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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With examples from an extensive range of poets from Chaucer to today The Poetry Toolkit offers simple & clear explanations of key terms genres & concepts that enable readers to develop a richer more sophisticated approach to reading thinking & writing about poems Combining an easy-to-use reference format defining & illustrating key concepts forms & topics with in-depth practice readings & further exercises the book helps students master the study of poetry for themselves Now in its second edition The Poetry Toolkit

Includes:: a wider range of examples from contemporary poetry & more American poetry In addition an extended close reading section now offers practice comparative readings of the kind students are most likely to be asked to undertake as well as readings informed by contemporary environmental & urban approaches The book is also supported by extensive online resources including podcasts weblinks guides to further reading & advanced study guides to reading poetry theoretically

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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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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
- store your pencils make-up notes or even your lunch in this
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Imagine an updated Vertigo darker more scary but just as hypnotically seductive Selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo Dr Caleb Maddox is an expert on pain A leading San Francisco toxicologist he is mapping the chemical traces that show how much agony a human body can endure But now a different kind of pain is distracting him from his life's work
- the violent break-up of his relationship with his artist girlfriend Bridget Seeking solace in a secluded bar he meets a beautiful woman who shares an absinthe with him then disappears into the night Instantly obsessed he starts trawling the hidden byways of the city to try & find her & when he does she insists on a bizarre set of rules before he can meet her alone But even as he tries to lose himself in Emmeline's darkly erotic world Caleb finds himself inexorably drawn back to the study of pain & death For weeks the police have been fishing corpses out of the bay with no clue as to how they died & Caleb's old friend medical examiner Henry Newcomb asks him to decipher the chemical puzzles left in the bloated remains Soon Caleb discovers evidence of an unspeakable horror connecting all the victims suggesting that the city is prey to a deranged killer And then he discovers that one of the dead men was last seen at the same bar the night he met Emmeline Suddenly Caleb is plunged into a nightmare where love madness & murder are clasped in a lethal embrace
- & untangling the truth could be the last thing he wants to do

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' All his stories are amusing intriguing & he is a master of the final twist'
- Agatha Christie' One of the most stunning
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In London the British Government has declassified a large number of top secret files regarding British Military Intelligence operations during World War Two One file concerning espionage operations on Gibraltar has been smuggled out of the UK to Spain It contains information that will draw Sullivan & Broderick into the dark & treacherous world of wartime Gibraltar A place where saboteurs & espionage plots abounded Where double & triple agents from Britain Germany & Spain were at war in a treacherous & deadly game of undercover operations It is only a matter of time before past & present collide & a dangerous battle begins to conceal the truth about the Rock's poisonous wartime history Detectives Sullivan & Broderick become caught in a tangled web of intrigue & murder that will once again test their skills & working relationship to the very limit ...