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Poems to save the world with / selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.

Kaituhi: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa: London : Macmillan, 2020Whakaahuatanga: 199 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529040111
  • 1529040116
Ngā marau: DDC classification:
  • 821.008 23
Contents:
Machine-generated: -- To Every Thing There Is a Season / Book of Ecclesiastes -- Happy Thoughts -- Happy Thought / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Happy the Man / John Dryden -- With Only One Life / Marin Sorescu -- My Lover Eats Words for Supper / Khushi Daryani -- from Auguries of Innocence / William Blake -- `Hope' is the Thing with Feathers / Emily Dickinson -- Wild Geese / Mary Oliver -- Travelling / William Wordsworth -- Almond Blossom/ Fiona Benson -- The Hubble Space Telescope before repair / Rebecca Elson -- A Word of Advice / Libby Russell -- The Mushroom Hunters / Neil Gaiman -- Everything Is Going to Be OK -- Crow Baby / Rebecca Elson -- The Peace of Wild Things / Wendell Berry -- Invictus / W. E. Henley -- Battle Call / Rachel Rooney -- Kindness / Nikita Gill -- Departure Gate Aria / Sharon Olds -- What You Need to Be Warm / Neil Gaiman -- Otherwise / Jane Kenyon -- Leisure / W. H. Davies -- The Raincoat / Ada Limon -- Happy Birthday Moon / Raymond Antrobus -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- Oh! I have Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth -- High Flight / John Gillespie Magee, Jr -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / W. B. Yeats -- No Man's Land / Rachel Rooney -- Explaining Memes to Keats / Nadia Lines -- The Great Lover / Rupert Brooke -- There is no Frigate like a Book / Emily Dickinson -- from A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare -- The Land of Counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Tyger / William Blake -- Troll Song / A. F. Harrold -- The Walrus and the Carpenter / Lewis Caroll -- Turvy-Topsy / Paul Stewart -- The Elephant in the Room -- The Elephant in the Room / Kay Ryan -- Bad New Government / Emily Berry -- No Man Is an Island / John Donne -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- In Case of Fire / Roger McGough -- We Lived Happily During the War / Ilya Kaminsky -- The Second Coming / W. B. Yeats -- To Pythagoras in the Rain Forest / Stephen Plaice -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- This Is an Incitement / Chris Riddell -- Remains: A Song / A. F. Harrold -- Lockdown -- Serenity Prayer / Brian Bilston -- Home Thoughts from Abroad / Robert Browning -- Lockdown / Chris Riddell -- Love in the Time of Coronavirus Miracles / Nikita Gill -- The Perfect Place / Roger McGough -- An Instinct of Hope / John Clare -- Good Bones / Maggie Smith -- Yellow / Anne Sexton -- from Endymion / John Keats -- Lochan / Kathleen Jamie -- Index of First Lines -- Index of Poets -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- About Chris Riddell
Summary: "Chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell, Poems to Save the World With -the follow-up to Poems to Live Your Life By and Poems to Fall in Love With - will ignite your inner activist and provide comfort and inspiration. These poems speak of hope, happiness, rebellion and living through a pandemic.This beautiful book features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Maggie Smith, Brian Bilston, Raymond Antrobus, Fiona Benson, Lewis Carroll and many more"--Publisher's website.
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Machine-generated: -- To Every Thing There Is a Season / Book of Ecclesiastes -- Happy Thoughts -- Happy Thought / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Happy the Man / John Dryden -- With Only One Life / Marin Sorescu -- My Lover Eats Words for Supper / Khushi Daryani -- from Auguries of Innocence / William Blake -- `Hope' is the Thing with Feathers / Emily Dickinson -- Wild Geese / Mary Oliver -- Travelling / William Wordsworth -- Almond Blossom/ Fiona Benson -- The Hubble Space Telescope before repair / Rebecca Elson -- A Word of Advice / Libby Russell -- The Mushroom Hunters / Neil Gaiman -- Everything Is Going to Be OK -- Crow Baby / Rebecca Elson -- The Peace of Wild Things / Wendell Berry -- Invictus / W. E. Henley -- Battle Call / Rachel Rooney -- Kindness / Nikita Gill -- Departure Gate Aria / Sharon Olds -- What You Need to Be Warm / Neil Gaiman -- Otherwise / Jane Kenyon -- Leisure / W. H. Davies -- The Raincoat / Ada Limon -- Happy Birthday Moon / Raymond Antrobus -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- Oh! I have Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth -- High Flight / John Gillespie Magee, Jr -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / W. B. Yeats -- No Man's Land / Rachel Rooney -- Explaining Memes to Keats / Nadia Lines -- The Great Lover / Rupert Brooke -- There is no Frigate like a Book / Emily Dickinson -- from A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare -- The Land of Counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Tyger / William Blake -- Troll Song / A. F. Harrold -- The Walrus and the Carpenter / Lewis Caroll -- Turvy-Topsy / Paul Stewart -- The Elephant in the Room -- The Elephant in the Room / Kay Ryan -- Bad New Government / Emily Berry -- No Man Is an Island / John Donne -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- In Case of Fire / Roger McGough -- We Lived Happily During the War / Ilya Kaminsky -- The Second Coming / W. B. Yeats -- To Pythagoras in the Rain Forest / Stephen Plaice -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- This Is an Incitement / Chris Riddell -- Remains: A Song / A. F. Harrold -- Lockdown -- Serenity Prayer / Brian Bilston -- Home Thoughts from Abroad / Robert Browning -- Lockdown / Chris Riddell -- Love in the Time of Coronavirus Miracles / Nikita Gill -- The Perfect Place / Roger McGough -- An Instinct of Hope / John Clare -- Good Bones / Maggie Smith -- Yellow / Anne Sexton -- from Endymion / John Keats -- Lochan / Kathleen Jamie -- Index of First Lines -- Index of Poets -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- About Chris Riddell

"Chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell, Poems to Save the World With -the follow-up to Poems to Live Your Life By and Poems to Fall in Love With - will ignite your inner activist and provide comfort and inspiration. These poems speak of hope, happiness, rebellion and living through a pandemic.This beautiful book features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Maggie Smith, Brian Bilston, Raymond Antrobus, Fiona Benson, Lewis Carroll and many more"--Publisher's website.

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