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Gaby Morgan

    Poems from the Second World War
    Read Me and Laugh
    Poems from the First World War
    Space Poems
    Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
    A Year of Scottish Poems
    • 2024

      Cosy Poems

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Filled with cozy poems, this gift book offers a comforting collection perfect for curling up with. Its warm and inviting verses create a sense of tranquility, making it an ideal companion for relaxation and reflection.

      Cosy Poems
    • 2018
    • 2018

      Poems for Love

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Poems for Love features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic Novelist Association prize- winner, Joanna Trollope.There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4,000 years. A complex and truly timeless emotion, love - whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant Macmillan Collector's Library anthology. That we still read and enjoy these heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius, and to the enduring power of love.

      Poems for Love
    • 2018

      A Year of Scottish Poems

      • 592 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.3(58)Add rating

      A Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar – from Burns Night to Hogmanay – these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting.With an introduction from the National Poet for Scotland, Makar Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry including Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd, Stewart Conn, Kathleen Jamie, Elma Mitchell, John Rice, Muriel Spark, Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean, Julia Donaldson, Carolina Oliphant, Norman MacCaig, Marion Angus, Kate Clanchy, Carol Ann Duffy and many more to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!

      A Year of Scottish Poems
    • 2017
    • 2015

      The Works 4 really does contain poems about everything.

      The Works 4
    • 2015

      A collection of wonderfully festive stories for the Christmas period

      Christmas Stories
    • 2015

      I Love My Mum

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      A gorgeous collection of poems celebrating how wonderful our mums really are. A perfect gift for Mother's Day. Mum is . . . Rule makerSide takerMeal providerBedroom tidierGame playerBug slayerBest carer Love sharerTear drierTreat buyerStory tellerHomework helperPeace keeperLight sleeperMoney lender Chief defenderHowever wildLoves her child!By Catherine Boddy

      I Love My Mum
    • 2014

      Poems from the First World War

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.1(76)Add rating

      Collection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand - from soldiers to nurses, families and sweethearts. Themes range from early excitement, patriotism, bravery, friendship and loyalty to heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the damaging effects of the war were revealed. Poets include Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, and many more.

      Poems from the First World War