The emma press winnersh (142 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Naughty Gnat is a modern nursery rhyme. It's part of a collectible series of six new classics by Latvian authors, translated into English for the first time. Valdis Grenkovs tells the familiar story of what happens when a drawing session doesn't go to plan, taking the reader from the conception to the meltdown. Zane Zlemesa illustrates the text with a vivid collage of scribbles and platters as our check-shirted hero becomes overwhelmed by a fly in the ointment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Zlemeša, Zane (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A little boy wants to tell his mother a secret, but first she has to swear to tell NO-ONE ELSE! There is also a secret hidden in the illustrations. Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each feature a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+. Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each features a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It isn't easy being a kid, especially in the noisiest class in the school. Some days, you struggle with algebra, or too much homework. Sometimes, one of your fellow pupils just won't SHUT UP. And sometimes, the hardest thing is just trying to fit in. When the class feels like a many-headed dragon, how can you find a place for yourself? Would you feel less lonely if you could smuggle a cat in? And when your parents are fighting, don't you find yourself looking into other people's windows on the walk back home? Ieva Flamingo's childrens poems capture the emotional highs and lows of childhood with a sharp, surreal eye and a touching sympathy. The Noisy Classroom is a friend of a book: the poems here understand the pressures faced by children, but they also take in stressed parents, overworked teachers who dream of holidays in Iceland, and the fairies who clean the school at the end of the day. Not to mention the headmaster: after all, he was young once too. The Noisy Classroom contains 40 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling's breathlessly imaginative collection of poems for children.Quieter poems sit alongside riotously funny ones in this sequel to Moon Juice. Readers are encouraged to look more closely at clouds, water, dust and trees, and to reflect on the knottier areas of life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking about further. In this collection of highlights, Carson presents a panoramic view of contemporary Belfast its streets, coffee shops, museums and airports through a series of small but perfectly formed snapshots of her home. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A boy selkie who takes girlness off like a sealskin, an untameable kelpie, the warrior-wife of a princess, and a Loch Ness monster who is too busy having fun to worry about words like girl or boy. This is the way the world is - with just a bit of Scottish myth and magic thrown in. Wain is a fully-illustrated collection of LGBT themed poetry aimed at teens (but suitable for all ages) based on retellings of Scottish folk tales. These poems immerse readers in an enriching, diverse and enchanting vision of contemporary life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Simone Atangana Bekono's poems are vivid and arresting, with the feeling of letters or diary entries. In nine breath-taking streams of consciousness, the poet explore race, gender and sexuality, addressing the social stigmatization of race and gender and invoking empathy and human connection in a voice that is both confident and innovative. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Village of dunes. Valley of slumber-dust.Sandsnarl is a settlement steeped in sand though where it came from and how long ago is a matter of tall tales and steely whispers. The sand itself makes accurate record-keeping impossible. It is drug, ore, plague and delicacy. The inhabitants of this region (or is it a fallen kingdom?) talk and think through its haze. Some alter their shape, as if shaved by it. Others seethe, resisting its rattle and buzz.These poems eavesdrop, extract, sift. Together, they make up a brief impression of time and place, a Bunuelian musical without the music. A pamphlet of poems about a land overcome by sand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mate Arias is Lewis Buxtons love song to his friends, a soaring voice attempting to communicate in a masculine world often punctuated by silence or violence. Muscles are torn, crossword clues are pondered, and pints are lifted as the poet attempts to make sense of his friends and himself, and their often clumsy, physical dances around each other.Under the glares of floodlights and movie screens, with a backdrop of superheroes and zombies, Buxton creates the settings for new versions of male friendships. A poignant and funny exploration of making and maintaining relationships as lives begin to move in different directions, Mate Arias is a unique celebration of the tenderness and love that can be communicated by men. A pamphlet of poems on male frienship from Lewis Buxton Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Mark Andrew Webber (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In Carol Rumens's Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isnt purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through incidental artefacts found in a toolbox ('defiant old metals, coupled/irrefutably and awkwardly for life') or by revisiting works of Russian literature that both members of the couple admired. In Rumens's pamphlet, translations and imitations of Osip Mandelstam share space with fragments of Egyptian mythology and 'a wardrobe of old sweat-shirts' to convey the powerful, and moving, impulse to 'live with your death unburied at my core'. . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger's poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations.Writing in praise of mums, nans and sisterhood, this is a work bursting with strength, anger, love and, ultimately, hope. In a celebration of girls shaped by swimming baths and Working Mens Clubs, friendship and family, Makeover contends with what we inherit and what we ought to pass on. Poems on girlhood, the body and working class women from award-winning writer Laurie Bolger. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Vivarium is a collection about connection and alienation, belonging and place. Paertna explores the uneasy co-existence of the past and the present, on a national and global scale, and looks ahead to the future with anxiety as well as hope. She reflects on the effects of Soviet rule on Estonian society and the national mindset, and on humanitys treatment of natural habitats. Stories of personal trauma play out against a backdrop of major environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and global warming. Maarja Paertna is part of the new generation of young Estonian poets, and this edition has been awarded funding by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia. A collection of poems translated from Estonian by Jayde Will. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Step into Pearls world and take a tour around her faded seaside town, past the graffiti walls, bus stops and the old mattress factory. Except with Pearl as our guide the colours suddenly pop and every tiny detail becomes rich with interest. From the lido to the hair salon, to the Christmas shop in June, the ordinary becomes magical and every bit of wildness, weirdness and tattiness is whisked into the foreground. "Pearl" is an alter ego of the poet: she's a character who observes the minutiae around her and whose thoughts are a pleasure to follow. This pamphlet follows Pearl as she rollicks around, making her way through a townscape similar but not identical to the too-small-to-be-cities of poet Julia Bird's 70s & 80s childhood. from 'Clementine Pearl'The first time was a fluke. Subsequently, Pearl made plans to visit the Christmas shop at the edge of town every twenty-fifth of June; a day when even if it isnt hot, its light, the day most likely the shops most empty of people wanting winter or its antimatter to take into their homes. A pamphlet of poems about a character named Pearl. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From lips and warmed cheeks to silk and falling leaves, the subjects of Z.R. Ghanis poems radiate with redness. Sometimes a cloak, often a shining symbol, Ghanis reds are sacred and dazzling: pomegranates ripening to jewels and perfectly-placed bindis shining like suns.But something darker lurks beneath the ruby depths. A city is held hostage by a heatwave, a flame is lit in a dark room, a ballerina twists inside a jewellery box.As though developing photographs, Ghani shines a deep light over her poems as a tool to slowly make the unseen visible, the unsaid audible. This is a debut book rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red. A debut pamphlet of poems from Z.R. Ghani rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Weir, Louise (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In a new home, relationships shift, and ties fray. Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking is a collection of essays about sewing and knowing who you are.Each chapter in this sewist's diary charts the crafting of a different garment. From a lining embroidered with the Cantonese names of her female ancestors to a dressing gown holding the body of a beloved friend, Maddie Ballard navigates love, personal connections, and self-care, drafting her own patterns for ways of living.Lyrical, probing, soothing and wise, Bound is a strikingly original debut and a quiet celebration of the remarkable, everyday process of making and re-making: of cloth, of clothing, and of ourselves. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Emma Dai'an Wright (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Two brothers wrestle, a bird lies in a young boys hand, an entire field lives within the eye of a needle.Noon is a sparkling debut from Birmingham-born poet Zain Rishi, exploring home, family and faith.From the heat of the school relay and his grandmothers Kashmiri chai to the images of a young man kissing a city goodbye, these poems chart a coming-of-age journey across place, sexuality and family ties.Rich in its interrogation of language and inheritance across generations, Noon announces Zain Rishi as one of the UKs most exciting new voices. A debut pamphlet of poems from Zain Rishi Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Meet Lela a clever little girl who is also very stubborn. Despite her mum and dad encouraging her to learn a new language, Lela refuses, arguing that dogs dont try to neigh. This leaves her in a bit of a pickle at an important international party where she cant understand anything the grown-ups are saying and feels utterly miserable. Lela vows from this moment on to learn all of the languages of the world, one word at a time Join Lela on her journey, learning words in Latvian, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Italian, Estonian, Swedish, Slovenian, Dutch, Maltese and Russian. Filled with humour, adventure and learning, this delightful book will leave you wanting to learn more and more languages. Meet Lela - a clever little girl, who is also very stubborn! Despite being encouraged by her mum and dad to learn a new language Lela refuses. This leaves Lela in a pickle at an important party where she can't understand anything the grown-ups are saying! So Lela vows to learn all of the languages of the world - which she does one word at a time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Meet Skig, whos meant to be a warrior (but is really more of a worrier). Meet a giddy comet, skidding across the sky with her tail on fire. Put a marvellous new machine in your pocket and maybe youll be able to fix all your lifes problems. Kate Wakelings first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. The poems she writes are always musical, sometimes magical, and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world.Moon Juice contains 25 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems. A collection of poems for children, fully illustrated. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Valerie Bences latest poetry pamphlet is a testament to ordinary lives, and a meditation on grandmothers. Part memoir, part family history, Overlap is a series of vivid vignettes from the poets childhood, courtship, motherhood and grandmotherhood, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries.Winifred and Harriet are at the heart of this book: Bences grandmothers, whose hardy, steadfast lives she comes to reflect on as she too becomes a grandmother, in very different times. Stranded from her family in the Covid-19 pandemic, the poet conjures up their ghosts, walks in their footsteps and sometimes feels herself become them. > We mash tealeaves and bran for the rabbit, > the sweet aroma fogging her glasses, > and every day, for five shillings a week, > she scrubs bloody butchers aprons. > We take the clean ones back on the bus, > until the day she faints outside Boots in the rain, > sliding down the wall like in a cartoon, > her wartime hat slipping over her eyes. Valerie Bences latest poetry pamphlet is a testament to ordinary lives, and a meditation on grandmothers. Part memoir, part family history, Overlap is a series of vivid vignettes from the poets childhood, courtship, motherhood and grandmotherhood, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling's breathlessly imaginative collection of poems for children.Quieter poems sit alongside riotously funny ones in this sequel to Moon Juice. Readers are encouraged to look more closely at clouds, water, dust and trees, and to reflect on the knottier areas of life. Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling's collection of poems for children. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The poems in this pamphlet examine the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity, especially female identity, in the context of Pakistan, and in the broader context of South Asia. The poems in this pamphlet examine the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity, especially female identity, in the context of Pakistan, and in the broader context of South Asia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1940, a young girl is taken from her home in Eastern Poland to Arkhangelsk, Siberia; in 1942, she boards a train. Seventy years later, that journey is reimagined by her granddaughter, Zosia Kuczynska. As Kuczynskas poems tell the story of her babcia, her maternal grandmother, coming to England, she confronts some of the big questions of art and history: how do you tell another persons story without exploiting it? Whats at stake when we try make patterns out of the past, and can we ever leave those patterns behind? Kuczynskas poems are both richly narrative and sharply attentive to the complexities of home and culture. They capture human endurance through the redrawing of political maps, from the heat of Easter in Tehran to the powdered eggs and stocking shortages of the London Blitz. A collection of poems. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: new. Centred on a sudden accidental death its shocking actuality, the aftermath, the admin Kathy Pimlotts third pamphlet is an honest, lyrical and nuanced journey through the complexity of bereavement.As the world around her continues on - moths remain attracted to lights, Christmas comes and goes - Pimlott lives with the irreplaceable absence that follows the loss of a partner. Amid the pain and emotion is a streak of wry humour at the mundanity of settling affairs and a powerfully personal trajectory of moving through grief rather than moving on.Across poems that take stock of the things people leave behind and the sometimes-painful memories of a long and textured marriage, After the rites and sandwiches tracks the rollercoaster of grief, guilt and regret without losing sight of the enduring salve of love. A powerful pamphlet of poems about grief and bereavement following a sudden death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The Dog Who Found Sorrow is a beautiful, resonant picture book about sadness and healing, suitable for all ages.It tells the story of a dog who, waking to find his hometown covered in thick black clouds, goes out in search of the source of sorrow. It's an intrepid quest, a parable about hope, and a tonic for our sorrowful times. The gentle fantasy storytelling is accompanied by textured, detailed artwork. A picture book about a dog who climbs up to the clouds to find the cause of the darkness hanging over the city. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mother Night is a hallucinogenic journey across a city with too many alleyways and across a life surviving childhood sexual assault. Forming a nocturnal seance, Serge Neptune resurrects abusive old lovers and ghosts of the queers of the past conjures men in cars and men in bedrooms providing them invitation and shelter, or casting them to stormy waves.In a book of many types of darkness across poems of vulnerability and harm what persists in Mother Night is its celebration of resilience, what shines brightest is the many ways it reaches for the light. The new pamphlet of poems from London-based author Serge Neptune. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Na Willa is a bright, adventurous girl living in Surabaya's suburbs, her home in the middle of an alley surrounded by cypress trees. She spends her days running after trains, going down to the market, and thinking about how people can sing through radios. Indonesian author Reda Gaudiamo has created a collection of stories of curious adventures and musings of a multicultural girl growing up in Indonesia with an East Indonesian mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father. Set in a time when children spent the day outside, listening to Lilis Suryani's songs on the radio, and when race and gender would still go undiscussed, this is Na Willa's story as she grows up unafraid to ask the big questions. Indonesian author Reda Gaudiamo has created a collection of stories of curious adventures and musings of a multicultural girl growing up in Indonesia with a Javanese mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father. This is Na Willa's story as she grows up unafraid to ask the big questions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Hidayat, Cecillia (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writers time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poets native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border. Many poems feature speakers driving from place to place, capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Precise and strange images coalesce into physical and interior landscapes. Alternately surreal and direct, and always joyously inventive, Watson offers a clear and unsettling vision of what is and isnt there in these anxious, contemporary times. Poems set in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas and the poet's native Belfast, featuring speakers who drive from place to place and capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A witchy poetry collection for older children.A hard-working junior witch strides around a magical landscape, learning her craft. Her cloak is stuffed with scraps of paper letters, notes and lists some of which have tumbled out and been collected into this book.Nature blends with magic and sometimes more everyday concerns in these soothing, playful, empowering poems. A to-do list for planning a pumpkin party. A blessing for a tiny tree. An identification spell for a bird curse.Poems from a Witchs Pocket is an eerily enchanting collection aimed at pre-teens but suitable for all ages. Perfect for all aspiring hovel witches! A witchy poetry book for older children. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Kate Lucy Foster (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Can you imagine a world without bees? Did you know that dung beetles are awesome recyclers? Insects pollinate, recycle and are an important food source for many animals theyre tiny but mighty superheroes of the animal kingdom. This is an anthology of wild and wonderful childrens poems which will educate and excite youngsters about the fascinating world of insects. With factual notes alongside the poems, and black line illustrations. This is an anthology of childrens poems which will educate and excite youngsters about the fascinating world of insects. With factual notes alongside the poems, and black line illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…