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  • History of the Child

    by Penelope Shuttle ...
    Penelope Shuttle’s History of the Child is a highly evocative exploration of childhood, memory, and imagination, blending personal and historical perspectives. The book’s themes include parenting, grief, nature, emotional recovery and connections to the past, guided by the idea of childhood as a transformative and rebellious space.The first of the book’s four sections features poems about ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Lyonesse

    by Penelope Shuttle ...
    The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change in Penelope Shuttle’s new poems. There was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Isles of Scilly and St Michael’s Mount left as remnants ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Unsent

    New & Selected Poems 1980-2012

    by Penelope Shuttle ...
    Adventurous, searching, interested in the luminous instant of reality that dwells in the perpetual now of the poem, Penelope Shuttle is a poet who clearly shares Picasso's view that 'If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the point of doing it?' This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lyonesse

    by Penelope Shuttle ...
    The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change in Penelope Shuttle's new poems. There was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Isles of Scilly and St Michael's Mount left as remnants ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Will you walk a little faster?

    by Penelope Shuttle ...
    Penelope Shuttle’s new collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory. These are poems drawn from the flipside of experience, undermining and rebuilding syntax in order to precipitate language, and, in the main, abjuring punctuation. The poems also engage both with active and meditative thinking in order to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Write Yourself

    Creative Writing and Personal Development

    by Gillie Bolton ...
    Series series Writing for Therapy or Personal Development
    Write Yourself is the ideal introduction to how to facilitate groups and individuals in finding inspiration for their creative personal writing voices. This book explains how and why writing is such an illuminative, healing, and cathartic process, and provides many practical exercises that encourage the exploration of emotions, memories and experiences. Chapters cover the use of writing with a ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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  • Travel Light Travel Dark

    by John Agard ...
    John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. And he has just received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry from Her Majesty the Queen. In this new symphonic collection, Travel Light Travel Dark, he casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ice

    by Gillian Clarke ...
    The European winters of 2009 and 2010 serve as inspiration for the evocative poems in this collection that anxiously yet joyfully unite the seasons and creatures of the planet. The extremity of those record-setting winters in the UK redefined all seasons for the poet, and her notion that nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination is conveyed in poems such as "Polar," in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moontide

    by Niall Campbell ...
    Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters. Quietly reflective and deftly musical, these thoughtful poems resonate with silence and song, mystery and wonder, exploring ideas of companionship and withdrawal, love and the stillness of ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • A Recipe for Water

    by Gillian Clarke ...
    Using water as a contemplative device, this anthology examines themes of war, womanhood, time, and the environment. Individual poems focus on a range of topics—from the seemingly unremarkable contents of a bottle of spring water to the more global issue of rising ocean levels. Rain, drought, flood, thirst, rivers, and oceans inspire this thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between ... Read more

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  • Gt Yarmouth My Home Town

    by Caroline Doyle ...
    A book of nineteen poems about Great Yarmouth, ancient and modern. ... Read more

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  • Inside the Wave

    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of ... Read more

    $8.89 USD