A Little, Aloud
An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Reading Aloud to Someone You Care For
Angela Macmillan
This unique book offers a selection of prose and poetry especially suitable for reading aloud – to your husband or wife, a sick parent or child, an elderly...
Penguin's Poems for Life
Laura Barber
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The Works
The Classic Collection
Pam Ayres
'The Works' contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair...
Surgically Enhanced
Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with fans of all...
With These Hands
Pam Ayres
With These Hands is a collection of the very best poems and sketches from one of Britain's best loved entertainers - now starring in her own BBC Radio...
Broken Woman
Pam Ayres
Writer, entertainer, comedienne, and broadcaster Pam Ayres has been entertaining the nation for years. Here she performs her best-loved later poems, recorded in a studio in 2008. This...
Ancient and Modern
Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres is one of our most popular living poets, and is a national treasure. Here she takes a wry look at life and all its peculiarities in...
Pam Ayres Poetry Collection
Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres reads a selection of her poems, including 'I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth', 'I'm a Starling... Me Darling' and 'Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter'.
Love Letters in the Sand
The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
These beautiful love poems, by one of the world's greatest mystics, promises you that one day love will come to you. They evoke that special joy and excitement...
Split World: Poems 1990-2005
Moniza Alvi
Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty...
Masala Mala: Poems from India
Paul R Fleischman
This collection of poems was written within the maelstrom of India, and conveys the tastes, textures, and feel of the subcontinent. Here is the ancient, complex, and modern...
Poems of the Decade
An Anthology of the Forward Poetry Prizes from the 1990s
William Sieghart
Poems of the Decade is an anthology of the Forward Poetry Prizes from the 1990s. Included are works by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy...
The Forward Book of Poetry, 2010
Josephine Hart
The Forward Book of Poetry 2010 collects together the judges' highly commended poems from all the submissions considered for this year's Forward Prizes for Poetry. Described by the...
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Daljit Nagra
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of...
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Wendy Cope
When 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent...
If I Don’t Know
Wendy Cope
The comic brilliance and formal skills which propelled Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns into the bestseller lists are much in evidence here. But a softer,...
That Awkward Age
Roger McGough
Roger McGough's eagerly-awaited new collection is a powerful testament to the miraculous in the everyday. Here he builds us his world: one of chance encounters and embarrassing moments,...
Where Earwigs Dare
Matt Harvey
A collection of Matt's latest poems - horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny. Where Earwigs Dare contains a rich biodiversity of verse, some recycled from Matt's...
Too Black, Too Strong
Benjamin Zephaniah
Addresses the problems of Black Britain. This work includes poems written, while the author was working with Michael Mansfield QC on the Stephen Lawrence case and other high...
The Nation's Favourite Poems
Edited by Griff Rhys Jones
In 1995 BBC Television's 'Bookworm' programme conducted a poll amongst viewers to determine their favourite poems. The top 100 are presented in this book. They include the winner,...
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Where did I read 'Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking' ?
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