Get that week out of the way,
shake that Etch-a-Sketch and start all over again!
This felt like one of those weeks which had all the ingredients of being a bit boring and dull – the weather’s still not up to much, betwixt bank holidays, traffic lights causing confusion, realising you’ve left the house in a sweater which wasn’t quite thick enough, a motorway journey in driving rain – get that week out of the way, shake that Etch-a-Sketch and start all over again!
When it comes to poetry, our friends at Macmillan publish some of the most accessible poetry books, a number of which are those curated by poetry expert Allie Esiri. You can find several of Allie’s collections on our website – just pop her name in the search bar top right. Allie’s book ‘A Poem for Every Day of the Year’ is perfect for following the seasons in poetry form, and the poem she has chosen for this day, 22nd May is a warning that boredom can just be a state of mind, lift your eyes and regardless of how duff things may appear to be, there’s a world of wonder all about you.
‘Today is Very Boring’ by Jack Prelutsky from Allie Esiri’s ‘A Poem for Every Day of the Year’
Today is very boring,
it’s a very boring day,
there is nothing much to look at,
there is nothing much to say,
there’s a peacock on my sneakers,
there’s a penguin on my head,
there’s a dormouse on my doorstep,
I am going back to bed.
Today is very boring,
it is boring through and through,
there is absolutely nothing
that I think I want to do,
I see giants riding rhinos,
and an ogre with a sword,
there’s a dragon blowing smoke rings,
I am positively bored.
Today is very boring,
I can hardly help by yawn,
there’s a flying saucer landing
in the middle of my lawn,
a volcano just erupted
less than half a mile away,
and I think I felt an earthquake,
it’s a very boring day.
This week our Coles Signed Editions are far from boring, as eclectic a range of titles as there’s ever been – from the photography of Michael Stipe and the art of David Hockney, compiled by Martin Gayford, to the storytelling of Val McDermid. The thrills come thick and fast courtesy of former SAS soldier Chris Ryan and Adele Parks; Gyles Brandreth looks at the life of Prince Philip; the glamour is provided by Megan Hess with her celebration of Coco Chanel; best selling author Michael Lewis has a Premonition; our novelists include Rahul Raina, Naomi Ishiguro, Kirsty Capes, Brit Bennett and Richard Osman; for younger readers there’re new books by Ben Miller and Derek Landy; Peter Frampton has kindly signed bookplates for us for his memoir; our History teachers are Judith Mackrell and Richard Dimbleby; we go behind the poem with Simon Armitage in ‘A Vertical Art’; poet Holly McNish has been described as Pam Ayres on acid (it’s true!); for those moments of uncertainty, Anya Hindmarch advises we wash our hair (she’s right!) and finally our Signed Edition Pre-Order this week is for what will be a real hoot of a memoir from Miriam Margolyes – hold tight!
Like the lawn outside, our website continues to grow and grow – on our Home Page the left of your screen is our full range of Coles Signed Editions (the colour scheme is the green from our logo), hundreds and hundreds of them – over on the right are the unsigned books we offer through the Coles Books Shop (the colour scheme for our unsigned books is the cream from our logo), thousands and thousands of them, in fact almost 200,000 books are availabe through our website – and in the middle is stuff mostly to do with what goes on in the shop – Storytime, back issues of Newsletters, a few things about the town and other bits & bobs which tickle our fancy.
