Author: Baskwill, Jane
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Wildthings Press
ISBN: 9780929065007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Allan Ahlberg
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141928034
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Happy 30th birthday, Please Mrs Butler! This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, re-jacketed for its 30th anniversary and for a whole new generation of school children to fall in love with, is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone. From never-ending projects, reading tests, quarreling, making-up, excuses and 'Please, Sir, it isn't fair.' Fritz Wegner's line drawings beautifully complement the hilarious and poignant verses. Please Mrs Butler was voted the most important twentieth-century children's poetry book in a Books for Keeps poll.

Author: David Kirby
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807162914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly observant poems range from the streets of India, Russia, Turkey, and Port Arthur, Texas, to the imaginations of fellow poets Keats and Rilke, and to ruminations on the mundane side of life via the imperfect sandwich. Whether remembering girls' singing groups of the 1950s or recounting a child asking his priest if his dog would go to heaven, Kirby has the ability to make us laugh, but he can also bring us to tears through our laughter.

Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Brett Fletcher Lauer
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0670014796
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Young readers find their poetic peers as poets in their 20s and 30s present a poetry anthology dedicated to what it means to be a teenager and young adult in today's world. 240pp.

Author: Various Poets
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571323960
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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'What will survive of us is love.' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes. Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.

Author: MARGARET COX
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300037490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Author: Allison Benis White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935536833
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A series of letters on the death of the speaker's father that investigate loss and language's limits and ability to transcend our temporal lives

Author: Brett F Lauer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101615389
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of “the rape joke”; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it. Editors Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick have crafted a book that is a must-read for those wanting to know the future of poetry. With an introduction from award-winning poet, editor, and translator Carolyn Forché, Please Excuse This Poem has the power to change the way you look at the world. It is The Best American Nonrequired Reading—in poetry form.

Author: Andy Hefty
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781654235192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The perspective of this collection of poems is primarily that of a mother dealing with the many disabilities that someone in her life may have and that of the child himself or herself. Mothers have always had it tough. From the days of Adam & Eve, mothers have always faced challenges and fears that fathers either ignore, "delegate," or simply find a solution without any thought or emotion. But mothers...they are wired differently from the moment they realize they're expecting. A new instinct kicks in. And when a disability enters the joys of parenthood, the mother becomes a new form of superhero that the world is a better place because of her.