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Stories That Can Save Your Life,
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'Teachers periodically express concern about the future of school libraries. Most attention is focused on underfunding and on the importance of libraries for the retrieval of information. Deeper questions about reading are often left undiscussed: Why should children be encouraged to read? What should they read? And how should they read?' (Introduction)
- Hoursi"Matins", single work poetry
- Nunc Dimittis Annei"Cast the wonder of who we are —", single work poetry
- The Intervali"offers an impressionist tableau", single work poetry
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A Crash Course in Climate Literacy,
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'In the old days, the balladists and poets recorded fire, flood and drought. Fire was dramatic, swift and very dangerous. In Henry Lawson's 'The Fire at Ross's Farm', the blaze 'leapt across the flowing streams/ And raced o'er pastures broad/ It climbed the trees and lit the boughs/ And through the scrubs it roared. / The bees fell stifled in the smoke/ Or perished in their hives,/ And with the stock the kangaroos/ Went flying for their lives.'' (Introduction)
- Exaltation against Despairi"and the world is a wobbly stool", single work poetry
- Resignation Syndromei"this poem is a repeat", single work poetry
- After the Massacrei"when we wake to truths", single work poetry