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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roy thomson”
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  • The Urban Falconer

    by Roy Thomson ...
    During lockdown people got up to all kinds of odd antics. This octogenarian from Edinburgh found himself irresistibly drawn into writing humorous verses. This diversion developed rapidly into what could only be described as a kind of ‘rhymer’s eurhythmics’. Humorous poems of all shapes and sizes appeared almost daily. They leapfrogged in topic from Midgies to Boris Johnston, an urban falconer to a ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Party Mandates and Democracy

    Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries

    Edited by Elin Naurin, Terry J Royed, Robert Thomson ...
    Series series New Comparative Politics
    When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

    Edited by Marion Kite, Roy Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
    The conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson, of the Leather Conservation Centre, have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive, including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields, such as Betty Haines, Mary Lou Florian, Ester ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by Philip Terry ...
    Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Star: 'A plan to televise a poem packed with obscenities caused outrage last night. ITV chiefs intend to screen a reading of Tony Harrison's verse v. which is full of four-letter words.'Daily Mail: 'A torrent of four-letter filth… the most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation's living rooms… the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.'Gerald Howarth, MP: 'It is full of ... Read more

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  • Odd Odes, Weird Words and Loopy Letters

    by Joan Crawford ...
    Amiscellany of verse, mostly tumorous, and odds and ends of prose, wind-up letters etc. ... Read more

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  • Strictly for Grandpas

    by Tony Greeves ...
    This book of commentaries on the vagaries of life sharpened up by (mostly) light-hearted verse is a reflection of some of the author’s thoughts and experiences. Love, sex, politicians, philosophy, box-ticking, egoism, political correctness and stupidity are treated with respect, appreciation, cynicism, humour, or scathing scorn as appropriate. Grandpas (and hopefully many others) will find they ... Read more

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  • The Great Australian Book of Limericks

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    A bumper collection of all the very best limericks - the witty and the whimsical, the chaste and the crass, from simple from childhood versions to the very adult ones.Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could - from childhood ones to some very adult ones.Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks ... Read more

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  • Bloodshot Monochrome

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    Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read.Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, from the retro to the brand new. Whether resurrecting the dead in 'Problem Pages', playing out noir dramas in 'Vicious Circle', or capturing moments of her ... Read more

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  • 1A Books - Poetry in Sight

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    Spiritual, humorous, and insightful poems with which to escape from your daily stresses and tensions. You will enjoy a range of poetry from deep, to down-to-earth funny. These specially selected poems by international award winner John C. Parry are carefully chosen to provide everyone with something to please. ... Read more

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  • The Terrors

    by Tom Chivers ...
    The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London's violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic ... Read more

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