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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "If ever two were one, then surely we." So says the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet. These days, her portrayal of the marriage bond as one of unconditional mutual devotion might underestimate the complexity of the husband/wife relationship. The other poems in this vivid and entertaining mini-anthology go on to celebrate just that. Our selection offers moments of tenderness, romance and wry humour. There's a poem in which a newly-married woman reflects on the "woosh" sound of the word wife and another where a man wonders about a woman he's never met, as if he could have married her. We encounter a mysterious wife who arrives when the tide is right, while for Tiffany Atkinson a husband is like a farmers' market, his heart ".a loom of many rhizomes". These beguiling poems are arranged in pairs so they speak to each other across the page rather like a husband and wife engrossed in conversation across an old kitchen table. Poems by Moniza Alvi, Tiffany Atkinson, Mike Barlow, Anne Bradstreet, Angela Carter, Choman Hardi, Paul Henry, Ada Limon, Linda Pastan, RS Thomas and Tiphanie Yanique. Cover illustration by Hilke MacIntyre. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This mini anthology is a celebration of the rich variety of ways in which we get ourselves from A to B. A long distance walk, a bike ride, a boat trip all are here in language that captures the thrill of being en route. We meet cyclists pedalling with panniers around eastern France. Then there's a rowdy train journey from Barrow to Sheffield; the passengers may be raucous but what is relished is the train's "relentless pressing on". Sheenagh Pugh's poem wonders what might happen if a road had a mind of its own. Then again: "Who wants to know a story's end, or where a road will go?" - from 'What if this road' by Sheenagh Pugh Whether you're a seasoned explorer or an armchair traveller, these poems offer the delight and excitement of being on the way to somewhere else. Poems by Jean Atkin, Jo Bell, Geoffrey Chaucer, David Constantine, John Foggin, Norman MacCaig, Michael McCarthy, Kim Moore, Sheenagh Pugh and Rabindranath Tagore. Cover illustration by Gail Brodholt. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A bouquet is a welcome and beautiful thing, but the beauty is inevitably short-lived. This delightful mini-anthology, however, is guaranteed never to wither. Roses, fritillaries, daisies, gentians and the humble ragwort are celebrated here by poets ranging from Mimi Khalvati to William Wordsworth. We experience their colours and scents in vivid language, so each lives on the page with all the intensity of a real flower. Sometimes it seems we can even learn from them; lilacs growing in an urban street know as much about love as we do: "Lilac, like love, makes no distinction. It will open for anyone. Even before love knows that it is love lilac knows it must blossom." - from 'City Lilacs' by Helen Dunmore This is one of the lovely mysteries of these poems that a flower can somehow be like us and shed light on our own hopes and joys. Poems by John Clare, Beth Davies, Helen Dunmore, John Heath-Stubbs, Sean Hewitt, Mimi Khalvati, DH Lawrence, Anne Ridler, Edward Thomas and William Wordsworth. Cover illustration by Angie Lewin. Supplied with envelope and bookmark. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This second edition of our popular mini-anthology calls at every stop on love's roller-coaster journey from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age. In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt: ".you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you" - from 'i carry your heart with me' by ee cummings Along the way there's also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul. These are poems that capture all the light and shade of love; poems to make you think and feel. The selection is edited and introduced by Lorraine Mariner, a poet and librarian who works at the National Poetry Library in London. Poems by Fleur Adcock, John Ashbery, ee cummings, Tishani Doshi, Lorraine Mariner, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Sinead Morrissey, Peter Sansom, Alfred Lord Tennyson and RS Thomas. Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows. Supplied with envelope and bookmark. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The poems in this selection take us on an exhilarating canter through our friendships with horses. Along the way, we meet an edgy stallion waiting for his winter bale and a pony picking her way across paddocks after having her hooves trimmed: ".she sidled through the silver air pretending to shy at shadows each hair of her coat standing upright with joy." - from 'The Grey Pony' by Dorothy Hewett There are also encounters of a quieter kind a moment lingering at a field gate as horses decide whether to come over and say hello. The poems beautifully illustrate that humans and equines are always equals. We can learn as much from them as they from us. Alison Brackenbury is an award-winning poet who has kept and loved horses for most of her life. Poems by Alison Brackenbury, Jane Commane, Tony Curtis, Sally Goldsmith, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Jen Hadfield, Dorothy Hewett, Geoffrey Holloway, Maxine Kumin and Robert Wrigley. Cover illustration by Lizzie Ginbey and Barry Tottle. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The appeal of snow must have something to do with childhood the excitement of waking up to a white world and placing our wellies into cold crunchiness. As adults we still feel the magic of snow's hushed calm, which for a few days can slow down our hectic lives. This mini anthology takes us on an enchanted journey through worlds of snow until we arrive, of course, in Robert Frost's mysterious snowy woods. You'll also find poems published here for the first time winners and runners-up in our snow poem competition. Each offers a delightfully unexpected response: "And I stood at the window and held the cat warm and purring Heart to heart with me as we watched the snow fall That is like grace, making all things new." - from 'The Symmetry of Snow' by Meda AA Stamper Poems by Carole Bromley, Billy Collins, Kerry Darbishire, Robert Frost, Lucy Jeynes, Joanne Key, Gill McEvoy, Jill Munro, Meda AA Stamper, and CK Williams. Cover illustration by Sam Cannon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Each of these sonnets is an exquisite gift in itself. From Anne Stevenson's lonely house waiting for snow (and an absent lover) to May Sarton's celebration of the quiet company of a Christmas tree, James Nash's selection of poems invites us to reflect on the chilly beauty of winter and the lovely blaze of Christmas at its heart. We meet a superstore's reluctant Father Christmas who is surprised out of his own cynicism, and a herd of ponies that break loose from their hobbles to gallop away towards the frozen moor and freedom: "City horses shaggy as Christmas tinsel Crazy with the thin, cold air and hope." - from 'Free' by Joolz Denby Poems by John Clare, Joolz Denby, Erik Didriksen, Aileen Lucia Fisher, Kevin Holloway, Claude McKay, Alice Meynell, James Nash, May Sarton, William Shakespeare, Anne Stevenson, David Tait, Sara Teasdale and Judith Wright. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Sunshine and showers, cuckoos, frogs, daffodils and cherry blossom. Poets writing about spring certainly have no shortage of material. Our selection of poems takes in many of these yearly delights. There are contemporary voices a poem in which a dog sniffs around a city park and enjoys the new smells, and another where an "immortal frog" seems to promise the speaker fresh hope and a return to good health. In a poem from the nineteenth century, spring is a time of renewal when the world is restored to its original beauty: "What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning." - from 'Spring' by Gerard Manley Hopkins This delightful mini-anthology provides a taste of the countless ways in which this most uplifting of seasons has been celebrated in verse over the centuries. Poems by Thomas Carew, John Clare, Nichola Deane, Emily Dickinson, Valerie Gillies, Gerard Manley Hopkins, AE Housman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jessica Mookherjee and Alicia Ostriker. Cover illustration by Alexandra Buckle. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The switching on of festive lights in towns and villages across the land announces the fact that Christmas is fast approaching. It also marks the start of real winter. This delightful selection contains ten brand new poems by leading contemporary poets and comes with a limited edition poem postcard. We find light in all its many shapes and forms from the 'glittering heart' of Paris in December to the glint of a skater's boot on a frozen lake or the sugary shine of a child's candy cane. And worlds away from the hubbub and dazzle, there's the silent watcher at the window who: ".sits on the low sill, half- dreaming, watching the lights churn over the hills, whisky gold in her glass." - from 'Northern Lights' by Nancy Campbell The special postcard features the poem This little town by Rob Miles, winner of our postcard poem competition. Poems by Nancy Campbell, Niall Campbell, John Clegg, Tony Curtis, Katherine Gallagher, Stephen Keeler, Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Lowe, Kim Moore and Amali Rodrigo. Cover illustration by Sarah Young. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. There seems to be a natural connection between walking and poetry. For William Wordsworth, the regular rhythm of walking was a stimulus to writing, and he said that "nine-tenths of my verses have been poured out in the open air." This beautiful mini-anthology contains William Wordsworth's heart-stopping 'Old Man Travelling' alongside contemporary poems that capture the delights of a walk with a dear friend and of walking in solitude. There's a poem about setting off through city streets to find a river and a heron, and another featuring a surprising encounter on the top of Helvellyn. One by one then as a whole, these poems remind us that being on foot is one of the best ways of experiencing the world: "Sole self I bedded down close as I could To listen: lapping, birdlife homing, settling." - from 'Lake' by David Constantine Sasha Dugdale is an award-winning poet and translator and a keen walker. Poems by Matthew Clegg, David Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, Choman Hardi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Stephanie Norgate, MR Peacocke, Stephen Watts, William Wordsworth and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Cover illustration by Hugh Ribbans. Supplied with envelope and bookmark. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Whether you're proficient with purl, canny with cable or don't know your size 9s from your shoe size, here are ten irresistible poems about the joys of knitting. Stitches morph into poems in which needles flash like rapiers, wool is wound into balls and the door of the local wool shop opens onto hushed knitters, heads bowed over patterns, flicking through the pages in search of the perfect cardigan. Knitting for love, knitting for life, knitting for neighbourly togetherness the poems in this pamphlet ravel us closer and tighter, until we could almost believe that: "If space is made of superstrings, Then God's a knitter, everything Is craft, and perhaps we could darn Tears in the space-time continuum." - from 'The Symbolism of Ancient Sweaters' by Gwyneth Lewis Poems by Emily Dickinson, Jane Duran, Sue Dymoke, Roy Fisher, Christopher James, Jackie Kay, Gwyneth Lewis, Liz Lochhead, Allison McVety, Jessie Pope and Lydia Towsey. Cover illustration by Jan Brewerton. Supplied with envelope and bookmark. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. With an Introduction by Catherine Kay, Education Officer at The Wordsworth Trust, Ten Poems by The Romantics covers a lot of ground in a short space (not quite William Blake's a world in a grain of sand but something along those lines). The Romantics shared a passionate belief in the transforming power of the imagination and a related faith in the human spirit. The poems in this selection introduce the reader to the ideas and themes of Romantic poetry, and also to its beauty and music. Poems by William Blake, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Cover illustration by Peter Reddick. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. We've all heard the phrase eat your greens, but vegetables come in countless other colours that are every bit as nutritious and delicious as the green ones. This selection captures the many glories of the vegetable kingdom, finding delight in planting, tending and digging them up, as well as in cooking and eating them. Anyone who has an allotment or vegetable patch (or just a tub by the back door) will know there's nothing quite like a home-grown potato or tomato. From skinny beans to curvaceous aubergines, the poems explore the almost-human shapes and textures of vegetables, which appeal to the senses in so many different ways: It's the perfect vegetable, palette-green, bottle-glass-glossy, three dimensional, curvyon top, firm-limbed but friable. - from 'Broccoli' by Siriol Troup This irresistible anthology creates a vividly earthy world, full of charm and wit. Poems by Alison Brackenbury, Miriam Darlington, Jen Hadfield, Ted Kooser, Michael Laskey, Thomas Lux, Natasha Rao, Sumana Roy, Siriol Troup and Steve Waling. Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This title from Candlestick Press is something of a departure: all the poems have been chosen by pupils at Headington School and the selection includes contributions written by the students themselves and by their English teacher, Liz Soar. The pupils were diligent editors and their choices reflect the multicultural world in which they are growing up. There's a poem in three languages about a joyful reunion with a grandparent arriving from overseas and another in which a Muslim grandmother raises eyebrows in a posh department store by washing her feet in the sink in the ladies' room. But the abiding spirit of the selection is the sense of safety and comfort we feel in the company of a beloved grandparent. Joan Johnston's tiny poem 'Safe' captures the feelings of a child tucked up in bed while a grandmother busies herself downstairs in the kitchen. Or as Andrew Waterhouse says so touchingly, it's simply about: "feeling his heat, knowing the slow pulse of his good heart." - from 'Climbing my Grandfather' by Andrew Waterhouse Poems by Tiffany Atkinson, John Burnside, Katie Cleverley, Vicki Feaver, Joan Johnston, Katerina de Jong / Anastasia Matveeva / Minnah Rashid, Mohja Kahf, Derek Mahon, Liz Soar and Andrew Waterhouse. Illustration by Kathy Morgan. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In this vivid selection of poems we enter museums both real and imaginary to discover a host of beguiling artefacts. Museums manage to contain whole worlds. They can show us life as it was lived in past centuries or prompt us to imagine how the future might unfold. Some of the objects in a museum may be workaday, but they have a remarkable power to express deep truths about our human lives. In the 'room of clocks' at the British Museum: Time thickens here, revolves, regards itself in mirrors; almost, each minute holds its place. - from 'Visit to the British Museum' by Frances Horovitz What characterises every museum is the ability to inspire a sense of wonder and possibility. Museums are places we should cherish and these poems demonstrate and celebrate that compelling fact. Poems by Alison Brackenbury, David Clarke, Glyn Edwards, Suzannah Evans, Helen Farish, Thomas Hardy, Frances Horovitz, Robert Minhinnick, Tom Sastry and Lesley Saunders. Cover illustration by Jane Burn. Includes one poetry pamphlet, ECO-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Everyday treat, indulgent luxury or an addiction we can't or won't break many of us have a passionate relationship with chocolate, making it perfect subject matter for poetry. This luscious mini-anthology celebrates preferences for milk or plain, pralines or fondants, rich truffles or the sweetest hot chocolate drinks. Anyone who has ever craved chocolate will identify with poems that explore its sensuous aspects taste, texture, mouthfeel in an intensity akin to love. And if chocolate is like love, then these poems explore the depth and shape of that love: Knotted smoke, dark punch of earth and night and leaf, for a taste of you any woman would gladly crumble to ruin. - from 'Chocolate' by Rita Dove These entertaining, unexpected and moving poems also explore the history of chocolate, and the price paid by those whose hard work brings it to our lips. Poems by Clare Best, Alison Brackenbury, Barbara Crooker, Rita Dove, Roy Marshall, Ife Olatona, Pauline Prior-Pitt, Louis Simpson, Oenone Thomas and Noel Williams. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Northumberland is border country a place of ballads and battles and windswept beaches where grand castles stand sentinel. This mini anthology celebrates the wild beauty of the county's landscapes, where the past still seems to linger in the ruggedness of rock and moorland. Water laps at the edges of many of the poems. There's an evocation of crossing the causeway to Holy Island as the tide swirls inward and a paean to Berwick upon Tweed with its platinum threadings of submersion. There's also a poignant elegy to the famous sycamore that was illegally felled in 2023: This is how we will keep on planting you into our lives, though none of it can echo the way that you held the rain in your arms, or how you wore the colours of autumn on your bonfire crown - from 'The Sycamore's Ghost' by Jane Burn The poem honours a tree that was loved by many, keeping it alive for us all in language. Jane Burn is a poet and artist who lives in an off-grid cottage in Northumberland. Poems by Bob Beagrie, Jane Burn, John Challis, Linda France, Harry Gallagher, Wilfrid Gibson, Carmen Marcus, Katrina Porteous, Degna Stone and James Tait. Cover Cover illustration by Mark. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It's easy to imagine Norfolk as just wide skies and long flat horizons. This lively selection of poems shows that there's plenty more to discover in this very easterly corner of Britain. There's a paean to the region's distinctive pale flint with its black, cracked-open heart together with a reminder of the sunken trees of Doggerland now lost to the waters. We also explore the county's history as a centre for the textile industry, meeting the throwsterers, twisterers and wool-combers who came over from the Low Countries. Norfolk is a place people long to return to whether by crossing land or sea: Who amongst us has never been a stranger at some shore, like a hopeful little boat. How does anyone end up anywhere? - from 'Cloth' by Martin Figura The anthology captures Norfolk as a place of echoes and deep history whose wild beauty never forgets the tang of the sea. Poems by Moniza Alvi, Camilla Doyle, Martin Figura, Jen Hadfield, Matt Howard, Helen Ivory, John Kett, Andrew McDonnell, Esther Morgan and George Szirtes. Cover illustration by Louise Stebbing. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The weather is always a good topic of conversation, especially if we don't know the other person very well. Wherever we are on the planet we can't help noticing when it's too hot or too cold or something in between. In these ten poems we encounter everything from drought to a hurricane, taking in fog, snow and spring sunshine on the way. It goes without saying that there is also more than enough rain. The poems don't merely describe weather; they also capture how it can induce in us particular feelings and states of mind. In one poem, rain creates a very particular atmosphere: I love the privacy of rain, the way it makes things happen on verandahs, under canopies or in the shelter of trees - from 'Privacy of rain' by Helen Dunmore The poems are as varied as weather itself, taking us through the changing seasons and relishing the inevitable surprises that come along the way. Poems by Emily Bronte, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Helen Dunmore, Norman MacCaig, Graham Mort, Grace Nichols, Sheenagh Pugh, Neil Rollinson and Annette Volfing. Cover illustration by Melissa Lhoirit. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A child's delight in the excitement of Christmas is the abiding spirit of these new poems by Irish poet Tony Curtis. The mini-anthology sparkles with dreams, memories and surprises creating a magical world that families everywhere will love to share. In one poem a boy scans the night sky for Santa Claus and sees instead his "lookout" in the form of a robin redbreast. We also meet two young brothers hunting for holly and stumbling on a magic spell that makes berries appear. The title poem is a modern nursery rhyme that readers of every age will enjoy reading out loud a journey to Christmas on a bus with snowballs for wheels and stars for windows: "And the driver must have a nose that glows so he knows by snow-light where he goes." - from 'By Bus to Christmas' Specially written for the young and young-at-heart to read together, the poems are guaranteed to add an extra sprinkle of magic dust to every Christmas. Poems by Tony Curtis. Cover illustration by Celia Hart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Childhood must be one of poetry's very favourite subjects. Countless poems try to capture the light and shade of being very young moments that lodge vividly in our adult memories. This beautiful mini-anthology ventures off the beaten track with poems that will be new to many readers. From a group of children who: ".thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops," - from 'The Railway Children' by Seamus Heaney to a baby entranced by mirrors and glass, we see the world in language that sparkles with newness. Mimi Khalvati's selection reflects her fascination with how we learn to talk and read, and there are poems about a first encounter with books and about children from different cultures playing ball and swapping words in a village square. Mimi Khalvati is an award-winning poet and founder of the Poetry School. Poems by Kayo Chingonyi, Jane Duran, Louise Glueck, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Jennings, Mimi Khalvati, Hannah Lowe, James Merrill, Tracy K Smith and James Womack. Cover illustration by Celia Hart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Butterflies must be the most beautiful of all insects. They are with us while the warm weather lasts, and seeing a Brimstone in a garden early in the year is one of the most delightful heralds of spring's arrival. The vividness and frailty of butterflies as they flicker across our summer meadows are why they seem to embody a sense of transience and may also be why they are so popular with poets. For Judith Wright a butterfly's short life is all about love: Lifted by air and dream they rose and circled into heaven's slipstream to seek each other over fields of blue. - from 'Wings' by Judith Wright This glorious selection celebrates butterflies from all over the world from a Swallowtail in the English Fens to a Spotted Jezebel in Australia and reminds us to look closely at their dazzling beauty while we can. Poems by Nandi Chinna, John Clare, WH Davies, Emily Dickinson, Robert Graves, Matthew Hollis, John Kinsella, Grace Nichols, Giles Watson and Judith Wright. Cover illustration by Carry Akroyd. Includes one poetry pamphlet, envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 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 be expressed using all sorts of images there's even a riff on a famous Shakespeare sonnet where we find ourselves in outer space but at the heart of all the poems is love and the urgent need to proclaim it: "I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire." - from 'I Love You' by Ella Wheeler Wilcox This is an anthology that says "I love you" with a freshness and directness that's guaranteed to stir even the stoniest of hearts. Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Katharine Goda, Nathalie Handal, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Mulholland, James Nash, Abigail Parry, Rachel Plummer, William Shakespeare, Penny Sharman, Dominic Weston and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Includes one poetry pamphlet, envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Spring can creep up on us; when it's grey and chilly it's easy to miss the early signs that a new season is on the way. In her lyrical evocation of a pond on Dartmoor, leading naturalist Miriam Darlington pays close and loving attention to the quiet changes that take place at the very start of spring from the first shoots of flag iris to the shivery delta of frogspawn as it starts to wriggle with tadpoles. There is an abiding sense of the enriching connection between humans and the wild landscape: The moor in spring can be an absorbent place. It takes you and your mood and enfolds you beneath its wing. Low sun brushed the grass tips, and in the pearly sky something subtle was happening. It was reflected in the water surface that was all a-glimmer, shining cloud on cloud as if sending it all back skywards This beautiful pamphlet will delight readers at any time of year a reminder that nature is always there, waiting to beguile us with its wonders. Poems by Diana Hendry and Edward Thomas. Cover illustration by Sarah Young. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Our poetic version of this much-loved companion features a beautiful poem for each month of the year from the forward/backward-looking days of early January to the darkness of "the year's husk" in December. There's plenty of weather, of course, alongside poems that take stock of the world from indoors: from a stair beneath a window or a bedroom full of sunlight. We also find ourselves in a city street and on a high-rise balcony where birds arrive to forage for crumbs. Everywhere we find a sense that days, months and seasons are to be noticed and relished, whether they bring with them peace or drama: "The days go out with shouting; nights are loud; Wild, warring shapes the wood lifts in the cold; The moon's a sword of keen, barbaric gold, Plunged to the hilt into a pitch black cloud." - from 'Mid-March' by Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems by John Clare, Tony Curtis, Tishani Doshi, Helen Dunmore, Jenny King, Norman MacCaig, Lisel Mueller, Justin Quinn, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Arthur Symons, Sara Teasdale and Derek Walcott. Cover illustration by Clare Curtis. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Nottingham's history includes world-famous tales of Robin Hood, a castle that has been burnt down not once, but twice (an indication of the rebelliousness with which Nottingham has always been associated), famed Nottingham ale new micro-breweries still flourish in the county and other industries including mining and bicycle manufacture. Ten Poems about Nottingham presents images of Nottingham, rural and urban, from the eighteenth century to the present day. With a broad brushstroke and considerable wit, John Lucas' selection culminates in Wayne Burrows' account of the present-day stag and hen parties whose antics enliven the city centre, to the amusement of onlookers. It is arguably the best (the only?) poem ever written on the subject: '.and in all this, between folk memory, amnesia and marketing, the men in orange and yellow striped lycra tights and the men in fishnet stockings and silk suspender belts are still calling to the women wearing pink lace fairy wings.' - From 'The Second Time as Farce' by Wayne Burrows John Lucas is a distinguished Nottingham academic, writer and publisher. Cover illustration by Sarah Kirby. Poems by Cathy Grindrod, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Derrick Buttress, DH Lawrence, Henry Kirke White, Joan Downar, 'Mr Gemthorpe', Rosie Garner, Wayne Burrows and Vernon Scannell. A pamphlet of ten poems about Nottingham. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This mini-anthology is the outbound leg of our pair of titles celebrating train travel, and it takes us on some fascinating worldwide adventures. Again and again the poems dramatise the fact that when we board a train we open ourselves up to unexpected and vivid encounters. Trains can't help being political; they cover vast distances and experience far more than we ever will: Racing on iron errands, the trains go by, and over the white acres of our orchards hurl their wild summoning cry, their animal cry from 'The Trains' by Judith Wright Most of all, the selection is alive to the sheer power of trains their ability to carry us away and also to make us stop in our tracks to take stock of exactly where we are. Poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Paul Durcan, Langston Hughes, Ada Limon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alice Duer Miller, Andre Naffis-Sahely, Mary Ruefle, Declan Ryan and Judith Wright. Cover illustration by Gail Brodholt. Includes one poetry pamphlet, envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.