Songs of Ourselves/Stories of Ourselves

Volume 3 of Songs of Ourselves and Stories of Ourselves showcases a global range of poetry and prose that reaches across time and cultures, introducing more contemporary and diverse works. Literature students will explore a wide variety of language, form and style, covering engaging themes. Learners will feel inspired to reflect on the world around them and know it, and themselves, more richly through literature. Songs of Ourselves presents poems from over 50 countries, introducing inspiring modern work by writers such as Hone Tuwhare, Dambudzo Marechera, Iman Mersal, Sina Queyras and George the Poet plus canonical greats including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke. Stories of Ourselves, ordered chronologically, places new voices alongside well-known texts. Authors include Heinrich Böll, Bessie Head, Margaret Atwood, Earl Lovelace, Assia Djebar, Kazuo Ishiguro, Okwiri Oduor, Mimoza Ahmeti, Meron Hadero, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shih-Li Kow and Ken Liu.