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  • Silver

    Return to Treasure Island

    by Andrew Motion ...
    **This ebook includes a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island!A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved classic—about two young friends and their high-seas adventure with dangerous pirates and long-lost treasure.**It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn called the Hispaniola on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Collins Rhyming Dictionary

    by Rosalind Fergusson ...
    If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Able Muse, Winter 2024/25 (No. 32 - print edition)

    a review of poetry prose & art

    by Alexander Pepple, Stephen Kampa, Ned Balbo, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion, Rachel Hadas ...
    Series Book 32 - Able Muse, Print Edition
    This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2024/2025 issue, Number 32. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the *Able Muse-*online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetry by Heart

    Poems for Learning and Reciting

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Coming in to Land

    Selected Poems 1975-2015

    by Andrew Motion ...
    From England’s former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American publisherAndrew Motion has said, “I want my writing to be as clear as water. I want readers to see all the way through its surfaces into the swamp." Though the territory of his exploration may be murky and mired—the front lines of war, political ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of Elegy

    Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

    by Prof Stephen Regan, Andrew Motion ...
    'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month)'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The TimesElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. ... Read more

    $44.79 USD

  • Randomly Moving Particles

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration, and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New World

    A Novel

    by Andrew Motion ...
    “Full of big themes such as courage, greed, loyalty and obsession, The New World is still an adventure story first and foremost. . . . An entertaining homage that is deeply felt and sincere.” —The Guardian (UK)Washed ashore after escaping Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and his companion Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Their ship, the Nightingale, has been destroyed, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Selected Poems of Andrew Motion

    by Andrew Motion ...
    In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his addressing the reader with maximum clarity and ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Collected Poems

    by John Betjeman ...
    An expanded edition from the most popular British poet of the late 20th century, "perhaps as completely original a writer as has ever existed" ( The Times Literary Supplement ).Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.—from "Slough"When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's Collected Poems first a... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Poetry Of Edward Thomas

    by Andrew Motion ...
    When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly yet utterly absorbing, combining an account of his ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Public Property

    by Andrew Motion ...
    In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes as precisely remembered as they are irretrievable. Elsewhere he reconsiders moments from the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD