Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war ...
What is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of th...
What is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the Wor...
The ABC Book of Australian Poetry - A treasury of poems...
Follow a river of poetry through country, town, the bush, th...
Odd Child Out - The most heart-stopping crime thriller ...
A hugely satisfying and thrilling read Shari Lapena ...
Poetry By Heart - A Treasury Of Poems To Read Aloud
Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses - The loveliest read of the year
A GORGEOUS READ THATS GOOD FOR THE SOUL Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses is Top 5 Sunday Times bestselling Carole Matthews at her outstanding best. A heart-warming and poignant novel of romance, family and second chances. 5-star reader reviews for Paper Hearts and Summer Kisses Highly recommended I loved this story. An adult fairytale I was hooked from the first chapter A mus...
A Book of Luminous Things - An International Anthology of Poetry
For A Book of Luminous Things Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz has selected 300 of the worlds greatest poems written throughout the ages, poems memorable for how they render the realities of the world palpable and immediate. They are organized under eleven headings including Epiphany, Nature, The Secret of a Thing, Travel, Places, and The Moment. In addition to ...
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poes body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language.This title collects Poes fiction and poetry, including The Fall of the House of Ush...
Poe - Stories and Poems
It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad? In The Cask of Amontillado, a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the city. In The Masque of the Red Death, a prince shielding himself from plague hosts a doomed party inside his abbey stronghold. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, faced with a swinging blade and swarming ...
The Best 100 Poems Of Les Murray
From his lifes work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as The Broad Bean Sermon, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow and The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever, this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. It is a treasure trove of the best poems ...
A Question of Death - An Illustrated Treasury
The Honourable Phryne Fisher she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupids Bow lips and diamante garters is the 1920s most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. Miss Phryne Fisher stars in every one of these surprising, compulsively readable and entertaining stories. With the ever-loyal Dot, the ingenious Mr Butler and all of Phrynes friends and household, the action is as fast as Phrynes wit...
Richard Scarry's Best Treasury Ever
A stunning hardback treasury of five of Richard Scarrys best-loved stories the perfect gift for Scarry fans, young and old! Its another fun-filled day in Richard Scarrys Busytown! Pay a visit to Lowly Worm and all your favourite characters in this fabulous collection of Scarrys best-loved stories. Packed full of cars and trucks, planes and trains, houses, shops and busy streets, it w...
Music at Midnight : The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
Though he never published any of his English poems during his lifetime; George Herbert (15931633) is recognized as possibly the greatest religious poet in the language. Few English poets of his age still inspire such intense devotion today. In this richly perceptive biography; John Drury for the first time integrates Herbertâs poems fully into his life; enriching our understanding of both the...
Botanical Treasury : Celebrating 40 of the World's Most Fascinati
Plants are typically thought of as beautiful; but they can also be deadly; bizarre; rare; and iconic. Brought together in a collection of frameable art prints paired with a book detailing their stories; The Botanical Treasury features forty of the worldâs most fascinating plants in a beautiful collectorâs box. The illustrations are taken from the Kew art collections and archives and incl...
Classic Australian Poems
Australian poets have a wonderful way with words and their poems bring to life the iconic Aussie characters and unforgettable landscape that are part of our Australian heritage. Many of these Mulga Bill, Clancy of the Overflow, The Ant Explorer, MDougal, The Shearers Wife and Mr Smith are larger than life. And the poets who created them AB Patterson, CJ Dennis, Thomas E Spencer, Louis...
Nobody Told Me - Poetry and Parenthood
There were many things that Hollie McNish didnt know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didnt know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as a member of the audience; how drumnbass can make a g...
Selected Poems - Tennyson
As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victorias reign, Alfred Lord Tennysons spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks. Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of HellRode the six hundred The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth centurys greatest...
Henry Lawson Poems
A stunning collection from one of Australias favourite poets. Readers have long embraced the passionate energy of Henry Lawsons poems. this collection of 177 poems showcases the very best of Lawson heart-rendering tales of the human condition, rousing poems of social protest, images of comic characters, and classic portraits such as Middletons rouseabout, as well as some of Lawsons les...
Odd Child Out - The most heart-stopping crime thriller you'll read this year
A hugely satisfying and thrilling read Shari Lapena A brilliant, edge-of-the-seat thriller written with humanity, warmth and grace. I loved it! Saskia Sarginson Two best friends. One terrible event. Abdi Mahal and Noah Sadler have been inseparable since they met. Theyve stuck together, even when their peers have excluded them. But when a horrifying incident leaves Noah in a coma and...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
This poem originally published anonymously, written after Wildes two years hard labour in Reading prison is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresse...
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Brownings epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring the woman question, art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called her wild and magnificent genius is abundantly in evidenc...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetrys pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the Golden Age of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in...
Collected Poems - 1958 - 2015
The technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. Clive Jamess reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as Japanese Maple (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news...
The Science Magpie - Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams and even jokes across the scientific disciplines and from sciences bejewelled history. Science, humankinds greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unu...
Nobody Told Me - Poetry and Parenthood
Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2016There were many things that Hollie McNish didnt know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didnt know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby a...
What Is Poetry? - The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the countrys leading childrens poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invaluable handbook, he shares this knowledge and experience in book form for the very first time. S...