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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
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
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
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.
Stations of the Crossed by Carol Rose GoldenEagle
Category: Poetry | Series: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Ser.
Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year Award; Finalist, 2023 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski; Finalist, 2023 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples? Writing Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards).Recalling Easter church services she attended as a child, Carol Rose GoldenEagle draws on the ?stations o ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Stone Mother Tongue by Annamaria Weldon
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
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Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more