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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Station Zero
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220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
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749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
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8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
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152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
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78/534 pages
Poems Selected
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4/50 pages
Selected Poems
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18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
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133/789 pages
What is the Truth? Ted Hughes
A bunch of people speak (in verse) to God and his son about animals. These people (all rural folk) are asleep at the time and so probably don't remember the experience upon waking. None of these folk, however, manage to speak the fundamental Truth about the animals that God wants his son to learn - so he has to explain it himself in the end. Those villagers might not have known, but various others from different cultures around the world seem aware of it!
The poems here, being aimed at children, are not difficult but they do as a whole show the hallmarks of their author and I think the book might be a good way to enthuse kids about modern poetry.