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A Kinder Sea by Felicity Plunkett
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
I run as fast as ink but we are both dissolving: when I reach you, we become a corner of the sea. A Kinder Sea explores the sea as sanctuary, hoard and repository. Composed of sequences - love letters, elegies, narratives and odes - it looks outwards from the intimate to take in others' lives and voices ...Show more
A Nature Poem For Every Night Of The Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Relax and unwind at the end of the day with this calming collection of nature poems--one for each night of the year. Now more than ever we need something to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through the natura ...Show more
A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year by Liz Ison
Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one glorious poem for every day of the year. Everyone benefits from reading aloud, whether it's a bedtime story with Dad or Granny, an intimate moment with a loved one ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions
A series of verses set in the half-imaginary Shropshire, "A Shropshire Lad" is A.E. Housman's most famous collection of poetry. Initially self-published, with little profit, it became hugely popular during the World War I.
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous
Category: Poetry | Series: Etel Adnan Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry PrizeInside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funeralsThis layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, ...Show more
A World of Poetry by Michael Rosen
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry S.
An eclectic mixture of poetry, ballads, limericks, riddles and nonsense verse from all over the world. They range from the famous to the unknown, from the thoughtful to the hilarious, and from poems thousands of years old to some that are new.
A Year of Reading Aloud - 52 Poems to Learn and Love by Georgina Rodgers
Category: Poetry | Series: POETRY
Enjoy the magic of reading aloud and switch off from the distractions of life through the contemplation of poetry. Reciting poetry is a tradition as old as time. Ancient Greeks used it for awakening the mind and shaping character. Memorising poetry exercises the brain and gives it strength to learn and ...Show more
ASYMMETRY by COLEMAN, AIDAN
Category: No Category | Series: POETRY
Coleman's images are lightning flashes. With lucid spareness this powerful collection contains beautiful, and sometimes shocking, poetry. The poems vividly and movingly trace experiences inconceivable to most: losing and then fighting to regain mind, movement, voice, words. It is emotional, but always c ...Show more
Aboriginal Country by Lisa Bellear; Jen Jewel Brown (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first ...Show more
Acrostic Poetry - The First-Ever Anthology by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll's acrostic about the namesake of his ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; John Tenniel (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry Ser.
It's been 150 years since Lewis Carroll penned Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Harlequin TEEN is celebrating this anniversary with a special new release of the beloved classic that inspired Gena Showalter's New York Times bestselling series The White Rabbit Chronicles. Don't miss this exclusive eb ...Show more