No book is produced by the author alone, but this book could never have been conceived, let alone produced, had it not been for an enormous number of people throughout Europe. Although addressing the general topic of the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency and diagnostic testing in particular, in this book I have drawn heavily on the DIALANG Project (www.dialang.org) for my inspiration, examples and conclusions. Without DIALANG this book would not be here. I am extremely grateful to all who sponsored, designed, worked in and contributed to the DIALANG Project, which started in 1996 and came to the end of its public funding in 2004.
Sailing Alone Around the Room - New and Selected Poems
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite.
This powerful and eerie classic about a girl haunted by her own dreams has been made into a TV series and a feature film. Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone. The boy at the window is called Mark, and his every movement is guarded by the menacing stone watchers that surround the solitary house.
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Ellie has lost her parents, her home in New Zealand and everything she knows. Now she must live in England with family who are more like strangers. Life on her Uncle Len’s showing yard seems so lonely until Ellie meets Spirit. She’s never seen the grey horse before, but she has the strangest feelings that they’ve always known each other. Like Ellie, Spirit is alone in the world and they form an intense bond. As the weeks go by, Spirit helps Ellie discover an incredible talent. As one door shuts, another one opens...
