

Author: Richard Archer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-09-11

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1326736426

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Poems on the Bus is the third collection of poetry from Richard Archer. The poems in this book came to life on the bus from Walsall to Birmingham and back again. Much to the surprise of the fellow passengers. Inside discover the perils of commuting in sub-zero conditions and just what might have been the contents of your school dinner.Read on and discover why people don't queue for the bus anymore and the secret fate that befell your favourite childhood pets. This is a collection of poetry that can be enjoyed on your journey to work, at home or with a glass of your favourite tipple in the pub.

Bus Girl
Bus Girl

Author: Gretchen Josephson

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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Written over the course of several decades, Bus Girl is a thought-provoking, often humorous, collection of poems from a woman born with Down syndrome. With passages beginning from early adulthood, we read of Gretchen's development as she matures from parental dependence toward independence and adult relationships -- including romance and marriage. A self-taught poet, Gretchen's voice is direct, honest, and at times, cutting. Her experiences working as a bus girl in the Golden Tea Room of a Denver department store form the core of this book: this is her sense of belonging: a world where she found purpose and success. When the store closes and Gretchen loses her job, it becomes immediately apparent how a sense of purpose and achievement is critical to us all. Interspersed throughout the text are short riffs about country music, nature, family vacations, relatives, and Gretchen's views on life.

On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems

Author: Rita Dove

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-04-17

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 039324914X

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A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.

All Aboard the London Bus
All Aboard the London Bus

Author: Patricia Toht

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 0711281084

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Come! Board the London Bus and see the London sights with us. At any time, hop off, explore! Then climb back on, and ride some more… As a family of four spend a day exploring London, fun, child-friendly poems introduce readers to our wonderful capital city, and all its secrets. Well-known landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London Eye, plus inescapable features like rain and taking tea, all get Patty Toht's witty treatment. Non-fiction facts provide more information about the poetry subjects, while rising star Sam Usher brings them to life with his signature style and humour. This gorgeous celebration of London will be loved by both tourists and those who call the city home.

What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo
What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo

Author: Pascale Petit

Publisher: Seren

Published: 2013-01-18

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 178172007X

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What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo's work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a visual artist to create alternative 'paintings' with words. More than just a verse biography, this collection explores how Kahlo transformed trauma into art after the artist's near-fatal bus accident. Petit, with her vivid style, her feel for nature and her understanding of pain and redemption, fully inhabits Kahlo's world. Each poem is an evocation of 'how art works on the pain spectrum', laced with splashes of ferocious colour. 'Their apparent shared sensibility makes the ventriloquism of these poems entirely unforced, and while Kahlo's voice is subtly distinguished from Petit's own, both women have a way of taking painful, private experiences and transmuting them, through imagery, into something that has the power of folklore. They capture the unsettling spirit of Frida Kahlo and her work perfectly.' Poetry London 'No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit.' Les Murray Times Literary Supplement

THE BUS RIDE POEMS
THE BUS RIDE POEMS

Author: Z J GALOS

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-19

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 3758378656

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The poems were conceived and written in a first draft, between 2017 and 2019, while commuting on the local buses between Heiligenstadt and Klosterneuburg-Weidling, between the bus stop at the domicile and the endstation of bus 400 at Heiligenstadt. From there the poet would travel by expressway, either with the ÖBB train or the subway U4 to the city of Vienna. He'll enjoy quality time meeting friends, supporters, and Muses. The themes of the poems are the observance of city life; inner reflections about relationships; thoughts about humanity in the doldrums; dehumanization; the human catastrophe; hospitalization of the poet; recent friends and Muses; the loss of individuality; and self-reflections on a world of gender turmoil. The original drafts have been edited in an ongoing process and completed by 2023.

Bully on the Bus
Bully on the Bus

Author: Kathryn Apel

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781610677707

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The bully on the bus taunts seven-year-old Leroy, then silences him with threats of worse to come if he tells. To help him, his teacher introduces him to a book of fairy tales. Hidden are the clues that Leroy needs to overcome the bully's taunts once and for all.

Eye Against Eye
Eye Against Eye

Author: Forrest Gander

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780811216357

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Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation (Mark Rudman). The three long poems in Eye Against Eye convey the wrought particulars of intimate human relations, perceptions of the landscape, and the historical moment, tense with political exigencies. Mayan ruins invoke the collapsing Twin Towers, love between parents and child blister with tension, and a bicycle thief shatters the narcotic illusion of a private accord. Also contained is Late Summer Entry, a series of poetic commentaries on Sally Mann's landscape photographs. Eye Against Eye, Forrest Gander's third book with New Directions, cries out an ethical concern for the ways we see each other and the world, the potential to share a vision that acknowledges our commonality. As always with Gander's poetry, suspensions and repetitions drive toward a complex emotional experience, evoking the multifaceted, multi-vocal surge of our present.

Advice from the Lights
Advice from the Lights

Author: Stephanie Burt

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1555979815

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“The brightest and most inviting of Burt’s collections for readers of any, all, and no genders.”—Boston Review Advice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It’s part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary sequences, including Stephanie poems about Stephen’s female self; poems on particular years of the poet’s early life, each with its own memories, desires, insecurities, and pop songs; and versions of poems by the Greek poet Callimachus, whose present-day incarnation worries (who doesn’t?) about mortality, the favor of the gods, and the career of Taylor Swift. The collection also includes poems on politics, location, and parenthood. Taken all together, this is Stephen Burt’s most personal and most accomplished collection, an essential work that asks who we are, how we become ourselves, and why we make art.