Contains over thirty years of poetry written by Magdalene (Neal) Collums of Hope, Arkansas. When they were originally written, Mrs. Collums submitted many of the poems to state and national poetry society contests. Awards received by each poem is identified in the book. Mrs. Collums, now 85 years old, was a high school teacher in the Hope Arkansas area for many years. Also, she was a historian and archivist at the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives just outside Washington AR, original Capital of the Arkansas Territory. Mrs. Collums' poetry covers a wide range of religious, social and historical topics plus many poems about the wildlife, trees and flowers of Southwest Arkansas.

'These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.' Daily Telegraph

Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.

This is a self-help guide to personal financial planning which offers advice on how to organize your personal finances and the different aproaches necessary at the various stages of life - from childhood to retirement. Bank accounts, budgeting, school fees, investment, insurance, pensions, mortgages and UK and International tax planning are just some of the topics covered. There is also a section covering the question of how to find and assess independent advice.

The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.

The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.