{"product_id":"9781785077760","title":"Words for all Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eRex Andrews is a versatile poet, much-travelled scholar and creative teacher of language and literature whose poetry is constantly exploring different forms, styles, subjects and emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWords for all Seasons is dedicated to a barrister, a bishop and an editor of Punch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Morthimer Q.C., the RT. Rev. Geoffrey Powell and writer Alan Coren were judges for the 1998 Cancer Research Campaign Competition. When they awarded the poem \u003cem\u003eSpinning Jenny\u003c\/em\u003e first prize of 3000 entries worldwide, their unexpected encouragement was the spur for writing the majority of poems in this anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubsequent prize-winning poems include \u003cem\u003eMy War Effort\u003c\/em\u003e (free verse), \u003cem\u003eWay to the White House\u003c\/em\u003e (Chaucerian roundel), \u003cem\u003eBon Appetite\u003c\/em\u003e (extended Clerihew), \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e (rhyming stanzas), and \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Thread\u003c\/em\u003e (Spenserian stanzas). Additionally in this anthology the sonnet, hauku, tanka, somonka, cinquain, villanelle, clerihew, sestina and threnody are all represented - their styles ranging from comic to tragic, from satiric to elegiac and from parodic to poignant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Generation Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056081387760,"sku":"9781785077760","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785077760_p0.jpg?v=1763727101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785077760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}