Product Description: The European winters of 2009 and 2010 serve as inspiration for the evocative poems in this collection that anxiously yet joyfully unite the seasons and creatures of the planet. The extremity of those record-setting winters in the UK redefined all seasons for the poet, and her notion that nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination is conveyed in poems such as “Polar,” in which a polar bear rug transforms personal and ecological longing into a creative act...read more

Product Description: This journal, originally kept as part of a study of race and ethnic relations in Trinidad, records daily field experiences where the observers/researchers were engaged in participant observation.

Product Description: Using water as a contemplative device, this anthology examines themes of war, womanhood, time, and the environment. Individual poems focus on a range of topics—from the seemingly unremarkable contents of a bottle of spring water to the more global issue of rising ocean levels...read more

Product Description: Fusing poetry, memoir, and nature writing, this evocative prose collection conducts a literary exploration of place and language. Reflecting upon the geography, history, and mythology of Wales, the verse delves into the sources of both Welsh and English dialects while incorporating essays and journal extracts, creating a seasonal portrait of the beloved Welsh landscape...read more

Product Description: The title sequence of Making the Beds for the Dead charts the journey of a virus in 'the plague year'. Come from outer space, it travels - on a fox's paw, the beak of a kite and a crow and a buzzard - into the very heart of our lives...read more

Written by three experts, this inspiring book guides stroke victims and their family through all the stages of recovery. As well as providing clear explanations of the medical processes, tests, and treatments, the book covers all aspects of life after stroke - from personal care and mobility, to holidays, money and relationships.

This new British edition of the internationally bestselling book by Dr John Thompson provides clear, practical and up-to-date information on arthritis, which will help you to understand this condition and control it.

A collection of poems about the supernatural, by such authors as Tennyson, Robert Frost, and Jack Prelutsky.

More than fifty poems about ghosts, goblins, spirits, and bogeymen--by such poets as Carl Sandburg, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, and Walter de la Mare--populate a poetry collection for children. Originally published as The Whispering Room. Reprint.

Product Description: One of the finest Welsh-language poets writing today.""-World Literature Today. When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems in 1995, she was hailed as the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The poems in Gillian Clarke's Five Fields break new ground. Known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this book she engages with the city in its human and material diversity. Having spent time as Writer in residence at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, she came into close touch with another kind of music, and with the different spaces it occupies, the different demands it makes on performers and audiences...read more

Product Description: When Menna Elfyn published her bilingual selected poems Eucalyptus in 1995, Tony Conran called her 'the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious attempt to have her work known outside Wales'. This new collection, which explores many areas of contemporary experience, will take her work further afield...read more

A collection of poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet have also published her 'Selected Poems' (1985), 'Letting in the Rumour' (1989), and 'The King of Britain's Daughter' (1993).

More than fifty poems about ghosts, goblins, spirits, and bogeymen--by such poets such as Carl Sandburg, Ted Hughes, Emily Bronte, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare and Walter de la Mare--populate a poetry collection for children.

This work was specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the daughter of Llyr. The book also contains a variety of other poems. Gillian Clarke has also written 'Letting in the Rumour' (1989).

Product Description: "Selected Poems", originally in Carcanet's "Signatures" series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years. Gillian Clarke combines traditional skills with a highly individual voice...read more

Product Description: This newly corrected reissue makes Gillian Clarke's classic 1982 collection available again for the first time since 1993. "Letter from a Far Country" is on the Edexcel examination syllabus for A Level English Literature, and Gillian's work is studied by A Level and GCSE students throughout the country...read more