Christine Evans is een gevierde dichteres wiens werken vaak landschap en de drempel tussen werelden verkennen. Haar poëzie wordt geprezen om een frisse blik en moedige metaforen, die lezers naar andere rijken trekken. Naast verzen heeft ze ook proza geschreven, waaronder landschapsstukken en kinderboeken, en heeft ze opdrachten aanvaard voor dagboek- en reisverslagen. Haar leven op het Llyn-schiereiland, dat beelden van licht en water put, informeert haar onderscheidende literaire output, naast haar werk als docent creatief schrijven.
Luca is still Raven's best friend. But after he made a wish from the Wish Library without her, she is definitely not going to team up with him for the upcoming talent show. Despite her grudge, something keeps bringing them together--something almost...magical. Luca is the only other person who knows about the Wish Library, and he promises he didn't make another wish without her. But if he didn't, who did?
Featuring a generous selection from four published collections of the poems of Christine Evans, this book also features her new work. Spanning two decades, the book opens with pieces from Looking Inland . The visiting farmers in “Callers” with their ‘blunt, nervous hands’ set the tone for the early poems, which are poignant, precise observations of the author’s surroundings, a farm on the Llyn Peninsula in north Wales. Also included is the entire Falling Back , an accomplished longer poem. It tells the story of a woman’s attempts to come to terms with the death of her husband, a shepherd, in north Wales. From initial stunned grief through recovery, the slow stages of bereavement are movingly portrayed. The poems from Cometary Phases show an increasing confidence and ambition. In pieces like “Deep Under” and “Fodder,” the poet starts with externals and then moves deeper, using the landscape as metaphor for emotional or spiritual states. Selections from the Island of Dark Horses focus on the mysterious island of Bardsey off the coast of Llyn, whose history and inhabitants inspire Evans to a series of reflections, culminating in the long celebratory title poem.
Emily makes a chain of paper dolls, and her creation catches on in her classroom and spreads across town and throughout the world. Includes instructions for making a chain of paper dolls.
Do you ever wish your problems could be solved just by asking? Be careful what you wish for!
Do you ever wish your problems could be solved just by asking? Be careful what you wish for!
A single long poem, the moving story of a woman's attempts to come to term's with her husband's death. It also examines the lives of the woman's female ancestors and those of her urban contemporaries.
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"Introduces readers to Evelyn Cheesman who forged her own path at a time when women rarely went to college, much less worked as veterinarians or entomologists."--Provided by publisher.
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika
