Walking Home: A Poet's Journey, Paperback - Simon Armitage

Reducere. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend...

During his lifetime, priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins appeared to be a failure. His daring conversion to Catholicism and entry into the Society of...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and help...

The acclaimed sequel to Armitage's top ten bestselling travel book }Walking Home{. In }Walking Away{ Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of t...

Walking Home. A Journey in the Alaskan Wilderness - Lynn Schooler

Reducere. In July of 1994, Leading Seaman Derrick Nearing, a military medic, is urgently deployed to Rwanda, a country he has never heard of, sent on a missi...

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The record of the Cultural Olympiad sponsored project, headed by Simon Armitage, to carve specially commissioned poems into rocks in the landscape ...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

From his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a pow...

His son doesn't want to join the family business, and his wife is in love with the town's ex-policeman, but Radio Castle continues to broadcast des...

A definitive new anthology of poetry about birds, a collection that encompasses both old and new, and includes some of the best-loved poems in Engl...

Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three...

Revised and expanded reissue of Simon Armitage's acclaimed memoir about growing up in the north of England, published alongside the paperback of }G...

Short and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot ...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empt...

Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view...

New translation of the medieval poem, from the man hotly tipped to be the next poet laureate.

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who...

The current UK Poet Laureate's popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Simon...

Reducere. Celia Ryker's Walking Home: Trail Stories is about more than mud, sweat, and blisters while thru-hiking the Long Trail. Reminiscent of Cheryl Stray...

Reducere. In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son ...

Reducere. In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialo...

Rarely will you find books that explore the human emotions of a long-distance trek so honestly and clearly. --Roger Williamson, Campmor, Inc."Highl...

Reducere. One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who r...

Reducere. First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle Engli...

A new collection from the one of the greatest contemporary English poets, published by Propolis, one of the smallest contemporary English publisher...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Alora YoungNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 209 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Adam Hamilton's classic, The Journey. Since 2011, tens of thousands of churches and small groups have turned Adam...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The latest collection from high-profile poet, Simon Armitage, in which he mixes questions about belief, trust, identity and knowledge with more mun...