Fourteen Poems to say I Love You by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry
How many ways are there to say the words "I love you"? According to poetry, the ways are countless and rich with room for humour, lust, tenderness and a healthy dose of self-mockery. These fourteen poems are not about love but declare it with an immediacy that's captivating and irresistible. Longing may ...Show more
In Memoriam: Thirty Poems of Bereavement by AUTHORS VARIOUS
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Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a sympathy card, this lovely collection of thirty poems comes complete with an envelope -a perfect gift for anyone who needs solace.
Discovery - Finding the Hidden Things I've Always Known by Margaret Randall
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Category: Poetry
Childhood impressions - teenage yearning - spiritual searching - life experiences. For some strange reason I've always had the instinct to write these things down in poetic form.It's only now, as an old lady, that I notice how often I've been asking questions. That, I think, is how the soul grows and di ...Show more
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
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Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: Poetry
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
Fat Chance: Journalism Poems by Kent MacCarter
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Category: Poetry
In Fat Chance, poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as gossypiboma - where an instrument is left behind in a body cavity afte ...Show more
River Poems by Various contributors
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Category: Poetry
An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations--the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China--and ...Show more
Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson: A selection of old favourites by Newell Rex
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Category: Poetry
The "Favourite Poems of Banjo Paterson" have always been, and still remain, firm favourites with most Australians. He was "a poet who captured characters, moments and events which are now part of our national consciousness...no one managed to tell stories which as much wit and humour as 'The Banjo'" Thi ...Show more
Ten Poems about Sheds by JOHN GREENING
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Category: Poetry
Sheds have come a long way since the man-cave cliché. These days, a shed is a far more democratic place somewhere that symbolises the privacy and space that we all need. John Greening's wonderfully varied selection of poems explores sheds from every imaginable angle. The poems take us to a child's hidin ...Show more
Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. A ...Show more
Ten Poems from the Countryside by SEAN HEWITT
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Category: Poetry
The word countryside conjures up all manner of landscapes. It can suggest woods or high moors, mountains or farmland, meadows or gentle chalk hills. In fact, the countryside is everything that isn't town or city, which is probably why we're so drawn to it. These poems selected by Irish poet Seán Hewitt ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy Forever: New Prescriptions to Soothe, Revive and Inspire by William Sieghart
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Category: Poetry
After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails he received from the public during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-pe ...Show more