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101 Poems against war / Hollis, Matthew 2003  Book
Hollis, Matthew Book
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Publication Great Britain, Faber and Faber Limited, 2003.
Description 147pRed Spine
Summary/Abstract A collection of startling poems against war ever written - from an infamous last stand in Ancient Greece to the chemical warfare of the present day Gulf.
Contents For the Spartan Dead at Thermopylai - Simonides 'Some Saian sports my splendid shield' - Archilochus 'Success is counted sweetest' - Emily Dickinson Dulce et Decorum Est - Wildred Owen Ireland 1972 - Paul Durcan 'First they came for the Jews' - Martin Niemoller O What is that Sound - W.H. Auden 'Some think a fleet' - Sappho On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam - Hayden Carruth Rain - Edward Thomas Sophoclean - Seamus Heaney An Irish Airman Forsees His Death - W.B. Yeats Phrase Book - Jo Shapcott The Drum - John Scott How to Kill - Keith Douglas I Remember - Stevie Smith The Diameter of the Bomb - Yehuda Amichai The General - Siegfried Sassoon Mines - Bruce Weigl from The Knight's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries - A.E. Housman 'next to of course god america i' - E.E. Cummings Break of Day in the Trenches - Isaac Rosenberg from Poem for the land - Mahmoud Darwish What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov Five Minutes after the Air Raid - Miroslav Holub In Dark Times - Bertolt Brecht ' When you see millions of the mouthless dead' - Charles Hamilton Sorley The Pacifist - Hilaire Belloc Fall 1961 - Robert Lowell The Soldier's Death - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Cambodia - James Fenton Conscientious Objector - Edna St Vincent Millay Grass - Carl Sandburg The Survivor - Tadeusz Rozewicz A Bummer - Michael Casey Epitaph for Mariana Gryphius - Andreas Gryphius As You Say - D.J. Enright Lament of the Frontier Guard - Li Po from Epitaphs of the War 1914-1918 - Rudyard Kipling From Trollope's Journal - Elizabeth Bishop 'Soldiers who wish to be a hero' - Anonymous Six Young Men - Ted Hughes from Poems to Czechoslovakia - Marina Tsvetaeva A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London - Dylan Thomas from America, America - Saadi Youssef Report on Experience - Edmund Blunden The Vote - Ralph Knevet Vietnam - Clarence Major from The Recruiting Serjeant - Isaac Bickerstaffe Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959 - James Wright Penelope - Dorothy Parker The Sorrow od Sarajevo - Goran Simic The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - Randall Jarrell As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods - Walt Whitman The General's Property - Samih Al-Qasim Newscast - Ian Hamilton Dedication - Czeslaw Milosz The Colonel - Carolyn Forche Anti-War - Seiichi Nikuni Raider's Dawn - Alun Lewis The Horses - Edwin Muir Futility - Wilfred Owen Green Beret - Ho Thien Essential Serbo-Croat - Ken Smith American Football - Harold Pinter At the Bomb Testing Site - William Stafford The Fly - Miroslav Holub Vergissmeinnicht - Keith Douglas Waiting for the Barbarians - C.P. Cavafy Familial - Jacques Prevert August 6, 1945 - Alison Fell from Fears in Solitude - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Women, Children, Babies, Cows, Cats - Robert Lowell If I Only Knew - Nelly Sachs A Warrior's Lament - Nnamdi Olebara To His Love - Ivor Gurney Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye - Anonymous Prolonged Sonnet : When the Troops were Returning from Milan - Niccolo Degli Albizzi 'my sweet old etcetera' - E.E. Cummings On Being Asked for a War Poem - W.B. Yeats Seaman, 1941 - Molly Holden War Has Been Given a Bad Name - Bertolt Brecht Channel Firing - Thomas Hardy 'My Triumph lasted till the Drums' - Emily Dickinson from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - Ezra Pound In Memoriam (Easter 1915) - Edward Thomas Death Valley - Sorley Maclean Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon Testimony - Seamus Heaney Facing It - Yusef Komunyakaa Shiloh - Herman Melville The Fury of Aerial Bombardment - Richard Eberhart from Amours de Voyage, Canto II - A.H. Clough MCMXI - Philip Larkin Wounds - Michael Longley Shema - Primo Levi September I, 1939 - W.H. Auden August 1914 - Isaac Rosenberg History - John Burnside Night in Al-Hamra - Saadi Youssef
Standard Number 0571220347 Pb.
Key Words War poetry  Pacifism 
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Action poems / Colson, Mary 2014  Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2014.
Description 64pWhite Spine
Series Experiencing poetry
Summary/Abstract Key to unlock poetry, to explore the poem's meaning, and to find out about the techniques poets use to create an effect.
Contents Experiencing action poetry "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen "What I Will" by Suheir Hammad "The Engine" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Acts of God" by Heather McHugh "Caged Birds" by Maya Angelou "Not My Business" by Niyi Osundare What have we learned? Write your own action poem
Standard Number 9781406272895 Hb.
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Around the World in Eighty Poems: A wonderful journey through a world of poetry! / Berry, James 2001  Book
Berry, James Book
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Publication Great Britain, Macmillan Children's Books, 2001.
Description 96pBlue Spine
Summary/Abstract This diverse poetry collection takes readers on an imaginary journey from Greenland to Great Britain by way of Nicaragua, Kenya, Hungary and many other lands. Some poems are lighthearted, some are serious, and together they evoke a world that's both exotic and familiar. Around the World in Eighty Poems invites children to share in the richness of cultures around the globe.
Standard Number 0333962311 Pb.
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Classic Poems to Read Aloud: With line drawings by James Mayhew / Berry, James 1995  Book
Berry, James Book
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Publication USA, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 1995.
Description 256pPink Spine
Summary/Abstract A collection of poems from all around the world, which reflect a wisdom that is universal.
Contents Introduction Beginnings Varied bodies, varied means Journeys of summer, fall and people Water, wild wind, and fire Magic and mysteries Lighthearted happenings Faces of love Not havings, longings, and endings Challenges, conflicts, and warring Folks' wise talk and inspiration Celebrations Index of titles and first lines Index of poets Acknowledgements
Standard Number 1856979873 Hb.
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Eric Carle's Animals Animals / Whipple, Laura ; Carle, Eric (ill.) 1989  Book
Whipple, Laura Book
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Edition 1999 (Reprint)
Publication Great Britain, Penguin Group, 1989.
Description 96pWhite Spine
Summary/Abstract An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.
Standard Number 0698118553 Pb.
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Humorous and nonsensical poems / Miles, Liz 2014  Book
Miles, Liz Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2014.
Description 64pWhite Spine
Series Experiencing poetry
Summary/Abstract Invites readers to a selection of poems from different places and times, to explore a poem's meaning, and the technique used by poets to create an effect.
Contents Experiencing humorous and nonsensical poetry Limericks "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll Haiku "Serious Luv" by Benjamin Zephaniah "Sick" by Shel Silverstein "Ice Cream War" / by Gary Soto "Third and last" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz "My sister turned into Barbie" / by Lindsay MacRae What have we learned? Write your own humorous poem.
Standard Number 9781406272918 Hb.
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ID:   022991


My village: Rhymes from around the world / Wright, Danielle 2015  Book
Wright, Danielle Book
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Publication London, Frances Lincoln Children's Book, 2015.
Description 53pYellow Spine
Summary/Abstract A collection of 22 nursery rhymes from Iran to Iceland and Samoa to Switzerland, celebrating cultural diversity. Each poem appears in its original language next ot an English translation.
Standard Number 9781847806277 Hb.
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Poems about emotions / Constant, Clare 2014  Book
Constant, Clare Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2014.
Description 64pWhite Spine
Series Experiencing poetry
Summary/Abstract Invites readers to a selection of poems from different places and times, to explore a poem's meaning, and the technique used by poets to create an effect.
Contents A world of emotions "Oranges" by Gary Soto "Don't say I said" by Sophie Hannah "nikki-rosa" by Nikki Giovanni "Neighbours" by Benjamin Zephaniah "As I grew older" by Langston Hughes "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare What have we learned? Write your own poem about emotions
Standard Number 9781406272888 Hb.
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Poems about the natural world / Voboril, Evan 2014  Book
Voboril, Evan Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2014.
Description 64pWhite Spine
Series Experiencing poetry
Summary/Abstract Invites readers to a selection of poems from different places and times, to explore a poem's meaning, and the technique used by poets to create an effect.
Contents Experiencing poems about the natural world "The Tyger" by William Blake "High Waving Heather" by Emily Bronte "A bird came down the walk" by Emily Dickinson "The wild swans at Coole" by W.B.Yeats "The groundhog" by Richard Eberhart "Planting a Sequoia" by Dana Gioia "The yellow jacket" by Niki Giovanni Putting it all together Write your own nature poem
Standard Number 978140272901 Hb.
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Poetry Book: Poems for children / Waters, Fiona (ed) 1996  Book
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Edition 1999 (Reprint)
Publication Great Britain, Orion Books, 1996.
Description viii, 280pRed Spine
Summary/Abstract A compilation of over 200 poems, sharing the discovery of different poets.
Standard Number 1858813875 Pb.
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Songs of ourselves: Anthology of poetry in English / Songs...(Title) 2005  Book
Songs...(Title) Book
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Edition 2008 (Reprint)
Publication New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description xvi, 250pBlue Spine
Summary/Abstract Contains work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English speaking world, for anyone interested in the english language and literature to be studied or explored in depth.
Contents Poems from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Poems from the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (I) Poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (II) Poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (III)
Standard Number 9788175962484 Pb.
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Songs of ourselves - Volume 2: Anthology of poetry in English / Songs...(Title) 2014  Book
Songs...(Title) Book
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Edition 2017 (Reprint)
Publication New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description xiii, 220pBlue Spine
Summary/Abstract Contains work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English speaking world, for anyone interested in the english language and literature to be studied or explored in depth.
Contents Part 1 - Love and family Part 2 - Birds, beasts, and the weather Part 3 - Travel, migration, and society Part 4 - Love, wisdom, and age War, sleep, and death
Standard Number 9781107447790 Pb.
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Sport poems / Colson, Mary 2014  Book
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Publication London, Raintree Publishers, 2014.
Description 64pWhite Spine
Series Experiencing poetry
Summary/Abstract Invites readers to a selection of poems from different places and times, to explore a poem's meaning, and the technique used by poets to create an effect.
Contents Experiencing poems about sport "Training Run" by Adam Horovitz "First Flight" by Vernon Scannell "Slam, Dunk, & Hood" by Yusef Komunyakaa "Ice" by Gail Mazur "Archery" by John Kendrick Bangs "Here's my pitch" by Jackie Kay "The crowd at the ball game" by William Carlos Williams What have we learned? Write your own sports poems
Standard Number 9781406272932 Hb.
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