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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT SWIMMING
    WYNNE-RHYDDERCH, SAMANTHA
    Selected and introduced by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.There’s something at once elemental and child-like about moving through water – whether we paddle like a dog or can manage an elegant crawl.These delightful poems explore the many joys of swimming in pools, rivers and oceans. We travel all the way from a child learning to swim at home on a piano stool to a swimmer in a public ...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT RUNNING
    Nowadays, running is a serious business and we're all busy recording our PBs on complicated watches. These poems remind us that there's still plenty of fun to be had - whether navigating a forest trail before breakfast or lying in bed coming up with reasons not to go out at all. There's the familiar sight of a runner skirting shoppers in a busy street, leaving behind a trail of...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT ANGELS
    Human beings have always needed angels - figures to illuminate our lives and care for us. This anthology offers earthly and celestial angels, who appear in a nurse's uniform or a flash of light, to lift us up towards belief, survival and love. We meet a grandmother whose amazing love is celebrated and even a dog whose tail wagging wakes its adoring owner. Elsewhere, an angelic ...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT MOUNTAINS
    A mountain is something very particular - a place that entices and daunts us, that commands our gaze while also making it very clear that we're not required. These glorious poems capture the majesty and wonder of mountain landscapes, whether they're encountered up-close by walkers and climbers or are being marvelled at from afar by more contemplative souls. In one poem, even a ...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT JOURNEYS
    This mini anthology is a celebration of the rich variety of ways in which we get ourselves from A to B. A long distance walk, a bike ride, a boat trip - all are here in language that captures the thrill of being en route. We meet cyclists pedalling with panniers around eastern France. Then there's a rowdy train journey from Barrow to Sheffield; the passengers may be raucous but...
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  • ALMANAC
    In our Almanac for 2024 you'll find beautiful poems old and new, chosen to keep you company through the year. We open with a poem that moves from mud and greyness to a vision of springtime-in-waiting, glimpsed in "a clutch of green spears". Summer brings strawberries and swims by moonlight, while autumn is full of birds: "Today I'm noticing wings - a swan spreads its pinions wi...
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