' She sees coming up a second time Earth from the ocean eternally green; the waterfalls plunge an eagle soars above them over the mountain hunting fish' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok the earth rises serenely again from the ocean & life is renewed The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world & looks forward to its destruction & rebirth In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological & heroic poetry the exploits of gods & humans are related The one-eyed Odin red-bearded Thor Loki the trickster the lovely goddesses & the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer Brynhild the shield-maiden & the implacable Gudrun New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag & The Waking of Angantyr in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword Comic tragic instructive grandiose witty & profound the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien & a new generation of video-game & film makers ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Beloved & contemplated by philosophers architects writers & literary theorists alike Bachelard&s lyrical landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious & unconscious thoughts & guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry art & the blooming of consciousness itself Houses & rooms; cellars & attics; drawers chests & wardrobes; nests & shells; nooks & corners no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts & our reveries With an introduction by acclaimed philosopher Richard Kearney & a foreword by author Mark Z Danielewski ...

A book aimed at both trade & schools markets that brings together the best of John Foster's original poetry There are over 250 poems divided into themed sections in which there will be humorous & thoughtful poems sitting side by side It

Includes:: a vast range of types of poem such as shape poems acrostic poems limericks diary poems raps story poems recipe poems which makes it the perfect collection for use in the classroom or just to dip into

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Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us They are much watched & much loved A remarkable number of poets have noticed birds & British bird poetry is as old as British poetry Some of the best known & most loved poems in English are bird poems Here poet Simon Armitage & amateur ornithologist Tim Dee gather the best of the past & the most promising of the present as well as some overlooked gems Poems are organised according to ornithological classification & there are detailed ornithological notes which illuminate the poems & provide fascinating information on the birds Altogether this is a truly original anthology ...

' Truly a marvellous collection There is balm for the soul fire for the belly a cooling compress for the fevered brow solace for the wounded an arm around the lonely shoulder
- the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug tonic & kiss' Stephen Fry Sometimes only a poem will do These poetic prescriptions & wise words of advice offer comfort delight & inspiration for all; a space for reflection & that precious realization
- I'm not the only one who feels like this In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length & breadth of Britain into the pages of the Guardian onto BBC Radio 4 & onto the television honing his prescriptions all the time This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary those which again & again have really shown themselves to work Whether you are suffering from loneliness lack of courage heartbreak hopelessness or even from an excess of ego there is something here to ease your pain' The book is delightful; it rightly resituates poetry in relation to its biggest & most serious task helping us to live & die well' Alain de Botton

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Tracklist Fairytale of New York (feat Kirsty Mac Coll) Explicit Sally Mac Lennane Explicit Dirty Old Town The Irish Rover (feat The Dubliners)A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Edit) Streams of Whiskey A Rainy Night in Soho Fiesta Rain Street Explicit Misty Morning Albert Bridge White City Thousands Are Sailing The Broad Majestic Shannon The Body of An American ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Yorkshire 1978 A mother father & their three year old son are brutally stabbed to death while they sleep There is no motive They were a model family The nation is outraged by the senseless killings Incredibly the British public are overwhelmingly in favour of bringing back the death penalty to see justice carried out Even more incredibly the killer who is caught red-handed trying to drag the father&s body out of the house manages to hide the three year old&s body in a place where the investigators the police & even their dog teams would never find it For months all the nation can talk about is the " Kid Killer" but & this is the most incredible fact of all not because he cold-bloodedly stabbed to death a three year old his mother & his father but because these innocent victims were also his family The " Kid Killer" was their twelve year old son William Malvern thirty years later Ryan is thirty three He dreams of being a journalist with a national voice He has done all his life However he&s still working for the same small newspaper he started at thirteen years ago He&s an underachiever who quietly blames everyone else for his own failure His mother ran out on him when he was just a child & the only person who has ever been proud of him is his father who&s funeral he&s just attended So why is William finally released from a life of prisons social workers & psychologists & living under a new identity giving Ryan the chance to be the one who tells his story to the world? A story that is ingrained in the public&s memory A story that has become synonymous with unmitigated evil A story that will dominate every facet of the media for months especially if Ryan can uncover where William buried his three year old brother&s body Right from the outset Ryan&s running out of time William psychologically damaged beyond repair is now only interested in one thing killing himself & Ryan holds the key Five pills being developed by his wife&s pharmaceutical company would to do it Easily painlessly So can Ryan convince Karen that she should take the risk to get them? It could take them out of the spiralling hole of debt they&re in & change their dead-end life but Karen knows that Ryan could actually do this himself if he just had the ambition Maybe her risk will spark some ambition Maybe Karen didn&t see their lifeless marriage turning out this way Maybe it&s time for a change William will give Ryan five meetings to get the story he wants Five meetings tinged with mental & physical torture Each meeting costs Ryan a pill & without the location of the three year old&s body he has nothing & doesn&t William know it It&s a game of Russian Roulette for Ryan where every pill could spell the end of William the end of the story The secret lost forever Ryan also has a secret One that would change his life forever if only he knew it were there & now the only one who can tell him is his dead father Actors Christopher Hatherall Andy Nicol Adam Boyle Steve Oak Kev Wilson Jonathan Kettleborough Siobhan Bermingham Jessica Bayly Lucas Tate Craig Rogers Simone Macdonald Catherine Phillips Samuel Payne-Cheney Mike Tate & Hannah Tate Director Simon Tate Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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Alfie Deyes is back with another instalment of his unique brand of nothingness Bigger better & even more pointless The Pointless Book 2 is once again full of hilarious challenges & crazy activities & the ultimate accessory to Alfie's wonderful Pointless Blog With all the humour & quirkiness of Alfie's celebrated You Tube site Pointless Book 2 is packed with a host of games activities dares pranks & jokes
- & of course an exclusive digital app to take you closer to Alfie & the Pointless Blog Fully illustrated & endlessly entertaining Alfie invites you back to his Pointless party & to once again do virtually nothing with pride!
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Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life & learn to make origami Fully illustrated & packed with a host of games activities & pranks Alfie invites you to join his online following as he challenges you to complete your journal of pointlessness & do virtually nothing with pride ...

Use this limited edition tin for all sorts of handy things
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