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A collection of poems that celebrates the textures of a life. The poems evoke the vanishing world of a working-class childhood alongside football in the park and the purposeful calm of ironing; family parties and born-again bikers, jokes about fruit and th

A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival, "Careful What You Wish For" is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupery, and Ken Dodd. Also it is Robert Lowell in a canal boat just outside Mirfield, not to mention family poems and love and tennis poems, and the biggest comeback in golf history as told by the caddy. Peter Sansom s latest collection is clear-eyed, tender, and full of bewilderment by what life is and does.
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Peter Sansom was the Marks and Spencer Poet in Residence during 1999. This collection includes his poetic diary of that year, alongside a range of poems which cover the spectrum of family experience from young babies learning to speak to the death of a parent. The personal and the public, his family and the demands made on him by the literature industry, blend together in poems of wit, sensitivity and great subtlety. He moves from free verse into rhyme and out again with ease, his vision of the world, its absurdity and evanescent tragedy, never dimming.

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows would-be poets how to write better, how to write authentically, and how to say genuinely what is to be said. He illustrates his book with many useful examples, covering the areas of writing techniques and procedures and drafting.

California School Law provides the first comprehensive discussion of how law affects the day-to-day operation of the state's public, charter, and private schools. The book is written for a wide audience including policymakers, governing board members, school administrators, union leaders, teachers, school law attorneys, education law professors and their students, and parents. In its twelve chapters, readers will find a detailed yet readable account of the many ways law structures the delivery of educational services in California.
Beginning with an explanation of the legal...