Once Upon A Time Lets fly back to before. Before I needed or wanted Too grow up. Back to the days I wandered Black Mountain, Ran free in the bog meadows Then they put me in school Wasted my time, should have left Me to run free, all of my life Shaped by moments spent contented, And free on hillside, and meadow Flying down along this memory lane I cant forget people, and places Especially holiday months spent Joyfully on farms, school days, terror Filled times eager to read, and write. Igno...

Before Guy Gavriel Kay became known for his groundbreaking works of speculative fiction, establishing himself as one of the world's most respected writers in that genre, he was an accomplished poet, his work appearing in major literary journals such as The Antigonish Review and Prism. Through the years, while writing his dramatic international bestsellers, Kay has continued to quietly explore the paths and boundaries of poetry as well.Now for the first time, Guy G...

Thom Gunn's The Man With Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social. The book ends with a set of poems about the deaths of friends from AIDS. With their unflinching directness, compassion and grace, they are among the most moving statements yet to have been provoked by the disease.

REVISED, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PAUL ABBOTTThis edition of Suburban 100 includes new lyrics from the critically acclaimed albums, 22 Dreams and Wake Up the Nation, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Award.Paul Weller first burst onto the national music scene with The Jam in 1977 and was quickly marked apart from his contemporaries as a brilliant lyricist. In a writing career that has now sp...

Falling in love, falling out of love, losing love: thankfully, these are not unique experiences. This book explores the soaring heights, the unforeseen changes and the cascading lows that love can bring. The words herein remind us of the wonders of love as well as the challenges that can beset us. As the reader turns each page, he or she shares moments of the writers own experience.

In 2013, Leanne O’Sullivan’s husband Andrew suffered a severe infection in his brain. He spent just over three weeks in a coma, during which time his temperature soared to 42 degrees. When he finally woke it immediately became clear that his memory had been almost completely destroyed; he didn’t even know his wife. More present and visual to him were the birds and wild animals that he believed he could see during his recovery: foxes, wildcats and herons – animals that seemed to be guiding ...

Four magicians, four worlds.Magic never makes things easier, and things are never easy.Here you'll find a city grown addictive, a dark wizard mourning his wife, a world that has lost its colour, and a man who can persuade anything into becoming anything, except the woman he loves into loving him.Trent Jamieson is the multi-award winning author of the Death Works series, and the Nightbound Land duology.

The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement

Anne Hathaway – contented wife of a glovemaker and aletaster, proud mother of three – has her life turned upside down when strangers, oddly familiar, come to her door and whisk her husband away. What is their business, this terrible danger they say we all face? What is the lattice, and what part must her Will play to save it?Monstrous Little Voices is a collection of five short novellas, a single long tale set in Shakespeare’s fantasy world of fairies, wizards and ...

Volume 2 of the Rhyme Whisperer Series, 'In The Madness Of Meeting' follows the poetry collection 'As The Moon And The Sun' in bringing readers more poems to enrich minds and hearts.

At the height of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s over 100 foreign civilians were taken hostage by Islamic Jihad. As the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, Terry Waite conducted several successful missions to negotiate the release of numerous hostages. But in January 1987, while on one of his many visits to Beirut, he was captured himself.Imprisoned for nearly five years, four of them in solitary confinement, he was chained, beaten, frequently blindfolded...

The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.Praise for Felix Dennis's first volume of poetry, A Glass Half Full:'The unpredictable Felix Dennis bursts forth as a 21st-century Kipling' Tom Wolfe'If Waugh were still alive, he would fall on Dennis's verse with a glad cry of recognition and approval' John Walsh, Independent'At least one of these poems will be instantly anthologised' Melvyn Bragg