Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Selected Poems by Langston HughesWith a new introduction by the multi prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959. It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch

and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks

Olive is a shy girl who prefers reading about adventures to having them herself

what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media

Ancient myth is reanimated in the desolation of Persephone's laments for the lost warmth of earthly life

Ernest Hemingway

This is my story

nature at night and in the city

With his father now in prison

From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied

It is a story about music and identity

author of Still LifeLonglisted for the Dublin Literary AwardA stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love

the little black kitten finally finds her own