Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life by William Sieghart
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Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol A ...Show more
Ten Poems about Clouds by JOHN MCCULLOUGH
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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 dump ...Show more
Ten Poems about Music: The Yellow Album by KIM MOORE
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This mini-anthology is one half of our double album of music poems. Musician and poet Kim Moore's selection beautifully explores what it feels like both to hear and play music. The poems take us from Tennyson's eerily echoing bugle to Faisal Mohyuddin's evocation of a father singing a song his own fathe ...Show more
Ten Poems about Bees by BRIGIT STRAWBRIDGE HOWARD
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Bees work hard, and there is something in their diligence that touches us. Most of us see only a fraction of their absorbing routines but their 'bee-lines' through our parks and gardens are more than enough to suggest their dedication: "...they make a life for themselves that knows no let-up through hou ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wildlife by PASCALE PETIT
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Hedgehogs and hares, dragonflies and deer... This mini anthology is a celebration of the wild creatures that flutter, slither, swim or stride through the British countryside. The strange language of bats and the exhilaration of wild ponies running free are brought vividly to life, while the sinuous body ...Show more
365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri
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Category: poetry
Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri.This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you're searching for wisdom or looking t ...Show more
Ten Poems about Baking by HELENA NELSON
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Category: poetry
These ten poems celebrate all that's wonderful about baking the time-honoured recipes, the patient kneading and stirring of ingredients, the sticky fingers in the mixing bowl. Baking, the poems seem to say again and again, is a profoundly human art: a homemade summer pudding can create "a stillness lost ...Show more
Ten Poems about Mothers by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own. This wonderful mini-anthology of poems is a celebration of the many ways in which mothers are important in our lives. ...Show more
Ten Poems about Rivers by IAN DUHIG
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Rivers carve a passage through our landscapes with elemental force. At the same time, they can be and signify so many different things. In Ian Duhig's fascinating selection we encounter the scope and drama of rivers, from the complexity of Eavan Boland's Liffe to Kayo Chingonyi's turbid Tyne which promp ...Show more
Ten Poems about Running by STEPHEN KEELER
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Category: poetry
Nowadays, running is a serious business and we're all busy recording our PBs on complicated watches. These poems remind us that there's still plenty of fun to be had whether navigating a forest trail before breakfast or lying in bed coming up with reasons not to go out at all. There's the familiar sight ...Show more
Rumi: the Big Red Book by Coleman Barks
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Category: poetry
Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, "The Big Red Book" is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America.
Ten Poems about Roses by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: poetry
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 ...Show more