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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 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.
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
American Poetry by Edited by John Hollander
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry for Young People S.
Like America itself, this selection of 26 poems and evocative accompanying illustrations celebrates freedom, cultural diversity, art and imagination This introductory collection of his most accessible and mesmerizing American poems of the last 200 years, includes work by: - Walt Whitman - Ralph Waldo Em ...Show more
American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115) - Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker by Robert Hass (Compiled by); John Hollander (Compiled by); Carolyn Kizer (Compiled by); Nathaniel Mackey (Compiled by); Marjorie Perloff (Compiled by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Library of America: the American Poetry Anthology Ser.
In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry throug ...Show more
American Poetry: the Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116) - E. E. Cummings to May Swenson by Robert Hass (Compiled by); John Hollander (Compiled by); Carolyn Kizer (Compiled by); Nathaniel Mackey (Compiled by); Marjorie Perloff (Compiled by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Library of America: the American Poetry Anthology Ser.
"The editing is more than brilliant- It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close." -Talk This second volume ...Show more
Amnesia Findings by Anna Jacobson
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps - slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex - I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory.Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson's collection traces the skeins of ...Show more