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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: new. Paperback. There's a fragrant, peachy-yellow rose called 'poetry in motion' proof (if needed) of poetry's love affair with roses, this most sumptuous of flowers. Our gorgeous mini-anthology contains all manner of roses. You'll find a climbing rose that longs for another life, a meditation on the simple pleasure of tending roses and helping them to grow, together with a lyrical paean to the essence of the flower itself in all its scented, luscious-petalled glory: "Blossom, my darling, blossom, be a rose Of roses unchidden and purposeless; a rose For rosiness only, without an ulterior motive." - from 'Rose of all the World' by DH Lawrence This selection of rose poems makes a beautiful little garden that will offer delight in every season of the year. Poems by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, David Constantine, Emily Dickinson, Lucy Eddy, DH Lawrence, Stanley Plumly, Christina Rossetti, Sara Teasdale, Eloise Unerman and Jean Valentine. Cover illustration by Jane Walker. 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. This intoxicating selection of poems a mini-anthology to complement our ever-popular Ten Poems about Love captures the extraordinary power of desire, from Neil Rollinson's tenement building stirred by the passion of loving couples on St Valentine's night, to DH Lawrence's painterly celebration of a beautiful woman as she washes in early morning sunshine. Elsewhere, beds become roiling vessels for lovers with "persistent hands": "We are bare. We are stripped to the bone and we swim in tandem and go up and up the river." - from 'December 11th' by Anne Sexton There are poems that evoke passion's intensity, alongside others in which the sensuality is more obliquely expressed an apple bitten to expose surprising pink flesh or a shipwright rhapsodising over the alluring curves of his ship. Roses, oysters, chocolate even a pungent cheese stir the senses and capture the heady urgency of erotic love. These poems are seductive, and irresistible. Poems by Kim Addonizio, Jo Bell, Wayne Burrows, Hilary Davies, DH Lawrence, MR Peacocke, Shazea Quraishi, Neil Rollinson, Anne Sexton and James Sheard. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Most of us live in cities, and there is a rich tradition of poems about their tireless hustle and bustle. In Jessica Mookherjee's lively selection, we find poems that explore the hectic rhythms of day-to-day life in a city, as well as the rather more mysterious character of a city at night a place where streetlights and drunken rooftops create a dreamscape in which anything might happen. Ever present is the sense that a city never stops: All afternoon labouring geese fly over the city. Cars hoot,sirens fugue. Beneath bank towers, a statue shifts. A man,blue clown, blows two-note whistles for a living. from 'Commerce, Madrid, 2012' by Carola Luther This mini-anthology transports us to cities real and imagined in a delightful kaleidoscope that shimmers and shifts at each rereading. Poems by Suzannah Evans, Andrew Fusek-Peters, Kapka Kassabova, Carola Luther, John McCullough, Jessica Mookherjee, Meryl Pugh, Roger Robinson, James Tate and Sara Teasdale. Cover illustration by Clare Curtis. 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. Coco Chanel declared a hat to be essential when lunching with people one didn't know very well. These days such pretensions may seem old hat but we still set store by this quintessentially personal item of clothing. In these pages we encounter hats of all shapes and sizes. There's a grandfather's beloved trilby and an imagined bathing cap belonging to Napoleon. There's also a hopeful hat waiting for coins on a city pavement. Best of all, perhaps, we experience the old-fashioned glamour of a milliner's shop: There are multi-coloured reels, ends of rickrack, bias bindings, tiny satin flowers, and hats with floppy brims on blank-faced, long-necked Nefertiti heads, - from 'Cloche' by John Foggin These varied poems will delight and entertain in equal measure. Poems by Rita Dove, John Foggin, John Freeman, Clarinda Harriss, Robert Hedin, Linda Pastan, Carole Satyamurti, James Tate, Andrew Taylor and ASJ Tessimond. Cover illustration by Jane Burn. 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. 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. 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. An elusive owner who lives on the top floor but is never seen customers who turn up after midnight in slippers and dressing gown, driven by an urgent desire for a book about Icelandic myths or pottery. a beautiful and insomniac shop manager who is blind in one eye. The ingredients of David Belbin's intriguing tale take us into a shadowy world that seems to exist somewhere between reality and dream. The mysteries deepen as the story unfolds and then there is also love, never spoken or acknowledged, but somehow amplified amid the hushed aisles and dusty shelves. This is a story for all those who love books and bookshops or indeed for anyone who simply enjoys a good old-fashioned yarn. David Belbin is the author of The Pretender, Bone and Cane and numerous novels for young adults. His short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. More can be found in Provenance: New and Collected Stories from Shoestring Press. Includes poems by Jim Burns and Jackie Kay. Cover illustration by Steven Hubbard. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Ten Poems about Tea has a fabulous introduction by Sophie Dahl (PG with milk, no sugar) and was the brilliant idea of Picador poet Lorraine Mariner, who also works as a librarian in the Poetry Library at London's South Bank Centre. She has helped choose the poems, advised us along the way and agreed with our view that the cover of the pamphlet should feature a good, wholesome Dundee Cake rather than the more fashionable, flirtatious and ubiquitous cup cake. Tea (like Dundee Cake) will not be going out of fashion any time soon and the ten poems about it will, we hope, give your tea-time new heights of delight. Perfect for those of us for whom, to borrow from the lyrics, 'everything stops for tea'. As Kenny Knight rightly says in his poem 'Lessons in Teamaking', there was a time when, in the eyes of some, "the teapot was the centre / of the known universe". We hope that you will enjoy these poems as much as we have. No tea should be slurped from cup or saucer, we aren't fussy without them. Poems by John Agard, John Arlott, Tiffany Atkinson, John Betjeman, Eavan Boland, Sheila Hackney, Thomas Hardy, Kenny Knight, Michael Longley and Jo Shapcott. Illustrated by Jill Perry. 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. Ten Poems from Wales offers readers who are new to the poetry of Wales, and those who are already in love with it, a glimpse of a rich heritage. Welsh literature is renowned for its beauty, as well as its profound influence on the writings of other cultures. The ten poems, chosen by Gillian Clarke, range from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries, and give the reader a taste of an ancient and continuing literature. Hedd Wyn's 'Rhyfel' ('War') is included in its original Welsh form, as well as in translation. Two of the poems, by Paul Henry and Gillian Clarke herself, are previously unpublished. Gillian Clarke is a highly-respected and much-loved poet whose work is read widely across all generations. In 2008 she was appointed the National Poet for Wales. "Not if the herbs of all Llanddewi, Trodden and pressed, were offered to me Not for the likes of that, I'd sell The shirt of the lad that I love well." - Anonymous, sixteenth century Poems by RS Thomas, Hedd Wyn, Gillian Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Alun Lewis, Dannie Abse, Robert Minhinnick, Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Translations by Anthony Conran. Cover illustration by Ian Phillips. National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke selects and introduces ten poems from Wales. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. What could be more evocative of heady summer days than a meadow in all its blowy, flowery glory? In this exquisite prose essay, leading naturalist Miriam Darlington takes us deep into the heart of a local meadow in her beloved Devon. She describes how a drained and threadbare place is regenerated, how it slowly fills with flowers, insects, mammals and birds until it is teeming with life a patchwork of heaven. The meadow does its own work, but it is helped by human hands something that creates a passionate bond between the writer and this special habitat: I turned myself over to the hot blue sky, lying among eyebright, pimpernel and meadowsweet. My senses attuned to a tide of cricket-sound, the whirring voice of the grassland. from 'The Summer Meadow' by Miriam Darlington There are many kinds of meadow, we are told. By paying close attention to the particular, a treasured place is brought to life in all its vivid and unique beauty. Poems by EJ Scovell and Katharine Towers. Cover illustration by Niki Bowers. 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. Shakespeare's sonnets, first published in 1609, have been pored over with endless fascination by critics through the centuries, raided by other writers and translated into every major living language. To read them is to be immersed in beauty. Although this pamphlet can only offer a sample (there are one hundred and fifty four sonnets altogether) each sonnet nonetheless stands alone too, full square in its fourteen lines, a small miracle. "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." - from Sonnet XVIII Cover illustration by Paul Bommer. Ten sonnets by William Shakespeare Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Who hasn't looked up at the sky and seen a whale or a poodle or a sports car? There's something about clouds that excites the imagination. Their shape-shifting nature means they never fail to entertain and intrigue us. Here in our little archipelago we certainly get our fair share. Whether it's the dumpy, fair-weather cumulus of a hot day in high summer or the spirit-dampening stratus of a wet November weekend, it's hard to imagine our skies without them. These poems explore the many different ways in which we experience clouds whether simply as weather or as a more abstract representation of a state of mind or a mood. As Billy Collins says, quoting perhaps our greatest painter of clouds John Constable: "The emotion is to be found in the clouds." - from 'Student of Clouds' by Billy Collins It's impossible to pin down a cloud and this rich and varied selection reflects that beguiling elusiveness. Poems by Liz Berry, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, John Glenday, Paula Meehan, Fiona Sampson, Lesley Saunders, Katharine Towers, Derek Walcott and Sarah Westcott. Cover illustration by Bill Sanderson. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This beguiling mini anthology is for gardeners and garden-lovers, the green-fingered and the willing admirer. The poems, like the gardens they describe, range from formality to informality and from elegance to sweet-scented shades of mystery. As Monty Don writes in his introduction, the poems are practical celebrations of why and how to garden; they are to be read with soil under your nails. But they are also to be read to cultivate "all that grows within". The very particular inner repose that comes from a day in the garden is something we all need more than ever: ".peace never leaves him. But it rushes through me, not as sustenance the flower holds but like bright light through the bare tree." - from 'Vespers' by Louise Glueck Poems by Richard Church, Henry Constable, Barbara Daniels, Maura Dooley, Ann Drysdale, Louise Glueck, Katherine Mansfield, Robin Robertson, Vikram Seth and Robert Louis Stevenson. Cover illustration by Rosalind Bliss. 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. London has probably inspired more poetry than any of the world's great cities. William Wordsworth's iconic 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' shows how even a great poet of nature could be dazzled by its architectural splendour and the serene waters of the Thames. In more recent times, poets have relished London for its vivacity and heady contrasts. Here, the Underground becomes a fascinating ocean: "Swimming through the corridors and past signs I consider if the bow-wave of multi-coloured faces are really fish." - from 'Underground' by Elizabeth Bartlett George Szirtes' eclectic selection captures something of the essence of the city, revealed through its railway stations, squares, coffee houses even the trees that line its streets. Whether you're a native Londoner or a visitor, this mini-anthology provides a perfect companion to this most beguiling of capitals. Poems by Elizabeth Bartlett, William Blake, Elaine Feinstein, WS Graham, AN Stencl, George Szirtes, Sarah Wardle and William Wordsworth. Cover illustration by Paul Catherall. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. One for those of us who love tales of the natural world, and who enjoy seasonal woodland walks when things lie deep and crisp and even. John Lewis-Stempel's The Wood in Winter is a beautiful piece of nature writing about the life of a wood in bleak midwinter, tying in old festivals and traditions which are so weighted with meaning at this time of year. He writes about why being in a wood in winter strips us to our essential soul, and how close encounters with the animals who thrive in this hard season remind us of our own deep connection to the earth. "A wood on a winter's eve, no matter where you are, when the snow is falling through the trees, is existence stripped back to the elements. It is the Ice Age returned in miniature." John Lewis-Stempel is an award-winning writer known for his books on nature and history. He lives in Herefordshire where his family have been farming for over 700 years. Poems by Nancy Campbell and Jackie Kay. Illustrations including cover by Angela Harding. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Every child should have a Christmas Stocking. This selection of poems for children has been made by poet George Szirtes and makes a delightful gift something to read at bedtime as the excitement of Christmas approaches, or to be shared afterwards as a reminder of the laughter and fun. From a trip to the panto (hissing and booing essential!) to a first uncertain encounter with Santa, the poems celebrate the special traditions of Christmas that are relished by children of all ages. "Santa Claus is coming To the village hall, I'm going to see Santa Claus And I won't cry at all." - from 'Santa Claus' by Gabriel Fitzmaurice Poems by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Walter de la Mare, John Mole, Rachel Rooney and George Szirtes. Cover illustration by David&Rews. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Happiness: the mid-point, perhaps, between contentment and joy. We all hope for it, but we all also have times when it seems far away. Sometimes, we even fail to notice when it's there. These poems don't celebrate rapture or feverish delight. Mostly they capture moments of what Emily Dickinson calls "casual simplicity" giggling irreverently during a yoga class or seeing a dragonfly land on a lake. Happiness, they seem to say, is far less complicated than we sometimes imagine: "It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker, and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night." - from 'Happiness' by Jane Kenyon Deborah Alma is a poet and poetry tutor, also known as the Emergency Poet offering the world's first mobile poetry first aid service. Her delightful and thoughtful selection is sure to lift the spirits and gladden the heart. Poems by Deborah Alma, Meg Cox, Emily Dickinson, Jonathan Davidson, Tony Hoagland, Jane Kenyon, Bryony Littlefair, Naomi Shihab Nye, RS Thomas and James Wright. Cover illustration by Victoria McGrane. 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. Inside the Almanac for 2023 you'll find a gorgeous poem for every month of the year. Opening with a cat and closing with a cockerel, whose strutting step is a measure of daylight. There's a poem that captures the repetitive call of the song thrush in February, while September echoes to the endless chant of insects in the grass an elegy for the end of summer. June brings a celebration of indolence and outdoor delights: "see I am a creature of pleasureof soft pyjamas and languid reading and wildriver swimming and strawberry-seeking." - from 'ode to june' by Laura Theis These twelve poems will keep you company from January to December, celebrating the changing seasons and finding beauty in all manner of things, from mud to fresh cherries. Poems by Sam Goundry Butler, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Victoria Gatehouse, Rae Howells, Liz Kendall, DH Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sara Teasdale, Laura Theis, Edward Thomas and Sarah Ziman. Cover illustration by Clare Curtis. 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. 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. 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. Some of us skip breakfast protesting that it's too early to eat. But it can never be too early for a poem, and this enticing mini-anthology of poems selected and introduced by Ana Sampson offers delights that anyone would wish to be awake for including three new poems that were winners in our breakfast poem competition. Billy Collins buzzing around his house after several espressos and Lani O'Hanlon walking barefoot to the hen-house to collect eggs both relish the quiet solitude of being up early and contemplating the day ahead. For others, the first hours of the day are to be shared with loved ones; slices of toast flying from the toaster provide a vivid childhood memory: ".I ate six slices one weekend, enthralled with how happiness was the colour of butter, best eaten hot." - from 'Toaster' by Olga Dermott-Bond Even if you're not a morning person, these tender and beguiling poems will remind you that there's something very precious about the start of a new day. Ana Sampson is a leading anthologist and editor. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Daryush, Olga Dermott-Bond, Catherine Edmunds, Phil Houghton, Ted Kooser, Lani O'Hanlon, Charles Simic and Mary Stewart Hammond. Cover illustration by Jane Walker. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Crawford, Lotte Beatrix (illustrator). Paperback. This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth, we are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke's story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales. Commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre, the story is for adults and children, and is a magical tale of the Christmases of a Welsh childhood populated by aunts and uncles, snow and starlight, boxes and baubles. Gillian Clarke is a leading poet, and was appointed National Poet for Wales in 2008. "The Christmas Wren is a masterpiece and is destined to become a classic." - Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate Colour illustrations throughout by Lotte Beatrix Crawford. story of a child's Christmas in Wales Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A sister often knows us better than anyone. This selection of poems (a companion to Ten Poems about Brothers) explores that special relationship from the games and secrets of early childhood that we remember so vividly to the separate journeys of later life. For Dorothea Smartt, two sisters form a pair of carefree 'toe-tapping feet' while Jean Tepperman's depiction of sisterhood celebrates the thrill of defying convention. In Galway Kinnell's moving poem a childhood shared with a sibling creates a reassuring lifelong bond: ".we will walk hand in hand a little while, taking the laughter of childhood as far as we can into the days to come," - from 'Two Set Out On Their Journey' by Galway Kinnell Most of all, these poems remind us of that life is enlivened and enriched by having a sister. Never coy or timid, they are sure to provoke discussion and hopefully many lively family conversations! Poems by Julia Bird, Wendy Cope, Michael Donaghy, Galway Kinnell, Esther Morgan, PK Page, Dorothea Smartt, Jean Tepperman, Jack Underwood and Julia Webb. Cover illustration by Hilke MacIntyre. 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. In this wonderful mini-anthology of poems celebrating brothers (a companion to Ten Poems about Sisters) we meet brothers of all ages and of all shapes and sizes, including the brother who: "has made, out of petrol and hormones, a little world for himself, a paradise of hang-gliders and cars;" - from 'My Lost Brother' by Ben Scammell There's also a young brother who loves riding down the stairs on a tea-tray and teenage brothers who are so alike they even smell the same. There are brothers who grow up and disappear into a new life, living on vividly in the memories of those left behind. The relationship with a brother can be a complex one, and these poems explore those joys and challenges in fascinating ways. But most of all they reflect the abiding love we feel for a brother and show how this can enrich a life. Poems by Matthew Dickman, Jonathan Edwards, Lavina Greenlaw, Joanne Limburg, Hannah Lowe, Rebecca McClanahan, Rob Miles, Mary O'Donnell, Ben Scammell and Floyd Skloot. Cover illustration by Hilke MacIntyre. 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. "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. It's better to give than to receive, as the saying goes. But then, of course, there is sharing which contains a bit of both. This mini-anthology of specially-commissioned poems by leading poets captures the rich rewards of that exchange whether the memory of time spent with a loved one, the singing of carols or the magic of getting ready for Christmas morning with a young child: "We fill your pillow case with glittered jewels and illuminated texts. In the morning you wake to find a room covered with frosted leaves, berries and fairy lights." - from 'Midwinter Gods' by Jessica Mookherjee There's humour in an imagined baby shower for the new-born Christ-child, complete with a carpentry set and a bottle of pink fizz from someone who thought it was going to be a girl. Elsewhere we encounter an ailing family cat who recovers just in time to run rings around the Christmas tree. This selection will delight and entertain while also reminding us of the things that really count. Poems by Andre Bagoo, Suzannah V Evans, Mark Fiddes, John Greening, Helen Ivory, John McCullough, Jessica Mookherjee, Pey Oh, Kelley Swain and Ben Wilkinson. 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. 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 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 Sean Hewitt explore the countryside in all this variety. There are moments of pure rhapsody with larks singing overhead, alongside encounters with bad weather and poor soil to remind us that it's not all bliss and beauty. Together the poems capture the consoling rhythms of the seasons as they are played out in our rural landscapes: "for as earth Rolls on her journey, so her little fields Ripen or sleep." - from 'The Land' by Vita Sackville-West Whatever countryside suggests to you, we're sure you'll be delighted by this beguiling selection. Poems by Kayo Chingonyi, John Clare, Helen Dunmore, WD Ehrhart, Vona Groarke, Jen Hadfield, Sean Hewitt, Claude McKay, Vita Sackville-West and Sara Teasdale. Cover illustration by Sam Cannon. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.