Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    36 Exposures: Poems for life, love, people, and places
    36 Exposures: Poems for life, love, people, and places
    36 Exposures: Poems for life, love, people, and places
    Ebook83 pages35 minutes

    36 Exposures: Poems for life, love, people, and places

    By Tom Gamble

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "Gamble's poetry is humorous, philosophical and honest. His poetry lifts you up, and slams you down with just as much enthusiasm. This is accomplished work." Paul Raine, editor of Poetic Review.

    This is poetry. Without academic rules and guidelines. Words that can be plucked from life and held up to shine as something unique, and a gem that perfectly captures a truth. The truth of the matter is that we all write poems. At school we write poems. When we first fall in love we write poems and later on for other loves too. When someone we cherish decides to leave the stage, we write poetry. When in hard and difficult times we do the same. And sometimes, right in the middle of thought or conversation, we surprise ourselves by the sudden conjuring up of a turn-of-phrase that stands out above the rest as being rhythmic, maybe rhyming, and certainly very pertinent. Poetry is a stolen five minutes away from the crowd, the office, the computer, the phone, the expectations and the obligations. It's like a quick and passionate kiss with a love - exciting, reassuring, rebellious and true. It pierces the heart of the wider world but strangely is pointed directly at you. There indeed is a future for it in our busy, uncertain times. So weigh anchor, look around you, share a glimpse, a thought, and a moment that maybe you have already lived and never dared to capture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookPartnership.com
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9781783015450
    36 Exposures: Poems for life, love, people, and places

    Related to 36 Exposures

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year

      Jan 3, 2019

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Language the Poet Knows

      Dec 11, 2018

      The Language the Poet Knows
      4 min read

    • Article

      Airea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton

      Mar 22, 2017

      For the second installment in a monthly series of interviews with contemporary poets (read part one here), Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Airea D. Matthews. Airea D. Matthews’s first collection of poems, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series

      7 min read

    • Article

      Motherhood

      Jan 27, 2020

      Motherhood
      1 min read

    • Article

      ON SILENCE & SONG

      Jan 1, 2023

      Books “When you contemplate an object,” Plotinus tells us, “you become that thing, offer yourself as matter, allow yourself to be shaped in the form of the contemplated thing. If you remain encircled in yourself, then you are empty of world, and empt

      11 min read

    • Article

      What I Wish I’d Known

      Jun 18, 2019

      What I Wish I’d Known
      6 min read

    • Article

      On Language And Mourning

      Jul 1, 2019

      Two months before my grandfather died, he asked me to read him a poem of mine. We were at Summa Hospital. In some room. I did not want to read him a poem—because my grandfather was well read. Because he loved poetry. Because, as a child, he did not l

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Swirling Sea

      Jun 9, 2022

      The Swirling Sea
      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Generate New Ideas

      Nov 27, 2020

      How To Generate New Ideas
      4 min read

    • Article

      On Breakups

      Aug 20, 2019

      On Breakups
      9 min read

    • Article

      AgentAdvice

      Oct 13, 2021

      I received five full manuscript requests from top agents after sending queries about my debut fiction manuscript starting in the summer of 2020. While I’m normally a patient person, this is how long I’ve been waiting for responses: 256 days, 254 days

      3 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Forget Joy

      Oct 12, 2022

      WHEN Jenny Qi won the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award for her debut poetry collection, Focal Point, it was the culmination of more than a decade’s work. The earliest poem was written when she was in college, and she’d spent the previous four years

      12 min read

    • Article

      A Little About Why

      Jun 1, 2023

      A Little About Why
      15 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      I am walking through the hotelEvery time I am so sadThat I want to die It’s a place where I can keepEverything I’ve never beenBrave enough to get to Poets have moons and moneyTo get themselves throughThe longest night imaginable But I’ve had these ro

      3 min read

    • Article

      How to Live

      Feb 12, 2020

      IT IS hard to believe now, but until relatively recently there were usually just two places you could see a writer you admired: on the back flap of a book or at a public event. In the 1960s and 1970s, a very small number of writers, James Baldwin and

      9 min read

    • Article

      Writing Into Our Imagining

      Apr 12, 2023

      GRANTS and fellowships provide writers time, space, and community in which to dwell and thrive. This, along with any awarded money, can be life-changing for writers at any stage in their careers. If you’re applying to grants and fellowships as a writ

      10 min read

    • Article

      Cat in Portrait

      Jun 5, 2023

      If one misses the startingpointone startsanywhere: even ifone losesthe catis won. And no one waits. Not eventhe cat waits for the cat. The cat’s aloneand that allows itto invent itselfits passions. Its riskis to knowand beforehandthat no one will wan

      1 min read

    • Article

      An Appreciation Of Muriel Rukeyser, “St. Roach”

      Sep 1, 2021

      For that I never knew you, I only learned to dread you,for that I never touched you, they told me you are filth,they showed me by every action to despise your kind;for that I saw my people making war on you,I could not tell you apart, one from anothe

      15 min read

    • Article

      1. LINES AND shapes

      Jul 12, 2019

      1. LINES AND shapes
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for 36 Exposures

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      36 Exposures - Tom Gamble

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1