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Ten Poems about Knitting by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Gift
Whether you're proficient with purl, canny with cable or don't know your size 9s from your shoe size, here are ten irresistible poems about the joys of knitting. Stitches morph into poems in which needles flash like rapiers, wool is wound into balls and the door of the local wool shop opens onto hushed ...Show more
Ten Poems about Mothers by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Gift
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 Roses by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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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
Ten Poems about Rubbish by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Gift
A load of rubbish? These poems are very far from being that! Always surprising, this selection finds that rubbish is far more than merely stuff we don't want any more. There's a poem in which a swing-bin complete with peelings and old tea-bags becomes a vivid still life and a moving elegy when a family ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
Ten Poems by the Romantics by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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With an Introduction by Catherine Kay, Education Officer at The Wordsworth Trust, Ten Poems by The Romantics covers a lot of ground in a short space (not quite William Blake's a world in a grain of sand but something along those lines). The Romantics shared a passionate belief in the transforming pow ...Show more
Ten Poems for Summer by AUTHORS, VARIOUS
Category: Classics
"There seem to be fewer poems about summer than about other seasons. Perhaps the impulse to be outdoors when the weather is at its best goes against the inward mood that writing poems requires. This makes poetry about summer all the more glorious – each poem in this mini-anthology is like a rare, bright ...Show more
Ten Poems of Kindness: Volume Two by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Gift
This moving anthology of poems about kindness is a second volume which beautifully complements Ten Poems of Kindness, edited by Jackie Kay. These ten poems were successful in our Kindness Poem Competition in association with Fair Saturday Foundation, and they offer a rich variety of experiences and refl ...Show more
Ten Poems of the Soil by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry & Plays
Soil, earth, clay, sod, clod: there's no shortage of one-syllable words for the stuff that gets behind our fingernails and sticks to our wellies. And it's strangely enjoyable to say these words out loud as if they remind us of childhood and sitting in the dirt to make mud pies. This mini-anthology delig ...Show more
The Constitution of the United States of America: And Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers (leather bound) by Various Authors
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
This leatherbound collection of classic works traces the founding of America, from the birth of the nation in the late 1760s to the creation of a more perfect union at the end of the early 1800s. It celebrates the pursuit of life, liberty and justice and the freedoms that define America through notable ...Show more