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Gaby Morgan

    In My Sky at Twilight
    Read Me and Laugh
    Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
    Poems for Travellers
    Christmas Stories
    A Year of Scottish Poems
    • A Year of Scottish Poems

      • 592 Seiten
      • 21 Lesestunden

      A Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar – from Burns Night to Hogmanay – these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting.With an introduction from the National Poet for Scotland, Makar Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry including Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd, Stewart Conn, Kathleen Jamie, Elma Mitchell, John Rice, Muriel Spark, Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean, Julia Donaldson, Carolina Oliphant, Norman MacCaig, Marion Angus, Kate Clanchy, Carol Ann Duffy and many more to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!

      A Year of Scottish Poems
      4,3
    • Christmas Stories

      • 304 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      'Christmas Stories' is a very merry collection packed with new and classic yuletide yarns from authors such as Phil Ardagh, Anna Wilson and Robert Westall.

      Christmas Stories
      3,5
    • Poems for Travellers

      • 240 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.As internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux writes in his introduction, ‘Here is a collection of travel poetry composed by real travellers, weekending tourists, feverish fantasists, bluffers, dreamers, brave adventurers and resolute stay-at-homes. It succeeds in what poetry does best – inspires and consoles, reminds us of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we might want to go next.’

      Poems for Travellers
      4,0
    • Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a beautiful poetry anthology, with carefully selected poems to keep you company every day of the year.

      Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
      3,0
    • Read Me and Laugh

      A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year Chosen By

      • 512 Seiten
      • 18 Lesestunden

      The READ ME brand has been a publishing sensation, selling tens of thousands of copies and continuing to sell strongly for half a decade. This brand-new collection features a funny poem for every day of the year, from rhymes that will raise a gentle smile to verse that will make you laugh your socks off. This book is packed with gems new and old from poets such as Charles Causley, Roger McGough, Lewis Caroll, Paul Cookson and Wendy Cope.

      Read Me and Laugh
      4,0
    • In My Sky at Twilight

      Poems of Eternal Love

      • 144 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden

      This swooningly gorgeous collection of poems celebrates love in all its guises from silent admiration through heart-stopping passion to tearful resignation. Whether you are star-crossed lovers, kindred spirits or smitten by the boy next door these exquisite verses speak of the universal experiences of the heart and prove that love transcends time itself. from In My Sky At Twilight In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud And your form and colour are the way I love them. You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips And in your life my infinite dreams live. Pablo Neruda

      In My Sky at Twilight
      3,6
    • Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms – whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Poems for Happiness features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, the Reverend Richard Coles. This inspiring and life-affirming collection features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ by William Wordsworth and ‘Invictus’ by W. E. Henley. In addition to these well-known verses, this beautiful volume includes lesser-known poems to discover and enjoy.

      Macmillan Collector's Library: Poems for Happiness
    • My Heart’s in the Highlands

      Classic Scottish Poems

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      My Heart’s In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of classic poems and verse introduced by the acclaimed poet, John Glenday. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. With poems from famous Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Mary Queen of Scots herself there is plenty here to enjoy and inspire. The book roams across so many aspects of Scottish life and culture; its landscape and its history, its people and its celebrations. It’s a country that has inspired poets to write about love and to reflect on the important things of life.

      My Heart’s in the Highlands
    • Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Poems for Love features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic Novelist Association prize- winner, Joanna Trollope.There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4,000 years. A complex and truly timeless emotion, love - whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant Macmillan Collector's Library anthology. That we still read and enjoy these heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius, and to the enduring power of love.

      Poems for Love: Macmillan Collector's Library