The Nation's Favourite Poems
Author: Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0563387823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the top 100 poems from a poll conducted by The Bookworm in 1995.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Author: Robert Frost
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Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781529506341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nation's Favourite Children's Poems
Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0563537744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together the most beloved children's poems. Poems such as The Owl and the Pussycat to Us Two and Chocolate Cake should amuse and delight children and adults alike. The collection includes the modern and the classics, from A.A. Milne to Pam Ayres.
Poetry Please: The Seasons
Author: Various Poets
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0571325467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'. As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons, and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure.
100 Poems
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0374720118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected poems from a Nobel laureate In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.
The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems
Author: Daisy Goodwin
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1446417581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How do I love thee?' and Shakespeare's 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope and John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious 'Valentine' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy's haunting 'After a Journey', for example, and Larkin's poignant 'Love Songs in Age'. So, wherever you are in the tunnel of love, dip into this book of poetry and you will be reassured to discover that at one time or another a poet has been there before you.
Lucky Fish
Author: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1936797321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLucky Fish travels along a lush current — a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet’s third collection of poems is her strongest yet. "Nezhukumatathil's third book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to the history of red dye finds a rich life in her poems. At times her lush settings and small stories are reminiscent of fairy tales, while at others Nezhukumatathil speaks with resonance and fierceness. Even as the poems jump from the Philippines to India to New York, they still take their time, stopping to notice that 'there is no mystery on water/ greater than the absence of rust,' and to draw small but wonderful parallels." —Publishers Weekly
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0393867927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
Serurubele
Author: Kano Shoro
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 1928215513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice, her unassuming sense of humour, and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity, on the writing, reading and performance of poetry, exploring the language that structures it, the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics, articulating ideas about masculinity, sexuality, blackness, colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind, Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it, to taste the language as it flows from your tongue, to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Swaziland and London, and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.
Voices and Poetry of Ireland
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and colourful celebration of the poetic heritage of Ireland, this CD and book anthology features classic and contemporary Irish poems read by 100 of the best-known voices in Irish life. A rich and colourful celebration of the poetic heritage of Ireland, this CD and book anthology features classic and contemporary Irish poems read by 100 of the best-known voices in Irish life, including Maeve Binchy, Bono, Pierce Brosnan, The Corrs, Bertie Ahern, Bob Geldof, Seamus Heaney, Marian Keyes and Sinead O'Connor. Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol alongside new work from Ireland's finest living writers. As well as forming a living testament to the best of Irish writing, the collection is also a reminder that words, both oral and written, do make a difference with all royalties going to Focus Ireland, the country's largest and most respected charity for the homeless.
