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Tell Me the Truth About Life
A National Poetry Day Anthology
Ed. Cerys Matthews

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DIY Kids' Dress Up
36 Simple Sewn Accessories for Creative Play
Jessica Near

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The British Toy Business
A History since 1700
Kenneth D Brown
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On Love (Poetry)
A Selection of Famous Love Poems and Love Letters
Worth Press
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Piers Plowman
C Version (Piers Plowman
William Langland;G. H. Russell;George Kane
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The British Toy Business
A History since 1700
Kenneth D. Brown
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Piers Plowman
C Version (Piers Plowman
William Langland;G. H. Russell;George Kane
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The Comic Legend of William McGonagall
A Pictorial Story Based on the Life of the World's Worst Poet with Illustrated Verse
Charles Nasmyth;Richard Demarco
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Solo
Collected Poems 1997-2007
John Calder
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Poem For The Day Two
NICHOLA ALBERY
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Go Giants
Nick Laird
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Armistice
A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace
Ed. Carol A Duffy

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With a Thousand Kisses
A Collection of Erotic Poetry and Art
Ed. Isabel King

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Sound the Deep Waters
Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age
Ed Pamela Norris

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Some Corner of a Foreign Field
Poetry and Art of the First World War
Ed. James Bentley

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Best-Loved Poems
Neil Philip;Illus. Isabelle Brent
Among the 200 poems in this collection are some of the best-loved and most memorable in the English language, such as John Masefield’s Sea-Fever, Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot and Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-cat; but there are also less well-known works to discover. The poems are arranged by theme, including Childhood and Youth, War and Peace, Poems to Read Aloud and Magic and Mystery, the pages of each section decorated by Isabelle Brent in different colours.

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Dylan's Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks

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The Digby Poems
A New Edition of the Lyrics
Ed. Helen Barr

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Aetna
Robinson Ellis;Katharina Volk
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Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses
With Modern English Parallel-Text Translations
Robert K Upchurch
Written to bolster the faith of English Christians at the time of the Viking raids, Ælfric’s Lives of the Virgin Spouses tells the stories of Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian and Chrysanthus and Daria, couples who married, but true to the ideal of marital celibacy, never consummated their union. Alongside the Old English originals, Upchurch provides modern English parallel-text translations and the closest Latin source texts (also with translations) for comparison. With introduction, notes, commentary and glossary.

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Peake's Progress
Selected Poems and Short Stories
Peake Mervyn, Peake Sebastian & Peake Fabian
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Sketches Sartorial, Tonsorial and the Like
A Collection of Light Humorous Verse
St Claire Bullock
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Gate of Lilacs
A Verse Commentary on Proust
Clive James
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Favourite Love Poems
Dannie Abse
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The Complete Poems of ASA Briggs
Far Beyond the Pennine Way
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Robert Fergusson
Selected Poems
Ed. James Robertson
Before his early death, Robert Fergusson (1750–74) created a substantial body of verse, and Burns acknowledged the influence of its humour, vigour and craft. This edition contains all his Scots poems and a selection of those in English, along with an introduction and notes.

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Selected Poems
1968–2014
Paul Muldoon
Chosen by the poet himself and described by Michael Hofmann as ‘a gift to old and new readers alike’, this selection comprises five poems from each of twelve published collections, from Muldoon’s first, New Weather, issued in 1973 while he was a student at Queens University, Belfast, to One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015), which includes ‘Cuthbert and the Otters’, written in memory of his mentor, Seamus Heaney.

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Peace Talks
Andrew Motion
The first half of this collection, ‘My Own Blue Eye’, reflects on dreams, visions, identity, character and the passing of time. The second, ‘Laurels and Donkeys’ responds to the poets of the First World War and the ravages of today’s conflicts.

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Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Christopher Reid;Illus. Elliot Elam
A successor to TS Eliot's Book of Practical Cats, this is illustrated collection of poems introduces remarkable canine characters from Flo the philosophical foxhound to Dog Juan, the Iothario of north London.

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Morning, Paramin
Derek Walcott;Peter Doig

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Essex Clay
Andrew Motion
In this verse memoir, Andrew Motion recalls the experiences that have influenced his life and art: his mother’s riding accident and lingering death, his widowed father’s dementia, and an unexpected meeting with an old love.

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The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Ed. Stevie Smith
From A Good Time Was Had By All (1937) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972), this volume brings together all eight published collections of poems by Stevie Smith (1902–1971) along with the poet’s original drawings. It also contains uncollected and unpublished (in Smith’s lifetime) works, including poems issued in the posthumous Me Again (1981). Will May provides an introduction to the poet and the remarkable variety of her poetry.

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1914: Poetry Remembers
Ed. Carol A Duffy
To commemorate the First World War, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy asked modern poets to select a war poem and respond in verse. The resulting anthology contains familiar works by the great war poets as well as that of writers such as Akhmatova, Apollinaire and Trakl. Modern contributors include Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion and Duffy herself.

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Silver
An Aberdeen Anthology
Alan Spence| Hazel Hutchison

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Scunnered
A Slice of Scottish Life in 17 Gallus Syllables
Des Dillon
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Cloth Dolls
For Textile Artists
Ray Slater
With step-by-step instructions and patterns, this is a complete guide to making stump, wired and cloth dolls. It begins with practical information on tools and equipment and explains how to make realistic faces and hands using embroidery and needle sculpting – essential for giving each project its finishing touches. To further encourage creativity, a range of techniques for customizing fabrics are also detailed, from simple embroidery and felting to intricate cutwork.

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Ningyō
The Art of the Japanese Doll
Alan Scott Pate

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On the Nature of Poetry
An Appraisal and Investigation of the Art which for 4000 Years has Distilled the Spoken Thoughts of Mankind
Kenneth Verity
To understand the nature of poetry and the power it exerts over heart and mind, Verity surveys the work of poets and the impact of their work, discussing and quoting lines by over 200 poets, from the anonymous author of Epic of Gilgamesh in around 2000 BCE to TS Eliot in the 20th century. Off-mint.

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The Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins;Read. Jeremy Northam
In the Great Poets series, actors read substantial selections from the work of Britain and America’s most celebrated poets, including less familiar pieces as well as their most famous poems. Each audio book is a single CD with around 70 minutes running time. Jeremy Northam reads 38 poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), including ‘Pied Beauty’, ‘God’s Grandeur’, ’The Windhover’ and an excerpt from ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’.

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John Betjeman Collected Poems
John Betjeman
With his boundless energy and capacity to delight and inspire, John Betjeman (1906–1984) was one of the best-loved poets of the late 20th century and, in the words of Andrew Motion, 'a television celebrity before the term was invented'. The Collected Poems first appeared in 1958 and through several editions has sold over two million copies. This expanded edition, published on the poet's centenary, includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, and a new introduction by Andrew Motion.

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The Iliad and the Odyssey
Serling
Introducing this edition of Homer’s two epic poems, Michael Dirda writes that ‘few other works ... have so deeply entered our cultural bloodstream’. Here, in their entirely, are Samuel Butler’s prose translations of the exploits of Achilles, Agamemnon and Odysseus and their mortal and immortal adversaries.

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The Divine Comedy
Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso
Trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All three books of Dante’s Divine Comedy, narrating the poet’s journey through the circles of ‘Inferno’ and climbing the mountain of ‘Purgatorio’ to the earthly ‘Paradiso’, are presented here in the classic 1867 verse translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with illustrations by Gustave Doré.

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The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
A Critical Edition
Ed. Sean Lawlor;John Pilling
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This volume is the most complete edition to date of his poetry and verse translations, and the first critical edition. The contents establish a definitive text and canon for the poetry, including previously unpublished material, with extensive commentary and notes placing each poem in context and identifying resonances across Beckett's work as a whole.

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Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, the Wise
A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Trans. Kathleen Kulp-Hill
This is the first English translation of the 420 poems and songs written in Galician-Portuguese by King Alfonso X (1221–1284). Recounting the miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, they combine sincerity and devotion with witty, light-hearted passages that create a colourful panorama of medieval life.

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Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Collected Verse 2008–2011
Clive James
Clive James describes this collection of short poems as combining ‘American cultural information with a British range of tones’. The ‘information’ covers intriguing topics, including the fate of Nefertiti’s statue in Nazi Germany, being hospitalized for leukaemia and the Iliad Hollywood-style.

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The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways
(1645–1666)
Ed. Thomas G Olsen
A Royalist MP, Sir John Strangways (1585–1666) was imprisoned in the Tower on charges of high treason between 1645 and 1648 and during that time began compiling his commonplace book of reflections and poems. This full critical edition is Volume 275 of the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. No jacket.

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Dogs
Stories and Poems
Ed. Mark Bryant
Jerome K Jerome’s account of Montmorency’s appalling behaviour; the coming of the Pekinese to England; a heartfelt epitaph to a Newfoundland dog by Lord Byron: Mark Bryant’s anthology is an engrossing collection of poetry and prose, arranged by themes including clever dogs, the hounds of hell, and in memoriam.

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A Gathering
A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith’s anthology of Scottish poems is arranged in eight parts, on themes including love and marriage, islands, and war, conflict and loss, with poets spanning the centuries, from William Dunbar in the 15th, to Hugh MacDiarmid and Kathleen Raine in the 20th.

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Edward Thomas
Selected Poems
Ed. Matthew Hollis
In his instinctive understanding of nature and man’s relation to it, Edward Thomas wrote poetry that is, in the words of Matthew Hollis, ‘eerily attuned to our own ecological age’. This volume presents Thomas’s poetry, along with prose pieces and his diary entries from England and France in 1917.

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New Selected Poems
1988–2013
Seamus Heaney
Published after the poet’s death in 2013, this companion volume to New Selected Poems 1966–1987 covers the second half of Heaney’s career and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Presenting selections made by the poet, the book begins with Seeing Things (1991), followed by The Spirit Level (1996), Beowulf (1999), Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2012), and concludes with his final poem, In Time.

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John Updike
Selected Poems
John Updike;Ed. Christopher Carduff
Though best known as a novelist, John Updike was also an accomplished poet. The 129 observations on life, love, art and science collected here are arranged chronologically to form a verse diary spanning his entire career and include such favourites as ‘Seagulls’ and 'Dog’s Death’. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

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Forever Words
The Unknown Poems
Johnny Cash;Ed. Paul Muldoon
Country music legend Johnny Cash left a large collection of unrecorded lyrics and poems when he died in 2003. Revealing his thoughts on subjects from family and love to modern life and religion, these verses have been selected by the poetry editor of the New Yorker. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.

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Aeneid Book VI
Seamus Heaney;Read. Ian McKellen
This is Seamus Heaney’s last completed work, an inspired translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas travels through death’s dark door, into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. The poem is read here by Ian McKellen.

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Inside the Wave
Helen Dunmore
‘I used to think it was a narrow road/ From here to the underworld/ But it’s as broad as the sun’. Reflecting on mortality and her own journey, this was the final book by the poet and novelist Helen Dunmore (1952–2017). It was Costa Book of the Year, 2017.

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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript
in Modern English Prose Translation
Malcolm Andrew;Ronald Waldron
Based on the authors’ 2007 edition of the Pearl manuscript, this volume provides close, accurate translations of the ‘superb, but linguistically difficult’ medieval English poems Pearl, Cleanness Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. No jacket.

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New American Poets
Ed. Jack Myers;Ed. Roger Weingarten
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Toys to Crochet
Claire Garland
Including designs suitable for all abilities, this collection includes a basic doll and bear (plus outfits to dress them in) and a menagerie of animals. Each project is illustrated with photographs.

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German Romance
Erec
Hartmann von Aue;Cyril Edwards

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Animal Hats
15 Knitted Projects to Keep You Warm and Toasty
Vanessa Mooncie
Vanessa Mooncie’s designs for an entire menagerie of hats provide easy-to-follow instructions intended for knitters of all abilities. These fun hats in adult and children’s sizes range from a smart-suited penguin to a floppy-eared bunny, and the appendix explains how to line your hat and includes a guide to basic techniques, a glossary of abbreviations, conversion charts and a list of suppliers.

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Sincerity
Carol Ann Duffy
Duffy’s last collection as Poet Laureate is a fitting culmination to her term in office. Looking both inwards on the personal life and outwards to a world in political turmoil, these verses reflect on youth, adulthood, bereavement and the passage of time.

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Cats
An Anthology of Stories and Poems
Ed. Mark Bryant
‘Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings’, wrote Oliver Herford (1863–1935); but far from taking offence, we have sung the praises of cats in poetry and prose since the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead asked, ‘Who is this Cat?’ This anthology is arranged by theme, from the ‘Fireside Phoenix’ to ‘Requiescat’, and includes writers and poets from Aesop to Jerome K Jerome – and many famous literary cats.

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Accompanied Voices
Poets on Composers from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt
Ed. John Greening
This anthology brings together poetic responses to 80 great composers, from the Renaissance to the 21st century. The texts include John Dryden’s ode on the death of Purcell, Elizabeth Jennings’ poem on Mozart’s Horn Concertos and Michael Longley on Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder.

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The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll;Illus. Tove Jansson
The Bellman, with his crew of Barrister, Beaver and Butcher, Baker and Banker, sets off in search of the Snark again, but this time his strange quest is recorded in drawings by the Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin. The pictures, originally drawn for a Swedish-language edition in 1959, breathe new life into the English text of this wonderful adventure. Slightly off-mint. Felt tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

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Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
Aleksandr Pushkin;Trans. Walter Arndt

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Paradise Lost
John Milton;Read. Anton Lesser
John Milton’s epic poem on the Fall of Man, in which the poet aimed to ‘justifie the wayes of God to men’ is presented here, unabridged, in a highly acclaimed reading by Anton Lesser. The complete text can be copied onto a hard drive from the final CD.

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Great Poets: Lord Byron
Read. Simon Russell Beale
Although renowned for epics such as Don Juan, Byron wrote many memorable shorter works: this recording presents 32 complete short poems, among them 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'Prometheus', read by Simon Russell Beale.

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Classic American Poetry
65 Favourite Poems
Read. Garrick Hagon;Liza Ross;William Hootkins et al
Between Anne Bradstreet (1612–72) and Alice Walker (b.1944) the major American poets represented here include Longfellow, Emily Dickinson and Whitman; plus popular anonymous works such as Frankie and Johnny and music from Grofe, Gershwin and Macdowell.

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Piers Plowman
The A Version
Ed. Míċeál F Vaughan
The three Middle English poems that make up Piers Plowman are dream visions that relate to both practical problems and to spiritual experience of the divine. Professor Vaughan presents a fresh, scholarly edition of the A version, the early, shorter text.

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The Prelude
The 1850 Text
William Wordsworth;Read. Nicholas Farrell
Unabridged

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The Great Poets: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman;Read. Garrick Hagon
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was considered disreputable when it was published in 1855; now he is seen as ‘America’s poet’. This selection of ten poems includes ‘I Sing the Body Electric’ from Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s Civil War rallying cry to the North, ‘Beat! Beat! Drums!’.

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The Finest Nonsense of Edward Lear
Edward Lear;Read. Sir Derek Jacobi
Read by one of Britain’s best-loved actors, these 29 verses include ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ and ‘The Jumblies’, with less well-known rhymes such as ‘The Duck and the Kangaroo’ and ‘The New Vestments’. The sleeve notes offer a fascinating insight into Lear’s life. Age 8+

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Beneath Troubled Skies
Poems of Scotland at War, 1914–1918
Ed. Lizzie MacGregor
Some of the finest First World War verses were written by Scottish poets. This collection of work by Charles Hamilton Sorley, EA Mackintosh, Margaret Sackville and others powerfully evokes the terror of the trenches and the anguish of bereavement.

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Plautus
Bacchides
John Barsby
Slightly off-mint. No jacket.

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We British
The Poetry of a People
Andrew Marr
Over many centuries, from Caedmon to Carol Ann Duffy, Britons have recorded their joys and sorrows, their loves and losses, in verse. In this anthology, which accompanied Radio 4's celebration of National Poetry Day in 2015, Andrew Marr tells the story of the country through the words of its poets. Alongside the work of such acclaimed writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wordsworth are many lesser-known gems, offering us a glimpse of people's lives and experiences in every era.

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The King of Christmas
Carol Ann Duffy;Illus. Lara Hawthorne
‘Bored, the Baron mooched in his Manor/ on the brink of belligerence. Life lacked glamour/ and Christmas was coming.’ To liven things up, they appoint a peasant (‘anarchic fellow/ in pantaloons of violent yellow’) to be the King of Christmas. Illustrated by Lara Hawthorne.

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The Christmas Truce
Carol Ann Duffy;Illus. David Roberts
It’s Christmas 1914: there’s a one-day ceasefire in the trenches and men from both sides sing carols, shake hands and exchange gifts. With illustrations by David Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy’s poem evokes the magic of a moment those men would never forget.

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The Big Book of the Dolls' House
Jean Nisbett
This comprehensive guide for beginners and experienced dolls’ house enthusiasts, whether using 1/12 or 1/24 scales, describes a range of styles, covering historical periods and cultural influences from a Tudor interior to a Zen apartment. The author suggests ways to present miniature scenes featuring purchased items and provides instructions for making items such as tables and a fireplace. Illustrated with colour photographs, the book includes advice on equipment and a list of suppliers.

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Vintage Paper Toys
64 French Models to Make at Home
Franck Friès
First made popular in the 19th century, designing paper toys can be likened to an art form; and putting them together can be enjoyed by both children and adults. These vintage cut-outs include circus acts, a merry-go-round, dress-up dolls and a church with wedding guests. Follow the instructions on the design, cut out the pieces with scissors and a craft knife, and glue together.

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Classic English Love Poems
Ed. Emile Capouya
From lines by the 14th-century Lincolnshire poet Robert Mannyng (1288–1338), to ‘Is My Team Ploughing?’ from AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad (1896), this romantic anthology spans six centuries and includes, among its 87 poems, works by many of the greatest poets in English literature.

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The Poems & Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty
Oliver St John Gogarty;Ed. A Norman Jeffares
Satirized as ‘stately Buck Mulligan’ in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Oliver St John Gogarty (1878–1957) was a leading figure in the Irish literary Renaissance, whose elegant lyric verse was greatly admired by his friend WB Yeats. This complete edition brings together his 15 volumes of poetry, together with more than 200 unpublished poems and the three plays he wrote for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, allowing modern readers to appreciate the full range of his lively, evocative writing.

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Reading Chaucer's Poems
A Guided Selection By
Ed. Bernard O'Donoghue
Chaucer is justly regarded as the father of English poetry for his wit, vivid characterization and narrative verve. This approachable selection includes The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women and generous extracts from The Canterbury Tales. A general introduction outlines what we know of his life and work, while each poem is preceded by an illuminating commentary and accompanied by a glossary explaining unfamiliar words.

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Poetry and Film
Artistic Kinship Between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky
Compiled. Kitty Hunter Blair
Arsenii Tarkovsky’s first collection of poems was published in 1962; the same year, his son’s first feature film won the Golden Lion at Cannes. This collection of Arsenii’s poems, with introductory essays, explores the relation between poet and filmmaker.

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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift;Ed. Derek Mahon
This selection of Jonathan Swift’s verse by the modern Irish poet Derek Mahon runs the gamut of his range from scurrilous irony to tender domesticity, revealing an Irish writer ‘as colourful in his way as Wilde or Yeats’.

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Crocheting Soft Toys
Angelika Wolk-Gerche;Trans. Anna Cardwell
Frustrated by mass-produced soft toys made with cheap labour and materials, the author set out to produce a collection of unique toys for children, friends and family that could be crocheted and given as presents. Basic crochet stitches are clearly described and illustrated, while detailed and straightforward patterns cover a range of animals, from larger elephants and a jagged-toothed crocodile to smaller curly-tailed chameleons and fluffy-eared owls.

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The Wren Boys
Carol Ann Duffy;Illus Dermot Flynn
An old Irish legend has it that St Stephen was betrayed by a wren’s song, and on St Stephen’s Day, boys hunt the wren and try to capture it by nightfall. On this December 26th, will the hunters succeed, or resort to subterfuge? Illustrated by Dermot Flynn.

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The Last Days of Troy
Simon Armitage
Dramatizing ‘a mystery that has come to us in echoes and whispers from over three thousand years ago’, Armitage’s play follows on from the account of the Greeks’ wooden horse in Homer’s Odyssey to tell the story of the Trojan War to its bitter end. Set in present-day Hisarlik, the site of ancient Troy, with a cast of gods and mortals, the play explores an ancient conflict that rages to this day.

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Ovid: Metamorphoses X (Latin Texts)
Ovid;Ed. Lee Fratantuono
The tenth book of Ovid’s vast compendium of myth focuses on Orpheus and Eurydice, Venus and Adonis, Myrrha’s incestuous passion for her father and Pygmalion’s love for the statue he created. Ideal for first-time readers of Ovid, this edition contains the Latin text, line-by-line commentary on linguistic and literary matters and a concise introduction addressing the poet’s context and the themes of Book X.

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Building Jerusalem
Elegies on Parish Churches
Kevin J Gardner
‘To the agnostic as well as the devout,’ writes Kevin Gardner, ‘the need to remember what is almost forgotten has remained a powerful poetic urge.’ His anthology comprises more than 90 poems on English churches, written by post-war poets including Sir John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, Fleur Adcock and Simon Armitage, and sharing an elegiac mood inspired by the architecture of church buildings, their place in a changing landscape and their significance as sites of collective memory.

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Alexander Montgomerie
Poetry, Politics, and Cultural Change in Jacobean Scotland
RJ Lyall
In this study of the Scottish courtier-poet Alexander Montgomerie (c.1550–1598), Lyall combines biographical investigation with a careful reading of the verse, revealing the effect of Montgomerie’s difficulties as a Catholic on his development of a new poetic.

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Fifty-Four Conceits
A Collection of Epigrams and Epitaphs Serious and Comic
Martin Armstrong;Illus. Eric Ravilious
Originally published in 1933, this little book of witty epigrams and epitaphs by the English writer and poet Martin Armstrong (1882–1974) is illustrated with wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942). The subjects of the verses are 54 professionals or types, ranging from a judge to a snuff-taker and a ‘boarding-house lift man’; and each one is accompanied by its own woodcut.

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Poetry of the First World War
Ed. Marcus Clapham
Edited and with a substantial introduction by Marcus Clapham, this anthology is arranged alphabetically by poet and includes both obscure soldier-poets and the great writers of the war years such as Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen. A final section provides brief biographical notes on the poets.

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Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe;Illus. Aubrey Beardsley;Illus. Gustave Dore;et al

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Felt Dogs
Mitsuki Hoshi
This collection of needle felt designs contains step-by-step instructions to make 12 tiny dogs including a pug, miniature dachshund and a toy poodle. The tools and techniques for each design are explained clearly and close-up photographs show each stage of the process, making this book suitable for novice crafters.

£9.95

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The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Margaret Atwood;Charles Pachter
Born in Suffolk in 1803, Susanna Moodie was already a successful creative writer when her family emigrated to Canada in 1832 and adjusting to life in the backwoods was hard. Susanna’s book Roughing It in the Bush (1852) was Margaret Atwood’s inspiration for this illustrated book, a collaboration between poet and artist. The book was originally published in a limited edition in 1980; this facsimile edition includes a memoir by the artist, Charles Pachter. Slipcased. Off-mint.

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An Anthology of Dragons
An Illustrated Collection of Verse and Prose
Steve Dobell
Devoted to one of the oldest of all mythical animals, this book covers dragons from the Bible, from Ancient Greek and other European mythologies, and from Asia and America.

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We Are the Dead
Poems and Paintings from the Great War, 1914–1918
Ed. David Roberts
'My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/ To children ardent for some desperate glory,/ The old lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.' The response of Wilfred Owen to the war around him is just one of the many poems by British, Irish, Australian, Canadian, French and German writers in this evocative anthology. The poems' themes are echoed in paintings by artists including Paul Nash, John Singer Sargent, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. With an introduction and biographical notes on the poets and artists.

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