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Peter Davison

The poetry of Peter Davison, of which this is the ninth volume, covers a broad range of subject matter. Musical and supple, with rewards for the eye, the ear, and the mind, concerned as much with country as with city matters, Davison's poems move past personality. They open questions of identity, explorations of the natural world, personal and religious conflict, and the mysterious workings of memory. His poetry, such as the long poem "The Great Ledge," is especially moving and powerful wh...

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Peter Davison

What if, within every tragedy, adversity and setback in our lives, there is a blessing to unwrap? How would our lives then change? The stories in the Gift of the Hit collection showcase the strength of the human spirit through the accounts of amazing individuals, ordinary people who have embraced extraordinary events, and who have chosen to find the GIFT within their HIT.

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Peter Davison

James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this poet's singularity is one of the great strengths of this new book; these deeply felt poems are uniquely his. From the almost unbearably moving 'Equinox 1980, ' which opens the book, to the delightful 'Peaches, ' The Great...

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Peter Davison

His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn’t the book they tried to stop – it was more like the book they didn’t want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking’s answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, who once heard a Bob Dylan song), Peter actually penned a hit for Dave Clark but soon swapped a life on the pub circuit to tread the boards.From colonial roots – his dad was Guyanese and h...

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Peter Davison

"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling 'entitled to / the liberty of breathing easy'--a freedom that brings with it the old clarity and eloquence."--W. S. MerwinThe poems in Peter Davison's exuberant ...

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Peter Davison

"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."Louis S. AuchinclossAn intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. H...

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Jim Eldridge

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Peter Davison, Full Cast

All ten series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama set in a small junior school‘The Sistine Chapel of radio drama’' - The TimesRunning for ten series between 1985 and 1988 (with a sequel, King Street Junior Revisited, airing from 2002-2005), this hugely popular school-based sitcom was one of the BBC’s most successful radio programmes. Created by award-winning writer Jim Eldridge, it follows the headma...

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Phillip Hinchcliffe, Terrance Dicks, Philip Martin, Phil Ford

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Peter Davison, Martin Jarvis, Jamie Glover, Dan Starkey, Maureen O'Brien, John Leeson

Five thrilling novelisations of TV stories set on exotic planets, from Marinus to Mars and beyond.In The Keys of Marinus the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are enlisted to find five crucial items vital to peace on Marinus.in The Nightmare of Eden a distress call brings the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the scene of a freak accident in space, where they uncover a dangerous web of intrigue.The Caves of Androzani form the backdrop to the Fifth...

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Christopher H Bidmead

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Peter Davison

Still weak and confused after his fourth regeneration, the Doctor retreats to Castrovalva to recuperate. But Castrovalva is not the haven of peace and tranquility the Doctor and his companions are seeking. Far from being able to rest quietly, the unsuspecting time-travellers are caught up once again in the evil machinations of the Master. Only an act of supreme self-sacrifice will enable them to escape the maniacal lunacy of the renegade Time Lord. Peter Davison reads Christopher H. Bidmea...

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Terrance Dicks, Philip Martin, Gary Russell

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Colin Baker, Full Cast, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison

Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison and Colin Baker are among the readers of these 7 stories from the worlds of Doctor Who. The Planet of the Daleks is read by Jon Pertwee; Warriors of the Deep is read by Peter Davison; Vengeance on Varos is read by Colin Baker; The Novel of the Film (the 1996 TV Movie) and Earth and Beyond (three original short stories) are read by Paul McGann. With original music. Duration: 10 hours approx.

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Gerry Davis, Brian Hayles

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Anneke Wills, Michael Kilgarriff, David Troughton, Peter Davison

Five classic novelisations of TV adventures featuring Cybermen, Yeti and Ice Warriors!In Doctor Who and the Cybermen by Gerry Davis, a weather control station on the moon comes under attack from a deadly army of Cybermen. In Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen by the same author, a party of archaeologists uncovers a vast reserve of dormant Cybermen - who then come terrifyingly to life.In Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen by Terrance Dicks,...

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Malcolm Hulke, Christopher H Bidmead, Barry Letts

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Christopher H Bidmead, Peter Davison, Geoffrey Beevers, Barry Letts

Five classic novelisations of TV adventures featuring the Doctor's arch enemy, the Master!In Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke, the Master has stolen the Time Lord's files on a weapon which could make him ruler of the Galaxy.In Doctor Who and the Daemons by Barry Letts, secret ceremonies have been designed to conjure up a horribly powerful being from another planet.Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke finds the ...