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This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is essential for our well-being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a minute or two away.

Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a river god in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale. Soar too close to the sun with Inua Ellam's timely story of a young refugee girl. Fly to a mysterious castle inhabited by a cursed prince with Helen Mort's retelling of 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon'. Uncover the truth of #Bluebeard with Joelle Taylor's modernised fairy tale. Look to the constellations with Will Harris' futuristic Greek tragedy, and never, ever answer to your name in Malika Booker's Trinidadian re-creation of the douen.

A collection of poems of love, loss, betrayal, and survival. These words will take you on a journey to darkness and hopelessness but in the end the damaged soul rises, becomes smarter, more in charge and finds the self-worth needed so the same mistakes in love do not repeat... Dark, Gritty, Funny, and Sincere. This is the second poetry book from author and poet, Tamara Helene Arrington.

Sono sicura che le poesie che ho scritto in questa raccolta le troverai semplici, piacevoli e interessanti; la loro lettura, sarà in grado di farti porre interrogativi che ti aiuteranno a riflettere su emozioni, sensazioni vissute e desiderate, e infine su questa realtà che, diciamocela tutta, ci ha disabituati a guardare in noi stessi.

while they sleep (under the bed is another country) is written in dialogic fragments and interspersed with prose poems reflecting on the lasting impact of colonial trauma. The bed on which America sleeps is built on the fear that the nations it has oppressed will rise up against it, a monstrous shadow in a child's nightmare. Written in English, while they sleep points to an imperialist American identity: the dormant body of the text. Answering in Spanish, under the bed is another country is the footnote, the monster under the bed, the colony: Puerto Rico.