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To the Moon
To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems | Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann Duffy's beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world. Carol Ann Duffy on To the Moon: 'Editing Answering Back, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references, and from my notebook, I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems, from the likes of Coleridge, Graves, Rosetti and Rowe - and it was this selection that initially inspired To the Moon. There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 BC, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the Moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load. In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - To the Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.'
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erzascarletbookgasm
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A lovely collection of moon poems from Asia, Europe, and America.

#wordsofoctober #moon

BiblioLitten Wow! 😍 4y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 🌙 4y
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#MayMovieMagic Lunar poems are like #TheMoonSong
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Thanks for a month of great theme 🎥 @rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Thanks for joining us ✌🏽🎶🎉💜 5y
TrishB This looks great ❤️ 5y
RohitSawant Thanks for playing along! 😊💙 5y
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#HoHoHo looks like Christmas came early for us! 🎄🎁🤶
These are our haul from yesterday‘s book sale. All books up to 80% off retail prices as they‘re remaindered books. Left pile are MG books which my kids and I can read, the pile on the right are all mine!
#seasonsreadings
#bookhaul

batsy Those are some great books! Romantic Outlaws! I loved it ❤️ Fab haul. 6y
erzascarletbookgasm @batsy thanks! Have you read that book? 6y
batsy Yes, a most absorbing read. And made me want to read more by/about those ladies! 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm 😭🤦‍♀️ @batsy you will know why I‘m crying.. 6y
Kalalalatja I loved The Glass Town Game, it was such a fun and entertaining book 👌 6y
BarbaraBB Wow a new Mark Haddon?! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great haul!!! 🎊🙌🏻 6y
saresmoore I‘m loving those middle grade picks! 6y
valeriegeary Nice! 👏👏👏 6y
tammysue Great stack!! 🙌🏻 6y
youneverarrived Great haul 👍 6y
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Felt marginally more human today so felt obliged to attempt some housework. Got as far as finding this volume tucked away out of sight on a jumbled and over-crowded book shelf. I have no recollection of buying or being given this book. Maybe the influence of tomorrow's full moon lead me to find it. But I spent a very pleasant hour reading the delights within. Now, back to the housework ...

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