A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills some call the Razorback Downs. Podkin One-Ear is a legend: a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning & triumph in battle has travelled the ages. But how did he become such a mighty fighter? The answer may surprise you... When a travelling bard arrives at Thornwood warren on Midwinter night, he is warmly welcomed. In return for food & lodging, he settles down to tell the tale of Podkin One-Ear
- & soon the rabbits are enthralled to hear the story of how one lost little rabbit overcame the cruellest enemy imaginable, & became the greatest warrior their land has ever known.
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Map No. 113, Podkrknosi, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart highlighting both signposted cycling routes & other local cycling paths, with route profiles & additional tourist information. Relief is shown by contour lines, spot heights, & subtle hill-shading. The maps show roads, tracks, railways, cable cars, chairlifts, & a range of natural landscape features & landmarks. Coloured symbols depict plenty of additional tourist features e.g. information centres, places of interest, antiquities, shelters, campsites, accommodation, bicycle services etc. An overprint highlights both signposted routes & other recommended routes which have no terrain markers. For all bike routes intermediate distances are shown. Hiking paths are also highlighted. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 5' intervals. Each map is accompanied by a booklet containing general information on the Czech cycle route network, elevation profile diagram for selected routes, plus an index for locations of historical & geographical interest, bicycle service workshops, information centres, & tourist attractions. Map legend & text are in English, German & Czech. ...

Map No. 164, Podyji
- Thayantal, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart
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Auden`s electrifying, enigmatic & extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, & simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items & added new poems in their place. Available again for the first time since 1950, this reissue follows the text of the second edition. ...

There has always been love, & we have been writing poetry about it for over 4, 000 years. A complex & truly timeless emotion, love
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The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied & historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, nor contained as many fascinating, beguiling, & sometimes infuriating contradictions. Poems of the American South

Includes:: poems both by Southerners & by famous observers of the South who hailed from elsewhere. These range from Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, & Francis Scott Key through Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, & Donald Justice, & include a host of living poets as well: Wendell Berry, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, C. D. Wright, Natasha Trethewey, & many more. Organized thematically, the anthology places poems from past centuries in fruitful dialogue with a diverse array of modern voices who are redefining the South with a verve that is reinvigorating American poetry as a whole.

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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind`s nautical fears, dreams, & longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates & mermaids, phantom ships & the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses & shipwrecks, of icebergs & frothing foam & seaweed. This marvelous collection

Includes:: classics old & new, from Homer & Milton to Plath & Merwin. Here are Tennyson`s seductive sea-fairies next to Poe`s beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge`s darkly brooding ” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare`s ” Full Fathom Five.” & here is Masefield`s ”I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafy`s ” Ithaka” & Stevens`s ” The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here
- sonnets & sea chanteys, ballads & hymns & prayers
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This beautiful new edition of ” Poems on the Underground” is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old & new, romantic, comic & sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music & the seasons, & feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy & Wendy Cope, including Chaucer & Shakespeare, Milton, Blake & Shelley, Whitman & Dickinson, Yeats & Auden, Seamus Heaney & Derek Walcott & a host of younger poets. It

Includes:: a new foreword & over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.

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After nearly thirty years & almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground has become a familiar & welcome sight on London`s Tube, paying tribute to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, & to those who have contributed to its richness & diversity. In this beautiful paperback edition, poems old & new, familiar & unfamiliar explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music & nature, & feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger Mc Gough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope & John Clare, among many others. ...

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-&-son team Anthony & Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi & Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda & Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker & Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love & loss, through mortality & mystery, war & peace, to the beauty & variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Meera Syal, & Joan Baez to Olivia Colman, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting & thinking are admired around the world. ...