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  • Silver

    by Andrew Motion ...
    July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames, a young boy spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries and listening to his father's tales of adventures: on the high seas, of curses, murder and revenge, black spots and buried treasure--and of a man with a wooden leg.It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Poetry by Heart

    Poems for Learning and Reciting

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Selected Poems of Andrew Motion

    by Andrew Motion ...
    In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his addressing the reader with maximum clarity and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Collins Rhyming Dictionary

    by Rosalind Fergusson ...
    If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Coming in to Land

    Selected Poems 1975-2015

    by Andrew Motion ...
    From England’s former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American publisherAndrew Motion has said, “I want my writing to be as clear as water. I want readers to see all the way through its surfaces into the swamp." Though the territory of his exploration may be murky and mired—the front lines of war, political ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Good-bye to All That

    An Autobiography

    by Robert Graves ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    "There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing."This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Able Muse, Winter 2024/25 (No. 32 - print edition)

    a review of poetry prose & art

    by Alexander Pepple, Stephen Kampa, Ned Balbo, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion, Rachel Hadas ...
    Series Book 32 - Able Muse, Print Edition
    This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2024/2025 issue, Number 32. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the *Able Muse-*online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New World

    by Andrew Motion ...
    The breathtaking new novel about unexpected adventure from Andrew Motion, internationally acclaimed author of Silver.Washed ashore after a harrowing shipwreck, English seafarers Jim and Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast in Texas. Their ship, the Nightingale, has been destroyed, and to Jim and Natty's horror, only one other survivor remains. But the shocked and grief-stricken duo ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Lamberts

    George, Constant and Kit

    by Andrew Motion ...
    'A bald summary does no justice to the subtlety and exceptional lucidity of a book which turns the bland, familiar, intrinsically worthy stuff of so many fictional family sagas into a biographical triumph.' Observer'Motion has given us an exemplary piece of research, and a comparison of three eras that is of compelling interest, not least in showing what damage one generation does to the next.' ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Randomly Moving Particles

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration, and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Price of Everything

    by Andrew Motion ...
    This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of Elegy

    Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

    by Prof Stephen Regan, Andrew Motion ...
    'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month)'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The TimesElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD