Skirrid Hill

Skirrid Hill
Author: Owen Sheers
Publisher: Seren Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive this poetry collection from one of Great Britain's rising young talents. The collection revolves around the poems "Y Gaer" and "The Hillfort," the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide in Wales, from poems concerned with childhood, a Welsh landscape, and family to an outward-looking vision that is both geographic and historic.

A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book

A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book
Author: Russell Carey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1107467926

Created specifically for the AQA A/AS level English literature A specification for first teaching from 2015, this print student book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding for those who need it. Helping bridge the gap between GCSE and A level, the unique three-part structure focuses on texts within a particular time period and supports students in interpreting texts and reflecting on how writers make meaning.

Philip Allan Literature Guide (for A-Level): Skirrid Hill

Philip Allan Literature Guide (for A-Level): Skirrid Hill
Author: Luke McBratney
Publisher: Philip Allan
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444153862

Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you need. This full colour guide includes: - detailed scene summaries and sections on themes, characters, form, structure, language and contexts - a dedicated 'Working with the text' section on how to write about texts for coursework and controlled assessment and how to revise for exams - Taking it further boxes on related books, film adaptations and websites - Pause for thought boxes to get you thinking more widely about the text - Task boxes to test yourself on transformation, analysis, research and comparison activities - Top 10 quotes PLUS FREE REVISION RESOURCES at www.philipallan.co.uk/literatureguidesonline, including a glossary of literary terms and concepts, revision advice, sample essays with student answers and examiners comments, interactive questions, revision podcasts, flash cards and spider diagrams, links to unmissable websites, and answers to tasks set in the guide.

AS/a-Level English Literature Workbook: Skirrid Hill

AS/a-Level English Literature Workbook: Skirrid Hill
Author: Helen Mars
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781510434967

Check, reinforce and improve critical skills and textual understanding to give students the best chance of success in their AS/A-level English Literature exams. Containing over 150 ready-made activities for Skirrid Hill - with comprehensive answers provided online - this write-in Workbook: - Actively develops knowledge and skills as students practise questions that cover plot and structure, themes, characterisation, form and language, contexts and critical approaches - Ensures that every student achieves real progress with activities that gradually build in difficulty, plus additional 'Challenge yourself' tasks to target the top grades - Helps students make the transition from GCSE to AS/A-level, with guidance from experienced examiners and teachers on higher-level skills, such as analysing structure and using literary terminology - Focuses on exam skills with a separate section that includes practice essay questions and advice on: question types; essay planning; writing about extracts and whole texts; using evidence and context - Encourages independent learning as students use their Workbook at home or in class, throughout the course or for revision and exam preparation - Supports the AQA A, WJEC Eduqas and WJEC AS/A-level English Literature specifications through a wide range of activities suitable for every exam board

The Poetry of Owen Sheers & Seamus Heaney: A Study Guide for WJEC Eduqas A-Level English Literature

The Poetry of Owen Sheers & Seamus Heaney: A Study Guide for WJEC Eduqas A-Level English Literature
Author: Izzy Ingram
Publisher: Notable
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1689361794

Everything you need to know about WJEC Eduqas' A-Level English Literature paper on the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Owen Sheers in one approachable and engaging study guide. Includes tips on how to meet each of the assessment objectives, detailed discussions of key themes, advice on how to write a good essay and a full exemplar answer. Whilst other textbooks give you a general overview of a course or subject, Notable guides focus closely on a specific exam board, taking you through their requirements and demands, so that you know exactly how to achieve the very best grade possible. For more information, visit us at www.notableguides.co.uk

Field Work

Field Work
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 146685569X

Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early warning system to get back inside my own head," Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal, contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing. In Field Work he "brings a meditative music to bear upon fundamental themes of person and place, the mutuality of ourselves and the world" (Denis Donoghue, The New York Times Book Review).

Resistance

Resistance
Author: Owen Sheers
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307385833

Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny group of farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter—along with a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survive drives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships that test both their personal and national loyalties. But when the snow finally melts, bringing them back into contact with the war that has been raging beyond their mountains, they must face the dramatic consequences of their choices.

Feminine Gospels

Feminine Gospels
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1447206894

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door. ‘Part of Duffy’s talent – besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety – is her ventriloquism . . . From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets – that is, she makes it look easy’ Charlotte Mendelson, Observer

Pink Mist

Pink Mist
Author: Owen Sheers
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0385541759

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men return to the women in their lives—a wife, a mother, a girlfriend—all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of military service. Written from the points of view of each soldier, Sheers explores not only their experiences in the field of battle, but also the grueling process of recovery following a debilitating injury, the strain of PTSD on a new marriage, and the emotional toll of survivor's guilt among soldiers and their loved ones at home. Drawing on interviews with soldiers and their families, Pink Mist illuminates the enduring human cost of war and its all too often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its orbit. A work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity, and emotional intensity.

My Life

My Life
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1905
Genre: History
ISBN: