Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2017
ISBN 10: 1907598448 ISBN 13: 9781907598449
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Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2017
ISBN 10: 1907598596 ISBN 13: 9781907598593
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Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2016
ISBN 10: 1907598383 ISBN 13: 9781907598388
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Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2017
ISBN 10: 190759812X ISBN 13: 9781907598128
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Paperback. Condition: USED_FINE. Reprint. A paperback book in fine condition, dated 2017. Poems written about fathers and fatherhood.
Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2022
ISBN 10: 1907598928 ISBN 13: 9781907598920
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Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2018
ISBN 10: 1907598685 ISBN 13: 9781907598685
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Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 191362725X ISBN 13: 9781913627256
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627381 ISBN 13: 9781913627386
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627373 ISBN 13: 9781913627379
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 191362739X ISBN 13: 9781913627393
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Black and white, brown, smooth-coated or shaggy (with horns), cows are so familiar in our rural landscapes that we often forget to notice them. These poems redress that, paying close and loving attention to the lives of cows their private joys and public duties while celebrating the fact of their undeniable cow-ness. We find cows grazing, being born, being milked, being drawn by a child not to mention the eminently recitable cow poem that many of us will remember from school days: The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart:She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. from 'The Cow' by Robert Louis Stevenson The selection is edited by poet Hilary Menos who used to run a herd of 40 pedigree Red Ruby Devon cattle. Poems by Hayden Carruth, Jim Carruth, Gillian Clarke, Edmund Vance Cooke, Ruth Dallas, Tjawangwa Dema, Selima Hill, Hilary Menos, Evan Gill Smith and Robert Louis Stevenson. Cover illustration by Deirdre Dunne. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2015
ISBN 10: 1907598324 ISBN 13: 9781907598326
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913627144 ISBN 13: 9781913627140
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. The antidote to festive stodge and too much television, a Christmas walk has become as traditional as turkey and crackers. Whatever the weather, we don hats, scarves and boots to venture outside. The point is to crunch over snow, stamp through puddles or just to breathe the different air all while sharing time with loved ones. In these twelve poems the winners in our seasonal competition we experience everything from a holly-gathering expedition in a country lane, to a beach in Australia where the sand is white as snow. Over and again comes the idea that a walk can be a pilgrimage, sparking memories and a sense of the abiding presence of the past: I once walked up the lane with my children by moonlit snow, power lines down in the deepest dark they had ever known; we made a small hand-held line from 'A low owl at Christmas' by Valerie Bence Poems by Bill Adair, Valerie Bence, Jane Burn, Martyn Crucefix, Kerry Darbishire, Marie-Louise Eyres, Annie Kissack, Aoife Mannix, Charlotte Oliver, Penny Sharman, Giles Watson and Miriam Wei Wei Lo. Cover illustration by Jenny Hancock. 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.
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Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 191362742X ISBN 13: 9781913627423
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913627292 ISBN 13: 9781913627294
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. In our Almanac for 2024 you'll find beautiful poems old and new, chosen to keep you company through the year. We open with a poem that moves from mud and greyness to a vision of springtime-in-waiting, glimpsed in a clutch of green spears. Summer brings strawberries and swims by moonlight, while autumn is full of birds: Today I'm noticing wings a swan spreads its pinions wide, drinks late, strange warmth from October skies. from 'Callings' by Sue Burge The selection ends with a paean to winter sunshine, and an evening a deux beside an open fire. Poetry can find wonder in all seasons and all weathers, and this mini-anthology will bring delight from January to December. Poems by Robert Browning, Sue Burge, Josephine Corcoran, Lucy Dixcart, Nicolette Golding, Lucy Ingrams, Stephen Keeler, DH Lawrence, Edna St Vincent Millay, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Angela Readman and Edward Thomas. Cover illustration by Angie Lewin. Includes one poetry pamphlet, envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. 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.
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Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913627276 ISBN 13: 9781913627270
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. Vikings, Romans, Normans. Grand industrial cities and national parks. Yorkshire encompasses so much that it probably takes poetry to do it justice. And who better to choose the poems than the 'Bard of Barnsley' Ian McMillan, who still lives in the Yorkshire town where he was born. The poems travel the length, breadth and depth of the county, taking in weather (there's more than enough rain), cricket and coal-mining, alongside barges on the Humber and the wild glories of the Dales. Everywhere there is the sense of a deep-rooted history in a county where: what you see is not the whole story but the seam of something precious gone underground, a darkly silver trail from 'The 1984 Perspective' by Maura Dooley Yorkshire, it appears, is not only a place but a state of mind and these poems demonstrate that invigorating fact in a rich variety of ways. Poems by Maura Dooley, Helen Dunmore, David Harmer, Geoff Hattersley, Zaffar Kunial, Harold Massingham, Ian McMillan, Pete Morgan, Genny Rahtz and Florence Tweddell. Cover illustration by James Green. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627330 ISBN 13: 9781913627331
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627349 ISBN 13: 9781913627348
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Libraries are treasured places. We may remember visiting a local library in childhood to explore an early delight in reading. Or perhaps we have come to value them in later life, as a calm sanctuary where we can daydream among beloved books. A library is also a portal into countless worlds of knowledge, experience and adventure: Oh, I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom, put a handout to touch the rough curve of bound leather, the harsh parchment of dreams. - from 'Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967' by Rita Dove With irresistible affection, these poems celebrate the many things that libraries mean to us as we move through the phases of our lives. The poems are selected and introduced by poet Lorraine Mariner who has worked at the National Poetry Library in London for many years. Poems by Adrian Buckner, Louise Chandler Moulton, Claire Crowther, Rita Dove, Martina Evans, Edward Hirsch, Lorraine Mariner, Ian McMillan, Charles Simic and Indigo Williams. Cover illustration by Laura Brett. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913627268 ISBN 13: 9781913627263
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. This mini-anthology finds us mostly in the UK after the more distant travels of our accompanying Outbound title. The selection captures the timeless drama and romance of getting from A to B by train. RL Stevenson's poem revels breathlessly in the thrill of moving at what was then thought to be high speed: Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle from 'From a Railway Carriage' by Robert Louis Stevenson But the abiding spirit of the poems is perhaps a sense of freedom the fact of being neither here nor there something that all too briefly allows us to imagine other possibilities and other lives. Poems by Jonathan Davidson, Khiwani Deepankar, Emily Dickinson, Maura Dooley, Helen Dunmore, David Hart, Cynthia Kitchen, Ian McMillan, Graham Mort and Robert Louis Stevenson. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627365 ISBN 13: 9781913627362
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. Nearly all of us have an 'auntie' or 'aunty' even if the person in question isn't actually a relative. In these entertaining and touching poems we meet story-telling aunts and aunts who spin their own yarn, aunts who send gifts from afar and an aunt with a crew cut who knows far more about love than could ever be imagined. The poems demonstrate that the essence of being an aunt is to always be there when needed: When your heart breaks, as hearts sometimes do, Aunt Constance at Looewill feed it on Cornish cream and philosophy, soothe it with strawberries for tea; from 'Aunts' by Virginia Graham The poems tender and wry by turn are a reminder that aunts in all their various guises are to be treasured and celebrated. Poems by Moniza Alvi, Martin Armstrong, Charles Causley, Virginia Graham, Langston Hughes, Norman MacCaig, John McCullough, Stevie Smith, Joyce Sutphen and Christine Webb. Cover illustration by Hilke MacIntyre. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913627063 ISBN 13: 9781913627065
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There's something at once elemental and child-like about moving through water whether we paddle like a dog or can manage an elegant crawl. These delightful poems explore the many joys of swimming in pools, rivers and oceans. We travel all the way from a child learning to swim at home on a piano stool to a swimmer in a public baths which become suddenly splendid: "the pool spread like a sunken ballroom, marbled with the winter sun and here, the deep end's edge where I hang breathless," - from 'What I Think About When I'm Swimming' by Hannah Lowe Swimming is a pleasure and a privilege, and these poems remind us that when we take to the water it is not just our bodies that are changed. Poems by Vievee Francis, Paul Henry, Ranjit Hoskote, Hannah Lowe, Nicholas Murray, Katrina Naomi, Jay Parini, Katherine Pierpoint, Stevie Smith and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913627322 ISBN 13: 9781913627324
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Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627357 ISBN 13: 9781913627355
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires, can happen anywhere on a train, in a city park or against a kitchen fridge. The poems dramatise the fact that a kiss can make time stand still or send us into a dizzy spin: And the world all whirling Round in joy Like the dance of a dervish - from 'Kisses in the Train' by DH Lawrence The selection wouldn't be complete without a sly antidote to all this romance, which is why we've included Mary Ruefle's 'Why I Am Not A Good Kisser' with its inventory of things not to do or think about when a kiss is in the offing. Poems by Kim Addonizio, Marjorie Allen Seiffert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Hattie Gruenewald, DH Lawrence, Roddy Lumsden, David Mills, Shazea Quraishi, Mary Ruefle, Roberta Spear, Sara Teasdale and Jean Toomer. Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2011
ISBN 10: 1907598073 ISBN 13: 9781907598074
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2018
ISBN 10: 1907598766 ISBN 13: 9781907598760
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2020
ISBN 10: 1907598960 ISBN 13: 9781907598968
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2011
ISBN 10: 1907598022 ISBN 13: 9781907598029
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Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627446 ISBN 13: 9781913627447
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Whether it's 'Jingle Bell Rock' or 'Away in a Manger' we all have a song, carol or tune that heralds the arrival of the festive season. Music seems to offer a miraculous short-cut to memories of happy times. The selection takes us on a magical journey from frosty voices of December stars to a band of carol-singers with weary limb longing to find someone who will open the door and listen. We find voices lifted at the darkest time of the year, offering their own particular light: After long silence, there is music again, thin lip of moon and again bright stars, the weeds, safe now in their coffins of ice, in singing weather. from 'In Singing Weather' by Maggie Anderson We hope these poems will fill your Christmas with just the right amount of comfort and joy. Poems by Maggie Anderson, Hayden Carruth, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances Ridley Havergal, Oliver Herford, Lorraine Mariner, Adrian Mitchell, Edwin Morgan, Christina Rossetti and Marjorie Wilson. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, United Kingdom, Nottingham, 2013
ISBN 10: 1907598189 ISBN 13: 9781907598180
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627454 ISBN 13: 9781913627454
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We begin on Exmoor and end with a frosted window in this glorious addition to our ever-popular series of Almanacs. On the way, we encounter wild roses and pipistrelle bats, the green-god Lud and violet lightnings during a summer storm. The twelve poems take us through the year, noticing the particular things that make each month unique and precious. Spring is heralded in a delicious poem that relishes the rhymes and sound-patterns of the year's most vibrant season: Slithery, withery Winter's away! Here comes dawny, yawny Spring sunrays, rooty, shooty, tooty daffodils bright, buttery, fluttery, butterflies light from 'Here Comes Spring' by Linda Middleton What could be better than starting each month with a poem? We hope this beguiling selection will help you to do just that. Poems by David Clarke, Jane Clarke, Olga Dermott-Bond, Fiona Dignan, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Marie-Louise Eyres, Kerry Hardie, Mark Haworth-Booth, George Meredith, Linda Middleton, Angela Readman and Sara Teasdale. Cover illustration by Laura Boswell. 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.
Published by Candlestick Press, Nottingham, 2024
ISBN 10: 1913627411 ISBN 13: 9781913627416
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The moment of pulling a suitcase or rucksack down from a cupboard or out from under the bed always carries a particular kind of excitement. It's as if going away promises a new life even though it's only for a week or two. What counts is the thrill of departure, whether by car, train or plane: I love the hour before take off,that stretch of no time, no home but the grey vinyl seats linked like unfolding paper dolls. from 'Vacation' by Rita Dove These poems celebrate all sorts of holidays from a motel in Florida which holds a lifetime of childhood memories to a first experience of Greece at eighteen, complete with sunburn, flip-flops and retsina. We meet dolphins and feral cats, a tea house high in the mountains and an estuary walk with daughters in Wales. The selection brims with nostalgia and affectionate humour and then there's the simple bliss of a pink sunset on a beach. Poems by Wendell Berry, Richard Blanco, Carole Bromley, Jeanette Burton, Rita Dove, LB Jorgensen, Beth McDonough, Claire Lynn, Stephen Payne, Pete Taylor, Steve Waling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Polly Walshe and Sarah Ziman. 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.