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Almanac: Twelve Poems for 2024 by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
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 ...Show more
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded shoppi ...Show more
Christmas Garland: Ten Evergreen Poems by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
It's almost impossible to imagine Christmas without the natural embellishments of holly, ivy and mistletoe. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. A fall of snow, a returning robin, gath ...Show more
Christmas Lights: Ten Poems for Dark Winter Nights by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
The switching on of festive lights in towns and villages across the land announces the fact that Christmas is fast approaching. It also marks the start of real winter. This delightful selection contains ten brand new poems by leading contemporary poets and comes with a limited edition poem postcard. We ...Show more
Christmas Movies: A Double Bill of Festive Poems by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
What could be more joyful than the moment when merry with turkey and plum pudding we tumble onto the sofa to watch a film we've seen umpteen times before? And what could be more jolly than doffing hat, scarf and gloves to venture out into the cold for the year's festive favourite at the local cinema? Th ...Show more
Christmas Spirit: Ten Poems to Warm the Heart by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
These ten specially commissioned poems celebrate the joy of Christmas in all its variety. Some evoke the bustle of untangling fairy lights, of shopping and cooking and opening presents, while others celebrate our more ancient seasonal traditions, such as collecting holly and ivy to bring into the house. ...Show more
Christmas Stocking: Five Festive Poems for Children by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Every child should have a Christmas Stocking. This selection of poems for children has been made by poet George Szirtes and makes a delightful gift something to read at bedtime as the excitement of Christmas approaches, or to be shared afterwards as a reminder of the laughter and fun. From a trip to the ...Show more
Christmas Together: Twelve Poems for Those We Love by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Christmas together... It sounds almost ordinary but it's something we've come to appreciate all over again in recent times. These delightful poems celebrate shared moments from the mayhem of a kitchen full of steam and chaos to carols sung around the fire after dark. And of course "together" means more ...Show more
Fourteen Festive Sonnets by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Each of these sonnets is an exquisite gift in itself. From Anne Stevenson's lonely house waiting for snow (and an absent lover) to May Sarton's celebration of the quiet company of a Christmas tree, James Nash's selection of poems invites us to reflect on the chilly beauty of winter and the lovely blaze ...Show more
Fourteen Poems about Kissing by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires, can happen anywhere on a train, in a city park or against a kitchen fridge. The poems dramatise the fact that a kiss can make time stand still or send us into a dizzy spin: And the ...Show more
Fourteen Poems to say I Love You by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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How many ways are there to say the words "I love you"? According to poetry, the ways are countless and rich with room for humour, lust, tenderness and a healthy dose of self-mockery. These fourteen poems are not about love but declare it with an immediacy that's captivating and irresistible. Longing may ...Show more
In Memoriam: Thirty Poems of Bereavement
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Category: Poetry and Plays
A beautiful alternative to a sympathy card, this lovely collection of thirty poems comes complete with an envelope -a perfect gift for anyone who needs solace.