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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Essential Poems For The Way We Live Now Description: This volume from Daisy Goodwin is for the way we live now. With wit and insight, these poems explore what it means to be British today - from bad public transport, teeth and weather to our famous countryside, sense of humour and stiff upper lip.... Read More about the "Essential Poems For The Way We Live Now" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Soft Skull
Final Girl Description: Final Girl the last girl left alive in the syntax of the slasher traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story: what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her. In sexy and tart, dark and comic, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, Bride of Reanimator, and The Babysitter, Gottlieb identifies and articulates the desires, fears, traumas, both personal and social, out of which pop culture is made..And then she feeds pop culture back to itself. Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother`s death from breast cancer. Through such iconic American figures as Mary Rowlandson, Marilyn Monroe, and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we`re betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure, and transgression and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.... Read More about the "Final Girl" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Raincoast Books (pgw)
If Youre Not From The Prairie Description: Those born and raised on the prairies are passionate about their bittersweet experiences with this diverse land. Their memories are as valued as any relationship. If You`re Not from the Prairie ... is a visual and poetic journey back to those times and the feelings they elicit. David Bouchard`s evocative text reminds us of the power of the wind, the sweep of the sky, the adventures in the cold. And Henry Ripplinger`s beautiful images are snapshots from the past - playing hockey on the river, lying under the big sky in a field of swaying grass, wading in a spring pond. The result is a nostalgic pilgrimage to a place that symbolizes a unique lifestyle. It is a treasure for mind and soul.... Read More about the "If Youre Not From The Prairie" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Lion Publishing
Poems To Help You Through The Week Description: This is a selection of Christian poetry arranged by key themes, such as love, time, faith, suffering, Heaven - death, forgiveness and identity. It can be used in a range of situations, as a prompt for individual devotion, a gift or a resource for those leading groups in their churches or communities.... Read More about the "Poems To Help You Through The Week" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Running Press
Robert W Service Best Tales Of The Yukon Description: In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten prospectors and sourdoughs in The Land God Forgot make vivid, exciting reading. Here are all the brawling, colorful characters that Service immortalized, including One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Blasphemous Bill and, of course, the lady known as Lou.... Read More about the "Robert W Service Best Tales Of The Yukon" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses Description: Banjo Paterson, beloved bard of the bush, created the poem The Man From Snowy River which captures the spirit of his times. Bravery, danger and adventure are keynotes of this story of horsemanship. Other poems in the collection provide further tales of life in the high country.... Read More about the "The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Auckland University
The Pop-up Book Of Invasions Description: This wonderful new collection The Pop-up Book of Invasions is written out of Fiona Farrell`s experience in Ireland on the Rathcoola Writer`s Residency in 2006. The poems draw heavily and vividly on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery, but they also make connections with home, New Zealand, childhood. Thus a canoe in the National Museum, `Black boat from a brown bog`, recalls the waka: `You think of yours as I think of - mine, setting sail in their black - canoe`. The poet also remembers her Irish father now dead who emigrated to New Zealand and all the many migrations or `invasions` of the past and the present. And she adapts and transforms several ancient Irish texts, rewriting their stories for a contemporary world; the voluminous notes are a fascinating Irish education in themselves. A beautifully constructed, thoughtful, topical and original book.... Read More about the "The Pop-up Book Of Invasions" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Frances Lincoln Ltd
Treasury Of Verse Description: - The only illustrated book of garden verse on the market- An ideal gift book, to appeal to lovers of literature and gardening- Will showcase some of the most beautiful artwork from the enormous range of material in the RHS Lindley Library... Read More about the "Treasury Of Verse" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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