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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT SISTERS
    A sister often knows us better than anyone. This selection of poems (a companion to Ten Poems about Brothers) explores that special relationship - from the games and secrets of early childhood that we remember so vividly to the separate journeys of later life. For Dorothea Smartt, two sisters form a pair of carefree 'toe-tapping feet' while Jean Tepperman's depiction of sisterh...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT WALKING
    There seems to be a natural connection between walking and poetry. For William Wordsworth, the regular rhythm of walking was a stimulus to writing, and he said that "nine-tenths of my verses have been poured out in the open air." This beautiful mini-anthology contains William Wordsworth's heart-stopping 'Old Man Travelling' alongside contemporary poems that capture the delights...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT BICYCLES
    This second edition of our much-loved mini-anthology of bicycle poems is a real treat. Invigorated by some delightful new poems, the selection takes us along the highways and byways of cycling lore, from a freewheeling nun relishing the exhilaration of being on a bike on a hot summer's day to the young man cycling in his brand new soldier's uniform at the start of World War One...
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  • TEN SEXY POEMS
    This intoxicating selection of poems - a mini-anthology to complement our ever-popular Ten Poems about Love - captures the extraordinary power of desire, from Neil Rollinson's tenement building stirred by the passion of loving couples on St Valentine's night, to DH Lawrence's painterly celebration of a beautiful woman as she washes in early morning sunshine. Elsewhere, beds bec...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT LOVE
    This second edition of our popular mini-anthology calls at every stop on love's roller-coaster journey - from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age. In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt: "...you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will alw...
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  • ELEVEN POEMS ABOUT FOOTBALL
    Football has accrued its fair share of sound-bites and foot-in-mouth moments. The poems in this anthology strike an altogether more subtle note and take us to the very heart of why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and commands such lifelong devotion. There's a poem capturing the romance of children playing street football until it's almost too dark to...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT DOGS
    Ten Poems about Dogs pays tribute to man's - and woman's - best friend. Introduced by much-loved broadcaster and author Dame Jenni Murray, the poems reveal the great affection people feel for their dogs (and dogs for their owners). In amongst alternately poignant and hilarious accounts of dog-ownership, are some slightly unsociable aspects, like the neighbours' dog in Billy Col...
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  • THE ALL NIGHT BOOKSHOP
    BELBIN, DAVID
    An elusive owner who lives on the top floor but is never seen customers who turn up after midnight in slippers and dressing gown, driven by an urgent desire for a book about Icelandic myths or pottery... a beautiful and insomniac shop manager who is blind in one eye... The ingredients of David Belbin's intriguing tale take us into a shadowy world that seems to exist somewhere b...
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  • TEN POEMS ABOUT CATS
    Cats have provided writers and artists with inspiration for as long as they have been winding themselves purring round their owners' legs and fixing them with their big, green eyes. The poems in this pamphlet are evidence of some wonderful cats and their amusing and endearing ways, from Thom Gunn's kittens galloping like a re-enactment of Ben Hur along the corridor, to Jen Hadf...
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