Ten Poems About Knitting

Candlestick Press offers completely unique and beautiful poetry chapbooks, which can to be given instead of a greeting card. The chapbooks are designed and printed in the UK on high quality, tactile paper and are packaged with a bookmark left blank for your message' as well as an envelope. People need only a stamp to send these lovely gifts on their way. The chapbooks are delightful and intellectually gratifying. They are objects of beauty and offer poems that are worthwhile, profound, and exhilarating to read. A pamphlet of irresistible poems about the joys of plain, purl, and cable stitches. The poems celebrate dexterity and companionship, and conjure the magical moment when the door of the local wool shop opens onto hushed knitters, heads bowed over patterns, flicking through the pages in search of the perfect cardigan. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Jane Duran, Sue Dymoke, Roy Fisher, Christopher James, Jackie Kay, Gwyneth Lewis, Liz Lochhead, Allison McVety, Jessie Pope, and Lydia Towsey.

"Solveig Hisdal is not only aware of the knowledge housed in Norway's museums, she has also learned how to use it. She has visited museums throughout the country, searching eagerly for the treasures that her ancestors left behind. She has found textiles, chests, cabinets and old folk costumes that have later become her greatest source of inspiration. This book is a result of her quest, and it shows how the creativity of the past has inspired her to make beautiful knitted designs. It contains wonderful knitting ideas for almost all occasions, from a child's christening outfit to an exquisite, knitted bridal cardigan with beads and silk. Whether you wish to be inspired by the beautiful pictures, or knit some of the outfits -- enjoy the book!"--P. [4] of cover.

Tonks brings the gift of haiku to the world of knitting in this collection of sixty poems showcasing a love of fiber, the joy of yarn and the full spectrum of the human emotional response. Insightful and often witty, these haiku will delight the knitters and non knitters alike with their simple joy.

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Megan Baldrige is a poet who knits, or, a knitter who moonlights as a poet. In poetry, she does not usually rhyme; in knitting, sometimes her seams are a little unseemly. She loves putting ideas, questions and noticings about knitting into verse. "Finally-a collection of clever, funny, wistful, undeniably true insights into the addictive folly that we sufferers know of as knitting. The mad thoughts behind those rhythmic clicks have been translated into purls of wisdom. Guaranteed to leave you in stitches!" Keiko Ohnuma writer, editor and knitter "Knitting - changing a strand of yarn into a pair of socks, a sweater, a blanket - contains a sort of magic. Creating poetry contains that same magic. Megan Baldrige's poems about knitting conjure a paranormal world usually reserved for knitters that can now be shared by the rest of us." Larry Schulte, poet "If you took Megan Baldrige's knitting poems for pure light-hearted wit and whimsy, you were misled. Like knitting itself, her poetry appears humble and unpretentious. But the wit is always sharp, forthright. And her themes are deeply meaningful. This is a collection about knitting, yes. But that is only half of it. These poems are guides for living." Mary Dudley, Poet and Specialist in child & family development

This masterfully assembled volume, arranged chronologically, reveals American poets' shifting, conflicting reactions to the war and highlights their efforts to shape U.S. policies and define American attitudes. In his introduction, Mark W. Van Wienen describes the rapid, politically charged responses possible in a culture attuned to poetry. His historical and biographical notes provide a sturdy framework for the study of poetry's role in social activism and change during the "war to end war." The most complete resource of its kind, Rendezvous with Death brings together poetry originally published in little magazines, labor journals, newspapers, and wartime anthologies. Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson, Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay.

While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with the late nineteenth century, these poets were active in the twentieth century, but their later writing is overlooked in modernist-dominated studies, partly due to this poetry’s adherence to traditional form. This book reveals that these poets, far from being irrelevant to modernity, used these established forms to address contemporary concerns, including suffrage, sexuality, motherhood, and the First World War. The chapters focus on Meynell’s manipulations of metre to contemplate temporality and literary tradition; Michael Field’s use of blank verse to portray the conflicted modern woman; Radford’s adaptation of the aesthetic song-like lyric to tackle the experience of the city, urban crime, and suffrage; and Tynan’s employment of the ballad to soothe bereaved mothers during the First World War. This book ultimately shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity, illuminating debates about form, tradition, and gender in twentieth-century poetry.