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Shape of My Heart by Sting
Category: Children's | Series: Art & Poetry S.
"Shape of My Heart" is the fourth instalment in "Welcome's Art and Poetry" series, which celebrates the passions of life through unique pairings of words and art. "Shape of My Heart" marries the complex lyrics of pop icon Sting with the mesmerizing images of Pablo Picasso, perhaps the greatest artist of ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
Category: Education | Series: New California Poetry Ser.
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her m nage trois with these faithful companions, the poet is awar ...Show more
Snake Like Charms by Joy, Amanda
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Amanda Joys first book Snake Like Charms was five years in the making. Its grounded deep in reality as are the snake cultures and legends it draws from. Amanda Joy is a poet from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, origin of the Rainbow Serpent, the Great Spirit that represents the ...Show more
Soho by Richard Scott
Category: Education | Series: Faber Poetry
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, drawing upon his experience of London's gay communities. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray ...Show more
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Songs of Innocence and Experienceis one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an innovative and groundbreaking experiment in which Blake intertwined text and image to dazzling effect. The volume, published sometimes as two separate collections, juxtaposes the innocent world of childhood with ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Category: Audio Books | Series: Classic poetry
This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent a ...Show more
Sophie Collins - Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018 In the language of fan fiction, a "Mary Sue" is an idealized and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by ...Show more
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska
Category: Poetry | Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a larg ...Show more
Special The by David Stavanger
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Award. Both fun and playful, Stavanger's poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Spooky Poems Aloud - 25 Poems to Frighten and Delight by Joseph Coelho; Daniel Gray-Barnett (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Poetry to Perform Ser.
Spooky Poems Aloud is a collection of Halloween-themed poems to help children build confidence reading out loud and improve their speech and drama skills.