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Ten Poems by the Romantics by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Stationery
With an Introduction by Catherine Kay, Education Officer at The Wordsworth Trust, Ten Poems by The Romantics covers a lot of ground in a short space (not quite William Blake's a world in a grain of sand but something along those lines). The Romantics shared a passionate belief in the transforming pow ...Show more
Ten Poems for Spring by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Fiction
Sunshine and showers, cuckoos, frogs, daffodils and cherry blossom.... Poets writing about spring certainly have no shortage of material. Our selection of poems takes in many of these yearly delights. There are contemporary voices a poem in which a dog sniffs around a city park and enjoys the new smells ...Show more
Ten Poems for Summer by AUTHORS, VARIOUS
Category: Poetry
"There seem to be fewer poems about summer than about other seasons. Perhaps the impulse to be outdoors when the weather is at its best goes against the inward mood that writing poems requires. This makes poetry about summer all the more glorious – each poem in this mini-anthology is like a rare, bright ...Show more
Ten Poems for Winter by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
Winter seems to divide opinion more than any other season; we love it or we definitely don't! The poems in this mini-anthology are guaranteed to delight readers of every persuasion; we encounter muddy walks, ice-skating, cosy fires, chilblains and even a snow pudding. There's also a Skype meeting betwee ...Show more
Ten Poems from Cornwall by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
The skinny and rocky coastline of Cornwall has spawned some invigorating poetry. In these ten poems including one in both English and Kernewek, or Cornish we encounter land and sea, wild ponies and a Modernist artist, alongside a hill-top 'huer' whose job is to call the fishermen when the pilchard arriv ...Show more
Ten Poems from Yorkshire by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
Vikings, Romans, Normans. Grand industrial cities and national parks. Yorkshire encompasses so much that it probably takes poetry to do it justice. And who better to choose the poems than the 'Bard of Barnsley' Ian McMillan, who still lives in the Yorkshire town where he was born. The poems travel the l ...Show more
Ten Poems of Kindness: Volume Two by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
This moving anthology of poems about kindness is a second volume which beautifully complements Ten Poems of Kindness, edited by Jackie Kay. These ten poems were successful in our Kindness Poem Competition in association with Fair Saturday Foundation, and they offer a rich variety of experiences and refl ...Show more
Ten Poems of the Soil by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Gifts
Soil, earth, clay, sod, clod: there's no shortage of one-syllable words for the stuff that gets behind our fingernails and sticks to our wellies. And it's strangely enjoyable to say these words out loud as if they remind us of childhood and sitting in the dirt to make mud pies. This mini-anthology delig ...Show more
The Constitution of the United States of America: And Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers (leather bound) by Various Authors
Category: Classic | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
This leatherbound collection of classic works traces the founding of America, from the birth of the nation in the late 1760s to the creation of a more perfect union at the end of the early 1800s. It celebrates the pursuit of life, liberty and justice and the freedoms that define America through notable ...Show more
The Great War:: Memory, Perceptions and 10 Contested Questions (MP3) by Various Authors
Category: Audio
Endgame: The Hundred Days offensive brought an end to the stalemate in the trenches and saw the collapse of the Central Powers. Should the allies have occupied Germany at the end of the War, and if they had, could they have prevented WW2? Other Voices, Other Battles: Could the Entente powers have surviv ...Show more